Tomáš Kubíček  is a bohemist and literary historian. After studying Czech literature at Masaryk University, he worked at the Moravian Museum and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he founded the department of prose theory and the tradition of narratological research. He then taught at Palacký University in Olomouc, where he headed the Department of Czech Studies. He lectures at Charles University in Prague. In 2014 he became the director of the Moravian Library in Brno. He has published monographs on narratology and Czech literature of the 20th century.