Dr. Hana Waisserová is an associate professor of practice of Czech and Central European Studies and an affiliate of the Harris Centre for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Waisserová received her Ph.D. in Anglophone transnational literature from Palacky University, Czech Republic, and a Gender Graduate Certificate from Texas A&M Univesrsity.
Dr. Waisserová’s research interests include Central and Eastern European women's transnational literature and cultural memory, women's totalitarian experience, women's Holocaust experience, women dissidents, antigenderism, literary ethnography, and Czech-American culture in Nebraska. Prior to working in academia, she traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and East Africa, where she worked as an outdoor guide and a publicist.
Selected Publications
Flanagan, Brenda and Hana Waisserova. Women's Artistic Dissent: Womanhood and Oppression in Pre-1989 Central Europe. (Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.; under review)
Waisserova, Hana. “What is (not) Buried with Anton Pucelik? Revisiting Willa Cather’s Prophecy of Tenacity of Czech-American Culture in the Bohemian Alps, Nebraska.” Great Plains Quarterly. vol. 42 no. 1, 2022, p. 91-126. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/864540.
Waisserova, Hana. Book chapter “Humanistic Sustainability: Ecocriticism and Social Ecology in Czech Women’s Writing” in Modern Czech Literature Since 1948: The Junction of its Diverging Forces. (Vernon Press; Ed. Andrew Drozd; under review)
"Socialist Paradise, Sexual Paradise? Meditation on ‘Why Women have Better Sex Under Socialism’ by Kristen Ghodsee." European Studies Conference Selected Proceedings; Proceedings ISSN# 2476-0269 (2020). Online at https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/european-studies-conference/esc-proceedings/index.php#zeronineteen
"Concerning a Manuscript from Czech Immigrant’s Trunk: Postil by Johannes Spangenberg (1557)." Kosmas. 2.2 (2019): 22-41. Print.
"Eda Kriseová and Her Prophecy of the Velvet Revolution: ‘The Gates Opened’ (1984)." Kosmas. Czechoslovak and Central European Journal. 2.2 (2019): 59-76. Print.