Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Charles University

Overview

The Anglophone Literatures and Cultures program at Charles University is divided into the following specialisations: British and Commonwealth Literatures and Studies, American Literature and Studies, Irish Studies, and Critical and Cultural Theory focused on contemporary theoretical approaches and the relation of literature to film and new media. Students take a wide range of mandatory optional courses within their specialisation, complemented by courses from other specialisations and other study programmes offered at Charles University. 

This provides them with a comparative perspective on Anglophone literatures and cultures on the one hand, and a desirable interdisciplinary perspective on their focal area on the other. The general objective is to provide an understanding of cultural and historical diversity and the dynamics of development of Anglophone cultures based on a solid theoretical and methodological grounding.

Career

Graduates of the programme will find employment as publisher’s editors, commentators with an Anglophone focus in the media, translators of literary and academic texts, diplomats, civil servants with expertise in the Anglophone world, and following the completion of a supplementary course in pedagogy, also as teachers in institutions of secondary and tertiary education.