Mariana Machová studied English and Spanish at Charles University, Prague, where she also obtained her Ph.D. in English and American literature. She conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar at Boston University (2004/05). She was the head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy, Prague, and she also led workshops on poetry and translation at the University of Jyvaskylla (Finland).

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Ondřej Pilný is Professor of English and American Literatures and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies. Author of The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama (Litteraria Pragensia, 2006), and editor of J.M. Synge, Hrdina západu: Dramata a próza (an annotated edition of Synge’s work in Czech translation, 2006), Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1960 (with Ruud van den Beuken and Ian R.

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Daniela Theinová is Senior Lecturer at Charles University Prague. Her research focuses on contemporary Irish and British poetry, Irish-language writing, and feminist and translation theory. She is currently working on a research project focusing on poetry and ecology. She is the author of Limits and Languages in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Recently, Theinová has contributed to Post-Ireland?

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