Prof. Dr. Marek Nekula
Professor of Bohemian and Western Slavic Studies, Head of the Bohemicum
Contact
Universität Regensburg
Institute for Slavic Studies
Universitätsstraße 27
93053 Regensburg
Germany
+49 (0)941 / 943-3525 (Sekretariat) +49 (0)941 / 943-1861 marek.nekula@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de Webprofile
Main Research Areas
- Philology and Cultural Studies:
- Grammar and pragmatics
- Typology and language comparison
- Language contact and multilingualism
- Language planning - language management
- Literature and Cultural Studies:
- Language in space - space in literature
- Commemorative cultures
- Semiotics of culture and New Historicism
- National rebirth - modernism
- "Prague German literature"
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Brno (Czech Republic). Doctorate (PhDr.) at the Masaryk University in Brno on the means of expression of irony from a pragmalinguistic point of view, subsequently doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Free University of Berlin. Habilitation in Brno. Since 1998 professor of Bohemian and Western Slavic Studies at Universität Regensburg and director of Bohemianum Regensburg/Passau.
Editorships
- Slovo a slovesnost (Editorial Board)
- Vienna Slavic Yearbook (Advisory Board)
- Naše řeč (Editorial Board)
- Dějiny a současnost (Editorial Board)
- brücken (Editorial Board)
- Series "Slavica" in Winter University Press (Heidelberg)
Positions, Assignments and Memberships
- Board member and principal investigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
- Head of Bohemicum Regensburg-Passau and German-Czech Studies
- Member of Collegium Carolinum