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Department of Theory and History of Audiovision (KTHA)

The Department of Theory and History of Audiovision

veronika klusáková

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Veronika Klusáková has been working at FAMU since 2019 as an assistant professor, teaching cinema history and chapters in contemporary film. Since 2020, she has been the editor-in-chief of ArteActa. She graduated from the Department of Theatre and Film Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc where she worked as an assistant professor for eight years. She contributed to multiple ESF projects, international conferences as part of the Academia Film Olomouc, and several festivals as a dramaturge. She focuses on the links between history and interdisciplinary theoretical concepts (Southern Gothic and its social/political framework, the representation of childhood from the viewpoint of gender and queer studies, and the aesthetic and performative sources of tomboyism) in film and TV productions. Her latest publication is the collective monograph Jižanská gotika v současných televizních seriálech (NAMU, 2023).