Mgr. Kateřina Kovářová

Mgr. Kateřina Kovářová graduated from English and American Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. She has been studying PhD study program at Charles University in Prague since 2016. In her dissertation, she focuses on interdependence of American nature and culture in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction. She was awarded European Association of American Studies Postgraduate Transatlantic Travel Grant. She is a member of The Cormac McCarthy Society and Czech and Slovak Association of American Studies.

Her main areas of interest are modern American literature, Southern Gothic, and ecocriticism. She has translated several contemporary English and American novels.

Kateřina Kovářová welcomes thesis proposals in the fields of Southern Gothic, 20th century American fiction, ecocriticism, and nature in American literature.

In 2016-2019 as Kateřina Bártová.

Book chapters:

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. "Americká literatura v Čechách od roku 1989: autoři, autorky a témata rezonující v českém prostředí." In BAUER, Michal, ČERNÍKOVÁ, Veronika, DRSKOVÁ, Kateřina, KAPLICKÁ YAKIMOVA, Vera, NAGY, Ladislav a SKALICKÝ, David. Transfery recepce: Česká literatura ve světě a světová literatura v Česku v období 1989–2020. České Budějovice: Nakladatelství Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, 2022, pp. 59–94. ISBN 978-80-7394-942-6.

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. "A vulnerable predator: the wolf as a symbol of the natural environment in the works of Ernest Thompson Seton, Jack London and Cormac McCarthy". In MASSCHELEIN, Anneleen, MUSSGNUG, Florian and RUSHWORTH, Jennifer (eds.). Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative approaches and questions of genre. London: UCL Press, 2021, pp. 52-67. ISBN 978-1-80008-115-4.

Collections:

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. Toulky Pustou zemí: T. S. Eliot ekokriticky. In NAGY, Ladislav a POKORNÝ, Martin (eds.). Krajiny jazyka: Kolegové a žáci prof. Martinovi Hilskému k 80. narozeninám. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2023. pp. 99-112. ISBN 978-7671-108-2.

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. "Neither Sinner nor Saint: Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels". In EMMANOUILIDOU, Sophia and TOSKA, Sezgin (eds.). Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, pp. 83-100. ISBN 978-80-7308-946-7.

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. "Technology at the Service of Environmental Ethics: Hypertext and Multicentrism". In BOHAL, Vít and BREITLING, Dustin (eds.). Speculative Ecologies: Plotting through the Mesh. Praha: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2019, pp. 10-24. ISBN 978-80-7308-946-7.

Journal articles:

• KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina. "What Else Can Nature Mean: An Ecocritical Perspective on Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction". Theory and Practice in English Studies, 2019, 2, pp. 43-60. E-ISSN 1805-0859.

• BÁRTOVÁ, Kateřina. "The Environmental Ethics in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels". Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, 2017, 2, pp. 24-32. ISSN 2336-3347.

Theory Translation:

• MORTON, Timothy. Otřes bytí: Úvod do hyperobjektů [A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects]. Translated by Kateřina Bártová. In: JANOŠČÍK, Václav, LIKAVČAN, Lukáš a RŮŽIČKA, Jiří (eds.). Mysl v terénu. Filosofický realismus v 21. století. Prague: AVU, 2017, pp. 91-107. ISBN 978-80-87108-72-7.

Conference papers:

• Dr Watson Series Roberta Ryana: K jedné popkulturní iteraci doylovského hrdiny. Kolokvium Dílo Arthura Conana Doyla v kontextu československé popkultury České Budějovice. 19–20 June 2024.

• The Memory of the Land: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Perspectives on Ethnicity and the Environment in American Studies. 24th International Colloquium of American Studies & Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies. Ostrava. 5–6 October 2023.

• Exploring New Horizons: Natural Imagery in The Passenger. Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris: A Symposium. Omaha, Nebraska. 21–23 September 2023.

• From Orchards to Ranches and Back: Cormac McCarthy’s Middle Landscapes. International Cormac McCarthy Conference, Dublin, Ireland. 14–17 June 2022.

• Americká literatura v Čechách od roku 1989: autoři, autorky a témata rezonující v českém prostředí. Světová literatura v Čechách - česká literatura ve světě. Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity, České Budějovice, 6–7 October 2021.

• The Landscape of Memory: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West. Space, Affect, Memory: Performances and Representations (online). 24–25 June 2021.

• Hunter, Predator, Prey: Significance of Hunt in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction. 2019 Cormac McCarthy Society Conference, Austin, Texas. 28 August–1 September 2019.

• "Whales and Men" and Its Echoes in the Border Trilogy. 2018 Cormac McCarthy Society Conference, Monterrey, United Mexican States. 17–20 October 2018.

• What Else Can Nature Mean: Ecocritital Perspective on Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction. New Pathways in North American Studies: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments. Masarykova Univerzita, Brno. 12–13 October 2018.

• "The world has no name": Maps and Mazes in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction. Cormac McCarthy Society’s Annual Conference, Austin, Texas. 31 August–3 September 2017.

• The Topic of Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels. International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, Interdisciplinary Research Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. 13 May 2017.

• The Environmental Ethics in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels. Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference, UHK, Hradec Králové. 28–29 March 2017.

Lectures:

• Románové dílo Cormaca McCarthyho pohledem ekokritiky. Kruh moderních filologů, 8. 3. 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1otqetp4Fd0. 

Summer school:

• HERMES 2018 Summer School, University College London, Italian Institute in Germanic Studies, Rome. 18–22 June 2018.

Translations (fiction):

• Allnutt, Luke. Nebe je naše [We Own the Sky]. Prague: Plus, 2018.

• Ryan, Robert. Záhada mrtvých mužů [Study in Murder]. Prague: Plus, 2017.

• Ryan, Robert. Mrtví nikam neutečou [Dead Can Wait]. Prague: Plus, 2016.

• Ryan, Robert. Krajinou mrtvých mužů [Dead Man’s Land]. Prague: Plus, 2015.

• Baker-Klineová, Christina. Vlak naděje [Orphan Train]. Prague: Plus, 2015.

• Stedmanová, M. L. Světlo mezi oceány [The Light Between Oceans]. Prague: Plus, 2013.

Professional memberships:

• The Cormac McCarthy Society
• Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies