MSCA PF Offer: Department of Czech Studies - Supervisor doc. Změlík

The Department of Czech Studies in Olomouc is one of the oldest and top Czech studies institutions in the country. It offers bachelor's and master's degrees in Czech philology, including textology and editorial practice, with options for pedagogical qualifications. The department collaborates with leading researchers, engages in international projects, and organizes conferences shaping current literary and linguistic research. It publishes the peer-reviewed journal Bohemica Olomucensia and participates in international educational programs.

Supervisor:

doc. Mgr. Richard Změlík,Ph.D., Associate professor of literary theory at the Department of Czech Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc. His expertise includes literary formalism, structuralism, semiotics, spatial studies, and computational literary studies. In 2024, he completed a HORIZON EUROPE internship at the University of Trier with Prof. Christopher Schoch, working on literary cartographic and quantitative models of Czech novels. He developed the digital corpus Korpus Prózy and its analytical tools. He has presented his research at international conferences, including in Italy, Spain, France, Portugal and the USA.

Preferred research topics:

• NLP (natural language processing)

• Corpus annotation (narrative and segment tagging)

• Topography of fictional and non-fictional network graphs (Gephi, Python, JS)

• Creation of literary and other corpora

• Basic machine learning (Python)

Candidate requirements:

• Graduate of a PhD degree in literary or linguistic studies for no longer than 8 years at submission (exceptions for career breaks);

• Previous residence in Czechia no longer than 12 months in the past 3 years;

• Knowledge especially in narratology, spatial studies, digital humanities;

• Basic knowledge of programming (e.g. Python);

• Design of own original project, solution method and objectives;

• A clear idea of the concrete applicability and usefulness of the project output.

Submit the following to richard.zmelik@upol.cz by 15.4.2026:

• research outline (including research objectives, novelty, state of the art and methodology),and

• your CV with the most important publications of the 5 last years.