Name and surname: Petra Ježková
Degree: Mgr., Ph.D.
Department: Czech Theatre Studies Department
Email: petra.jezkova@idu.cz
Telephone: +420 224 809 133/177, +420 774 053 110
Petra Ježková is a theatre historian and editor, focusing mainly on Czech theatre of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Since 2007, she has worked at the ATI Czech Theatre Studies Department, where she is the main guarantor of the Czech Theatre Encyclopaedia project, founded and manages the Nota bene series, and compiled and edited its first volume, Stůňu touž nemocí. Julius Zeyer a Jan Lier v zrcadle vzájemných dopisů (2017) and the fully bilingual third volume Correspondenz Stiepanek. Kancelář Stavovského divadla v Praze 1800–1850 / Die Kanzlei des Ständetheaters in Prag 1800–1850 (eds. with Jitka Ludvová 2023), published the monograph Obležen národem dramatiků. Jan Lier 1852–1917 (Academia Publishing House, 2014). Since 2018 she has been the head of the ATI Czech Theatre Studies Department. Since 2024 she has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Divadelní revue.
Education
2006–2012 Ph.D., Department of Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague; Doctoral Thesis Besieged by a Nation of Playwrights. Jan Lier the Critic and Dramaturg of the National Theatre (supervisor prof. V. Just, CSc.)
1999–2005 Master’s Degree, Theory and History of Theatre, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno; diploma thesis Božena Viková Kunětická, Controversial Feminist Playwright at the Turn of the Century
Professional résumé
2024–present Editor in Chief of Theatre Revue journal
2024–present memeber of the MCL Publishing Board
2023–present member of the Jury of The Czech Ministry of Culture Award for Contribution to Theatre
2021–2023 journalist in Theatre Revue journal
2019–2023 member of the panel Science on Art, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic
2018– present head of the Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI
2018– present member of the Advisory Committee for Developing Collections of the Theatre Collection, National Museum
2018 journalist in Theater der Zeit journal
2015–2021 member of the grant commission for theatre, Ministry of Culture
2015–2017 member of the board of the F. X. Šalda Award
2012–2023 secretary and member of the committee of Theatre Research Society
2011–2019 journalist in Czech Theatre journal
2010–2020 member of the editorial board of Theatre Revue
2007–2009 lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies, Charles University in Prague
2007– present researcher at Czech Theatre Studies Department, ATI