Name and surname: Petra Ježková
Degree: Mgr., Ph.D.
Department: Czech Theatre Studies Department
Email: petra.jezkova@idu.cz
Telephone: +420 224 809 133/177, +420 774 053 110
Petra Ježková is a theatre historian, journalist, and editor, dealing with Czech theatre in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Since 2007 she has worked at the Czech Theatre Studies Department at the ATI, where she is the main guarantor of the project Czech Theatre Encyclopedia; she started and manages the book series Nota bene, she compiled and prepared its first volume I Suffer from the Same Illness. Julius Zeyer and Jan Lier Reflected in Their Letters (2017), she published the monograph Besieged by a Nation of Playwrights. Jan Lier 1852–1917 (Academia, 2014). Since 2018 she has been the head of the Czech Theatre Studies Department at the ATI.
Education
2006–2012 Ph.D., Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague; Doctoral Thesis Besieged by a Nation of Playwrights. Jan Lier the Critic and Dramaturg of the National Theatre (supervisor prof. V. Just, CSc.)
1999–2005 Master’s Degree, Theory and History of Theatre, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno; diploma thesis Božena Viková Kunětická, Controversial Feminist Playwright at the Turn of the Century
Professional résumé
2024–present Editor in Chief of Theatre Revue journal
2024–present memeber of the MCL Publishing Board
2023–present member of the Jury of The Czech Ministry of Culture Award for Contribution to Theatre
2021–2023 journalist in Theatre Revue journal
2019–2023 member of the panel Science on Art, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic
2018– present head of the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
2018– present member of the Advisory Committee for Developing Collections of the Theatre Collection, National Museum
2018 journalist in Theater der Zeit journal
2015–2021 member of the grant commission for theatre, Ministry of Culture
2015–2017 member of the board of the F. X. Šalda Award
2012–2023 secretary and member of the committee of Theatre Research Society
2011–2019 journalist in Czech Theatre journal
2010–2020 member of the editorial board of Theatre Revue
2007–2009 lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies, Charles University in Prague
2007– present researcher at Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI