Tony Ozuna, M.A.

tony.ozuna@aauni.edu

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Tony Ozuna is an American (born in Los Angeles), living in Europe since the early 1990s. He joined the faculty of Anglo-American College (later to be University) in 1995 and then began working full-time in administration in 1998 as Coordinator of the School of Humanities. His teaching experience includes Academic Writing for Ph.D. students at CERGE-EI, the Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education, of Charles University. From 1998-2004, he was Coordinator (and periodically Acting Chair) of the School of Humanities. In 2004, he became Head of the Journalism program, while continuing as the Coordinator of the School of Humanities. After the accreditation of the Journalism program, in 2010, he became Associate Dean for the newly created School of Journalism, as well as for the School of Humanities & Social Sciences. In 2009, he initiated for AAU a contemporary art gallery 鈥渁rt SPACE鈥 (part of the Knights of Malta campus at Lazenska 2), and this activity to promote an art community at AAU continues till this time as an 鈥渙utdoor鈥 exhibit space in the courtyard of the Thurn und Taxis palace. In 2014, after the accreditation of the Visual Art Studies program, he managed three bachelor鈥檚 programs and two MA programs as Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences and the School of Journalism. In 2018, he became Associate Dean of the newly created School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts (BA programs in Journalism and in Visual Art Studies). He was Dean of the School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts till 2022. Since February 2023, he is Art Director of the School of Journalism, Media & Visual Arts.

Before joining AAU, he worked as editor-in-chief and co-founder of Yazzyk Magazine, an English language literary and arts publication that focused on contemporary Czech fiction and poetry in translation. He studied Politics with an emphasis on Public Policy for an M.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and after finishing that program he worked as an academic researcher for the California Policy Seminar (UC Berkeley) and research assistant at UCSB for a project on Mass Media and Hispanic Politics. He earned his B.A. degree in Politics from the University of California, Irvine. Tony Ozuna is a writer (cultural journalist, essayist, fiction and non-fiction) and affiliated with publications including Umelec International, an arts magazine which published in four languages (Czech, English, German, and Spanish), Yazzyk, the Programs Post, and more recently as Senior Writer for Jazz in Europe, All About Jazz, Transitions, and previously for Czech press, Hospod谩艡sk茅 noviny.

Specializations

Jazz, Contemporary Art

Publications & Other Activities

  • Rituals and Sacred Spaces, group show with artists Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo, Rafani, Veronika Richterova, Jan Petranek, Drew Martin, and Natalia Vasquez (GALERIE CALIFIA, HORA沤膸OVICE, 1. 8.鈥19. 9, 20012) 
  • The Freak Show, group show with artists Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Doro Krol, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Clint Takeda, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin
  • GALERIE CALIFIA, HORA沤膸OVICE, 21. 8.鈥31. 10, 2009, 
  • The Freak Show II, group show with Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Lenka Klodova, Clint Takeda, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin, A.M. 180, PRAGUE, 13.8.鈥27.9.2010
  • 鈥淐ensor This!鈥 Um臎lec, volume 14, 2-2010
  • 鈥淓l Czechano鈥 The Return of Kr谩l Maj谩les. 糖心Vlog鈥檚 International Literary Renaissance 1990鈥2010. An Anthology. Ed. Louis Armand. 糖心Vlog: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2010. 621鈥645. Print.
  • 鈥21st Century Czech Decadence鈥, Um臎lec Live, March 2鈥揓une 9, 2010
  • 鈥1989. End of History or Beginning of the Future?鈥, Um臎lec Live, October 9, 2009鈥揊ebruary 7, 2010
  • 鈥淢uz Bez Korenu鈥, Los Angeles Hosti Vystavu Znameho Ceskeho Fotografa Josefa Koudelky. Expozice Pote Poputuje Do Madridu. Hospodarske Noviny, Kultura, Ledna 2015,