OFFICE:

DEGREES:

• MA (Germanic and Slavic Philology), Universität Freiburg (Germany), 1972
• Dr. phil. (Doctor of Philosophy; Germanic and Slavic Philology), Universität Köln (Germany), 1981.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor Toman works in the area of Slavic and German linguistics. In addition, he has a broad range of research interests, including history of linguistics, Czech literature, and the East European avant-garde.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Professor Toman teaches courses in Slavic linguistics and Czech literature.

• Intro to Comparative Slavic Linguistics: Slav 571
• Workshop in Slavic Linguistics: Slav 545
• Fundamentals of Slavic Linguistics: Slav 483
• Arts and Cultures of Central Europe: Slav 225
• Modern Czech Literature: Cz 484
• Pre-1780 Czech Literature: Cz 483
• Third-Year Czech: Cz 341-342
• Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• 1992a.  "If I were a Linguist..." Karel Capek and/vs. the Prague Linguistic Circle.  In: For Henry Kucera: Studies in Slavic Philology and Computational Linguistics, ed. by Andrew W. Mackie et al., Ann Arbor; Michigan Slavic Publications, 365-380.

• 1992b. Karel Capek, Karl Kraus, and the Theory of the Phrase. In: On Karel Capek, ed. by Michael Makin & Jindrich Toman, Ann Arbor; Michigan Slavic Publications, 87-108.

• 1995a. The Magic of a Common Language: Mathesius, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy and the Prague Linguistic Circle. Cambridge: MIT Press.

• 1995b. Dada Well Constructed: Karel Teige's Early Rationalism. Umeni (Praha) 43, 29-33.

• 1995c. Porad tady rejdeji. Tri dopisy J. Krejcara R. Jakobsonovi [They Keep Circling Around: Three Letters by J. Krejcar to Roman Jakobson]. Umeni (Praha) 43, 575-578.

• 1995d. Izrael/Azrael: Romantické téma [Israel/Asrael: A Romantic Theme]. In O Karlu Polackovi a jinych, ed. by J. Tydlitát, Rychnov n. Kneznou, 201-206.

• 1995e. Obrazy emigracii v pis'max russkix predstavitelej Prazskogo lingvisticeskogo kruzka [The Image of Emigration in the Letters of Russian Memebers of the Prague Linguistic Circle]. In Russkaja, ukrainskaja i belorusskaja emigracija v Cexoslovakii mezdu dvumja mirovymi vojnami. Sbornik dokladov, Praha: Slovanská knihovna, 472-480.

• 1996a. The Question of Linguistic Nationalism in Medieval Bohemia. Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage (Université de Lausanne) 8, 349-356.

• 1996b. Balancovat v nepredstavitelnych situacich: Poznamky k ceskym letum Romana Jakobsona [Keeping Balance in Situations beyond Imagination]. Slovo a slovesnost 57, 226-240.

• 1997a. Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics: The College Park Meeting,ed. by Jindrich Toman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.

• 1997b. Le poetisme: eclat de rire au milieu des gratte-ciel. In Prague 1900-1938: Capitale secrete des avant-gardes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 176-177.

• 1997c. Surréalisme techque, surréalisme francais: quelques paralleles. In Prague 1900-1938: Capitale secrete des avant-gardes, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, 274-277.

• 1997d. Jakobson and Bohemia/Bohemia and the East. In Jakobson entre l'Est et l'Ouest, 1915-1939, ed. by Francoise Gadet and Patrick Sériot, Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage (Université de Lausanne) 9, 237-247.

• 1998a. Word-Syntax. In Handbook of Morphology, ed. by Andrew Spencer and Arnold Zwicky, Oxford: Blackwell, 306-321.

• 1998b. Remarks on Resumptives in Colloquial Czech. In Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistic: The Connecticut Meeting, ed. by Z.Boskovic et al., Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 306-326.

• 1999a. On Clitic Displacement.  In Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics, ed. by Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan, Amerstdam: Benjamins, 205-228.

• 1999b. Dostaveníčko všech pokrokových lidí: Kupkova putovní výstava 1905-1907 a její ohlas. In Umění 47, 289-297. 

• 1999c. František Kupka - Jindřich Waldes: Z korespondence, 1919-1936. In Kupka-Waldes, Malíř a jeho sběratel. Praha: P. Meissner, 79-147.

• 1999d. Where Jakobson and the Dadaists (Temporarily) Converged. In Roman Jakobson: Texts, Documents, Studies, ed. H. Baran et al., Moskva: RGGU, 897-906.

• 2000a. Prosodické spekulace o klitikách v nekanonických pozicich. In: Z. Hladká and P. Karlík, eds., Čeština -- Univerzália a specifika, 2, 161-166. Brno: Masarykova universita.

• 2000b. [Co-editor, with František Šmejkal and Karel Srp.] Jindřich Heisler: Z kasemat spánku. Praha: Torst. 

• 2000c. [Editor] "Deset dopisu Jindřicha Heislera Fredericku Kieslerovi." In 2000b, 319-333.

• 2000d. "The Dream Factory had a Horror Division: Štyrský's and Toyen's Psycho-covers of the 1930's." Umění (Prague), 48, 170-180.

• 2001a. Quadrilog. Bohuslav Havránek, Zdenka Havránková, Roman Jakobson, Svatava Pírková-Jakobsonová, Vzájemná korespondence 1930-1978. co-editor with Marie Havránková. Prague: Karolinum.

• 2001b. “Vlast, ženy a slast: K motivu smrti u K. H. Máchy.” In Fenomén smrti v české kultuře 19. století, ed. by H. Lorenzová & T. Petrasová, Praha: KLP, 187-193.

• 2001c. Translation with Matthew Witkovsky of Alphabet by Vitezslav Nezval.  Ann Arbor, Michigan Slavic Publications.

• 2001d. “Ertlova diskuse českých klitik.” In Čeština—Univerzália a specifika, ed. by Zdeňka Hladká & Petr Králík, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, vol. 3, 73-79.

• 2003a. “A Project and Its Grandeur: The Prague Circle Through the Prism of Havránek/Jakobson Letters.” In Prager Strukturalismus: Methodologische Grundlagen, ed. by Marek Nekula, Heidelberg: Winter, 195-208.

• 2003b. “Nesmírně zajímavá motanice: Ladislav Sutnar a jeho Amerika.” In Ladislav Sutnar: Praha, New York, Design in Action, ed. by Iva Janáková, Praha: UPM & Argo 2003, 331-337.

• 2003c. With Matthew Witkovsky, “Pod povrch české moderní fotografie.” In Fotografie vidí povrch, by Ladsilav Sutnar & Jaromír Funke, Praha: Torst 2003, unpaginated.

RECENT TALKS:

• "'Turning the Pages, Thinking about the World:' Middle Class Discourses on Interior Design and Architecture in the Czech Interwar Period" at the conference "East European Art and Architecture in the Twentieth Century."  MIT, October 5, 2001.
• "On Karel Teige" at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.   Chicago, October 11, 2001.
• "Zivotni sloh a kultura tela ve 20. a 30. letech"  [Life Style and the Culture of the Body in the 1920s and 1930s].  Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague, December 13, 2001.

Updated 09/03/03