Assistant Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Expertise: Translation quality assessment, critical discourse studies, sociological approaches, intercultural communication

Jitka Zehnalová earned her master’s degree in English and German and her PhD degree in English language from Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 1998, she joined the Department of English and American Studies as an assistant professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in translation studies and stylistics. Over the course of her career at this Department, she participated in implementing the BA and MA study programmes in English for Interpreting and Translation, served as an organization committee member of the TIFO (Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc) international conference, and as a co-editor of the Olomouc Modern Language Series publications. She has published in the fields of translation quality assessment and literary translation.