Karen von Kunes is a Jonathan Edwards College Fellow at Yale University. She was a Senior Lector I in Czech Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University for over two decades, and prior she taught at Harvard University for 10 years. She is the editor and contributor to Milan Kundera Known and Unknown: Multidimensional Analysis of His Selected Works, which is in print by Bloomsbury (2024). Most recently, she is the author of Milan Kundera’s Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals (2019), and coauthor of Czech: An Essential Grammar (2021). She was a Contributing Editor of Plamen Press, and is a reviewer for Slavic Review, as well as for Comparative Literature Studies, and for the Czech Science Foundation. Her innovative new book on Czech and a monograph on Miloš Forman are scheduled to be published in 2025-26.