Faculty staff

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• Eliška Poláčková, born 3 May, 1986

Department

• Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

Employment - Position

• Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 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

• 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
• 2012-2014: Executive Editor of "Theatralia" journal, issued by the DEpartment of Theatre Studies, Masaryk University
• 2012-2014: Centre for Innovation of Arts Studies, Department of Musicology, staff
• 2006-2012: dramaturg of Divadlo Aldente Theatre

Teaching Activities

• On Theatre and Drama in Classical Greek and Rome: Classical Greek and Roman Theatre, Reading Euripides´ Hippolytus, Reading Plautus´ Mostellaria and Menaechmi, Latin for Theatre Students
• On Medieval Theatre, Drama, and Performances: Medieval Theatre, Medieval Performances,Plancts - Between Text and Performance, Feast of Fools as a Cultural Performance
• On Theatre Translation: Adapting for Theatre (with Pavel Drábek), Translating Plautus´ Curculio
• General Courses: English for Theatre Students, Text in Text, Offending the Theatre

Scientific and Research Activities

• Medieval Bohemian Theatre and Drama (in Czech and Latin)
• Classical Roman Theatre and Drama
• Medieval Performativity
• Performativity in Classical Antiquity
• Translating for Theatre (theory, and practice: translating from Latin)

Internship

• 5day research stay at the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens, 2–6 Sept 2019, financed by the Czech Academy of Sciences
• Teaching stay financed by Erasmus+ at the Department of Theatre Studies, University in Bergen, 5–6 March 2018
• 5day research stay in Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek, library of Swedish Academy of Letters (Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien), 28 Aug–1 Sept 2017, financed by the Czech Academy of Sciences

University Activities

• November 2019: workshop Play Like Plautus for the participants of an international conference organized by Dpt of Classical Studies and Dpt of Theatre Studies, Plautus From Page to Stage, 12-14 Nov 2019
• October 2019-April 2020: series of lectures for the conjoint Junior University Programme of the Theatre Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts, Brno and the Department of Theatre Studies
• October 2018: "Liminality of the altar/piece in the Middle Ages. Liturgical and Para-liturgical performances", co-authored paper (with Jan Klípa) at the international conference Liminality and the Medieval Art II (Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Masaryk University)
• September 2018: "‘O Strange Humour!’ Translating Plautus For Performance", paper at the international ESSE Conference (Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University), given in the panel "Literary Hermeneutics: Openness In Translating Drama and Verse" (organized by Pavel Drábek and Pascale Drouet)
• July 2018: "Titus Maccius Plautus and Roman Comedy", requested popularizing lecture at the Moravian Parnasus, a festival of Baroque Theatre in Mikulov
• July 2018: "A Prince or a Pauper?: Staging Noble Lineage in the Coronation Order of Emperor Charles IV". Paper at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, session organized by Société Internationale pour l´étude du théâtre médiéval
• April 2018: "Medieval Planct - Between Text and Performance". Requested lecture at the 65th Medievistic Friday (Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University)
• March 2018: Classical Theatre as a Mirror of the Society, lecture for grammar school teachers, Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
• March 2018: "Nechte si ty svoje fóra... teda fóry". Translating Roman Comedy, lecture at the Translation Day, University in Ostrava, co-authored with Tomáš Weissar
• October 2017: Medieval Theatre in the Czech Lands, lecture for students of the Lifelong Learning Study Programme of Masaryk University
• October 2017: Medieval Performativity, lecture, Theatre Research Society (Prague)
• July 2015: Paper at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK; "Between Text and Performance: Planctus as Liminal Genre"
• November 2014: Lecture at the Department of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, "Old Czech and Latin Bohemian Medieval Placts: Between Text and Performance"
• May 2014: Lecture in the Centre for Medieval Studies; "Medieval Theatre"
• March 2014: Lecture at the Department of Theatre Studies; "Medieval Bohemian Unguentarius Three Times Revisited" with Eva Stehlíková and Martin Bažil
• 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

Activities Outside University

• Tutorship of final theses, Dept of Theatre Studies, Charles University: Corporeality, liminality and communitas in experiencing the Camino (2019); Heroides or Six Ancient Heroines for Modern Stage (2019)
• Co-organizing Summer Schools of Classics (Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• For more see academia.edu

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2nd prize, Evald Schorm Prize for an original play, adaptation or translation, Czech Theatre Agency DILIA, 2018 (translation of Titus Maccius Plautus "Curculio or Darmojed", translators: Tomáš Weissar, Eliška Poláčková, Daniela Urbanová, Radek Černoch)
• 2nd prize ex aequo, Dean´s Prize For Outstanding BA, MA, and PhD Theses, for dissertation "Theatricality of Bohemian Literature of the Fourteenth Century"
• Finacial support from Czech Theatre Agency DILIA for a production of the authorial translation of Plautus’ comedy Curculio (with Tomáš Weissar, Daniela Urbanová and Radek Černoch), 2018

Major Publications

• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Verbum caro factum est. Performativita bohemikální literatury 14. století pohledem divadelní vědy. Praha: Filosofia. 472 s. Studie a prameny k dějinám myšlení v českých zemích, svazek 19. ISBN 978-80-7007-575-3. 2019. info
• URBANOVÁ, Daniela, Tomáš WEISSAR, Radek ČERNOCH a Eliška POLÁČKOVÁ. Několik poznámek k českému překladu Plautovy komedie Curculio. In J. Balegová, E. Brodňanská, F. Šimon. Hortus Graeco-latinus Cassoviensis II. Košice: Univerzita Pavla Josefa Šafárika v Košicích, FF Katedra klasickej filológie. s. 241-257. ISBN 978-80-8152-590-2. 2018. Elektronická verze sborníku info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Několik poznámek k teatralitě (českého) středověku. Theatralia : revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře. Masarykova univerzita, roč. 21, č. 1, s. 53-70. ISSN 1803-845X. doi:10.5817/TY2018-1-3. 2018. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. "Manželské skutky radostně plodiechu". Médeia ve staročeské Kronice trójanské. Praha: Filosofia. s. 85-109, 24 s. ISBN 978-80-7007-521-0. 2018. info
• WEISSAR, Tomáš, Eliška POLÁČKOVÁ, Daniela URBANOVÁ a Radek ČERNOCH. Titus Maccius Plautus: Darmojed. Brno, 2017. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Stereotypy v českých překladech Tita Maccia Plauta. In Jakub Čechvala, Eliška Poláčková. Ve stínu hellénského slunce. Obrazy antiky v moderní české kultuře. Praha: Nakladatelství Filosofia. s. 243-316, 339-410. ISBN 978-80-7007-460-2. 2016. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Slunce, stín a sahara. Několik slov k metodologii. In Jakub Čechvala, Eliška Poláčková. Ve stínu hellénského slunce. Obrazy antiky v moderní české kultuře. Praha: Nakladatelství Filosofia. s. 9-16. ISBN 978-80-7007-460-2. 2016. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Chorikiova obrana herců. Theatralia. Masarykova univerzita, roč. 19, č. 1, s. 308-310. ISSN 1803-845X. 2016. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Dvojí tvář středověkého herce. In Živá historie. Brno: Extra Publishing. s. 51-53. ISSN 1802-2278. 2016. info
• STEHLÍKOVÁ, Eva. Ancient Greek and Roman Theatre. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. 554 s. ISBN 978-80-210-7037-0. 2014. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Mutato nomine dicor nunc Homulus. Latin Translation of the Morality Play of Elckelijc. Listy filologické. Praha: Kabinet pro klasická studia, roč. 135, 3-4, s. 323-339. ISSN 0024-4457. 2012. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Český překlad antických her : Quo Vadis? Theatralia/Yorick. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, roč. 15, č. 1, s. 136-150. ISSN 1803-845X. 2012. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Římské divadlo v době císařské aneb Jeden den filozofa Senecy. In Seneca: Faidra. Brno: Městské divadlo Brno. s. 71-84, 13 s. 2012. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Jonathan Chadwick: Hra. Městské divadlo Zlín, 2012. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Potřebujeme nové formy? Reflexe finálových textů Ceny Konstantina Trepleva pro mladé dramatiky uvedených na festivalu DHNP "Jirka Kniha hledá autora". Theatralia/Yorick. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, roč. 14, č. 2, s. 227-233. ISSN 1803-845X. 2011. info
• POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška. Seneca’ Phaedra – an over passionate heroine: analysis of Hana Burešová’s Faidra. In Maria de Fátima Silva, Susana Hora Marques. Tragic Heroines on Ancient and Modern Stage. University of Coimbra: Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies. s. 109-119, 127 s. ISBN 978-989-8281-40-1. 2010. info

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