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Zdeněk Starý

doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Starý, CSc.

Rector of Prague City University
Dean of School of Education

Zdeněk is Rector of Prague City University, responsible for the quality and content of Czech accreditation and programmes. He also serves as the Dean of the School of Education.

Zdeněk chaired the Department of General Linguistics at Charles University and served two terms in Charles University Senate. He also pursues his own professional and educational interests in general linguistics. Zdeněk teaches courses in general linguistics focusing namely on language structure and issue of cognitive linguistics  (undergraduate and graduate level) and tutors PhD linguistics students. Zdeněk holds a CSc. degree in General Linguistics (Charles University) and MA degrees in Czech Studies, Aesthetics and Mathematics (Charles University). He is an Associate Professor in General Linguistics.

He has been a visiting Associate Professor with the University of Virginia and held a Senior Fulbright Scholarship in the US and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy. Zdeněk’s research tackles issues of language understanding, interlingual interface and linguistics methodology.

Education

Charles University, CZ — Doctor of Philosophy
Charles University, CZ — Candidate of Sciences

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

 
1987 - 2017 — Associate Professor of General Linguistics, Charles University

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)