Mgr. Jana Richterová, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Jana is in charge of the linguistic field of the English studies and has long been a senior lecturer in syntax of the English language at prestigious universities in the Czech Republic, including Charles University, Prague.
Having graduated from the Palacký University in Olomouc (doctoral degree in 2012), she has been teaching morphology, syntax and phonology of English. Her prime domain is syntax of English, namely the syntactic structures conveying the expressive function in both English and Czech. Her research has a substantial overlap with ELT, her interest lying in both text analysis and the education of future professionals in English.
Education
Professional Activities
2020 - present — Rector of Prague City University
2017 - 2020 — Rector of Akcent College
1996 - 2018 — Academic Director of Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis/Kolej Jeronýma Pražského
2000 - 2013 —Director of the Institute of General Linguistics, Charles University
1995 - 1997 — Research Fellow at the E. Gellner’s Research Center on Nationalism, CEU - Praha
1994 - 1995 — Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, USA
1979 - 1987 — Assistant Professor of General linguistics, Charles University
Publications
Five books
Three at Mouton de Gruyter, two at Karolinum (Charles University Press)
Articles:
About 40 articles in Czech (Slovo a slovesnost, Kritický sborník, Česká literature, Philologica Pragensia) international Journals (International Journal for the Sociology of Language, Germanistische Mitteilungen, Naučnaja i techničeskaja informacija) and collections of papers published in the Czech Republic (Přednášky letního běhu Slovanských studií, Bulletin ruského jazyka a literatury, Spisovná čeština a jazyková kultura) as well as abroad (Varieties of Czech - Studies in Czech Sociolinguistics)
