The Head of the Centre

He studied French philology at the Department of Romance Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He earned his Ph.D. in Romance Literatures at the same department. Since his undergraduate studies, he has specialized in Sub-Saharan Francophone literatures, particularly novels with anti-colonial themes. He is also actively engaged in postcolonial and decolonial theories, the concept of whitesaviorism, and the question of identity within literary studies. During his doctoral studies, he served as the principal investigator for the Charles University GA UK project: “Analytical Research on Selected African Francophone Novels, Focusing on the Question of Identity—from the Beginnings (1935) to the Present”. He also participated in the GA ČR grant project “Globalization in Literature? : Centres and Peripheries in Romance Literatures of the Americas and Africa,” within which he published several articles in Czech and English. He received the Prix Gallica for his dissertation, which he defended in 2023. That same year, he began teaching at his alma mater, where he teaches French, Belgian, and Francophone African literatures, as well as modern approaches to interdisciplinary literary analysis (feminist criticism, ecocriticism or digital humanities). Since 2024, he has been a junior member of the UNCE project “Language, Image, Gesture: Forms of Discursivity.”

In 2019, he was one of the founding members of the Centre for African Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CAFR FF UK). Within the activities of this Centre, he travelled to several sub-Saharan universities, where he lectured or engaged in internationalization activities (Jimma University, Arba Minch University, and the University of Cheikh Anta Diop).