Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Person-Related Identification Information

• b. 1979

Department

• Department of English and American Studies Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University Arna Nováka 1, 60200 Brno, CZE

Employment - Position

• Asssociate Professor Department Head

Education and Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2012) Associate Professor (docent) in History of Concrete Literatures - English Literature (2022)

Teaching Activities

• History of modern British drama, History of American drama and theatre (from beginnings to the present), British literary modernism, Tom Stoppard, Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, theatre semiotics, and performance studies.

Scientific and Research Activities

• See ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4809-7887).

Awards Related to Science and Research

• Fulbright Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, Department of English (September 2017 - June 2018)

Major Publications

• DROZD, David, Pavel DRÁBEK and Tomáš KAČER. Aesthetics of the Dramatic Art. Theoretical Dramaturgy by Otakar Zich. Praha: Charles University Press - Karolinum, 2024, 476 pp. ISBN 978-80-246-5785-1. Publisher's website info
• KAČER, Tomáš. A Constant Struggle for Freedom : Edward Albee in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Online. In Santana, Esther. Albee Abroad. Leiden: Brill, 2023, p. 15-35. New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, Volume: 5. ISBN 978-90-04-54412-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004544130_003. URL info
• SPARLING, Thomas Donaldson, Tomáš KAČER and Renata KAMENICKÁ. Outside In. A Personal History of the Brno Department of English Narrated by Don Sparling. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2022, 124 pp. MUNI ARTS 100. ISBN 978-80-210-8632-6. info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Czech translations and receptions of contemporary Australian fiction. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis, 2022, vol. 58, No 1, p. 51-64. ISSN 1744-9855. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.1994755. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Tom Stoppard’s Science Plays : Metaphor and Experiment. Świat i Słowo (World and Word). 2021, vol. 36, No 1, p. 77-89. ISSN 1731-3317. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.7963. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Czechoslovakia. In David Kornhaber and James N. Loehlin. Tom Stoppard in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, p. 10-17. Literature in Context. ISBN 978-1-108-30373-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108303736.004. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Performing Political Persuasion in the United States in the Early Years of the Republic. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. University of Alicante, 2021, vol. 35, No 2, p. 61-74. ISSN 0214-4808. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2021.35.03. Journal Issue online info
• KAČER, Tomáš. The ‘stage Indian’ in early American theatre culture. Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2021, vol. 13, No 2, p. 5-15. ISSN 1803-8174. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2021.13.0007. Full text info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Kryštof Kozák. České probuzení z amerického snu. Proč a jak se v České republice zabývat Spojenými státy, Praha: Karolinum, 2019. Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Ostravská univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2021, vol. 13, No 2, p. 99-100. ISSN 1803-8174. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2021.13.0013. Full text info
• KAČER, Tomáš and Svitlana SHURMA. Otakar Zich and a Structural Approach to Art. In Theatralia. Journal of Theatre Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 214 pp. ISSN 1803-845X. Journal Website info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Interview with Emil Volek and Andrés Pérez-Simón. Masarykova univerzita, 2020. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-1-11. Journal Website info
• KAČER, Tomáš and David DROZD. (Re-)Translating Zich's Aesthetics into English : a work in progress. Theatralia. Masarykova univerzita, 2020, vol. 23, No 1, p. 199-213. ISSN 1803-845X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-1-19. Journal Website URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Dvousetletá pustina. Dějiny starší americké dramatiky (Two Hundred Years of Wasteland : History of Early American Drama). Vydání první. Praha: Karolinum, 2019, 378 pp. Dramatica, sv. 6. ISBN 978-80-246-4413-4. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Theatres of Mind : Staging Psychological Science in Modernist American Theatre. Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies. Hradec Králové: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2019, vol. 6, No 1, p. 65-73. ISSN 2336-3347. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. A Constant Replay? American Avant-garde Theatre in the Context of 21st Century Post-dramaticality. In 14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2018. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Špalek Beckettova života (A Tome of Beckett's Life). Divadelní noviny : kulturní čtrnáctideník pro divadelníky a jejich diváky (MDO). Společnost pro Divadelní noviny, 2018, No 15, p. nestránkováno. ISSN 1210-471X. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. American Avant-garde Theatre's Offspring : Sticking to Tradition and/or Breaking New Ground? In 14th International Cultural Studies Conference & 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning, 8th-9th November, 2018, University of Pardubice, Pardubice. 2018. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. "Utrpení" versus "Trampoty" : Haškova humoristická povídka z Veselé Prahy ("Suffering" vs "Troubles" : Hašek's short humorous story from the magazine Veselá Praha). In Podhajský, František A. Fikce Jaroslava Haška. Vydání první. Praha: Ústav české literatury AV ČR, v.v.i., 2016, p. 81-91. ISBN 978-80-88069-27-0. Kniha Fikce Jaroslava Haška představuje kolektivní monografii literárních, divadelních a filmových vědců, kteří se zaměřili na rozbor Haškovy prozaické a ideologické fikce v průřezu celé jeho tvorby a na díla jimi a jím inspirovaná. info
• HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka and Tomáš KAČER. Current Trends in Theatre Theory and Meta-theory. In Theatralia. Journal of Theatre Studies, no. 2 (2016): volume 19. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, p. 1-180. ISSN 1803-845X. URL info
• DROZD, David, Tomáš KAČER and Thomas Donaldson SPARLING. Theatre Theory Reader : Prague School Writings. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2016, 654 pp. ISBN 978-80-246-3578-1. info
• DROZD, David and Tomáš KAČER. Introduction. In Drozd, David; Kačer, Tomáš; Sparling, Don. Theatre Theory Reader : Prague Schools Writings. 1. vydání. Praha: Karolinum, 2016, p. 13-27. ISBN 978-80-246-3578-1. info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Universal Design for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in the Czech Republic. TheatreForum. La Jolla (CA): UC San Diego, 2016, vol. 50, No 1, p. 8-10. ISSN 1060-5320. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon as a Case for Stirring up the Debate over the Abolition of Slavery. Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies. Hradec Králové: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2015, vol. 2, No 1, p. 26-32. ISSN 2336-3347. info
• KAČER, Tomáš. Proměna funkce posla v dramatu (Transformation of the messenger function in drama). Theatralia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, vol. 17, No 1, p. 286-300. ISSN 1803-845X. Domovská stránka periodika Theatralia Digitální knihovna FF MU info
• KAČER, Tomáš and Barbora DIEGO RIVERA PŘÍHODOVÁ. Prague Semiotic Stage Revisited II. In Theatralia. Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře. 1st ed. Brno: Katedra divadelních studií FF MU, Nakladatelství MU, 2014, p. 1 - 251. URL info
• KAČER, Tomáš. New Messengers: Short Narratives in Plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 138 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity v Brně ; č. 418. ISBN 978-80-210-6339-6. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
• KAČER, Tomáš. "I Am Britannia, the Spirit of Our Age": Time Shifting as a Study of the Idea of Progress in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Shelagh Stephenson's An Experiment with an Air Pump. Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty Brněnské univerzity, Řada anglistická: Brno Studies in English 33. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2007, vol. 2007, No 13, p. 157-167. ISSN 1211-1791. info

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