Petr A. Bílek is a professor of modern Czech literature and literary theory at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University in Prague and professor of popular culture history and theory and the chair of the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. He is the author of six books on literature and culture and co-author/editor of the other five books. He spent years 1994-97 and 2000 as a visiting professor and Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Brown University, Providence. His publications include essays on Milan Kundera in the context of contemporary Czech literature and in the context of Central European modernism, on the image of the City of Prague in literature and on contemporary Czech poetry. He also edited a collective monograph on James Bond and his Czech Communist replica and a book on Czech official culture of late Communist era. His essays written in English appeared in a book form as Models of Representation in Czech Literary History (Boulder: East European Monographs, 2010, with V. Papoušek) and as Literary Universe in Three Parts: Language – Fiction – Experience (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2018, with V. Papoušek and D. Skalický). His essays have been published in distinctive countries in more than ten languages.