Richard Muller Author & Editor

Richard Müller is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic, and is an editor of the scholarly journal Czech Literature. His research fields include literary theory and the disciplinary intersections between literary and media theory, with a focus on (the history of) semiotics, the non-intentional aspects of literary mediation, and the writings of Franz Kafka in the context of the symptomatic analysis of modernity. From fall 2019 to spring 2020 he acted as Visiting Scholar at New York University (Department of English), USA. In spring and summer 2011, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Department of Slavic Languages at Brown University, USA. Among his publications is the widely cited Dictionary of Modern Literary Theory: Terms and Concepts (2011, in Czech, with co-editor P. Šidák).