Mgr. Veronika Krajíčková, Ph.D.

Mgr. Veronika Krajíčková, PhD. is a graduate of the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her dissertation, entitled “The Problem of the Fixity of Tables: Virginia Woolf as a Non-Dualist and Process-Oriented Thinker”, focused on Virginia Woolf’s fiction analysed by means of process philosophy. This link with process-oriented philosophy enables the analysis of Woolf’s rejection of dualisms, for example the subject and the object, or the human and the nonhuman. She was awarded the Prof. Martin Hilský Prize for the Best Dissertation in 2021. Veronika is mainly interested in English and American modernism, particularly in modernist women authors such as Woolf, Mansfield, Barnes, or Rhys, but also in contemporary British fiction. In the past, she spent a term at the University of Kent in Canterbury (2019/2020), as a part of her doctoral studies, and at Université Paris-Sorbonne (2015/2016), as a part of her MA studies in English and French literature at the University of South Bohemia. She is a member of the International Virginia Woolf Society and the European Society for Process Thought and she has presented papers at various conferences both in the Czech Republic and abroad. She is also a student and early career researcher representative of the International Process Network. Her first monograph, Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker, was published in 2023: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666942293/Virginia-Woolf-as-a-Process-Oriented-Thinker-Parallels-between-Woolf%E2%80%99s-Fiction-and-Process-Philosophy. She has published a couple of translations of Woolf's essays in Host literary magazine. She contributes regularly to the online literary magazine iLiteratura.cz.

Veronika Krajíčková supervises BA or MA theses on the topics of feminism, Virginia Woolf, literary modernism, modernism and art, modernism and philosophy, modernism and nature, time in literature, British female authors, gender studies or Gothic fiction. 

Academic Publications

Reviews:

Ondrej Dadejik, Martin Kaplicky, Milos Sevcik, and Vlastimil Zuska. Process and Aesthetics: An Outline of Whiteheadian Aesthetics and Beyond. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2021, forthcoming in Process Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, 2022.

Articles:

Krajíčková, Veronika. “Search for Beauty and Vivid Values in the Everyday: Virginia Woolf and Process Aesthetics.” Philosophy, Economics, and Law Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 2022, pp. 26-41. 

Geyerová, Veronika. "Virginia Woolf and her Manifestations of Consciousness as the Integral Part of Material Reality." Neofilologia: Perspektywy Transdyscyplinarnosci, edited by Beata Ptaszynska, et al. Instytut Germanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskkiego, 2021, pp. 87-97.

Krajíčková, Veronika. “Virginia Woolf’s ‘Ontoethics’ in her Late Oeuvre from the Perspective of Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism.” Process Studies, vol. 50, no. 2, 2021, pp. 222-241.

Geyerová, Veronika. “Merged Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Works.” Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2018, pp. 58-66.

Non-Academic Publications

"Eseje Virginie Woolfové o nadčasových tématech a předjímání problémů", H7O.cz, 21 January 2022, http://www.h7o.cz/o-nadcasovych-tematech-a-predjimani-problemu/. 

Conferences

31^th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2022, Lamar University, Texas, USA, online conference): “Virginia Woolf’s Beauty-Oriented Ethics and Ecology.”

6^th European Summer School in Process Thought (2021, Katowice, online conference): “My roots go down to the depths of the world”: Proto-Environmental Thought in Virginia Woolf’s Oeuvre and Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism.”

30^th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2021, University of South Dakota, USA, online conference): “Virginia Woolf’s Concept of Identity and Community Via Whitehead’s Moral Philosophy of Organism.”

New Work in Modernist Studies Conference (2020, organized by British Association of Modernist Studies, Edinburgh, online conference): “Virginia Woolf and Process-Oriented Ontology.”

29^th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2019, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA): “Unifying and Equalizing Tendencies in Woolf’s Fiction from the Perspective of Process Philosophy.”

5th European Summer School in Process Thought (2018, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice): “Reading Virginia Woolf from the Perspective of Process Philosophy.”

Hradec Králové Conference of Anglophone Studies (2018, Hradec Králové University): “Merged Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Works.”

Transdisciplinary PhD Conference at the University of Warsaw (2018, Warsaw): “Virginia Woolf and her Manifestations of Consciousness as the Integral Part of Material Reality.”

Teaching Activities at other universities

“Anglo-American Modernist Women Authors” (Charles University, Winter Term 2020/2021)

“Virginia Woolf: Various Thematic and Critical Approaches” (Charles University, Summer Term 2020/2021)

Literary Translations

Mathewson, R.L. Hra s Láskou, Mladá fronta 2015.

Woolf, Virginia. “Náčrt minulosti” (a part of “A Sketch of the Past”), Host, no. 6 (2015): pp. 62-67.

Woolf, Virginia. “O nemoci” (“On Being Ill”), Host, no. 7 (2021).

Woolf, Virginia. “Myšlenky na mír během náletu” (“Thoughts on Peace in An Air Raid”), Host, no. 4 (2022)

Reviews

iLiteratura.cz: http://www.iliteratura.cz/Redaktor/1373/veronika-krajickova