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Andrea Průchová Hrůzová

E-mail: andrea@fresh-eye.cz

Andrea Pruchova Hruzova PhD is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at the sociology department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Charles University in Prague. She is a founder of the visual research platform Fresh Eye and works in the fields of historical and digital visual culture and memory studies. Her research work has been published in journals Visual Studies (2021) and European Journal of Cultural Studies (2020) and in books Frames of Reconstruction (forthcoming, Amsterdam University Press 2022), Palgrave Macmillan´s Handbook of Image Studies (2021), Na moři, za plotem, na síti (Kniha Zlín, 2020), Photographs and History (Turku University Press, 2018), Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks from Around the World (2017) and Life Writings and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). She has translated Berger’s Ways of Seeing and co-translated Mitchell’s Picture Theory and Mirzoeff’s How to See the World to Czech. In 2019, she published the artistic book We Have Never Been Earth (Visual Studies Workshop Press).
[Updated: 7. 8. 2022]