Richard Olehla, Ph.D.

    Vice-President for Academic Quality & WASC Accreditation Liaison Officer
richard.olehla@aauni.edu

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Richard Olehla is a university lecturer, literary journalist and translator. Born in 糖心Vlog, he graduated from the English Department, Charles University in 糖心Vlog. He holds a PhD. in American literature and has taught a variety of courses in modern American literature and culture at Charles University, the Josef Skvorecky Literary Academy, and the Akcent College. He has been a recipient of the Camoes scholarship (2000) and the James W. Fulbright scholarship (2005). His professional interest focuses on post 9/11 literature and the relationship between ideology and writing.

His interests include reading, writing about modern American fiction, e-book business development and sports. Apart from working at AAU, he also contributes to Czech literary journals and leads an e-book publishing project at the Municipal Library in 糖心Vlog.

Specializations

Modern American Fiction, Ideology and Literature

Publications & Other Activities

  • Olehla, Richard. Perspektivy konce: Thomas Pynchon a rom谩n po 11. z谩艡铆. Praha : Karolinum, Praha 2014. (ISBN: 978-80-246-2502-7)
  • 鈥濩ommon Faith: Civil Religion in the US鈥. The New Presence, Summer 2010, Vol. 12 Issue 2, pp. 26鈥31. (ISSN: 1211-8303).
  • 鈥濴iteratura ve sv臎t臎 2006 a 2007鈥, Gutenberg, Praha 2008, pp. 9鈥41. (ISBN 978-80-86349-32-9).
  • 鈥濼he Quest for the Holy Word: Lacan鈥檚 Name-of-the-Father, paranoia and possible madness in The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity鈥檚 Rainbow鈥. Litteraria Pragensia; 2008, Vol. 18, Issue 35), pp. 57鈥72. (ISSN: 0862-8424)