Associate Professor of Practice
Modern Languages & Literatures
Lecturer, Modern Languages and Literatures
Modern Languages & Literatures

Bio

Dr. Hana Waisserova oversees Czech Studies at UNL. She teaches courses on Czech language, culture, and literature; Czech society and culture via film; Women Totalitarian Experience; Czech History and Culture; and The Heart of Europe: History and Culture, a study abroad summer program. Her current research interests include Central and Eastern European women's transnational literature and cultural memory, women's totalitarian experience, women's Holocaust experience, women dissidents, literary ethnography, and Czech-American culture in Nebraska. She published Women’s Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia, and numerous articles and book chapters.