Research Area

• Medieval Studies

• Medieval Latin

• Medieval Manuscripts

• Medieval literature

• Academic English

Courses

See SIS.

Contact Information and Office Hours

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Education

• 2001–2005: Ph.D. program in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest

• 2004: École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (graduate sandwich semester)

• 2001–2002: Old Greek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• 2000–2001: M.A. program in Medieval Studies, CEU, Budapest, Hungary

• 1995–2000: English Philology and Latin Philology, Palacký University, Olomouc

• 1999–2000: Mathematics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

• 1998–1999: Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, the U.S.A. (undergraduate sandwich year)

Work Experience

• 10/2008 – present: assistant, and now associate professor at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University, Prague (50%)

• 03/2008 – present: assistant, and now associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague (50%)

• 04/2011 – 09/2014: researcher at Centre for Medieval Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (20%, from 11/2013 10%)

• 09/2006 – present: external consultant for English AcademicWriting, Masaryk University, Brno

• 08/2010 – 01/2011: research fellow at Medieval Latin Seminar, University of Zurich

• 09/2006 – 06/2008: external teacher at the department of Comparative Literature, Phil. Fac. Prague

• 01/2006 – 12/2008: research postdoc at Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague

• 09/2007 – 06/2008: external teacher at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno

• 1996–2001: English teaching (KP Centrum language school and private tutoring, Brno)

• 1997–2002: translating and interpreting from English into Czech and vice versa

Memberships in Editorial Boards

• Studia mediaevalia Bohemica (Prague, Centre for Medieval Studies)

• Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins University)

• Ricerche Intermedievali (Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso)

Publications

• L.D., Farkas Gábor Kiss and Rafał Wójcik, The Art of Memory in Late Medieval East Central Europe. Budapest and Paris: LʼHarmattan, 2016.

• L.D. Obscurity and Memory in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: The Case of the ‘Summarium Biblie’. Medium Aevum Quotidianum, Sonderband 29. Krems: Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, 2012.

• L.D. Reception and Its Varieties: Reading, Re-Writing and Understanding ‘Cena Cypriani’ in the Middle Ages. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 75. Trier: Wissenschaftliches Verlag, 2007.