Douglas Shields Dix earned his Ph.D. in cultural theory from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he taught for 7 years in the Department of English. In September, 1989 he went to Brno, Czechoslovakia on a Fulbright Professorship, and observed and participated in the Velvet Revolution. After two more years of Fulbright support, in 1993 he earned his Habilitation in the History and Theory of Culture at Masaryk University, Brno. At the same time, he founded the International Institute of Intercultural Studies, an institute dedicated to the reform of higher education in the Post-Communist Czech Republic, based in Brno and Prague. Since 2000, he has taught courses in philosophy, literature, film, cultural theory and social theory at the Anglo-American University in Prague. He has authored the book The Eternal Return (2011), an experimental two-volume narrative work of cultural theory reflecting simultaneously on the instantiation of Enlightenment ideas by the late romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle, and the abandonment of Enlightenment ideas in the aftermath of the transformations of 1989.

History & Theory of Culture, Cultures Studies, Film Studies, Literary Studies, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics