Dr Petra Johana Poncarová Has Been Awarded Prestegious ERC Starting Grant for the Research into Celtic Languages
The awarded project, “NUDGERS: New Users of Minoritised Languages as Writers and Cultural Agent,” examines the phenomenon of the growing number of new speakers across all Celtic languages – people who, in recent decades, have learnt these languages on their own initiative, without having any family ties to them. Using six Celtic languages as examples – Breton, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh – the researcher and her team will seek to gain a better understanding of how these new speakers have influenced the spread of these small languages and cultures.
The translator and literary scholar, Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, works at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and cooperates on CoRe’s Research Project 2 – Conflict of Identities. Her research focuses on modern Scottish literature, particularly that written in Scottish Gaelic.
You may read more about the project here:
- They learnt Celtic languages of their own initiative. Petra Johana Poncarová will be researching their stories thanks to the prestigious ERC Starting Grant | Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 3 September 2026
- Charles University has been awarded two ERC grants: one to advance our understanding of Celtic literature, the other to improve computer memory | Charles University, 3 September 2026
- Evropské granty pro 6 českých projektů: Inverview in the Czech Television, Studio ČT 24 | Czech Television, time of the interview 6:32
Photo: Charles University Archive
