Karen von Kunes is Assistant Professor teaching Czech and Slovak literature, film, and Czech language in the Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures at the University of Toronto, Canada. Previously, she taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Texas, among other institutions. For nearly a decade, she published a column on Czech in The Prague Post. In the early 1990s, she proposed and founded the North American Association of Teachers of Czech (now International) and became its first Vice President and an editor of Czech Language News. In addition to her many publications and awards, including The Best 300 Professors in 2012 by The Princeton Review, Karen von Kunes belongs to the Circle of Scholars at Salve Regina University, is a Fellow of Yale’s Jonathan Edwards College, and is affiliated with Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. She is author or coauthor, most recently, of Milan Kundera’s Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals (2019) and Czech: An Essential Grammar (2021).