Dagmar Pegues, PhD.

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the author considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me quite a nice compliment -- but if he would do the translating for me, I would try to get along without the compliment.

Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad

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PhDr. Dagmar Pegues, PhD

Contact Information:

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Website: http://www.dagmarpegues.com

Education:

• Charles University, Prague (2005 - 2009)
  • PhD studies in Philology - English and American Literature
  Dissertation title: Contemporary Revaluation of Southern Local Color Fiction

• Loyola University, New Orleans, LA (2007 - 2008)
  • Independent academic dissertation research under the supervision of Dr. Barbara C. Ewell sponsored by the Fulbright commission.

• Debrecen Summer University (April - May 2006)
  • Intensive Hungarian Language Course

• Charles University, Prague (1999 - 2005)
  • M.A. studies. Major: Anglo-American studies. Minor: Philosophy

Final state examination grade: excellent

Diploma thesis title: An Ambiguous Triumph: Evolving Stereotypes of Local Color Fiction in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Diploma thesis grade: excellent

• University of New Orleans (2003)
  • American Literature courses
  • French Language course

• Lynn University American College Dublin, English Language Dept. (1998)
  • Intensive Advanced English class

• The Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Continuing Education (1998)
  • English Class grade: A
  • Advanced English class grade: A

• Business oriented high school ESO- Euroškola, Strakonice (1993-1997)

Leaving examination:

o Czech Language excellent (A)

o Economics excellent (A)

o Accounting excellent (A)

o English excellent (A)

o German excellent (A)

Certificates:

• 1998 - University of Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English
• 1998 - University of Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
• 2005 - TOEFL score: 290 (96.6 %)
• 2005 - GRE: verbal score: 580 quantitative score: 470 analytical score: 4.5
• 2006 - Debrecen Summer School certificate in Hungarian Language (third level)

Scholarships, Grants:

• 2009 - 2010 Grant Agency of Charles University: co-recipient of a grant for awarded for translation and publication of an anthology of short fiction of American regionalist women writers in Czech
  
• 2007 - 2008 Fulbright Scholarship, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

Academic Societies / Journals:

• 2008 - MELUS The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, member
  
• 2008 - present: NeoAmericanist, campus representative/corresponding editor
• 2009 - present: Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS), English language editor
• 2009 - present: Studia Mediaevelia Bohemica published by the Centre for Medieval Studies at Charles University Prague and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, English language editor
• 2010 - present: Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, member
  

Awards:

• 2004 - Mathesius Award (2004): Awarded by the Anglo-American Studies department of the Charles University for the best diploma thesis.

Conferences:

• March 26 - 30, 2008, New Orleans - 22nd Annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival
• April 17 - 20, 2008, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia - "Southern Roots and Routes: Origins, Migrations, Transformations", Biannual Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
• May 22 - 25, 2008, San Francisco - 19^th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
• February 4 - 6, 2010, Brno - 9^th Brno Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies
• 8-11 April 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana - Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference: "Limits of Representation of Racial "Otherness": Grotesque Portrayals of the Mammy Stereotype in Kate Chopin's Fiction"
• 27-30 May 2010, San Francisco, California - 23rd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association: "The Colorful Colored Body: Region-Specific Representations of the "Tragic Mulatta" Stereotype in the Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Grace King"
• 14-16 October 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
• 14-17 July 2011, Oxford, Mississippi - Southern Writers/Southern Writing Graduate Conference: "Motherhood vs. Mammyhood: Maternal Concepts Subverted by the Louisiana Region-Specific Local Color Paradigm"
  

Publications:

• Dagmar Pegues, Tereza Kynčlová (eds.) Cesta Amerikou: Antologie povídek regionálních spisovatelek. (Across America: Anthology of Stories by American Women Regionalists). Brno: Host, August 2011. (ISBN 978-80-7294-382-1).
  

• Dagmar Pegues. "Removing the Pedestal: The Bad Belle as the Vessel of Veiled Critique of Southern Patriarchy. A Review of The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress.“ Litteraria Pragensia 20.40 (December 2010): 149 – 152.

• Dagmar Pegues "Fear and Desire: Regional Aesthetics and Colonial Desire in Kate Chopin's Portrayals of the Tragic Mulatta Stereotype." The Southern Literary Journal. 43.1. (Fall 2010): 1 - 22.

• Dagmar Pegues "Kaleidoscopic Vision of Kate Chopin's Fiction and Life: The Twenty-first Century Response to the Genre of Local Color. A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin." Literaria Pragensia 38.19 (December 2009):100-105.
  

• Dagmar Pegues "Regional Aesthetics: Formation of Identities and Stereotypes in the Fiction of Grace King and Kate Chopin." Brno Studies in English. 35. 1 (September 2009): 123 - 148.

Courses Taught:

• Spring 2009 - lecturer: "American regionalist fiction of the 19th century and its reception in the 20th century", undergraduate course, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Prague.

• 2006 - 2007 - part-time lecturer: "Literary Expressions of the American Dream", undergraduate course, Eastern and Central European Studies Department, Charles University, Prague.

• April 2006 - visiting lecturer: "William Faulkner from the perspective of American and European Thought", undergraduate course, Eastern and Central European Studies Department, Charles University, Prague.

Work Experience