Don Sparling
Don Sparling is a Canadian who attended the Universities of Toronto and Oxford before coming to Czechoslovakia in 1969. Here he has lived and taught in Brno and Prague, working in language schools and then at Masaryk University in Brno, first in the Department of English and American Studies (where he twice served as Chair) and later, from 2000 to 2009, in the university’s Office for International Studies, in the position of Director. Since its inception in 2005 he has taught on the joint Masaryk University - University of Toronto summer school in Brno, which focuses on the history and culture of the Central European region.