Jan Tlustý

Jan Tlustý – literary theorist and assistant professor at the Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. Member of the Centre for Literary and Intercultural Studies, deputy editor-in-chief of the Bohemica Litteraria scholarly journal. Specialises in: phenomenology, hermeneutics, the theory of autobiography, and autofiction. His published studies include “S Heideggerem v obrazárně van Gogha” (2016), “Pábitelské autofikce Bohumila Hrabala” (2016), “On the Unreliability of Memories: J. M. Coetzee’s Autofictional Trilogy” (2014), “Fictional and Factual Autobiography from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory” (2012), and “Fenomenologická stopa v díle Milana Kundery” (2012).