Professor
Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street, 1630 University Hall
Chicago, IL 60607-0953


Phone: (312) 996-4412
Fax: (312) 996-0953
E-mail address: alfredt@uic.edu

Education
B.A., Russian and Czech (with Slovak), University of Cambridge, UK (1981)
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Cambridge, UK (1987)
Area of Specialization
Medieval and modern Czech literature and culture
Books

Upcoming title: "The Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (Cornell University Press, 2007)

The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture" (Wisconsin University Press, 2007)

Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 (Minnesota University Press, 1998)

Cultures of Forgery: Making Nations, Making Selves (Routledge, 2003)

The Labyrinth of the World: Truth and Representation in Czech Literature (Oldenberg Verlag, 1995)

Current Research
Palimpsestual Prague: Writing, Desire, and the City.




       
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