IMS seminar with Alice Jedličková

IMS seminar with Alice Jedličková, Charles University, Prague.

“Swapping perspectives. Intermediality as a tool for teaching literature to multimedia digital natives.” 

In my contribution, I would like to present examples of the application of intermedial phenomena and categories in teaching literary theory. I am working on the assumption that the generation of students I refer to as multimedia digital natives prioritizes audiovisual information and multimodal text over purely verbal text; thus, the representation patterns that they conceive of as standard may differ from those acquired by previous generations. Realizing this change and confronting traditional representational schemes with the current ones (e. g. frontal portrait with the typical perspective of a selfie) as well as recognizing techniques employed in digital media may help to cultivate students´ capacity to behold,  and provide them with a set of prisms for observing various media products, verbal text included.

Alice Jedličková is a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ; Associate professor at the Technical University Liberec, CZ. Research interests: intermediality (literature and illustration, theatre and multimedia projects, cultural tradition); intermedial interventions in public space; narratology, historical poetics of fiction. 

Previous presentations in the IMS seminars:  The Emerging Contours of the Medium: theory of intermediality  (book presentation 2024), Where arts, genres. technologies and culture intersect: the opera Violetter Schnee). 

Recent publications in intermedial studies:

2025. Roots Are Radical. Activist embroidery in Central Europe.Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Philologica 17(1), 117-136. DOI: 10.47745/ausp-2025-000

2024. With Fedrová, S. The theory of intermediality: apparentness of relations, elusiveness of medium. In: Müller, R. (ed.), The Emerging Contours of the Medium. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 373-430. DOI: 10.5040/9781501398704.0019

2024. Encounters. Word and Image, Speech and Body.Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Philologica 16(1), 116-135. DOI: 10.47745/ausp-2024-0008

2024 https://urbanmattersjournal.com/from-a-non-place-to-a-place-and-a-hyperplace-the-vltavska-case/ 

On teaching IMS:

2021. “There and Back Again”. From Media Culture to Literature, from Literature to Media Culture.Letras & Letras37(1), 31-55. DOI: 10.14393/LL63-v37n1-2021-03