Tony Ozuna, M.A.

tony.ozuna@aauni.edu

Letenská 5, Prague 1
Office No. 3.14

Tony Ozuna is a cultural journalist, writer and Senior Lecturer for the School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. Tony Ozuna has served longer than any other active or past faculty members or administrators at the Anglo-American University; he joined the Humanities faculty of Anglo-American College (later to become AAU) in 1995 then became coordinator for the School of Humanities in 1998. He has been Dean of the School of Journalism & Visual Arts, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, and he has held other administrative titles for thirty years at AAU, most recently Art Director (2022-2024).

He teaches Cultural Journalism and Writing for Arts & Culture (arts writing), which publishes the art-zine Too Little, Too Late, each spring. His teaching experience includes Academic Writing for Ph.D. students at CERGE-EI, the Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education, of Charles University. As a native Californian, he has an M.A. in Political Science & Public Policy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.

For over thirty years, he has been a contributor, editor, and co-founder of cultural publications, mostly based in Prague, including Yazzyk, Umelec (an international art magazine), The Prague Post, and currently Jazz in Europe, All About Jazz, Prague Daily News, and Kulturní magazín UNI.

Specializations

20th Century American Popular Culture, Contemporary Art, Politics

Selected Publications & Other Activities (including curatorial projects)

  • David Lynch – Up in Flames, Kulturní magazín UNI,
  • Black Beauties – Arthur Jafa at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, Jazz in Europe,
  • Then the Saints Came Marching In, All About Jazz,
  • Curator for Rituals and Sacred Spaces, group show with artists Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo, Rafani, Veronika Richterova, Jan Petranek, Drew Martin, and Natalia Vasquez (GALERIE CALIFIA, HORAŽĎOVICE, 1. 8.–19. 9, 2012), 
  • Curator for The Freak Show, group show with artists Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Doro Krol, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Clint Takeda, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin (GALERIE CALIFIA, HORAŽĎOVICE, 21. 8.–31. 10, 2009, 
  • Curator for The Freak Show II, group show with Veronika Bromova, Josef Bolf, Lenka Klodova, Clint Takeda, Lenka Vitkova, Marie Hladikova, Jolana Rucharova, and Drew Martin, A.M. 180, PRAGUE, 13.8.–27.9.2010
  • “El Czechano” The Return of Král Majáles. Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990–2010. An Anthology. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2010. 621–645. Print.