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doc. Mgr. Aleš Urválek, Ph.D.

Department head, Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies

office: bldg. J/J.516
Jaselská 201/18
602 00 Brno

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Field of study: German Literature

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

The German University Novel since 1968. The Transformation of the Underrated Genre – graduate 2015
Biblical Intertextuality in German Novels since 1990: Utilization, Function and Meaning – graduate 2015

Field of study: Germanic Literatures

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

Hedda Zinner in the context of the social upheavals of the 20th century – ongoing study
Listening Inside the Silence. Tabooed Fields of Tension in the Essays and Plays of Lukas Bärfuss – graduate 2024
Between aesthetics and ideology. 75 years of Felix Timmermans in Czech language – graduate 2022
"Novel in the novel" in contemporary german prose – graduate 2022

Field of study: Intermedia and Intercultural Communication

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

Abstraction and Spirit. Art philosophical debates in the networks of Joachim Moras 1931-1961 (Europäische Revue, Merkur, Jahresring) – graduate 2024

Field of study: Literary Philology

Topics of doctoral theses (supervisor)

Voices Unheard: Ecocritical Perpectives on Non-Human Animal Representation in Contemporary Dutch Literary Fiction – ongoing study

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