Faculty staff

Curriculum vitae

Person Identification

• doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD
  Birth: 2 December 1968 (Kettering, Ohio, USA)

Workplace

• Department of English and American Studies
  Faculty of Arts
  Masaryk University
  Arna Nováka 1
  602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Employment Position

• Associate Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2013: Docent (Higher Doctorate) in the History of Concrete Literatures (Germanic) (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
• 2005: Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature (University of Szeged, Hungary)
• 1994: Master of Arts in English (University of Akron, Ohio, USA)
• 1992: Bachelor of Arts in English (University of Akron, Ohio, USA)

Employment Summary

• 2013-present: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (Associate Professor)
• 2005-2013: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (Assistant Professor)
• 2003-2005: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (Guest Lecturer)
• 1997-2005: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (Instructor of English)
• 1995-1998: Gymnázium Pardubice, Czech Republic (Instructor of English)
• 1992-1995: University of Akron, Ohio, USA (Instructor of English)

Pedagogical Activities

• British Studies
• British Literature 1770-1830: Romanticism
• British Literature 1890-1945: Modernism
• English Romantic Poetry
• English Victorian Poetry
• Decadent Literature and Its Reception in the Late Victorian Period
• Literary and Cultural Theory
• Gay Studies
• Theory of Biography
• Literary Canonicity
• Forrest Reid
• Henry James

Scientific and Research Activities

• Romantic and Victorian Poetry
• The Uranian Movement
• British Decadence
• Textual Editing
• Theory of Biography
• Book Culture
• Gay Studies
• Victorian Paederasty
  
  
• Completing "The Collected Works of John Gambril Francis Nicholson"
  
  
• Member of The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
• Member of The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
• Member of The Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE)

University Activities

• Grant: Areálová orientace (USA, Kanada, Mexiko) filologického studia angličtiny, francouzštiny a španělštiny (CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188)
• Grant: Living Between the Lines: (Re)examining Transgressive Biographies in English-Language Literatures (GA405/09/0056)
• Grant: Pracovní cesta do Britské knihovny s cílem provést výzkum nutný pro připravovanou publikaci Tom Barber: Forrest Reid's Trompe-lil Trilogy (MUNI/21/KAY/2010)

Selected Publications

• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. Romantic Appropriations. In Hubbard, Thomas K. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2014, s. 583-598. 1st edition. ISBN 978-1-4051-9572-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118610657.ch35. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Collected Works and Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren, Volume 1. 1st Masaryk University Press. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2013, 738 s. Volume 1. ISBN 978-80-210-6345-7. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-6345-2013. Munishop Flexibooks info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Collected Works and Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren, Volume 2. 1st Masaryk University Press. Brno, Czech Republic: Masaryk University Press, 2013, 764 s. Volume 2. ISBN 978-80-210-6346-4. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-6346-2013. Munishop Flexibooks info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus. 1st. Kansas City (USA): Valancourt Books, 2012, 486 s. ISBN 978-1-934555-77-4. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. "Connoisseurs of Mr Forrest Reid's novels will know" : The Ending of Brian Westby. Litteraria Pragensia : Studies in Literature and Culture. Prague: Univerzita Karlova, 2012, roč. 22, č. 44, s. 47-61. ISSN 0862-8424. Neglected Irish Fiction, special issue of Litteraria Pragensia info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew a Forrest REID. The Tom Barber Trilogy - Uncle Stephen, The Retreat, and Young Tom, by Forrest Reid: Vol. 1: The Trilogy. 1st ed. Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Valancourt Books, 2011, 654 s. ISBN 978-1-934555-86-6. Valancourt Books Amazon info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Tom Barber Trilogy - Uncle Stephen, The Retreat, and Young Tom, by Forrest Reid: Vol. 2: A Study of Forrest Reid and Explanatory Notes. 1st ed. Kansas City, Missouri: Valancourt Books, 2011, 626 s. ISBN 978-1-934555-87-3. Amazon Valancourt Books info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew, Stephen Paul HARDY, Martina HORÁKOVÁ a Kateřina PRAJZNEROVÁ. Literární biografie jako křižovatka žánrů. 1. vyd. Brno: Host - vydavatelství, s. r. o., 2011, 268 s. ISBN 978-80-7294-383-8. Host info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. Lad's Love: An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose, Vol. 1. 1. vyd. Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Valancourt Books, 2010, 631 s. ISBN 978-1-934555-95-8. Valancourt Books Amazon info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. Lad's Love: An Anthology of Uranian Poetry and Prose, Vol. 2. 1. vyd. Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Valancourt Books, 2010, 639 s. ISBN 978-1-934555-96-5. Amazon Valancourt Books info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew a Edward Perry WARREN. A Defence of Uranian Love, by Edward Perry Warren. 1. vyd. Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Valancourt Books, 2009, 468 s. ISBN 1-934555-69-X. Amazon Valancourt Books info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. "Because Beneath the Lake a Treasure Sank": Dolben as Johnson's Uranian Heir. Brno Studies in English 32. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2008, roč. 2006, č. 32, s. 129-142. ISSN 1211-1791. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew a Forrest REID. The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys, by Forrest Reid. 1. vyd. Kansas City, Missouri: Valancourt Books, 2007, 160 s. Valancourt Books. ISBN 1-934555-04-5. Valancourt Books Amazon info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2006, 497 s. ISBN 80-210-4126-9. Open-access, electronic version in Adobe Reader PDF info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. "Tempting Suggestible Young Men": Pater, Pedagogy, Pederasty. In Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series C, 10, 2004. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2005, s. 63-113. ISBN 80-7194-734-2. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. To Cremate or Bury: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Coventry Patmore, and the Biographical Postmortem. In Second Prague Conference on Linguistics and Literary Studies (14 May 2004) Proceedings. Prague: Pedagogical Faculty, Charles University, 2005, s. 110-20, 11 s. ISBN 80-7290-221-0. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. "In Thy Cedarn Prison Thou Waitest": Johnson's "Ionica" and Uranian Intertextuality. In Theory and Practice in English Studies. Brno: Masaryk University, 2005, s. 79-85, vol. 4, 7 s. ISBN 80-210-3836-5. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Lizard, the Greeks Called It': Guy Davenport and the Uranian Present. In Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2005, s. 39-56. ISBN 80-7194-816-0. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'The Divine Friend, Unknown, Most Desired': The Problematic Uranian Poets. In Theory and Practice in English Studies. Brno: Masaryk University, 2004, s. 71-76, vol. 2, 6 s. ISBN 80-210-3394-0. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Little Porcelain Cup in Which Biting Acids Could Be Mixed': Wilde's Sons as the Audience for 'The Young King'. In New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2004, s. 23-32. ISBN 80-7194-710-5. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Pen, Pencil and Poison' Wilde-Style. In Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series C, 8, 2002. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2003, s. 41-60. ISBN 80-7194-537-4. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. The Poet's Undergarments: the Problematic Concept of Identity in the Life of Gerard Manley Hopkins. In The Issue of Identity, Identity and Globalization. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2003, s. 12-26. ISBN 80-7194-590-0. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Scattered Parts': Writing the Life of Gerard Manley Hopkins. In Prague Conference on Linguistics and Literary Studies (10 May 2002) Proceedings. Prague: Pedagogical Faculty, Charles University, 2003, s. 118-125. ISBN 80-7290-104-4. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Beautiful Dripping Fragments': A Whitmanesque Reading of Hopkins' 'Epithalamion'. Victorian poetry. Morgantown, W.Va.: West Virginia University, 2002, roč. 2002, 40.2, s. 157-187. ISSN 0042-5206. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'Backward I See': Hopkins's Inverse in Verse. In Precursors, Predecessors, Precedents: The Continuing Influence of the 19th Century on Modern Texts and Contexts. Pardubice: University of Pardubice, 2002, s. 8-20. ISBN 80-7194-426-2. info
• KAYLOR, Michael Matthew. 'The Faint Intelligence': Vocabulary and Its Void in Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' and Henry James's 'What Maisie Knew'. In Children's Literature in English at the Turn of the Millennium. Hradec Králové: The British Council, Gaudeamus, 2002, s. 129-138. ISBN 80-7041-940-7. info

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