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
- 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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