Dobrota Pucherová is a literary scholar and comparatist. She works on African and Afro-European literature in English as well as Slovak and Czech literature in the context of postcolonial theory, postcommunism, world literature theories, diaspora, transculturalism, transnationalism and feminism. She is affiliated with the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Comparative Literature at University of Vienna.

She is the author of two monographs, Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s Writing: a 21st-Century Global Context (Routledge, 2022), The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writing (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011) and co-editor of Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures (Brill Rodopi, 2015) and Moving Spirit : the Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century (LIT-Verlag, 2012). Her newest edited book is an English translation of the first Slovak novel, coming out with Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment in 2025. She is on the editorial board of World Literature Studies, the journal of Institute of World Literature: www.wls.sav.sk