Dr. Jana Van Der Ziel Fischerova
Occasional Teaching, School Office Language Lit & Cult Stud
Occasional Teaching, Russian & Slavonic Studies
Email vanderzj@tcd.ie PhoneBiography
I was born in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). I am a graduate of Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic), where I completed a BA & MA in Czech Philology, and a BA & MA in English Philology; and of University College Dublin, where I was awarded a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature (in 2011). My doctoral thesis was a comparative study of Literary Censorship in Ireland and Czechoslovakia.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Ideological Pressure and Censorship: Czech Literature, 1948-57 in, editor(s)Judith Devlin & Christoph Hendrik Muller , War of Words: Culture and the Mass Media in the Making of the Cold War in Europe, Dublin, UCD Press, 2013, [Jana Fischerova]Book Chapter, 2013
- Jana Fischerova, 'Zlaté hodinky', Irské povídky: Faráři a fanatici ', Anthology of Irish short stories, Prague, Fraktály, 2004, -Translation, 2004
- Jana Fischerova (ed.), Kate O'Brien: Essays and Journalism. Commissioned by the O'Brien Estate. Forthcoming.Book
- Jana Fischerova, 'The Banning and Unbanning of Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices', Irish University Review, 48, (1), 2018, p69 - 83Journal Article, 2018, DOI
- Jana Fischerova, Germans out, Russians in: The Changed Notion of Czech Cultural Identity after the Second World War, Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe, Trinity College Dublin, 8-10 May 2015, 2015Conference Paper
- Jana Fischerova, Tales from Bective, Review of Mary Lavin,, by Elke D'hoke (ed) , Dublin Review of Books, 48, (27), 2014Review
- Jana Fischerova, Review of W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence, by Lauren Arrington , Irish University Review, 42, (2), 2012Review
- Jana Fischerova, Review of Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban, by Mary P. Corcoran and Mark O'Brien (Eds) , The Irish Literary Supplement, 26, (1), 2006Review
- Jana Fischerova, Censorship of Publications: The Irish Experience, Parnell Summer School, Avondale, 18 August , 2005Invited Talk
- Jana Fischerova, The Artist and the Censor: Visual Arts and Literature in Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia, National Gallery Of Ireland, 7 March, 2004Invited Talk
Research Expertise
My main area of expertise lies in twentieth-century literature and culture, mainly Czech and Irish, but also British and (Soviet) Russian. I am particularly interested in the subject of literary and other censorship, as well as the relationship between literature and society. My research work has been largely comparative, focused primarily on the post-independence Czech (Czechoslovak) and Irish contexts. Recently I have also been working on expanding my scope by exploring the related cultural territories of the Soviet Union and Great Britain. In addition, I am interested in the politics of translation. As a trained philologist, I also teach Czech Language courses at the Department.