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Vaclav Paris Author & Translator

Václav Paris is an Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, where he teaches courses on Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Global Modernism. His research focuses on the intersections between science and modernist literature around the world. Dr Paris's work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernism/modernity, the James Joyce Quarterly, the Arizona Quarterly, and English Literature in Transition. Dr Paris is also a passionate student of languages and a translator. His translation of Zdenek Kratochvíl's The Philosophy of Living Nature, was published by Karolínum in November 2016.