CLARICE CLOUTIER

Clarice CLOUTIER, a well-received lecturer and a translator from Czech, Slovak, Russian and French, currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Central European literature & culture at Charles University in Prague and New York University in Prague, as well as serving as a guest researcher and lecturer at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Dr. Cloutier completed her pre-college Slavic studies at Yale University and graduated Magna cum laude with an Honors degree in Russian from Dartmouth College. She subsequently received her M.A. from Princeton University in Russian and Czech Studies and a Master of Studies in Slavonic Studies from the University of Oxford (UK), specializing in 20th Century Czech poetry. In 2005, she received her Ph.D. in Czech Literature at Charles University. Clarice Cloutier has been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Key National Honor Societies and has received the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn prize for Slavic Studies. She is the author of poetry and has been awarded several prizes for her poetry recitations. Most recently, she has published (together with Bohemist Bronislava Volková) the several-hundred page book entitled Up the Devil’s Back: A Bi-lingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry http://www.slavica.com/newrecent.html and is currently preparing an anthology of contemporary Slovak prose for the Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois.