Prof. Ondřej Pilný, Ph.D.

ondrej.pilny@aauni.edu

Letenska 5, Prague 1

Distinguished Senior Lecturer at Anglo-American University, and Professor of English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of two books, The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (2016) and Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (2006) and editor of collections of essays and journal issues on subjects ranging from Anglophone drama and Irish literature to cultural memory and structuralist theory. His translations include plays by J.M. Synge, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh and Mark O’Rowe, and Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman. He is a past Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures and former Vice-President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies.

Specializations

Modern and Contemporary Drama and Theatre, Literature and Politics, Irish Studies

Publications & Other Activities

Books (recent)

  • PILNÝ, Ondřej, Radvan MARKUS, Daniela THEINOVÁ, James LITTLE, eds. Ireland: Interfaces and Dialogues. Irish Studies in Europe series no. 11. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022.
  • PILNÝ, Ondřej, Ruud van den BEUKEN, Ian R. WALSH, eds. Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1960. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021. Open Access. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-57562-5#about

Journal Issues (recent)

Book Chapters (recent)

  • PILNÝ, Ondřej. “The Central European Stage.” James Moran, ed. Sean O’Casey in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 329-39.
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “The Brothers Čapek at the Gate: R.U.R. and The Insect Play.” Pilný, Ondřej, Ruud van den Beuken, Ian R. Walsh, eds. Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1960. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2021. 141-173. Open Access.  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57562-5_6

Journal Articles (recent)

  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “Community and Manipulation in the ‘Parallel Worlds’ of Tim Crouch.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 12.1 (2024): 94-109.
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “Art and Sustenance in the Work of Sara Baume.” Irish Studies Review 32:2 (2024): 193-205. Open Access.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2024.2333576  
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “‘An extraordinary deposition’: Enda Walsh’s Medicine.” Litteraria Pragensia, 32.63 (2022): 76-87. Open Access. https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/174777  
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “Irish Studies in Continental Europe.” Irish University Review 50.1 (2020): 215-220.
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “‘Ulster Says No’ – Again? David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue, Cliché, and Brexit.” Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies 6.1 (2019): 29-38. Open Access. https://pdf.uhk.cz/hkjas/pi/pi_6-1-2019.php  
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “Constructing the Irish in Central Europe: German Travel Narratives and Czech Political Emancipation in the Mid-nineteenth Century.” Journal of Irish Studies (IASIL Japan) 34 (October 2019): 11-25.
  • PILNÝ Ondřej. “Anxieties in Irish Theatre.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 7.1 (2019): 29-45.