Mirka Horová

Mirka Horová is Senior Lecturer in English in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague. She is the Editor of the Byron Journal, and has published widely on Byron, including essays on heroic transformation (Routledge, 2016), the Italian dramas (MUP, 2017), Lucretian echoes (CSP, 2018), the Satanic School (CUP, 2019), swimming (LUP, 2019), dramatic experimentation (CUP, 2023), and the metaphysical dramas (OUP, 2024). She has co-edited several books and special journal issues. In 2013-19, she co-organised the international Newstead Abbey Byron conference. Her research interests centre on British Romanticism (especially drama and legacies) and play theory. She is an Advisory Board member of the International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) and the International Association of Byron Societies (IABS), and among the international collaborators of the Inter-University Center for the Study of Romanticism (CISR). She is currently preparing a monograph on Romantic afterlives.