Instructional Professor of Czech and Undergraduate Coordinator
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Bio

Holly Raynard joined CES in 2005 and teaches Czech language at all levels as well as Czech and European area studies. Her interests include foreign language pedagogy, the historic avant-gardes, road movies, the Liberated Theater, Czech film and 20th-century drama and prose. Her courses in English include Czech Cinema, Modern Czech Culture & Society, European Avant-gardes, European Road Movie & The European Experience. She is the director of Czech Studies and the UF summer program in Prague. She currently serves as Undergraduate Coordinator for CES, advising students on the European track of the International Studies major and minor & certificate tracks in EU Studies and East-Central European Studies.

Selected Publications

• 2008: “Švanda, or ‘Liberating’ the sign: A poetics of Voskovec & Werich’s comedy.” Between Texts, Languages and Cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim. Craig Cravens, Masako U. Fidler and Susan C. Kresin, eds. Bloomington: Slavica, 2008.1998: “The Life of Insects by Viktor Pelevin.” Translation Review 55: 44-45 (1998).1997: With Eunice Romero-Gwynn et al, “Refugees of Former Soviet Union Slowly Adopt U.S. Diet.” California Agriculture 51, 6: 24-28 (1997).,/p>