About
I was born in 1985 in Prague, Czech Republic. Currently, I am a senior postdoc at the Research Centre for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (RaT, University of Vienna) and a laureate of the Elise Richter Fellowship funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the project entitled The Two Sarahs: Victimhood in the Bible and Its Reception (V1047). After defending my doctoral dissertation from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2017, I held a fellowship at Charles University, Prague and I have recently completed my (FWF) Lise Meitner project project Woman Without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories. My monograph The Land without Promise: The Roots and Afterlife of One Biblical Allusion was published by Bloomsbury in August 2021. I live with my husband, a fellow theologian/philosopher Martin, and three small kids in Vienna.
More about my life and work may be found in the interview for Theology Research News (published by KU Leuven, Belgium).
Research focus
My research focus is biblical, feminist and philosophical-theological hermeneutics, afterlife of biblical motifs in Christian culture, existentialism and psychoanalysis of sacrificial experience. Among my intellectual sources belong Julia Kristeva, Yvonne Sherwood and Sarah Coakley. My research topics are sacrifice, specifically woman sacrifice, feminine and post-colonial aspects of victimhood as received in Western culture.