Dr Petra Poncarova
- Affiliate (School of Critical Studies)
email:
Petra.Poncarova@glasgow.ac.uk
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2,, 116 38 Prague 1
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661Biography
Petra Johana Poncarová is an Affiliate of the University of Glasgow. She serves as secretary of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures and is one of the co-directors of Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlainn | National Centre for Gaelic Translation.
In 2023-2025, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow, working on the Project ERSKINE. The project, supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and guaranteed by UKRI, explored the Gaelic magazines founded by Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar in the first decades of the twentieth century and their impact on the development of Gaelic literature and Scottish national movement.
Her monograph Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival has been published by Edinburgh University Press in 2024, and she has edited a selection of Thomson's Gaelic prose (Acair, 2025). Her Scotnote Study Guide on Derick Thomson’s Gaelic poetry appeared in 2020 (Association for Scottish Literature).
Petra is the executive editor of the SCOPUS-listed academic journal Litteraria Pragensia and a member of the editorial board of SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature (De Gruyter Brill). In 2023, she coordinated a project focused on the development of Scottish Studies in Prague as part of the Strategic Partnership between Charles University and University of St Andrews. She is involved in editing the Gaelic strand of the Glasgow Review of Books.
Research interests
- Twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic literature (Derick Thomson; Tormod Caimbeul; Sorley MacLean; Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar)
- Intersections between Scottish nationalism and the Gaelic revival
- Scottish magazines and periodical press
- Highland Clearances in Scottish literature and culture
- Gaelic and translation
- Ossian controversy
- Ghost story in the British Isles
Publications
2024
Poncarova, Petra Johana 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2024)
‘Many more remains of ancient genius’: approaches to authorship in the Ossian Controversy.
In: Procházka, Martin (ed.)
From Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault.
UCL Press, pp. 55-72.
ISBN 9781800086562
(doi: 10.2307/jj.8816151.9)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2024)
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival.
Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN 9781399501194
2023
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Derick Thomson and Ireland.
Litteraria Pragensia, 33(65),
pp. 25-44.
(doi: 10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.3)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Spatial and sonic monstrosities in William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room”.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2022(2),
pp. 67-77.
(doi: 10.14712/24646830.2022.38)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Addressing devastation in Gaelic literature of the clearances.
Bottle Imp, 31,
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Deireadh an Fhoghair and the environment.
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture, 33,
66.
(doi: 10.14712/2571452X.2022.66.5)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Tři pohledy na Posvátný hlad Barryho Unsworthe = Three perspectives on Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger.
Svět literatury, 31(64),
pp. 25-35.
(doi: 10.14712/23366729.2021.2.2)
2021
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2021)
Old Women, Dreams, and Reversed Revivals: Derick Thomson's Gaelic Short Stories.
Scottish Literary Review, 13(2),
p. 71.
Articles
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Derick Thomson and Ireland.
Litteraria Pragensia, 33(65),
pp. 25-44.
(doi: 10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.3)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Spatial and sonic monstrosities in William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room”.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2022(2),
pp. 67-77.
(doi: 10.14712/24646830.2022.38)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Addressing devastation in Gaelic literature of the clearances.
Bottle Imp, 31,
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Deireadh an Fhoghair and the environment.
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture, 33,
66.
(doi: 10.14712/2571452X.2022.66.5)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2023)
Tři pohledy na Posvátný hlad Barryho Unsworthe = Three perspectives on Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger.
Svět literatury, 31(64),
pp. 25-35.
(doi: 10.14712/23366729.2021.2.2)
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2021)
Old Women, Dreams, and Reversed Revivals: Derick Thomson's Gaelic Short Stories.
Scottish Literary Review, 13(2),
p. 71.
Books
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2024)
Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival.
Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN 9781399501194
Book Sections
Poncarova, Petra Johana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-1661
(2024)
‘Many more remains of ancient genius’: approaches to authorship in the Ossian Controversy.
In: Procházka, Martin (ed.)
From Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault.
UCL Press, pp. 55-72.
ISBN 9781800086562
(doi: 10.2307/jj.8816151.9)
