Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1965, i karangatia a Doležel hei kaiwhakaako manuhiri ki te Whare Wananga o Michigan i Ann Arbor, i noho ai ia tae noa ki te tau 1968. I whakauruhia e ia (me Richard W. Bailey) he kohinga rangahau "Statistics and Style" (American Elsevier, 1969). I tona hokinga ki Prague i tohua ia hei kairangahau o te Institute of Czech Literature o te Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, engari i te ngahuru o te tau 1968 i wehe ia i te whenua i muri i te
Ko te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Czechoslovakia. I karangatia ia ki te Whare Wananga o Toronto hei kaiwhakaako manuhiri i te Tari o nga Reo me nga Pukapuka Slavic, i reira i muri mai ka noho ia hei kaiwhakaako tuuturu. I whakatūria e ia te akoranga o te reo Czech me te pukapuka i te whare wānanga. I te tau 1982 i tohua ia ki te Whare Pukapuka Whakataurite. Ko tana hiahia rangahau nui ko te ariā o te tuhinga, me te arotahi ki te korero (narratology). Ko te tuunga ariā a Doležel i tino awe i te rapunga whakaaro wetewete, ina koa na te anga ariā o nga ao ka taea. I tana reti i te tau 1988, i whakaritea e te Whare he huihuinga ao "Fictions and Worlds".