JOHANA KŁUSEK, PhD
Johana Kłusek is researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is a cultural historian specializing in East–West dynamics in the transnational context of the twentieth century. Her work focuses on Anglophilia as a significant affirmative ideology and its role in the socio-cultural and political processes of modern history. She is currently completing her first book, which explores the Czechoslovak affirmative ‘Othering’ of Britain during the turbulent 1940s.
Appointments and fellowships
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
since July 2024
Research Assistant, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
January 2021 – December 2023
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław
October 2021 – February 2022
Visiting Scholar, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University
September 2019 – June 2020
Research Associate, Department of History, Humboldt University
January 2018 – September 2018
Education
2017–2023
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
PhD in Modern History; thesis on the Czechoslovak Anglophilia between 1939-1948
(completed during part-time parental leave with twins, * 2021)
2014–2017
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Mgr. in Western European Studies
2011–2013
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Bc. in International Area Studies
Articles & book chapters
Johana Kłusek. “Czechoslovak Media Scene in 1938: A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety and the Origins of the ‘Munich Treason’”, in Exciting News! Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present, eds. Brendan Dooley – Alexander Wilkinson, pp. 281-296. Brill, 2024.
Johana Kłusek. “Our Second Capital on the Banks of the Thames: The Evolution of the Anglophilia of Czechoslovak Exiles in Britain during Second World War”. Central Europe, 20, 1-2 (2022), 29-44.
Johana Kłusek. “Porevoluční ideové diskurzy Václava Klause: Socialismus, kapitalismus a nové lepší zítřky à la paní Thatcherová”, in Otisky sametové revoluce: Kde přebývá devětaosmdesátý?, eds. Petr Agha – Jan Géryk, pp. 45-66. Karolinum, 2021.
other publications
‘Book Review: Jindřiška Bláhová, ed., Proplétání světů. Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary v období studené války’, Studia Territorialia, no. 24 (2024), pp. 115-117.
‘Book Review: Erica Harrison, Radio and the Performance of Government. Broadcasting by the Czechoslovaks in Exile in London, 1939-1945’, Bohemia, 63, no. 1 (2024), pp. 143-145.
‘Book Review: Pavel Horák, Republic in Exile: Staging Czechoslovak Government during Second World War in London’, CEU Review of Press (online).
‘Book Review: Malgorzata Fidelis, Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain. Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland’, Europe-Asia Studies, 75, no. 7 (2023), pp. 1223-1225.
‘Afterword’ to Celeste Ng, Naše ztracená srdce (Praha: Odeon, 2023).
‘Book Review: Denisa Nečasová, Obrazy nepřítele v Československu 1948-1956’, Soudobé dějiny, 29, no. 1 (2022), pp. 315-320.
‘Eva Hahnová, Češi o Češích: Dnešní spory o dějiny’, Studia Territorialia 19, no. 1 (2019), pp. 98-101.
conferences
9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association: Beyond Crisis: Resilience and (In)stability.
14-18 July 2025
Cultural Programme Coordinator
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