Mgr. Marie Novotná, Ph.D.












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            * Marie Novotná, assistant professor, head of the department
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            * Research Areas
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            • Concept of Body in the Old Norse Literature

            • Scandinavia Ballads
            • Translation Theory and Praxis – Focus on Rendering Proper Names

            • Genre Differences among Icelandic Saga Genres



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            * Courses
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            See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/predmety/index.php?do=ucit&kod=19305"] .



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            * Contact Information and Office Hours
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            See SIS [ URL "https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?do=detailuc&kuc=19305"] .



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            * Education
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            • 2014–present: PhD. studies, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Natural Sciences, Charles
            • 1992–1998: Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University
            • 1993–1999: Norwegian language and literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University



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            * Stays Abroad
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            • 2016: University of Iceland, 2 months (Shape-changing in ON literature)

            • 2015: University of Zurich, German Dept., 7 months (Concept of body in ON literature)
            • 1999: Museum of Natural Sciences, Paris, 6 months (research on early theories of evoluti
            • 1998: Danish Folklore Institute, Copenhagen, 6 months (research and translation of Scand

              ballads)
            • 1995–1996: University of Iceland, 10 months, (studies of Old Norse and modern Icelandic 



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            * Memberships

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            • Member of Advisory Board of International Saga Society
            • Viking Society for Northern Research



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            * Publications
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            • Relation of Soul and Body. In: The 15th International Saga Conference, Sagas and the Use

              ed. by Nordvig and Torfing, Aarhus University: Aarhus 2012.
            • Novotná, M., Starý, J.: Rendering Old Norse names in translation into West-Slavic Langua
              Islandica 65 (2014), pp. 213-236.

            • Hamr of the Old Norse body. In: The 16th International Saga Conference, Sagas and Space.
              Basel 2015.
            • Islandské rodové ságy. In: Staroislandské ságy, Garamond 2015. pp. 7-17.

            • Adaptation of foreign words into Czech: the case of Icelandic proper names. Or? og tunga
              111–129
            • Body description as a genre marker: Jómsvíkinga saga. In: Skandinavische Schriftlandscha

              Wille K., Heslop K., Richter A.K.,Rösli L. (eds.), Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie 59