Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

• 2007 – 2014 PhD (Thesis Title: Second Nature: A Contribution to the Social Philosophy of Art)
• Department of Aesthetics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
  Supervisor: Prof. Vlastimil Zuska
• 2009 – 2010 Visiting PhD researcher
  Department of German, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
  Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Bowie
• 2007 – 2008 Visiting PhD student
  Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  Supervisor: Dr Gary Kemp
• 2007 Mgr. (Master degree)
  Department of Aesthetics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Career overview

• 2024 – … Assistant Professor, Deparment of Art History and Theory, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
• 2021 – 2024 MASH Junior research group leader, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• 2020 – 2021 – Nomis Fellow, eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel, Switzerland, https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/nomis/past-fellows/jakub-stejskal/
• 2017 – 2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate), Institut für Philosophie, FreievUniversität Berlin, Germany
• 2017 Visiting Assistant Professor (spring semester), Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
• 2015 – 2017 Postdoc International Fellow, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/dhc/nachwuchs/Fellows/Jakub-Stejskal/index.html
• 2011 – 2015 Lecturer, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Scientific activities

I have been working on topics at the intersection of philosophical aesthetics, art history, archaeology, and anthropology of art since I completed my PhD thesis (2014), which had focused on investigating the links between post-Kantian aesthetics and social philosophy. Most of my published work can conveniently be classified as a philosophically informed critical analysis of the theoretical commitments underpinning anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians’ claims about and interpretations of culturally/temporally remote art. Recently, I have been exploring these questions with respect to the growing use of digital models in museum settings. I have also been working on a new theory of monumentality.

• For more on my scholarship and a continuously updated publication list, visit: jakubstejskal.eu
• ‘Monumental Origins of Art History: Lessons from Mesopotamia’, History of Humanities 9 (2024): 377–99. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731824
• ‘Remote Art and Aesthetics: An Introduction’, British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (2024): 267–278 (with Ancuta Mortu and Mark Windsor). https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayae015
• Ancuta Mortu, Jakub Stejskal, and Mark Windsor, eds., ‘Remote Art: Engaging with Art from Distant Times and Cultures’, special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (2024). https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/issue/64/3
• Objects of Authority: A Postformalist Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2023). https://www.routledge.com/Objects-of-Authority-A-Postformalist-Aesthetics/Stejskal/p/book/9781032072098
• ‘Aesthetic Archaeology’, Critical Inquiry 48 (2021): 144–66. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/715981
• ‘Visual Style Hermeneutics: From Style to Context’, World Art 11 (2021): 201–27. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21500894.2021.1899984
• ‘On the Historical Reconstruction of Aesthetic Attention: A Comment on Bence Nanay’s Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception’, Studi di Estetica 47 (2019): 233–39. http://mimesisedizioni.it/journals/index.php/studi-di-estetica/article/view/775/122
• ‘Substitution by Image: The Very Idea’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (2019): 55–66, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jaac.12611
• ‘The Substitution Principle Revisited’, Source: Notes in the History of Art 37 (2018): 150–57. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698425
• ‘A Post-culturalist Aesthetics? A Commentary on Davis’s “Visuality and Vision”’, Estetika 54 (2017): 267–76. https://philpapers.org/archive/STEAPA-20.pdf
• ‘Art’s Visual Efficacy: The Case of Anthony Forge’s Abelam Corpus’, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 67/68 (2016/17): 78–93. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/692599
• ‘Art and Bewilderment’, British Journal of Aesthetics 56 (2016): 131–47. https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/article/56/2/131/2195143
• ‘Art-Matrix Theory and Cognitive Distance: Farago, Preziosi, and Gell on Art and Enchantment’, Journal of Art Historiography, no. 13, 2015, https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/stejskal.pdf