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Greetings from Central Pennsylvania
By Anna Mária Pisoňová The United States has never been on my bucket list. I have never dreamed about visiting the country of President Trump, eating hamburgers, or living the American dream. I happen to be here, because of an email from Dr. Tomkova that we all got last year in December in which she…
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Stoker: A Tale of Female Maturescence with a Tinge of Hitchcock
By Sandra Hrášková Stoker, a 2013 psychological thriller drama film, is the English-language debut of South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer Park Chan-wook. The narrative depicts the unsettling coming of age story of a young woman repressed by her dysfunctional family. Chan-wook is praised as one of the most renowned and favoured filmmakers in…
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Ponti: On Female Strengths and Burdensome Social Roles
By Sandra Hrášková Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean novelist based in the United Kingdom whose fictional pieces have appeared in publications such as Esquire UK, Magma Poetry, and Eunoia Review. She has an LLB in Law from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she…
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Report from the 14th ESSE Conference
By Patrícia Iliašová At the end of August 2018, Brno welcomed around 660 delegates from 55 different countries to the 14th ESSE Conference which ran from 29 August to 2 September. The conference was organized by the Czech Association for the Study of English (CZASE) and the Department of English and American Studies (DEAS),…
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“Let Them Love Language”: Interview with Poet Rachel Plummer
By Tereza Walsbergerová “The secret me is a boy. / He takes girlness off like a sealskin: / something that never sat right on his shoulders.” Those are the first three lines of the poem “Selkie” by Scottish poet Rachel Plummer who was recently commissioned by LGBT Youth Scotland to write a collection of…
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Miranda July: It’s Kind of a Wild Time
By Patricija Fašalek About two years ago I met an American who told me I bear a resemblance to Miranda July. At that time I did not know who she was so I asked him about her, thinking her label would be something like: a writer, a filmmaker, a politician etc. He seemed quite surprised by…
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Breaking Through Into the Light: Junot Díaz and His Way to the Minds of the Masses
By Anna Rybníčková The urge to be heard is an old struggle, especially for minorities. With the rise of the importance of cinema, contemporary TV and producers such as Netflix or HBO, a necessary space has been provided for people of various ethnicities to be heard and seen. And yet, how many classic Hollywood movies…
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Aggie for a Year: Yet Another Letter from Texas
By Tereza Walsbergerová Dear reader, I thought that since this is supposed to be a letter, I would treat it as one and address y’all properly. I have only been in College Station for a couple of months and it feels like I have been here for years. Yet – even though I have…
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The Music of Cavetown: A Helping Hand for Mental Health Issues
By Mariia Minaeva And you know when the sun dies None of this will matter half as much as you thought Cavetown, “Calpol” (00:48)