About
The Centre, which falls under the Department of Czech Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palacky University in Olomouc, was founded on 23 May 2023 in cooperation with the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS with the aim of developing and applying current methods implemented within the framework of digitally oriented literary science (more broadly Czech philology), which uses both quantitative and statistical methods and the potential of a special digital environment for the study of literary texts.
The scientific activity of the Centre consists primarily in the pursuit of innovative methodological and resulting interpretative approaches to literary texts, texts from the field of Old Slavonic literature and within the framework of book studies.
Miroslav Vepřek
(*1978)
graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc (Mgr., Ph.D.), in 2012 he received his habilitation in Linguistics of Specific Languages – Comparative Slavic Linguistics. He focuses mainly on diachronic linguistic disciplines – paleolinguistics, etymology and history of Czech language and the use of digital humanities in these fields. He has prepared several editions and is currently working on a diachronic corpus of Church Slavonic texts of Czech provenance.
miroslav.veprek@upol.cz
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Vladimír Polách
(*1977)
graduated from Palacký University in Olomouc (M.A., Ph.D.) and the University of Oslo (M.Phil.) in history and Czech philology. Since 2016 he has been the Vice Dean for Infrastructure and Digitization at the Faculty of Arts UP. He specializes in the field of new media – teaching New Media/New Media seminars since 2013 and the use of digital humanities in the field of history and cultural heritage. He is implementing the project Database of Czech and Slovak Americans in the Service during WWII (see Research). Realizuje projekt Database of the Czech and Slovak Americans in the Service during WWII (see Research).
vladimir.polach@upol.cz
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Richard Změlík
(*1978)
graduated from Palacký University in Olomouc (Mgr., Ph.D.). In 2014-2017 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wrocław. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Department of Bohemistics at Palacký University in Olomouc. He is interested in literary theory and since 2012 has been systematically working on quantitative and statistical methods in literary studies (Computational Literary Studies). In 2014, together with Petr Plecháč, he realized the corpus of Jan Čep (see Links). He is currently working on a corpus of Czech prose (see Research).
richard.zmelik@upol.cz
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