Daniel Paul Sampey, MFA
500 02 Hradec Kralove
mobile: +420 722 047 882
dan.sampey@seznam.cz
DanielPaul.Sampey@faf.cuni.cz

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2009 – present. Assistant Professor of English. Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
Courses include: Language Practice, American Drama, American Culture, Drama in ELT Primary Education, Academic Writing (at all levels). Supervisor of more than 50 bachelors and 12 masters theses.

2009 – present. Translator (Czech to English), Expert Language Corrector, Teacher. Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
20th-century American film and drama, cultural studies, technobios, screenwriting, creative writing

EDUCATION
2008 - 2015
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Doctoral Program, Anglo-American Literary Studies (all requirements fulfilled except for dissertation, to be completed by 2018). Dissertation theme: Mass media in the 1970s cinema of Robert Altman

August 1998
Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. Department of English,
Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts, University of New Orleans.

December 1991 Bachelor of Arts in Communications,
Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts, University of New Orleans

SELECTIONS FROM A RANGE OF CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS
SAMPEY, Daniel. “Benjamin's ‘Artwork’ and Other Reconsiderations of Techne.” In SUK, J. (ed.) Hradec Kralove Journal of Anglophone Studies 1 (2014). Hradec Kralove: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. pp.46-54. ISSN 2336-3347.

SAMPEY, Daniel. “Chicago, Greenwich Village and Provincetown: American theatre becomes little.” American and British Studies Annual 4 (2011). pp.131-145. University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. ISSN 1803-6058

KUNESOVA, Kveta, SAMPEY, Daniel. “Czech Voices in Canada” Migrating Memories: Central Europe in Canada. Lopicic, V (ed.) Brno: Central European Association for Canadian Studies, 2010. pp.77-89. ISBN 978-86-7746-233-8

SAMPEY, Daniel. “Types, not times: An approach to teaching tenses.” In Challenges of EFL Teaching II, Ústí nad Labem: KAJ PF UJEP, 2008. pp.88-92. ISBN: 978-80-7414-008-2

SAMPEY, Daniel. “Metatheatre Defined” In Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts 2007. In MEYER-DINKGRAFE, D. (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 2007. pp.190-199. ISBN (10): 1-84718-418-9, ISBN (13): 9781847184184

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (more details in the document “Descriptions of Professional Activities”)
2004 - 2009.
Assistant Professor of English. Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.

Summer 1999. Instructor in Video Production.
Prague Summer Seminars, Charles University.

1995 - 1998. Graduate Assistant in Film and Video.
University of New Orleans
Teacher of writing and video production, producer, equipment manager, faculty advisor.

2003 - present. Academic and scientific text editor, translator (Czech to English)

AWARDS
1998. Herb Davis Award for outstanding contributions to theatre, film and video. Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts, University of New Orleans

1999. New Orleans Theatre Guild – Big Easy Award for Best Drama Production
Tracers by John Di Fusco. Dramaturge, lighting designer, actor

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Theatre & Drama Society
American and British Studies Annual, Department of British and American Studies,
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.
2009 – present. Editorial board, peer reviewer, volume content editor

REFERENCES
Joanna Leake. Professor, Former Director of the Creative Writing Workshop, Department of English, University of New Orleans
Telephone: 010 + 1 + 504-669-8892

Professor PhDr. Bohuslav Manek, CSc. University of Pardubice, University of Hradec Kralove
Telephone: +420 733 281 824

Erik Sherman Roraback, D. Phil (Oxon). Senior Lecturer, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Doctoral dissertation supervisor.
Telephone: +420 221 619 341 (departmental office)

David Hoover. Professor, Chair of the Department of Film and Theatre, University of New Orleans
Telephone: 010 + 1 + 504-280-6813

doc. Mgr. Sarka Bubíková, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of English and American Studies, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Telephone: +420 466 036 217

prof. PharmDr. Petr Pavek, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
(evidence of academic and scientific text translation and editing)
Telephone: +420 495 067 334

OTHER SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Czech Language – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages B2 level
Computer editing of video and sound, including teaching at the university level
Theatre - director of several plays featuring amateur and professional staff
Guitar – 25 years’ experience

Please note: much more additional and more detailed information available in other documents, for example my “Supplement to CV - scholarly and other career highlights.”