Libuše Heczková is a Head of the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her main fields of interests include literature and cultural history of the 20th century, gender studies, literary theory and didactics of literature. She is the author or co-author of books on modern literature, history and feminism, including Indispensable, Defamed, Liberating: On Women’s Work (with Marie Bahenská and Dana Musilová; 2017), “No Branch of Science is Closed to Women by Nature”: Women’s Convoluted Path to Scientific Career in the First Half of the 20th Century (with Marie Bahenská and Dana Musilová, 2023); and Writing Minervas: Chapters from Czech Literary Critique (2009), and also co-author of the four-volume history of the 20th century Czech literature History of New/”New” Modernism (2010–2022). She edited numerous volumes, most recently on Božena Němcová (2021) and Eliška Krásnohorská (2019). She is an editor and founder the journal Slovo a smysl/Word and Sense: Journal of Interdisciplinary Theory and Criticism in the Czech Studies. She coordinates the international double degree PhD program Germanoslavistics together with University La Sapienza Roma.