Faculty staff

doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.

Associate professor, Department of English and American Studies

office: bldg. G/G.312
Gorkého 57/7
602 00 Brno

phone:	+420 549 49 6261
e‑mail:

Progress of Man as Individual and Progress of Humanity as a Whole: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard and Mark Twain as National Historians and Cultural Anthropologists – ongoing study

Black Empire of the Air: Black Aviation in the Harlem Renaissance and George S. Schuyler’s Serialized Fiction – graduate 2018
Good Death in Vietnam War Literature – graduate 2016
The Satire of Ishmael Reed: From Non-standard Sexuality to Argumentation – graduate 2016
Murder Taken out of the Venetian Vase and Dropped into the Alley: Adapting Hard-boiled Masculinity and Femininity – graduate 2016
How We Read: The Reception of the Beat Generation in the United States and the Czech Lands – graduate 2016

Masked Resistance: Trickster Strategies and Folkloric Subversion in Black Hardboiled Fiction – graduate 2025
The Relevance of Dystopian Literature: Contemporary Implications of Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction – graduate 2023
Five Issues with Oppositional Gender Binarism, and How John Green’s Writing Defies It. – graduate 2022
Theorizing Cultural Longevity: The Factors Behind the Divergent Levels of Popularity of Late Victorian Novels – graduate 2022

Jack Kerouac's Philosophy of Resistance: Configurations and Potentialities of Authenticity in The Duluoz Legend – graduate 2022