CV – Jan Chovanec, 21 July 2023
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Jan Chovanec – Curriculum Vitae
(as of 21 July 2023)
1. Personal information
Name: Jan Chovanec (Mr.) (prof., Mgr., Ph.D.)
Current position: Professor in linguistics (full, tenured)
Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in
Brno, Czech Republic (Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno)
Born on: 9 July 1973
Nationality: Czech
2. Employment
2001-now: Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, MU Brno (full-time)
2018-now: Department of Foreign Languages, SLU Opava (part-time)
1997-2001: Department of Foreign Languages, MU Brno (1997-8: Faculty of Arts, 1998-2001: Faculty
of Law, 2000: Faculty of Economics)
2000-2001: Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Education, MU Brno
3. Education
2020-2021 – professorial proceedings, appointed full professor in December 2021
2015-17 - habilitation proceedings and appointment (topic: The Discourse of Online Sports Commentary:
From Description to Participation; external evaluators: prof. Greg Myers, prof. Hans Sauer, prof.
Aleš Klégr)
2001 PhD. in English linguistics (topic: Interpersonal Aspects of Printed News Discourse: A
Sociolinguistic Study of the Woodward Case Reporting in the Electronic Telegraph; supervisor: doc.
PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc.; the thesis was awarded the Rector’s Prize)
1998 BA level exam in History of Art, Masaryk University in Brno
1997 Mgr. in English language and literature
1994-5 University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, USA (exchange student, GPA: 4.00)
Summer schools: 2008 Forensic Linguistics (Aston, Birmingham), 2000 Language and Gender (CEU
scholarship, Budapest), 1993 Dutch Language and Culture (Utrecht)
4. Publications and academic work
2 research monographs
2018 The Discourse of Online Sportscasting. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 303 pp.
2014 The Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News. From Canonical Headlines to Online News
Texts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 294 pp.
2 co-authored books
2011 Chovanec, Jan, Miroslav Bázlik and Teodor Hrehovčík. Soudní překlad a tlumočení [Court
Translation and Interpreting]. Praha: Wolters Kluwer. 408 pp.
1999 Budíková, Barbora and Chovanec, Jan. Anglicko-český slovník uprchlického práva. [EnglishCzech
Dictionary of Refugee Law]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1999. 56 pp.
4 co-edited books
2021 Johansson, Marjut, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Jan Chovanec (eds.) Analyzing Digital
Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy. Springer, 467 pp.
2018 Tsakona, Villy and Jan Chovanec (eds.) The Dynamics of Interactional Humor. Amsterdam
and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 316 pp.
2017 Chovanec, Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.) Representing the Other in
European Media Discourses. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 320 pp.
2015 Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.) Participation in Public and Social Media
Interactions. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 284 pp.
2012 Chovanec, Jan and Isabel Ermida (eds.) Language and Humour in the Media. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 260 pp.
71 articles (22 in journals, 37 book chapters, 13 in proceedings)
5 journal special issues (Journal of Pragmatics 2021, European Journal of Humour Research 2020, Brno
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3 encyclopaedia entries (The Handbook of Applied Linguistics, The International Encyclopedia of
Linguistic Anthropology, both Wiley-Blackwell)
3 textbooks
30 book reviews and short reports
102 conference presentations
26 lectures and seminars at other universities (e.g. 2023 – Madrid; 2019 – La Laguna; 2016 – Soochow
University, Taipei; 2015 – Edmonton, Canada; 2014 – Rovaniemi, FI; Palma de Mallorca, SP; 2013 –
Regensburg, DE, Duke University + NCSU, USA; 2012 – Alicante, SP)
5. Teaching
Courses on discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics (BA, MA, PhD level): language in the media,
broadcast talk, language and law, intercultural communication, methodology of scientific work, etc.
6. Recent projects and participation in grants
2018-now NETLANG project “The Language of Cyberbullying: Forms and Mechanisms of Online Prejudice
and Discrimination in Annotated Comparable Corpora of Portuguese and English” – external
participant (PTDC/LLT-LIN/29304/2017, University of Minho)
2016-2018 Discursive construction of otherness in media and post-media discourses (GAČR, 16-05484S)
2014 Linguistic Analysis of Broadcast Talk (FRMU, MUNI/FR/0131/2014)
2012-2015 FIFA – Innovation of courses in linguistics at the Faculty of Arts (a faculty-wide project)
2010-2013 Areálová orientace (USA, Kanada, Mexiko) filologického studia angličtiny, francouzštiny a
španělštiny (CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188) North American Studies grant (a grant involving the English
Department and the Romance Studies Department), (MŠMK ČR)
2007-2009 Integration in Languages, Languages in Integration, Grant No. GAČR 405/07/0652 of the Grant
Agency of the Czech Republic (primary researcher: Marie Krčmová, Dpt. of Gen. Linguistics, MU)
2009 Pragmatics of Courtroom Discourse: Saving one’s Face in the Witness Box (MUNI/21/CHO/2009) –
internal grant, FF MU]
2008 English Language in the Legal Context – Forensic Linguistics – FRVŠ F5-709/2008
2008-2009 Multilingualism in Czech and Austrian Football Teams (cooperation with the Football Research
Group in Innsbruck, Austria – Prof. Eva Lavric, with Alena Polická-Podhorná, MU (Aktion), 50p1)
7. Short-term research stays
2017 – Alicante, Spain; 2016 – Ottawa, 2015 – University of Munich, Germany; 2013 – University of
Regensburg, Germany; 2013 – Duke University and North Carolina State University, USA; 2012 –
University of Vienna, Austria; 2011 – University of Wroclaw, Poland; 2009 University of Vienna, Austria;
2007 – University of Regensburg, Germany
8. Editorial work
Brno Studies in English (editor-in-chief since 2006, 23 issues, SCOPUS, ERIH)
Theory and Practice in English Studies (founder; editor of 4 volumes since 2003)
a series of proceedings from Brno conferences on English and American studies, founder
Journal of Pragmatics; Discourse, Context & Media (Elsevier, since 2020) Internet Pragmatics (John
Benjamins, since 2017) – editorial board member
European Journal of Humour Research (since 2013), Interactions (since 2012), Discourse and Interaction
(since 2010) – advisory board member
Extensive reviewing work for international journals
9. Organizational work
8 workshops on media discourse (2019 Hong Kong; 2018 Tallinn, Brno; 2017 Belfast; 2014 Košice; 2012
Istanbul; 2010 Brno; 2010 Torino)
3 conferences on English studies (2010, 2015, 2020 Brno)
10. Postgraduate (doctoral) students
5 successful graduates: (2023 – Dominika Beneš Kováčová, 2015 - Jaromír Haupt, 2012 - Dita
Trčková, 2010 - Danica Maleková, 2008 - Jana Vokáčová)