Veronika Tuckerová

Veronika Tuckerová is a PhD. Candidate in German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.  She is writing her thesis on the reception of Franz Kafka in Czechoslovakia and E/W Germany. She was born in Prague and holds an MA degree in Adult Education from Charles University, an MPhil in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an MPhil in German from Columbia University. She has taught at Queens College and Columbia University.

Tuckerová also works as an editor and translator.  She recently edited and co-translated a bilingual anthology of the poems of Ivan Blatný, which was published by the Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn.  She has published numerous articles and reviews in journals such as The Harvard Review, Revolver Revue, the Slavic and East European Performance Review and the Czech newspaper Lidové noviny. Among her academic interests are Modernism, translation and bilingualism, and exilic writing.