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Oscar Wilde is one of the most prominent figures of Western literature - he is renowned for a brilliant language, a sharp wit and the ability of penetrating social criticism. His work, including essays and theater games, still fascinates with his elegance, irony and timelessness. This experience - even the way in which it reflected in his later life and work - made him not only a literary but also a cultural icon. Wilde's story strongly resonated outside England; For example, in the Czech environment, where it was publicly defended by writer Jiří Karásek of Lvovice, one of the pioneers of the domestic Queer culture. narratives.

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Mgr. Jan Váňa, Ph.D. - Literary scientist and sociologist acting as a postdoToToToje at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he leads the Literature & Society Laboratory team. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and society, especially how fiction contributes to understanding social phenomena. Váňa has published in international professional journals such as American Journal of Cultural Sociology and Cultural Sociology, and contributed a chapter to The Cultural Sociology of Reading (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). His work is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach that connects literary analysis with cultural sociology.

Mgr. et MgA. Ondřej Macl, Ph.D. - Czech poet, novelist, performer and literary critic. He studied comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (Mgr., Ph.D.), authorial acting at DAMU (MgA.) And social work at Masaryk University in Brno. His work moves on the border of poetry, prose and performative art, often connects literature with philosophy, religion and science. For my debut collection I love my grandmother more than young girls won the Jiří Orten Award in 2018. In addition to his own work, he also focuses on translations; For example, he translated the diary of the sadness of Roland Barthes and the artist: the poems in the prose Oscar Wilde. Macl is known for its experimental approach to literature and performance, thereby addressing a wide range of audiences and contributing to the current Czech literary scene. Lukáš Samek - a literary scientist and doctoral students working at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ostrava, where he focuses on dissertation focused on the interconnection of feminist literary criticism and Queer studies as part of the literary science program - theory and history of national literature. His research interest focuses on the ways in which gender and sexual identity form literary discourse. In addition to gender and queer aspects of literature, he also focuses on the semiotic concept of literary text, postmodern literature and women's creation - with an emphasis on the authors such as Sylvia Plath and Ingeborg Bachmann. Is an active member of the Queer Memory and regularly performs with popularization lectures on literature within the Prague Pride Festival