Doc. PhDr. Miroslav Zelinský, CSc.

He studied Czech and History at the University of Brno. Between 1992-99 he was head of the Brno branch of the Institute for Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences. He worked as a literary editor at the Czech Radio and Television. Between 2002-04 he taught Czech Studies and Journalism at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Since 2004 he was a senior lecturer and in 2008 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. Since 2009 he has been Vice-Dean for Science and Foreign Relations of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava.