Faculty staff

Curriculum vitae

Name

• Markéta Kulhánková, born 25. 5. 1976 in Brno, Czech Republic

Employment

• Department of Art History, Centre for Early Medieval Stdudies

Current position

• Associate Professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 2017: Assoc. Prof. in Classical Philology
• 2008: Ph.D. in Greek Language and Literature (Ph.D. thesis: Byzantine Begging Poetry in its Literary-Historical Context)
• 2005: Mgr. (= M.A.) in Modern Greek Language and Literature – Classical Greek Language and Literature
• 2000: Mgr. (= M.A.) in Latin Language and Literature – Czech Language and Literature

Professional experience

• 3/2022-: Czech Academy of Sciences: Institute of Slavonic Studies
• 3/2022-: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art History, Centre for Early Medieval Stdudies
• 2007-2/2022: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Classics

Teaching

• Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature, Theory of Literature, Reception of Byzantium in the Modern Culture, Modern Greek Grammar

Research

• Poetry of the 12th century, Byzantine vernacular literature, early Byzantine narrative

Professional stays abroad

• 2022 (June-August): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C., Summer fellowship
• 2020 (July–August): Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Summer fellowship – cancelled due to the pandemic
• 2019–2022: British School at Athens: membership and short-termed research stays
• 2019, 2011: one-month research stays at the University of Vienna (Aktion programme)
• 2017 (September–December): researcher in the Text and Narrative in Byzantium project, Uppsala University
• 2016 (June-August): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C., Summer fellowship
• 2009–: teaching stays - Erasmus+: Athens (2019), Cyprus (2017), Katowice (2016), Ioannina (2014), Cracow (2011), Bucharest (2010), Bratislava (2009)
• 2007: Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Universität Wien, research stay, 5 months 2006: Department of Byzantine Studies and Folk Lore, National Unviversity of Athens, research stay, 5 months

Research projects, grants

• 2023-2025: Cherchez la femme. Female Characters in Late Byzantine Literature (Czech Science Foundation, PI)
• 2019-2022: A narratological Commentary on Digenis Akritis (Czech Science Foundation, PI)
• 2018: Innovation of the course Greek Literature of the Middle Ages and Modern Period (Internal project of the Masaryk University: MU Development fund)
• 2017: A course on the reception of Byzantium in the European culture from the 19th century onwards (Internal project of the Masaryk University: MU Development fund)
• 2017: Internal project of the Masaryk University (MU Development fund): A translation of the Byzantine epos Digenis Akritis
• 2012–2014: Early Byzantine Narratives in the Mirror of Modern Literary Theory (Czech Science Foundation, PI)

Other academic activities

• 2018-2021: Guarantor of the study programmes Modern Greek Language and Literature (M.A.) and Greek Studies (Ph.D.)
• Supervision of theses (36 BA, 12 MA, 1 PhD) + 3 PhD in preparation
• 2015–2021: member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts
• 2021–2021: member of the Academic Senate of the Masaryk University
• 2022-2025: member of the international advisory board of the research project “Spaces That Matter: Enclosed and Secluded Places in Early and Middle Byzantine Hagiography” (Austrian Academy of Sciences, FWF)
• 2021–2023: member of the international advisory board of the 7th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies (Vienna 2023)
• 2020–: member of the international advisory board of the Classica Cracoviensia journal
• 2014–2021: editor of the Neograeca Bohemica journal
• 2013–: member of the advisory board of the Byzantinoslavica journal
• 2008–: member of the Czech Commitee for Byzantine Studies (2022- head)
• 2002–2021: member (2013–2017 head) of the Czech Society for Modern Greek Studies

Selected recent presentations

• Organization of workshops and conferences
• 2021 (September): Motifs, Influences, and Narrative Strategies in the Epics of the Medieval East and West, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul (with O. Cikán)
• 2018 (September): Byzantium and the Modern Imagination, Brno (with P. Marciniak)
• 2014 (November): Diegesis in Greek Literature of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Brno
• 2010 (September): Literary Crossroads, Brno (s I. Radovou)
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• Presentations (last 5 years - selection)
• November 2023: Spaces Make Saints. Experiencing Confinement in Byzantine Hagiography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
• September 2023: 7th European Congress of Modern Gree Studies, Vienna.
• April 2023: Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond. Perceptions, performativity, placemaking. Swedish Institute in Athens.
• September 2022: 6th International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Ghent
• August 2022: 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Benátky a Padova
• February 2022: Poetry in Late Byzantium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• September 2021: Motifs, Influences, and Narrative Strategies in the Epics of the Medieval East and West, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul (organizer)
• December 2020: International Workshop Storyworlds in Collections, University of Cyprus (online)
• July 2019: International Medieval Congress Leeds
• July 2019: 15th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques and the Classical Association annual conference 2019, London
• February 2019: Holiness on the Move. Travelling Saints in Byzantium. An International Workshop, Newcastle University
• October 2018: 6th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, Lund
• September 2018: From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda – Aspects of oral narration in the Greek tradition, Danish School at Athens
• September 2018: Byzantium and the Modern Imagination, Brno (co-organizer)
• June 2018: Byzantine poetry in the Long Twelfth Century, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
• November 2017: God, the Saint and the text: Hagiographical studies as an interdisciplinary field. Hagiography workshop, Oslo

Major publications

• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Rethinking the Mixed Style in Twelfth-Century Poetry. In B. van den Berg - N. Zagklas. Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204): New Texts, New Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, s. 95-112. ISBN 978-1-009-46732-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009467292.004. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites. Online. In Constantinou, Stavroula - Andreou, Andria. Storyworlds in Short Narratives. Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2024, s. 221-238. Brill's series on Early Midddle Ages 31. ISBN 978-90-04-70735-1. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004707351_011. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. “I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories. In Mihail Mitrea. Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography. New York: Routledge, 2023, s. 90-102. ISBN 978-1-032-29079-9. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9871003299943. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Character Types and Characterization in Byzantine Edifying Stories. In De Temmerman, Koen; Van Pelt, Julie; Staat, Klazina. Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography : Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, s. 123-139. Fabulae 2. ISBN 978-2-503-60282-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.FABULAE-EB.5.132451. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Przemysław MARCINIAK. Byzantium in the Popular Imagination. The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, Bloombsbury Publishing, 2023. ISBN 978-0-7556-0728-0. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. 'Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts': Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction. In M. Kulhánková - P. Marciniak. Byzantium in the Popular Imagination. The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, Bloombsbury Publishing, 2023, s. 193-206, 19 s. ISBN 978-0-7556-0728-0. URL info
• DZURILLOVÁ, Zuzana a Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. The Historical Present in the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions of Digenis Akritis : A Narratological Insight. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 2022, roč. 62, č. 3, s. 365-384. ISSN 0017-3916. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. "For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So" : The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika. In Marciniak, Przemyslaw; Nilsson, Ingela. Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period. The Golden Age of Laughter? Leiden: Brill, 2021, s. 304-323. Explorations in Medieval Culture, vol. 12. ISBN 978-90-04-43438-7. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004442566_016. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Narrative coherence in Digenes Akrites (G). Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, roč. 45, č. 2, s. 184-198. ISSN 0307-0131. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2021.14. URL info
• TICHÁ, Pavla a Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Vatican Hill in the Time of Conversion : The Phrygianum Neighboring Old Saint Peter’s. CONVIVIUM-EXCHANGES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE ARTS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE BYZANTIUM AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. 2021, roč. 8, Supplementum 3, s. 42-61. ISSN 2336-3452. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.130933. URL info
• CIKÁN, Ondřej a Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Die Welt des Digenes Akrites : Zu den Eigennamen in der Grottaferrata-Version unter Berücksichtigung historischer Schichten und literarischer Assoziationsmöglichkeiten. BYZANTINOSLAVICA-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DES ETUDES BYZANTINES. Euroslavica, 2020, roč. 78, 1-2, s. 240-261. ISSN 0007-7712. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Uffe HOLMSGAARD ERIKSEN. Byzantinistik / Byzantine Studies. In Eva von Contzen - Stephan Tilg. Handbuch Historische Narratologie. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2019, s. 307-309. ISBN 978-3-476-04713-7. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04714-4_30. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. "Oi eikones sta ktiria kai oi mnimes stis kardies" : treis opseis tis eikonomachikis epochis sti neoelliniki afigimatiki logotechnia. Neograeca Bohemica. Brno: Česká společnost novořeckých studií, z. s., 2019, roč. 19, č. 1, s. 9-23. ISSN 1803-6414. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Ondřej CIKÁN. Digenis Akritis : Byzantský epos o Dvojrodém Hraničáři. 1. vyd. Červený Kostelec: Mervart, Pavel, 2018, 214 s. Byzantská knihovna, sv. 5. ISBN 978-80-7465-342-1. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Scenic narration in the Daniel Sketiotes Dossier of spiritually beneficial tales. Scandinavian Journal for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 2017, roč. 3, č. 1, s. 61-79. ISSN 2002-0007. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Ondřej CIKÁN. K novému českému překladu byzantské epické básně Digenis Akritis. Neograeca Bohemica. Česká společnost novořeckých studií o.s., 2017, roč. 17, č. 2017, s. 63-85. ISSN 1803-6414. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Simone SUMELIDU. Úvod do studia novořečtiny. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 138 s. ISBN 978-80-210-7840-6. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Das gottgefällige Abenteuer. Eine narratologische Analyse der byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2015, 170 s. Pro Oriente : dědictví křesťanského Východu ; band 31. ISBN 978-80-7465-175-5. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Zwischen Wüste und Welt: die Konstruktion des Raumes in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen. Byzantinische Zeitschrift. München: De Gruyter, 2015, roč. 108, č. 2, s. 715-733. ISSN 0007-7704. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bz-2015-0020. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Obrácení nevěstky Marie a jiné příběhy : byzantská vyprávění prospěšná pro duši. 1. vyd. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2014, 181 s. Byzantská knihovna ; sv. 3. ISBN 978-80-7465-094-9. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. To amyalo jiras sti vyzantini kai proimi neoelliniki logotechnia. Neograeca Bohemica. Brno: Česká společnost novořeckých studií, 2014, roč. 14, č. 1, s. 41-49. ISSN 1803-6414. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Der bestrafte Mönch. Ein erster Einblick in die Analyse der Erzähltechnik in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Diegeseis. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014, roč. 64, č. 1, s. 139-153. ISSN 0378-8660. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Karagiozis mezi osmanskou mahallou a řeckým předměstím. Divadelní revue. Praha: Institut umění - Divadelní ústav, 2012, roč. 23, č. 1, s. 46-59. ISSN 0862-5409. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Das Eindringen der Volkssprache in die byzantinische Literatur als eines der Elemente der asteiotes. Frühmittelalterliche Studien : Jahrbuch des Instituts für Frühmittelalterforschung der Universität Münster. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 2012, roč. 45, č. 1, s. 233-243. ISSN 0071-9706. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. K čertu ať táhne studium. Výbor z byzantské žebravé poezie. 1. vyd. Červený Kostelec: Nakladatelství Pavel Mervart, 2011, 144 s. Byzantská knihovna, sv. 1. ISBN 978-80-87378-69-4. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Figuren und Wortspiele in den byzantinischen Bettelgedichten und die Frage der Autorschaft. Graeco-Latina Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova Univerzita, 2011, roč. 16, č. 1, s. 29-39. ISSN 1803-7402. URL info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Byzantinische Betteldichtung. Verbindung des Klassischen mit dem Volkstümlichen. In A. Rhoby - E. Schiffer. Imitatio - aemulatio - variatio. Akten des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposions zur byzantinischen Sprache und Literatur. 1. vyd. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010, s. 175-180. ISBN 978-3-7001-6825-6. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Vaganten in Byzanz, Prodromoi im Westen. Parallelektüre von byzantinischer und lateinischer Betteldichtung des 12. Jahrhunderts. Byzantinoslavica. Praha: Euroslavica, 2010, roč. 68, 1-2, s. 241-256. ISSN 0007-7712. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Kateřina LOUDOVÁ. Epea pteroenta. Růženě Dostálové k narozeninám. Brno: Host, 2009, 341 s. ISBN 978-80-7294-320-3. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Ich bin auch eines schicken Mantels wert. Zum Manteltopos in der griechischen Dichtung, in: Markéta Kulhánková - Kateřina Loudová, Epea pteroenta. Růženě Dostálové k narozeninám. Brno: Host, 2009, s. 191–200. ISBN 978-80-7294-320-3. info
• KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Parallelen zur antiken Literatur in der byzantinischen Betteldichtung. Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity, řada klasická N, Graeco-Latina Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 81-95. ISSN 1211-6335. info

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