doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Kulhánková, Ph.D.

• 2025: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna (Autumn semester)
• 2007 – 2021: Supervision of 36 BA, 12 MA, and 2 PhD theses in Modern Greek, Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Masaryk University
• 2005 – 2021: Courses in Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture, Theory of literature, Modern Greek Language, Reception of Byzantium at Masaryk University, e.g. Introduction to Modern Greek Studies; Greek Literature of the 15^th – 18^th c.; Greek Culture; Interpretation of a Literary Text (Early Literature); Writing in Modern Greek; Byzantium as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Romanticism to Postmodernism
• 2009 – 2019: Erasmus+ Teaching Visits: Athens (2019), Cyprus (2017), Katowice (2016), Ioannina (2014), Cracow (2011), Bucharest (2010), Bratislava (2009)

• 2024 (Sep): Character Construction in Byzantium, Prague
• 2022 (Aug): Byzantine Literature between Orality and Literacy, Roundtable at 24^th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice/​Padua (convener)
• 2022 (Sep): Digenis Akritis: Between Genres, Between Worlds, The 6^th International Conference on Ancient Novel, Ghent (convener and speaker)
• 2021 (Sep): Motifs, Influences, and Narrative Strategies in Medieval Epics, Istanbul (co-organized with I. Nilsson)
• 2018 (Sep): Byzantium and the Modern Imagination, Brno (co-organized with P. Marciniak)

• 2025 (Jul): Reading through the Lines. Variations and Functions of Intertextuality in Byzantine Literature, University of Cologne. Digenis Akritis: Shaping a New Storyworld Through Many Textual Worlds
• 2025 (May): Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving, University of Vienna and Central European University: The Image of Digenis Akritis in Modern Greek Literature (keynote)
• 2025 (Mar): Austrian Society for Byzantine Studies: Digenis Akritis: Transtextualität, Themen und narrative Techniken (invited lecture)
• 2025 (Feb): In Search of Holiness: The Beginnings and Development of Monastic Hagiography in Late Antiquity, KU Leuven – Transformations of Mary of Egypt: From Transtylization to Transmotivation
• 2024 (Oct): Neograeca Medii Aevi VII, Ioannina: Η δυναμική της οικογένειας στα υστεροβυζαντινά μυθιστορήματα (Family Dynamics in Late Byzantine Romances)
• 2024 (Mar): Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens – Silent Strengths: Unearthing the Role of Women in Digenis Akritis (invited lecture)
• 2023 (Sep): 7^th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, Vienna: Το ταξίδι της Ανδώς: ένα βυζαντινό storyworld για εφήβους (Ando’s Journey: A Byzantine Storyworld for Young Adults)
• 2023 (Nov): Spaces Make Saints, Austrian Academy of Sciences: Functions of Space in Two Lives of St. Theophano
• 2023 (Apr): Liminal Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond, Swedish Institute in Athens: Liminal and Heterotopic Functions of the Desert in Byzantine Literature
• 2021 (Nov): Storyworlds in Collections, University of Cyprus: Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites

• 2025 – 2026: Discipline Committee in Social Sciences and Humanities, Czech Science Foundation: Vice-Chair
• 2023 – 2026: Evaluation Panel in Linguistics and Literature, Czech Science Foundation: 2023 – 2024: Vice-Chair, 2025 – 2026: Chair
• 2022 – 2025: Spaces That Matter Project, Austrian Academy of Sciences (FWF): Advisory Board Member
• 2021 – 2023: 7^th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies (Vienna 2023): Scientific Committee Member
• 2020 – present: Classica Cracoviensia journal: Advisory Board Member
• 2014 – 2021: Neograeca Bohemica journal: Managing Editor
• 2013 – present: Byzantinoslavica journal: Advisory Board Member
• 2010 – present: External referee for Peer-Reviewed journals (e.g., Byzantinoslavica, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Early Christian Studies) and Science Foundations (Foundation for Polish Science, Leventis Foundation Research Committee)

• Public lectures and articles for wider audiences: e.g. Re:vize journal (regularly since 2024), Summer School of Classical Studies in Telč (2022), Dějiny a současnost journal (2019)
• Organization of events for the Czech Society of Modern Greek Studies and the Czech Society of Slavonic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies
• Ten published book translations from Byzantine and Modern Greek literature into Czech, including: an anthology of Modern Greek folk tales, books by Panagiotis Agapitos, Theodore Papakostas, Antonis Georgiou, anthologies of early Byzantine hagiography and middle Byzantine occasional poetry, Digenis Akritis

• 2018 – present: Czech Society of Modern Greek Studies and the Czech Society of Slavonic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies: Member, Treasurer since 2023
• 2008 – present: Czech Committee for Byzantine Studies: Member, Chair since 2022
• 2002 – 2021: Czech Society for Modern Greek Studies: Member, Chair 2013 – 2017

Research Monographs

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Cease Writing of Achilles. A Narratological Commentary on the Byzantine Heroic Poem Digenis Akritis. Leiden: Brill, 2025.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Das gottgefällige Abenteuer. Eine narratologische Analyse der byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2015.
 

Other Scholarly Books

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta – Ondřej CIKÁN. Digenis Akritis: Byzantský epos o Dvojrodém Hraničáři (Digenis Akritis: The Byzantine Epic of the Two-Blood Border Hero). Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2018 (Czech translation with introduction and commentary). 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Obrácení nevěstky Marie a jiné příběhy: byzantská vyprávění prospěšná pro duši (The Conversion of the Harlot Mary and Other Stories: Byzantine Spiritually Beneficial Tales). Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2014 (Czech translation with introduction and commentary).

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. K čertu ať táhne studium. Výbor z byzantské žebravé poezie (To Hell with Studying: An Anthology of Byzantine Begging Poetry). Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2011 (Czech translation with introduction and commentary).
 

Edited Volumes

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta – Przemysław MARCINIAK (eds.). Byzantium in the Popular Imagination. The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, Bloombsbury Publishing, 2023.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta – Kateřina LOUDOVÁ (eds.). Epea pteroenta. Růženě Dostálové k narozeninám (Festschrift for Růžena Dostálová). Brno: Host, 2009. 
 

Journal Articles

KUBINA, Krystina – Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Love, War, and Guilt: Paris and Helen in Late Byzantine Troy Literature, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 80, 2026 (accepted for publication).

DZURILLOVÁ, Zuzana – Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. The Historical Present in the Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions of Digenis Akritis: A Narratological Insight. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 62, 2022, 365 – 384. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Narrative coherence in Digenes Akrites (G). Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 45, 2021, 184 – 198.

JALUŠKA, Matouš; JEDLIČKOVÁ, Alice; KOTEN, Jiří a KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Virtuální kulatý stůl: Proč a k čemu diachronní naratologie? (Virtual round table: Why and What for Diachronic Narrtology?). Bohemica litteraria 24, 2021, 139 – 149.

TICHÁ, Pavla – Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Vatican Hill in the Time of Conversion: The Phrygianum Neighboring Old Saint Peter’s. Convivium 8, Supplementum 3, 2021, 42 – 61.

CIKÁN, Ondřej – Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Die Welt des Digenes Akrites: Zu den Eigennamen in der Grottaferrata-Version unter Berücksichtigung historischer Schichten und literarischer Assoziationsmöglichkeiten. Byzantinoslavica 78, 2020, 240 – 261.

TOMASCO, Miloš a Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Kazantzakisova Odyssea: Několik poznámek k dílu a jeho českému překladu. (Kazantzakis“ Odyssey: A Few Notes on the Work and Its Czech Translation). Neograeca Bohemica. 20, 2020, 88 – 92.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. “Οι εικόνες στα κτήρια και οι μνήμες στις καρδιές”: τρεις όψεις της εικονομαχικής εποχής στη νεοελληνική αφηγηματική λογοτεχνία (“The icons in the buildings and the memories in the hearts”: three perspectives of the iconoclasm in the Modern Greek narrative). Neograeca Bohemica 19, 2019, 9 – 23. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Scenic narration in the Daniel Sketiotes Dossier of spiritually beneficial tales. Scandinavian Journal for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 3, 2017, 61 – 79.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta – Ondřej CIKÁN. K novému českému překladu byzantské epické básně Digenis Akritis (On the New Czech Translation of the Byzantine Epic Poem Digenis Akritis). Neograeca Bohemica 17, 2017, 63 – 85. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Zwischen Wüste und Welt: die Konstruktion des Raumes in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Erzählungen. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 108, 2015, 715 – 733.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Το άμυαλο γήρας στη βυζαντινή και πρώιμη νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία (The foolish old age in the Byzantine and the early Modern Greek literature). Neograeca Bohemica 14, 2014, 41 – 49.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Der bestrafte Mönch. Ein erster Einblick in die Analyse der Erzähltechnik in den byzantinischen erbaulichen Diegeseis. Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64, 2014, 139 – 153.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Podivuhodné příběhy z pousteven i velkoměst a jejich cesta staletími. (Wonderous Stories from Hermitages and Cities and their Journey through the Centuries). Parrésia: revue pro východní křesťanství 7, 2013, 379 – 390.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Žalozpěv bezejmenného básníka nad dobytím Konstantinopole (A Lament by an Anonymous Poet on the Conquest of Constantinople). Parrésia: revue pro východní křesťanství 7, 2013, 391

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Das Eindringen der Volkssprache in die byzantinische Literatur als eines der Elemente der asteiotes. Frühmittelalterliche Studien 45, 2012, 233 – 243.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Karagiozis mezi osmanskou mahallou a řeckým předměstím (Karagiozis between the Ottoman mahalla and the Greek suburb). Divadelní revue 23, 2012, 46 – 59. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Figuren und Wortspiele in den byzantinischen Bettelgedichten und die Frage der Autorschaft. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 16, 2011, 29 – 39.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Vaganten in Byzanz, Prodromoi im Westen. Parallelektüre von byzantinischer und lateinischer Betteldichtung des 12. Jahrhunderts. Byzantinoslavica 68, 2010, 241 – 256. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Parallelen zur antiken Literatur in der byzantinischen Betteldichtung. Graeco-Latina Brunensia 13, 2008, 81 – 95.
 

Book Chapters

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Space in Edifying Stories: The Case of Anastasios Sinaites. In S. Constantinou – A. Andreou. Storyworlds in Short Narratives. Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2025, 221 – 238. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. The Fates of Epic in Byzantium. Homer for a New Era. In E. Greensmith (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 400 – 421.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Rethinking the Mixed Style in Twelfth-Century Poetry. In B. van den Berg – N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081 – 1204): New Texts, New Approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 95 – 112.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. “I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium”: The Motif of Travel in Edifying Stories. In M. Mitrea (ed.). Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography. New York: Routledge, 2023, 90 – 102.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Character Types and Characterization in Byzantine Edifying Stories. In K. De Temmerman – J. Van Pelt – K. Staat (ed.). Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography: Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 123 – 139.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. „Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts“: Byzantium in Czech Historical Fiction. In M. Kulhánková – P. Marciniak (eds.). Byzantium in the Popular Imagination. The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, Bloombsbury Publishing, 2023, 193 – 206. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. “For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So”: The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika. In P. Marciniak – I. Nilsson (eds.). Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period. The Golden Age of Laughter? Leiden: Brill, 2021, 304 – 323. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta – Uffe HOLMSGAARD ERIKSEN. Byzantine Studies. In E. von Contzen – S. Tilg (eds.). Handbuch Historische Narratologie. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2019, 307 – 309. 

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Αποτελεί ο Πτωχοπρόδρομος τον λογοτεχνικό πρόδρομο του Καραγκιόζη? (Is Ptochoprodromos a literary precursor of Karagkiozis?). In Κ. Dimadis (ed.). Proceedings of the 4^th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies (Granada, 9 – 12 September 2010): Identities in the Greek world (from 1204 to the present day), vol. 2. Athens: European Society of Modern Greek Studies, 2011, 513 – 522.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Byzantinische Betteldichtung. Verbindung des Klassischen mit dem Volkstümlichen. In A. Rhoby – E. Schiffer (eds.). Imitatio – aemulatio – variatio. Akten des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposions zur byzantinischen Sprache und Literatur. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010, 175 – 180.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Ich bin auch eines schicken Mantels wert. Zum Manteltopos in der griechischen Dichtung. In M. Kulhánková – K. Loudová (eds.). Epea pteroenta. Růženě Dostálové k narozeninám. Brno: Host, 2009. 191 – 200.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Φτωχοί Πρόδρομοι και οι Λατίνοι συγγενείς τους. Επαιτκή ποίηση στο Βυζάντιο και στη Δύση το 12^ο αιώνα. (Poor Prodromoi and their Latin relatives. Begging poetry in the 12^th-century Byzantium and the West). In Neograeca Bucurestiensia. Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucurestsi, 2009, 85 – 101.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Μεταφράσεις της νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας στην Τσεχία μετά την πτώση του ολοκληρωτικού καθεστώτος (Translations of Modern Greek literatur in Czechia after the fall of the totalitarian régime). In K. Dimadis (ed.). O ellinikos kosmos anamesa stin epochi tou Diafotismou kai ston eikosto aiona, vol. 3. Athina: Ellinika Grammata, 2007.

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Ptochoprodromika im Vergleich zu den ersten Vagantengedichten. In J. Nechutová – I. Radová I. (eds.), Laetae segetes. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 165 – 174.
 

Book Translations

Theodore Papakostas, O starém Řecku ve výtahu (Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;). Praha: Beta, 2023.

Antonis Georgiou, Album příběhů (Ένα άλμπουμ ιστορίες). Praha: Bourdon, 2022.

BORDINO, Chiara, Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ, Tomáš WEISSAR, Karolina FOLETTI, Pavla TICHÁ a Ivan FOLETTI. Teorie obrazu v raném křesťanství? Výběr textů pozdně antických myslitelů s komentářem. (The theory of images in early Christianity? A selection of texts by late antique thinkers with commentary). Brno: Books and Pipes, 2020.

Panagiotis Agapitos. Smaltová medúza (Μέδουσα από σμάλτο). Praha: Vyšehrad, 2019.

Panagiotis Agapitos. Bronzové oko (Ο χάλκινος οφθαλμός). Praha: Vyšehrad, 2018.

Panagiotis Agapitos. Ebenová loutna (Το εβένινο λάουτο). Praha: Vyšehrad, 2016.

Paní moře. Řecké pohádky (Lady of the Sea. Greek Fairy Tales). Praha: Argo, 2010.
 

University Textbook

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta a Simone SUMELIDU. Úvod do studia novořečtiny. (Introduction to Modern Greek Studies). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015.