Michal Peprník
Michal Peprník is a Professor at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He is the Head of the Literature Section, and the Secretary of "The Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies". He is also the chief coordinator of the international Olomouc "Colloquium of American Studies". He taught Czech literature courses at the Department of Slavonic Languages & Literatures at the University of Glasgow in 1992-1993 and habilitated in 2003. His main fields of research include American Romanticism, concepts of space (topos) and metamorphosis (transformation), the myths of the West, and the literature of the Fantastic. Michal Peprník Michal