Dr. Felix Jeschke

Education:

• PhD in Modern History, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2016)

• MRes in East European Studies, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2010)

• BA in History, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2008)

Research and Teaching Interests:

• History of inter-war Czechoslovakia and the late Habsburg Empire

• Cultural history of infrastructures (esp. railways)

• History of tourism

• Historical geography, spatial history

• Connections between East Central and South Eastern Europe

Publications:

• Book project: Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia (Berghahn Books, in preparation)

Articles:

• ‘Mountain Men on Iron Horses: National Space in the Representations of New Railway Lines in Interwar Czechoslovakia’, Bohemia, 56.2, pp. 437–55

• ‘„Poznejte svou vlast“: Železnice a vznik československého národního prostoru’ [‘Get to know your homeland’: The railways and the creation of the Czechoslovak national space], Dějiny a současnost, 2 (14 February 2014), pp. 14–17

• ‘Dracula on Rails: The Pressburgerbahn Between Imperial Space and National Body, 1867–1935’, Central Europe, 10.1, pp. 1–17

Other publications:

• ‘Democracy and academic freedom in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary’, The Guardian, Letters, 23 April 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/democracy-and-academic-freedom-in-viktor-orban-hungary

• ‘Dekrety pohledem Sudeťáka’ [The decrees in the eyes of a Sudeten German], Lidové noviny, 22 January 2013, p. 11

• Book reviews in Bohemia, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Central Europe, East Central Europe, Journal of Transport History and other periodicals

Current Research:

• Research project on early East-Central European tourism on the Eastern Adriatic