prof. PhDr. Pavel Janoušek, CSc.

(born 1956 in Prague)

In 1975-80, he studied Czech and Art Education at the Faculty of Philosphy and Arts of Charles University; from 1978 also theatre and film arts. In 1981, he joined the Institute for Czech and World Literature of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and he has worked at this institution or at the Institute for Czech Literature of the ASCR to this day. At first, from 1987, he served as a scientific employee (PhDr. 1984, CSc. 1987, Reader 2003, Prof. 2012). In 1990, he became the head of the Section of Contemporary Literature; in 1993, he was appointed as the Deputy Director; in 1999-2010, he held the post of Director. Today, he heads the Section for Research of the 20th Century and Contemporary Literature.

At the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of CU, he has systematically taught since 1990, in 1999-2009 also at the Faculty of Pedagogy of CU, in 2010-2013 at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the University of J. E. Purkyně and since 2009 at DAMU (the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of. Performing Arts). He has served in a number of scientific consultative bodies (inter alia he was the President of the Council of the Museum of Czech Literature), in grant agencies and in the editorial boards of Czech (Česká literaturu, Divadelní revue, Tvar) and Slovak journals (Rak, Slovenská literatura). He deals with the issue of literary theory (a monograph on Černá kočka aneb Subjekt znalce v myšlení o literatuře a jeho komunikační strategie /The Black Cat or the Subject of the Expert in Thought on Literature and its Communication Strategy/) and the history of Czech literature, prose and drama, of the 20th century. The four-volume History of Czech Literature 1945-1989, whose main editor he was, received the Hlávka Prize for 2008.