About
I was born in 1985 in Prague, Czech Republic. Currently, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, and a laureate of the Lise Meitner Fellowship funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project entitled Woman without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories (M2947-G). After defending my doctoral dissertation from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2017, I held a fellowship at Charles University, Prague. I have recently completed my project The Land without Promise: The Roots and Afterlife of One Biblical Allusion which resulted in the monograph with the same title (published by Bloomsbury in August 2021). I live with my husband, a fellow theologian/philosopher Martin, and three small kids in Vienna.
More about my life and work may be found in the interview for Theology Research News (published by KU Leuven, Belgium).
Research focus
My research focus is biblical, feminist and philosophical-theological hermeneutics, afterlife of biblical motifs in Christian culture, existentialism and phenomenology of sacrificial experience. Among my intellectual sources belong Hans-Georg Gadamer, Søren Kierkegaard, Jan Patočka, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray. My research topics are sacrifice, specifically woman sacrifice, feminine and post-colonial aspects of the promised land as received in Western culture.