Bronislava Volkova

Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, translator, collagist, Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies, Comparative Literature and former Director of the Czech Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard and University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published ten books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and several bilingual (Czech-English) editions. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics (Emotive Signs in Language, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987 and A Feminist’s Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature, Edwin Mellen Press, 1997) and a large anthology of Czech poetry translations Up The Devil’s Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier), 2008. Her scholarly publications include topics of Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, implied author values and emotive signs. In 2011, her collected poems were published in Czech Republic under the title Vzpomínky moře (The Sea Recalls). Her poetry has been translated into ten languages and she has received a number of literary and cultural awards.
More info at: www.bronislavavolkova.com
E-mail: volkova@indiana.edu