Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600-1900

Patricia Fumerton is distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. She has edited nine collections of essays, and authored three monographs. Pavel Kosek is full Professor of Czech Language at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has co-edited four critical editions, three collections of essays, and authored two books. Marie Hanzelkova is assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech. She has published several articles about Czech hymn-books from the sixteenth century. Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Macha?kova has published several journal articles about the collection of old printings of the Moravian Library and about Czech writers of the twentieth century. Assistant Professor of Czech language at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic, https://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/ustav/lide/zamestnanci/mgr-alena-andrlova-fidlerova-ph-d/. Fidlerova has edited one critical edition, three textbooks, and co-authored two books: Repertorium rukopis? 17. a 18. stoleti z muzejnich sbirek v ?echach. Part I, A-J, and Part II, K-O (2003) Associate Professor of Czech literature in the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/91-hana-bockova. Bo?kova has co-edited four critical editions and authored the monograph Knihy nabozne a proste. K nabozensky vzd?lavaci slovesne tvorb? doby barokni. Director of the Ibero-American Centre of Metropolitan University in Prague and a research fellow at Complutense University in Madrid: https://www.mup.cz/en/research/research-centres/ibero-american_x0002_centre-iac/our-team/. B?ezinova is author of monographs and articles that focus on the non-hegemonic processes of identification, mobilities of people and ideas within the Americas, as well as on the historical narratives of exchange and interconnectedness that the period of the Cold War helped to create between Latin America and Central Europe. In her most recent monograph entitled A Different Minority? US Latinos between Kennedy and Trump (2020), she analyzes the U.S. Latinx community in the nexus of transnational migration and citizenship Researcher in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/11829-veronika-bromova. Bromova has authored the monograph Textova struktura nejstarsich ?eskych listin se zvlastnim z?etelem k vyvoji formula?e (2009). Researcher at the National Museum and curator of the collection of broadside ballads and chapbooks and the digital library Spali?ek (http://www.spalicek.net/). Bydzovska has published several articles about Czech broadside ballads and has organized two exhibitions. iva.bydzovska@nm.cz Head of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department of the Moravian Library in Brno (https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books). Dufka has published several articles about the collecting and cataloguing of old printings. His most recent work (with Eva Chod?jovska) is a monograph: Sb?ratel a jeho atlas. Bernard Pavel Moll (2021). Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/pracovnici/vera_x0002_frolcova/. Frolcova has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored two monographs, most recently, Velikonoce v ?eske lidove kultu?e, 2nd ed. (2020). Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Glombova co-edited the exhibition catalogue The Wide Road to Brno: Broadside Ballads with Secular Themes (2021). Associate Professor in the Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Piotr-Grochowski-2. Grochowski is the author of several monographs and papers dealing with Polish broadside ballads, folklore and popular culture, inter alia, Straszna zbrodnia rodzonej matki: Polskie pie?ni nowiniarskie na prze?omie XIX i XX w. (2010). Piotr.Grochowski@umk.pl Full Professor of Czech literature at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/2257-michaela-soleiman_x0002_pour-hashemi/zivotopis. Hashemi has co-edited four critical editions and two collections of essays, and she has authored two monographs: Karel Ra?in-nedocen?ny barokni autor (2005) and Literarni fenomen nepomu_x0002_censke homiletiky (2007) Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/ staff/marketa-holubova/. She has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored eight monographs, most recently, Etnograficky atlas ?ech, Moravy a Slezska IX. (2020) Assistant Professor of Czech Literature in the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism and Researcher at the Centre for Regional Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/jakub-ivanek/8855/. Ivanek has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored three books, most recently Horo krasna, spanila! Poutni pisn? na Morav? (1600-1850) (2019) Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study_x0002_rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machova has published Three Collections of Czech Broadside Ballads 153 several journal articles dealing with the early printings in the collections of Moravian Library. Full Professor of Czech Literature at the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/kcl/jan-malura/12695/. Malura has co_x0002_edited three critical editions, co-edited six collections of essays, and co_x0002_authored five books, most recently Horo krasna, spanila! Poutni pisn? na Morav? (1600-1850) (2019). Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland), https://ispan.waw.pl/default/ en/employee/maciej-metrak/. M?trak has published several journal articles about minority languages and cultures, linguistic contact in German-Slavic border areas, and Czech nineteenth-century popular literature (broadside ballads and chapbooks) from a linguistic and anthropological perspective Assistant Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/109306-olga-navratilova. Navratilova has authored two books, the most recent of which is Slovosled posesivnich zajmen ve stare ?estin? (2018). Full Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/218-jana-pleskalova/zivotopis. Pleskalova has co-edited four collections of essays and authored two books: Tvo?eni nejstarsich ?eskych osobnich jmen (1998) and Vyvoj vlastnich jmen osobnich v ?eskych zemich v letech 1000-2010 (2011). Researcher at the Ethnographic Institute, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic, http://www.mzm.cz/etnograficky-ustav. Polakova has published several journal articles about Czech broadside ballads and popular culture and has written two monographs, the most recent of which is Dva zivoty, dv? kultury, dv? zem?. ?ekove na ?eskem uzemi od 2. poloviny 20. stoleti do sou?asnosti (2020). She has also been the curator of two exhibitions about Czech broadside ballads, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMF8EudGtc. Researcher at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, http://uhv.sav.sk/ustav/vedecki-pracovnici/mgr-peter-ruscin-phd/. Rus?in has edited and co-edited two collections of essays as well as authored two monographs, the most recent of which is Cantus Catholici a tradicia duchovneho spevu na Slovensku (2012). peter.ruscin@savba.sk Researcher at the Czech Museum of Music, National Museum, Czech Republic, https://www.nm.cz/slavicky-tomas-phdr-phd. Slavicky has co-edited a critical edition (Fridrich Bridelius: Jesli?ky. Stare nove pisni?ky [2012]) as well as a collection of essays. tomas.slavicky@nm.cz Researcher at the Regional Studies Centre in the Depart_x0002_ment of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/katerina-smyckova/81197/#3-publikacni-cinnost. Smy?kova has published several journal articles about Czech hymn books and authored the monograph Kratka v??nost:Vytrzeni z ?asu v narativnich textech od st?edov?ku na prah moderni doby (2022). katerina.smyckova@osu.cz Researcher at the Silesian Museum and at the Centre for Regional Studies, Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://www.osu.eu/monika-szturcova/45359/. Szturcova has published several journal articles about Czech and Polish pilgrimage broadside ballads and co-authored a book: Pod ochranu tvou se utikame. Kult Panny Marie ?enstochovske v ?eskem Slezsku a na Morav?/Pod twoj? obron? uciekamy si?. Kult Matki Boskiej Cz?stochowskiej na ?l?sku Czeskim i na Morawach (2019) Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Litera_x0002_ture, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/13963-marie-hanzelkova. Hanzelkova has published several articles about Czech hymn books from the sixteenth century and about Czech pilgrimage broadside ballads (e.g., "'Turning' of Czech Pilgrimage Broadside Ballads" [2021]). marie.hanzelkova@phil.muni.cz. Researcher at the Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, https://ujc.avcr.cz/zakladniinformace/pracovnici/timofejev-dmitrij.html. Timofejev has co-edited six electronic critical editions and co-authored the book Rukopisne zlomky Knihovny Narodniho muzea, signatury 1 D, 1 E a 1 G (2016)