Mgr. Eliška Poláčková Ph.D.
polackova@ics.cas.cz
+420 234 612 331
Department of Classics and Classical Reception
postgraduate student
ASEP
Bibliography
Research focus
Classical Roman Theatre and Drama, Medieval Bohemian Theatre and Drama (in Czech and Latin), Translating for Theatre (theory, and practice: translating from Latin)
Education
2011: MA, Theatre History and Theory, Latin Language and Literature (specialized in Medieval Latin), final thesis: Pseudolus by Plautus - Czech Translations and Productions, Department of Theatre Studies, Department of Classics, Masaryk University
2010: BA, English Language and Literature, final thesis: Everyman and Homulus: Analysis of Their Genetic Relation, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University
2008: BA, Latin Language and Literature, Czech Language and Literature, final thesis: The Ballad by Karel Jaromír Erben ‘Svatební košile’ – Genesis and reception of the Text, Department of Classics, Department of Czech Language and Literature, Masaryk University
Employment history
2016-now: Department of Theatre Studies, Masaryk University, assistant
2014-now: Centre for Classical Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
2012-2014: Centre for Innovation of Arts Studies, Department of Musicology, staff
Teaching
- Theatre and Drama in Classical Greek and Rome: Classical Greek and Roman Theatre, Reading Euripides´ Hippolytus, Reading Plautus´ Mostellaria
- Medieval Theatre, Drama, and Performances: Medieval Theatre, Medieval Performances
- Theatre Translation: Adapting for Theatre (with Pavel Drábek), Translating Curculio for Stage
Conference papers and lectures abroad
July 2015: Paper at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK; "Between Text and Performance: Planctus as Liminal Genre"
July 2013: paper at the Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'étude du Théâtre Médiéval, Poznaň, Poland; "Ungeuntarius or the Ointment Seller: omnipresent character in European medieval drama"
June 2012: Paper at the Postgraduate Symposium of Ancient Drama, Oxford and London, UK; "The Site-Specific Seneca"
January 2011: Paper at the conference Tragic Heroines on Ancient and Modern Stage, Coimbra, Portugal; "Seneca´s Phaedra – A Overpassionate Heroine: Analysis of Hana Burešová´s Faidra"
July 2008: Summer School of Ancient Drama, organized by European Network of Reasearch and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama, Epidauros, Greece
Conference papers and lectures in the Czech Republic
November 2014: Lecture at the Department of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, "Old Czech and Latin Bohemian Medieval Placts: Between Text and Performance"
March 2014: Lecture at the Department of Theatre Studies; "Medieval Bohemian Unguentarius Three Times Revisited" with Eva Stehlíková and Martin Bažil
September 2015: Paper at the conference Roma Argentea, organized by the Department of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University; "Czech Theatre Reception of Seneca... or Phaedra"
Popularization
November 2016: Lecture on stock characters in Plautus´ palliata at the Open Day of the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences
November 2016: Lecture on Roman Theatre and Drama at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
October 2016: Lecture on the images of Antiquity in literature of Medieval Bohemia at the Paedagogical Faculty, Charles University, Prague
November 2015: Lecture on slave in Plautus´ palliata at the Open Day of the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences
July 2015: Lecture at the Summer School of Classics, organized by the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences; "Old Czech Traslations as a Means of Education in Medieval Monastery"
November 2014: Lecture on stereotypes connected with the Classical Antiquity at the Open Day of the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences
June 2014: Lecture at the Summer School of Classics, organized by the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences; "Plautus´ Amphitruo and the Others"
May 2014: Lecture in the Centre for Medieval Studies; "Medieval Theatre"
July 2012: Lecture at the Summer School of Classics, organized by the Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences; "Pseudolus by Plautus - Czech Translations and Productions"
Current projects
- paper on classical mythology in the Bohemian Trojan Chronicles (a chapter in upcoming collective monograph, Department of Classical Antiquity and Classical Reception)
- organizing Summer School of Classics (with Alena Sarkissian)
- translating Plautus´ Curculio for stage (with Daniela Urbanová, Tomáš Weissar and Radek Černoch, Masaryk University)
- translating Seneca´s Medea (for collective monograph, with Eva Stehlíková, Masaryk University, and Daniela Čadková)
