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

2017: PhD, Theatre and Film History and Theory, dissertation: Theatricality of Bohemian Literature of the Fourteenth Century, Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
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 Professor (from 2017)
2014-now: Centre for Classical Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, researcher
2012-2014: Centre for Innovation of Arts Studies, Department of Musicology, staff

Fellowships and research stays

5day stay in Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek, library of Swedish Academy of Letters (Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien), 28 Aug–1 Sept 2017

Teaching

• Theatre and Drama in Classical Greek and Rome: Classical Greek and Roman Theatre, Reading Euripides´ Hippolytus, Reading Plautus´ Mostellaria and Menaechmi
• Medieval Theatre, Drama, and Performances: Medieval Theatre, Medieval Performances, Plancts - Between Text and Performance
• 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

December 2017: Conference paper "Theatricality of the Heroides", Roma avrea MMXVII Ovidian Contexts and Inspirations, Department of Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (joint paper with Eliška Šolcová)
October 2017: "Medieval Performativity", lecture, Theatre Research Society (Prague)
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"
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

Popularization

July 2017: lecture and seminar "Classical Antiquity and Medieval Cathedral" (with Mgr. Amálie Bulandrová), Summer school of Classics „Eikón, imago, simulacrum. Images and Visuality of Classical Antiquity“, Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences and the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
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"

Memberships in academic associations and other academic bodies

Member of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval

Honors and awards

2nd prize ex aequo, Dean´s Prize For Outstanding BA, MA, and PhD Theses, for dissertation "Theatricality of Bohemian Literature of the Fourteenth Century"

Current projects

• monograph on with editions of Medieval Bohemical Plancts
• organizing Summer Schools of Classics (with Alena Sarkissian)
• translating Plautus 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)