Février 2025

Marek Nekula is a professor of Czech and West Slavic Studies at the University of Regensburg. He focuses on language contact and multilingualism (including multilingualism in literature), sociolinguistics and language planning as well as nationalism and memory studies. From 1983 to 1988, Nekula studied Czech and German Philology in Brno and Jena. From 1988 to 1989, he was a fellow, and from 1992 to 1994, a senior researcher at the Czechoslovak (later Czech) Academy of Sciences in Prague. In 1991, he began his doctoral studies at Free University Berlin as a DAAD fellow and completed them successfully in 1994. From 1989 to 1993, he worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of German Studies at Charles University in Prague. From 1994 to 1997, he worked as an assistant professor and from 1997 to 1998 as an associate professor at the Institute of Czech Language at Masaryk University in Brno. In spring semesters 2006 and 2012, he was a senior and visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. In the fall semester of 2019, he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. In 2021, he was awarded a doctor honoris causa by Charles University in Prague.