Name and surname: Klára Škrobánková
Degree: Mgr. et Mgr.
Department: Czech Theatre Studies Department
Email: klara.skrobankova@idu.cz
Telephone: +420 606 909 604
Klára Škrobánková is a theatre historian and translator, engaged in 19th century Moravian and Silesian theatre in German. Since 2018 she has worked at the Czech Theatre Studies Department. She participates in the project of Czech Theatre Encyclopedia.
Education
2016– present: Doctoral Studies, Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University; dissertation Theatre Culture in Silesia (supervisor prof. Margita Havlíčková)
2015–2017 Master’s Degree, English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, diploma thesis Kirkman’s The Wits or Sport upon Sport as a Testimony of the Theatre Life during the Civil War and the Interregnum.
2013–2016 Master’s Degree, Theory and History of Theatre, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Master’s Thesis Carl Joseph Schwertberger and his Theatre Activities in Czech Lands.
2011–2015 Bachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk Unversity, Bachelor’s Thesis “Some War or Other”: Plath’s Treatment of History in Selected Poems
2010–2013 Bachelor’s Degree, Theory and History of Theatre, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Bachelor’s Thesis Authorial Librettos of Ján Cikker.
Professional résumé
2018 – present – researcher at the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
2019 – present – associate researcher at the Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Teaching activities
2017 – present English for Theatre Researchers 1+2, Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
2018 – present Brno Theatre Map, Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Specialization and research
Research of the German-speaking theatre in Silesia and Moravia, English restoration theatre and drama.
Conference
Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies (2020), ESRA (2017, 2019), Perspektivy teatrologie (2018).
Research grants
2019–2021 GAČR GA19-07494S “English Theatre Culture 1660-1737”
(team member).