Curriculum Vitae (Jan 2021)
Anna Kérchy
Associate Professor of English, University of Szeged, Hungary
Work Address:
University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Institute of English & American Studies, English Dept.
Szeged 6722, Egyetem u 2, Room 3303, Hungary
Phone: 36-62-544 526 Fax: 36-62-544 259 E-mail: akerchy@ieas-szeged.hu
Education and Qualifications
2016 Doctoral habilitation in Literature and Culture, University of Debrecen, Hungary (26/2016 hab. FI17198) Habilitation Dissertation title: Alice in Transmedia Wonderland. Postmodern Configurations of Victorian Fantasy
2007 PhD in Literature (summa cum laude), University of Szeged, Hungary (BTK-3/2007.) Dissertation title: Self-freakings. Body-Texts in Angela Carter’s Novel Trilogy. Feminist Grotesque Bodies, Fictionalized Identities, and Somatized Narratives in The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children
2000-2003 Doctoral School of British and American Literatures and Cultures, University of Szeged, Hungary
2004 Certification as English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English Translator and Interpreter in the Fields of Economics and Social Sciences
2000-2003 Post-graduate Course in Translation and Interpreting, University of Szeged, Hungary
2000 DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) d’Histoire et Sémiologie du Texte et de l’Image, (mention très bien), Université Paris VII, France, Dissertation title: Le symbole de l’oeil dans l’oeuvre de Georges Bataille
1999-2000 UFR Sciences des Textes et Documents, Equipe Littérature au Présent, Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, France
1994-1999 BA and MA in English and French Language and Literature Institute of English and American Studies, English Department, University of Szeged, (formerly József Attila University), Hungary
1998 Spring University of Tennessee, English Department, literary theory, Knoxville, USA
1990-1994 Ságvári Endre Secondary School, Szeged, class specialized in French and German
1988-89 Tri North Trojans Middle School, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
1982-1990 Ságvári Endre Primary School, Szeged, class specialized in French and Russian
Position:
2017 September: Associate Professor, University of Szeged, IEAS, English dept. (2003-2006 Lecturer, 2007 Part-Time Research Assistant, 2008 Assistant Professor, 2008-2017 Senior Assistant Professor)
2021 Head of Literatures and Cultures in English Doctoral Program
Major Research Interests:
Gender studies, body studies, posthumanism, monstrosity, disability
cultural- and literary-theory (the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, corporeal narratology, feminist literary theory),
19th century (Victorian) and 20th-21st century (postmodern) fantastic imagination, women’s writing/arts,
children’s/YA literatures and cultures,
the Literary Fantastic (fairy tales, magic realism, nonsense fantasy),
transmedia storytelling, intermedial cultural representations, image-text relations
Memberships in Academic Associations
MTA Nők a Kutatói Életpályán Bizottság: Women in Science Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2020-2023)
MTA Irodalom- és Kultúratudományi Bizottság
HUSSE Hungarian Society for the Study of English (2001- ) (presidential board: 2011-12, 2019-)
ESSE European Society for the Study of English (2001- )
HAAS Hungarian Association for American Studies (2001- )
EAAS European Association for American Studies (2001- )
IRSCL International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2013-2014, 2019-)
HUBBY (Hungarian Board on Books for Young People) (2017-)
ISIS International Society for Intermedial Studies (2013- )
ATHENA European Women’s Studies Network (2013- )
SFEVE Société Française des Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes (2016-
The Lewis Carroll Society (2013-2015)
The Angela Carter Society (2020-)
ANIMALIA Research Group, SZTE (2016- )
General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2008- )
Szeged University, supervisor in Doctoral School of Literature at Faculty of Arts
Publications:
Books
A nő nyelvet ölt. Feminista narratológiai, esztétikai, testelméleti tanulmányok. (Essays on feminist narratology, aesthetics, and body studies) Ikonológia és Műértelmezés sorozat 14. Szeged: JATE SZTE University Press, 2018. (pp. 324, ISBN: 978 963 315 383 3)
Alice in Transmedia Wonderland. Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children’s Classic. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. (pp. 268, ISBN-10: 1476666687 ISBN-13: 978-1476666686)
Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View. Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. (pp. 372, ISBN10: 0-7734-4892-6 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4892-6)
Editorial Work
Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature. Eds. Björn Sundmark, Anna Kérchy. New York: Palgrave, 2020.
The Fairy-Tale Vanguard. Literary Self Consciousness in a Marvelous Genre. Eds. Stijn Praet and Anna Kérchy. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2019.
Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literatures and Cultures. Special Issue for Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Eds. Björn Sundmark, Anna Kérchy. IBBY, 2018.
EJES, European Journal of English Studies. Thematic issue Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies Eds. Anna Kérchy, Catriona McAra. Taylor & Francis, 2017, Fall.
Interspecies Encounters in Postmillenial Filmic Fantasies. Special Issue of Americana E-Journal. Ed. Anna Kérchy. 2018.
Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction. Ed. Anna Kérchy. Americana E-book, 2018.
Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment. Eds. Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012. (ISBN13: 978-1-4438-4134-4 ISBN: 1-4438-4134-X)
Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings. Ed. Anna Kérchy. Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. (pp. 520, ISBN10: 0-7734-1519-X ISBN13: 978-0-7734-1519-5)
The Iconology of Law and Order. Legal and Cosmic. (Papers in English and American Studies 21) Eds. Anna Kérchy, Attila Kiss, György E. Szőnyi. Szeged: JATE University Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-963-315-076-4
What Constitutes the Fantastic? Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, György E. Szőnyi, Sarolta Marinovich-Resch, Anna Kérchy. Szeged: JATE University Press, 2010.
From 2011 Editor of TNT Ef Interdisciplinary E-journal of Gender Studies,
From 2020 Editor of “Mesecentrum Tanulmányok” Literary Critical/Theoretical Essays section on the website of the Hungarian Centre for the Study of Children’s Literature
From 2012 Reading committee member of Journal of the Short Story in English. Les cahiers de la nouvelle. Université d’Angers
From 2017 serves on Editorial Review board of Bookbird
Has acted as external Reviewer for Wayne State University Press, Routledge, Marvels & Tales, IRCL, Libri & Liberi, Victorian Poetry, The Anachronist, The Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies
Refereed Book Chapters
“Alice Beyond Wonderland: Transmedia, Hybridity, and Intersemiotic Play in Contemporary Adaptations of a Children’s Classic.” Ed. Ana Margarida Ramos et al. Transmedia and Hibdrity. Universidad de Aveiro. 2021. 13-37.
„A madárnő mágiája. A szörnyetegség mint mutatvány Angela Carter Esték a cirkuszban című regényében.” Rémesen népszerű. Szerk. Limpár Ildikó. Budapest: Atheneum, 2021. 137-160.
„Mire képes egy Viktoriánus képeskönyv? Képtelen interaktív képszövegek az Alice Csodaországban és Tükörországban első kiadásaiban.” BILLUFESZT Tanulmánykötet. Tempevölgy. Szerk. Varga Emese.
“‘Whichever way you go, you are sure to get somewhere.’ Dysgeographic mappings of playable loci and the ‘compass’ of girlish curiosity in Lewis Carroll’s and China Miéville’s spatial fantasies.” Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture. Central Europe and the West. Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 163-180.
“The Curious Case of Evie in Fairyland. Nonsense’s Creative Reinventions and Domesticating the Implied Child Reader in Hungarian Translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Children’s Literature in Translation. Szerk. Jack McMartin és Jan van Coillie. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2020. 159-178.
“The (im)possibilities of translating literary nonsense: Attempts at taming iconotextual monstrosity in Hungarian domestications of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky.’” Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature. London: Palgrave. Szerk. Björn Sundmark and Anna Kérchy, 2020. 133-155.
Kérchy Anna, Björn Sundmark. „Introduction.” Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature. Eds. Björn Sundmark and Anna Kérchy. New York: Palgrave, 2020. 1-25.
“Perverted Postmodern Pinocchios: Cannibalistic Vegetal-children as Ecoterrorist Agents of Maternal Imagination.” The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children. Essays on Anomalous Children from 1595 to the Present Day. Simon Bacon, Leo Ruickbie. London: Anthem, 2020. 151-165.
„Humor, horror, hiátus. A groteszk gyerektest mint szövegmotor Kócos Petitől Pacasrácig.” Medialitás és gyerekirodalom. Szerk Hermann Zoltán et al. Budapest: L’Harmattan, Károli könyvek, 2020. 63-77.
“Psychogeography in the Curiosity Cabinet. Angela Carter’s Poetics of Space.” The Arts of Angela Carter. Marie Mulvey Roberts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 39-57.
“Meta-imagination in Lewis Carroll’s Literary Fairy Tales about Alice’s Adventures.” The Fairy-Tale Vanguard. Literary Self Consciousness in Marvellous Genres. Szerk. Stijn Praet és Anna Kérchy. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. 55-77.
„Analytical Approaches to Fairy-tale Cultures and Media in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures. Ed. Pauline Greenhill, Lauren Bosc, Jill Rudy. New York: Routledge, 2018. 235-245.
“Transmedia Commodification: Disneyfication, Magical Objects, and Beauty and the Beast.” The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies, Eds. Gambarato Rampazzo Renira, Matthew Freeman. New York: Routledge, 2018. 223-233.
„Amicable Alices. Lewis Carroll and his Child Friends.” The Politics and Poetics of Friendship. Eds. Ewa Kowal and Robert Kusek. Krakow: Jagellonian University Press, 2017. 223-239.
“The song of the dodo bird. Environmental- and language philosophy in Lewis Carroll’s Victorian Nonsense Fairy-tale Fantasies.” Állati Jelek. Ed. Újvári Edit et al. Szeged: Juhász Gyula Felsőoktatási Kiadó, 2018. 163-179.
“Gondolatok a diverzitás, sokféleség, és a Másság eltérő formáiról a társadalmi nem és a fogyatékosság kulturális olvasatainak tükrében.” Sokféleség mint társadalmi érték. Hatodik Fogyatékosságtudományi Konferencia Kötete. Szerk. Sándor Anikó et al. Budapest: ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar, 2018. 56-63.
“Boundaries, Bridges, Becomings. Interspecies Politics in Women’s Performance Arts in the Contemporary US” Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgresssions Conference Proceedings, SZTE, Centro InterAmerican, 2019. Americana E-book series.
“Introduction.” Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction. Anna Kérchy. Americana E-book, 2018.
“’Mystic, awful was the process.’ Changing Meanings of Victorian Child Photography in Lewis Carroll’s Darkroom and Bright Text.” European Iconology East & West: Cultural Imageries of Body and Soul – Intermedial Representations of the Corporeal, the Psychic, and the Spiritual. Eds. Szőnyi György Endre, et al. Szeged: JATE University Press. (forthcoming)
“Re-enacting Otherness as a Strategy of Resistance in Hungarian Jewish Dwarf Performance Artists’ Memoirs” The Anthropology of Encounters Conference Proceedings. Szerk. Povedák István et al. MAKAT könyvek 1. Budapest: Magyar Kulturális Antropológiai Társaság, 2017. 236-250.
“Queering the gaze in the museal space. Orshi Drozdik’s feminist (post)concept art.” Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art. Eds. Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, László B Sári. Newcastle Upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 63-86.
“Alice’s Eroticized Adventures on the Other Side of the Looking-Glass.” Tantalizing Alice. Aprroaches, Concepts, and Case Studies in Adaptations of a Classic. Eds. Sissy Helff and Nadia Butt. Trier: Wissenschafter Verlag Trier. 2016. 59-81.
“Perverted Postmodern Pinocchios: Cannibalistic Vegetal-children as Ecoterrorist Agents of Maternal Imagination.” Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity. Eds. Simon Bacon and Leo Ruickbie. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016. 195-215.
“Dilemmák a társadalmi nemek tudománya és a fogyatékosságtudomány metszéspontjain.” [Dilemmas at the intersection of disability studies and gender studies] A felelet kérdései között. Fogyatékosságtudomány Magyarországon. Szerk. Hernádi Ilona és Könczei György. Budapest: ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar: Fotri Digitális Könyvek 1. 2015. 10-32.
“The Street Urchin as an Iconic Agent of Childish Imagination in Dickens’ Fiction and its Victorian and Postmodern Visual Adaptations.” Charles Dickens 200: Text and Beyond. A Commemorative Volume. Eds. Andrew Rouse and Gabriella Hartvig. Martonfa: SPECHEL e-ditions, 2015.
“Essay on the Hungarian Translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Alice in a World of Wonderlands: Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece. Vol. 1. Eds. Jon Lindseth and Markus Lang. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, USA, 2015. 294-299.
“The Translation and Reception of Angela Carter’s Work in Hungary.” Angela Carter traductrice-Angela Carter en traduction. Cahiers du Centre de Traduction Littéraire. Ed. Martine Hennard Dutheil De La Rochere. Université de Lausanne, 2014. 159-175.
“Les traductions hongroises de The Great Gatsby.” Quand l’Europe retraduit The Great Gatsby. Le corps transfrontalier du texte. (Collection Translations. Pensées et Pratiques de la traduction) Ed. Véronique Béghain. Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2013. 19-35.
“From the Showbiz to the Concentration Camp: The Fabulous, Freakish Life of Hungarian Jewish Dwarf Performers Zoli Hirsch and the Ovitz Family.” Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment. Eds. Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012. 211-233.
“Introduction” (with Andrea Zittlau) Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment. Eds. Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012. 1-20.
“A fogyatékkal élők elfogadását célzó média/művészeti megnyilvánulások lehetőségei, korlátai, és recepciója a mai Magyarországon.” [On the visibility of disability in Hungary today] Mi/Más2: Gondolatok a másságról. Eds. Judit Kádár and Judit Szathmári. Eger: EKF Líceum Kiadó, 2012.
“Disorder in the Museum. Recycling Waste and Cultural Trauma in the Chapman Brothers’ Abject Art.” EW4. The Iconology of Law and Order. Eds. Anna Kérchy, György Szönyi, Attila Kiss. Szeged: JATEPress, 2012.
“Recycling Waste and Cultural Trauma in the Museum Space” in: The Museal Turn. Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Douglas Brown. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 235-249.
“Stammering, Somniloquy and Somatized Semiosis. (Un)making Sense of Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales” in: The Language of Sense, Common-Sense and Nonsense. Eds. Ewa Borkowska, Tomasz Burzynski, and Maciej Nowak. Bielsko-Biala: Wydawnictwo WSEH, 2012. 43-54.
“Feminist Psychogeography and Jeanette Winterson’s Passions” in: She’s Leaving Home. Women’s Writing in English in a European Context (European Connections). Eds. Nóra Séllei and June Waudby. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2011. 131-149.
“Ambiguous Alice. Making Sense of Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense Fantasies” in: Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous Eds. Janka Kaščáková and Kathleen Dubbs. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 104-121.
“Nonsensical Disenchantment and Imaginative Reluctance in Postmodern Rewritings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales” in Anti-Tales. The Uses of Disenchantment. Eds. Catriona Fay MacAra – David Calvin. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 62-75.
“Postmodern Fantasies of Salvation. Interfacing Forensic Crime Fiction and Fairy Tale in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (with Ingrida Povidisa) in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings. Ed. Anna Kérchy. Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. 107-126.
“A Corpusemiotical Analysis of a Postmodern Alice-Tale. Embodied Nonsense in Terry Gilliam’s Tideland” in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings. Ed. Anna Kérchy. Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. 460-481.
“’Not Waving but Drowning.’ An Agnostic Commitment to Autonomy. The Freedom of Uncertainty in Stevie Smith’s Poetry” in: Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature. Eds. Christine Reynier, Jean-Michel Ganteau. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. 2010. 145-161.
“A nő nyelvet ölt. A feminista narratológia dilemmái és a korporeális narratológia lehetőségei” [On the dilemmas of feminist narratology and the potentials of corporeal narratology] in: Új elméletek a narratológiában. [Current Trends in Narratology], Ed. Erzsébet Szabó. Szeged: Grimm Kiadó, 2010. 43-97.
“Faraway, So Close. Towards a Definition of Magic(al) (Ir)Realism.” What Constitutes the Fantastic? Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner et al. Szeged: JATEPress, 2010. 15-35.
“Bodies That Do Not Fit: Sexual Metamorphoses, Re-embodied Identities and Cultural Crisis in Contemporary Transgender Memoirs” in: The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English: Cultural and Political Implications. Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Marta Fernandez Morales. Frankfurt Am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 129-150.
“A transznemű identitás dilemmái a kortárs gender-elméletek és populáris kulturális reprezentációk tükrében.” [“Dilemmas of transgender identity in contemporary queer theory and popular representations”] In: Mi/Más Konferencia 2008. Gondolatok a toleranciáról. Eger: EKF Líceum Kiadó, 2009. 169-183.
“A buziboszi, a meleg barát és “az a bizonyos dolog”. Az érzelmi kapcsolat heteronormativizálásának (kon)szekvenciájáról.” [„My gay best friend, tha fag hag, and ’that thing.’ On the (con)sequence of affective relationships’s heteronormativization.”] In: Nyelv, Ideológia, Média 2. A nő és női(es)ség sztereotípiái. Eds. Erzsébet Barát, Klára Sándor. Szeged: SZTE Könyvtártudományi Tanszék, 2009. 55-65.(with Nóra Koller)
“Autobiografikció és önéletrajzás Angela Carter regény-trilógiájában.” [On autobiografiction in Angela Carter’s trilogy] in: Írott és olvasott identitás. Az önéletrajzi műfajok kontextusai. [Written and Read Identity. The Referential Contexts of Autobiographical Genres.] Eds. Zoltán Z.Varga and János Mekis D. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2008. 352-261.
“Carnal Re-presentations: Orlan’s Body Art. Surgical Interventions Subverting the Iconography of Femininity and Beauty Myth” in: Eastern and Western Traditions of European Iconography 3: The Iconography of Gender. Eds. Szőnyi György Endre – Kiss Attila. Szeged: JATEPress, 2008. 147-157.
“Az Én mint (sok) Másik. A szamuráj/anya önszövegezése. Posztstrukturalista szubjektumelmélet Julia Kristeva Les Samouraïs című önéletrajzi regényében.” [“The other I. The self-writing of the samourai/mother. Poststructuralist theory of the subject in Julia Kristeva’s Les Samouraïs] in: A női szubjektum. [The Female Subject] Ed. Nóra Séllei. Debrecen: Debrecen UP, 2007. 253-271.
“‘Kisasszonyok, vadmacskák, kékharisnyák’ Az író nő pozicionálása a mai magyar médiában.” [“’Demoiselles, Wildcats, and Blue Stockings.’ Positioning the Writing Woman in the Contemporary Hungarian Media.”] in: Nyelv, Ideológia, Média. A nő helye a magyar nyelvhasználatban. [Language, Ideology, Media. Woman’s Place in Hungarian Discourse. Conference Proceedings] Eds. Erzsébet Barát, Klára Sándor. Szeged: JATEPress, 2007. 53-67. (with Nóra Koller)
“Grotesque Body Modification, Freaked Femininity and Narrative Self-Decomposition in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve” in: Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2006. 89-107.
“Narrating the Beat of the Heart, Jazzing the Text of Desire. A Comparative Interface of James Baldwin’s Another Country and Toni Morrison’s Jazz” in: James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. Eds. Lovalerie King, Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 50-86.
“Nőies-e a kortárs női irodalom? Átírás, újraolvasás, re-vízió” [“Is contemporary women’s writing feminine? Re-writing, re-reading, re-vision.”] in: Laikus olvasók? A nem-professzionális olvasás értelmezési lehetõségei . [Lay readership? Interpretive possibilities of non-professional reading.] Eds. Zsófia Lóránd, Tamás Scheibner, Gábor Vaderna. (Dayka Series 4th volume) Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2005. 101-112.
“Wings and Masks. Grotesque Body, Laughing Language and Carnivalesque Texture in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus” in: Spaces in Transition. Papers in English and American Studies XII. Ed. Erzsébet Barát. Szeged: JATEPress, 2005. 46-60.
“Anaïs Nin’s Experimental Autofiction. The Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Desiring Female Subject in A Spy in the House of Love.” in: Conference Proceedings of The 1950s HAAS Biennial Conference 2003 Budapest: ELTE, 2003. 141-148.
Refereed Journal Articles
“The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Fiction.” Marvels & Tales. 34.2 Fall 2020. 159-179.
“The acoustics of nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice tales.” International Research in Children’s Literature1 (2020): 175-190.
“Chimeric Visions: Posthuman Somaesthetics and Interspecies Communication in Contemporary Humanimal Body Art Performances.” HJEAS Posthumanism Special Issue. Ed. Andrea Tímár, 2020. 193-223.
„Taktilis tekintet Margaret Atwood A szolgálólány meséje című regényében.” Tiszatáj. 2021. január. 70-78.
“Tradíció és transzmediáció: A tündérmese utóélete a 21. századi gyerek és ifjúsági irodalomban. ” Studia Litteraria. Gyerekvilágok. 2019/1-2. 115-127.
“A fajok közti szolidaritás poszthumán etikai lehetőségei? Kétes környezetvédelem a kortárs feminista performanszban és a mai magyar populáris kultúrában.” TNT ef. 2019. Nyár. 9.1. 14-29.
“Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics. Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights.” Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens. 88th special issue on Comforting Creatures: Literature and its New Animal Phenomenologies. 2018 Automne. Eds. Sara Thornton & Laurence Rousillon-Constanty. Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. Open Edition Journals.
“’Beckoning’: Thoughts on Zsófia Jakab’s Art”. Catalogue for art exhibition organized by Leeds University of Arts, UK, 2018
“Introduction to special journal issue” Interspecies Encounters in Postmillenial Filmic Fantasies. Special Issue of Americana E-Journal. Ed. Anna Kérchy. 2018.
“Introduction to special issue on Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literatures and Cultures. Special Issue for Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Eds. Björn Sundmark, Anna Kérchy. IBBY, Taylor & Francis, 2018.
“Introduction to special issue on Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies.” (with Catriona McAra) EJES. European Journal of English Studies. Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies Issue. 2017.21.3. 1-14.
“Interview with Liliane Louvel on Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies.” (with Catriona McAra) EJES. European Journal of English Studies. Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies Issue. 2017.21.3. 222-226.
“Interview with Mieke Bal on Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies.” (with Catriona McAra) EJES. European Journal of English Studies. Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies Issue. 2017.21.3. 217-221.
“Vendégségben Alice asztalánál. It’s Always Tea Time.” KULTer.hu 2017. 11. 16.
“Vegetal Visions. Ecocritical Encounters with Plant Kin in Transmediated Fairy Tales.” Americana E-Journal. Special issue on Posthumanist (com)promises of Human-Animal-Plant Encounters in Fantastic Imagination. 2017.
“A nonszensz poétikája és politikája” [The Poetics and Politics of Nonsense] Studia Litteraria. 2016. 3/4. 76-90.
“Átlátszó helyek. A láttatott láthatatlan mint női térélmény Drozdik Orsolya konceptuális művészetében.” [“Transparent Spaces. Female Topographies in Orsolya Drozdik’s concept art” ] Balkon. 2016.11.12. 22-30.
“Csalóka Csodaország. A képzelet korlátai és a gyermeki fantázia metafantáziája Terry Gilliam Dagályország című fantasy filmjében.” [The metafantasy of infantile fantasy in Gilliam’s Tideland] Apertúra. Film. Vizualitás. Elmélet. E-folyóirat. Fantasztikum különszám. Ed. Benczik Vera. 2015. tavasz-nyár.
“Hebrencs kisleányból kötelességtudó honleány. Nőképváltozások a Magyar Lányok hetilap első világháború alatti lapszámaiban.” [Printed Press Representations of Hungarian Women during the First World War] Médiakutató. 2015 Summer. XVI.2: 81-95.
“Lolita, a kishúgunk!? A kislány test ábrázolhatatlanságáról női szemmel.” [Lolita, our little sister?! Challenges of representing girls’ bodies; dilemmas at the intersection of feminist ethics and aesthetics] TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2015. 5.1. 189-213.
“Picturebooks Challenging Sexual Politics. Pro-Porn Feminist Comics and the Case of Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore’s Lost Girls.” HJEAS Journal. 20.2. (2014 Fall): 121-143.
“Creative Iconoclasm and Cultural Trauma.” Terror(ism) and Aesthetics. Ed. György Fogarasi. Et al. e-journal. 2014. 1.
“Challenges of Retranslating The Great Gatsby into Hungarian: With a Focus on Metaphors of Emotion and Embodiment.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Vol. 11. 2013. Penn State University Press. 137-156.
“A ’férfias’ fogyaték fikciója. Alternatív maszkulinitások atipikus megtestesülései a kortárs populáris vizuális kultúrában.” [Fantasies of Manly Disability] in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2013/1.
“Changing Media of Enchantment: Tracking the Transition from Verbal to Visual Nonsense in Tim Burton’s Cinematic Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.“ Americana E-Journal. 2012. Spring. VIII. 1.
“(Poszt)feminizmus, (poszt)identitás és (poszt)koncept art Drozdik Orsolya művészetében.” [(Post)feminism, (post)identity and (post)concept art in Orshi Drozdik’s Oeuvre] in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2012/2. 33-45.
“Rejuvenation and Immortality in/of the Female Gothic Genre. The Feminist Potentials of Contemporary Children’s- and Teenage Gothic Fiction.” in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2012/1. (with Rita Antoni)
“Elmebaj, szerzőség és nem/iség (v)iszonyai két kortárs magyar Csáth-mítosz adaptációban.” [Madness, authorship, and gender in contemporary takes on the Csáth-myth] in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2011/2.
“A félt(ett) test felderítése. Susan Wendell. Az elutasított test. Feminista filozófiai elmélkedés a fogyatékosságról című könyvéről.” [Review essay on Susan Wendell’s The Rejected Body. Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability] TNTeF. Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris E-Folyóirat. 2011. I.1.
“A feminista pszichogeográfia és Jeanette Winterson szenvedélyei.” [On Feminist Psychogeography and Jeanette Winterson] Filológiai Közlöny. Utazás, Otthon, Nőiség szám. 56.4. (2010): 367-381.
“Tapogatózások. A test elméleteinek alakzatai.” [“Corporeal Configurations. Towards a Definition of Body Studies.”] Apertúra. Film-Visuality-Theory. 2009. IV.2.
“Seeing Is Believing(?) Blurred Boundaries and Loving Looks in Nancy Burson’s Art.” Focus, Pécs UP. 2007. 199-217.
“Narrating the nervous, bulimic body-text in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve” Gender Studies Journal. West University of Timisoara: Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies, 2006. 79-105.
“The Female Grotesque in Contemporary American Culture” Atenea. A Bilingual Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. U of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. XXV. 2. (2005): 173-189.
“Fantastic Freakings: Decomposing Narrative and Deformed Femininity in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.” Palimpszeszt. Mese és fantasztikus irodalom tematikus szám., 06.24. (2005):.
“Kannibál olvasatok. Zhu Yu Emberevő című performanszáról.” [“Cannibal Interpretations. On Zhu Yu’s performance entitled Man-eater”] Kalligram. Művészet és Gondolat. 05. 01-02. (2005): 121-128.
“Corporeal and Textual Performance as Ironic Confidence Trick in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” The AnaChronisT. 10. (2004): 97-125.
“Könyörtelen Test Revíziók. A női szépség erőszakos ideológiájának dekonstrukciója a feminista performansz terrorista testeiben” [On the deconstruction of feminine beauty’s violent ideology in contemporary feminist performance]. Kalligram. Művészet és Gondolat. 04.01. (2004): 103-110.
“The Woman 69 Times: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Femininity and Subjectivity. 9.1. (2003): 181-190.
“Ez a fekete zongora… A női tekintet lehetőségei és a vágy képei Jane Campion Zongoralecke című filmjében” [On the possibilities of the ‘female gaze’ and the representation of desire in Jane Campion’s The Piano] Filmtett. Feminizmus és filmelmélet szám. (2003): 11-15.
“Nő, pornó, performansz. Annie Sprinkle: The Post-Porn-Modernist Show” [“Woman, Porn, Performance. On Annie Sprinkle’s Post-Porn-Modernist Show.”] Lk.K.T. A kolozsvári Láthatatlan Kollégium Irodalmi Folyóirata. (2002): 56-63.
“Wild Words. Jazzing the Text of Desire: Subversive Language in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” The AnaChronisT . (2002): 264-288.
“L’oeil du père aveugle dans l’oeuvre de Georges Bataille” [On the significance of the blind father’s eye in Georges Bataille’s fiction] in: Acta Romanica Tomus XXI Études Doctorales V. Szeged: JATEPress, 2002. 131-143.
“Why should we deconstruct Harry?“ [On Deconstruction and Woody Allen] Szótár. Szegedivatlap. I./ 2. (2001)
“Transgressive Bodies and Other Voices in Contemporary British Women Writers’ Fiction” in: Papers Published for the Humanities Section of the 3rd International Conference of PhD Students Miskolc: University of Miskolc Press, 2001. 99-107.
Reviews, Short Essays
„The Fabulous Adventures of Alice with Fashion, Science, and Pinocchio.” HJEAS 27 (2021): 169-179.
„Re-orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures.” Contemporary Women’s Writing
“Choreographing an Individual Mythology: Orshi Drozdik’s Applied Feminist Semiotics.” Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1960s. ed. Gabriele Schor. Vienna: The Verbund Collection publication, 2020.
“Reading in the Dark. Sleeping with the Lights On: Uses and Abuses of Horror in Children’s Literature.” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. 25. 2 (2019): 433-437
“Kockáztatni és késznek lenni sebezhetővé válni.” Interjú Andrea Zittlau feminista performanszművész kultúrantropológussal. TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 9.2. (2019): 137-145.
“Choreographing an Individual Mythology: Orshi Drozdik’s Applied Feminist Semiotics.” Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1960s. ed. Gabriele Schor. Vienna: The Verbund Collection publication.
“’Beckoning’: Thoughts on Zsófia Jakab’s Art”. Catalogue for art exhibition organized by Leeds University of Arts, UK, 2018.
Az érzékiség és az anyag – megnyitóbeszéd Drozdik Orshi kiállításához a Budapest Galériában. Artmagazin Online. 2018.
Interjú az Erdődy-díjas Zsadányi Edittel. TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 8.2. (2018): 114-120.
Review of A Theology of Nonsense.” Knight Letter – The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2018 (forthcoming)
“An Encore of the Greatest Show on Earth: Victorian Marvels and Monsters Revamped for the Postmillennial Times.” HJEAS. 2018. (forthcoming)
“Three times in Wonderland.” Triple Review of Zoe Jaques’s, Virginie Iché’s, and Celia Brown’s Carroll Scholarship. Review for Bookbird. 2017. 55.3. 42-45.
”Blending Beauty and the Beast. Metamorphic body regimes of a somatic society.” Review of Heike Steinhoff Transforming Bodies. Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture. HJEAS 2017/2. 411-416.
„Review of Catriona McAra’s A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm.” Americana. E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. 2017 Spring.
„Lilith ecsetje: Lilith Öröksége Művészeti Csoport, Tiszta Kezekben. Liget Galéria, 2016” TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2016 Spring. 6.1. 191-199.
„Double review on Liliane Louvel’s Poetics of the Iconotext (2010) and Le Tiers pictural. Pour une critique intermédiale (2011)” The European English Messenger. 24.2. 2015 Winter. 97-100.
„A női géniusz színeváltozásai: Alkotónők egyetemes enciklopédiája. Review of Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, eds. Le Dictionnaire des Femmes Créatrices” TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2014 Spring. 4.1. 182-186.
“Review of Ildikó Boldizsár’s Fairy-tale Therapy and Annamária Kádár’s Fairy-tale Psychology.” Marvels & Tales. Journal of Fairy Tale Studies. 28.1. Spring 2014. Wayne State University Press. 199-203.
„Harcosnők, flamingók, Évák. Gender ecset III. Válogatás a Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem Festő Tanszékének munkáiból.” Revizor. Online Kritikai Portál. 2014.02.18.
“Review of Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays. eds. Katarina Labudova & Nóra Séllei” Americana. E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. 2013 Fall. IX.2.
„A XX. századi magyar nőírókról megjelent kötetek megközelítési módjai. Beszélgetés Borgos Annával, Kádár Judittal és Kapus Erikával (Moderátor: Séllei Nóra)” TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2013 Fall. 3.2.
“Review of Egy képlet nyomában. Karakterelemzések az amerikai és a magyar irodalomból by Enikő Bollobás.” TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2013.3. 3.1.
“The Otherness in Ourselves. A Review of John Lechte and Maria Margaroni’s Julia Kristeva: Live Theory.” in: Americana. E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. Fall 2012.
“’Könny, kacagás, izgalom, az égvilágon minden…’ Angela Carter. Esték a Cirkuszban.” Nőkért.hu 2011. http://nokert.hu/index.php/irodalom/irodalmi-ajanlo/923-koenny-kacagas-izgalom-az-egvilagon-minden-angela-carter-estek-a-cirkuszban-budapest-magvet-2011-ford-benyei-tamas
“Review of Twice Upon A Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries” European Journal of English Studies. Routledge, 2010. 298-301.
“Review of The Unraveling Archive. Essays on Sylvia Plath edited by Anita Helle” Americana. E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. V. 1. Spring 2009.
“Helmut Newton és a tűsarok.” [“Helmut Newton and High Heels.”] A Hét. 4. 3. (2006): 1. 23. 18.
“Those miraculous pleasures of the ordinary. Review of Christine Reynier’s Jeanette Winterson: Le miracle ordinaire” In-Between. Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism. 2005/2. Vol. 14. Ed. Gulshan Taneja. University of Delhi. R.L.A. College. English Department.
Translations
Emer O’ Sullivan. „Összehasonlító gyerekirodalomtudomány.” (Comparative children’s literature) IGYIC Mesecentrum Tanulmányok rovat. 2021.
Back-translation of sample-chapters of the 1927 and 2009 Hungarian translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (By Margit Altay, 1927 and Zsuzsa and Dániel Varró, 2009) In: Alice in a World of Wonderlands: Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece. Vol.2. Eds. Jon Lindseth and Markus Lang. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, USA, 2015. 268-276.
“Checklist of all Hungarian translations of Alice.” Alice in a World of Wonderlands: Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece. Vol.3. 435-443.
Hungarian Translation of Jean Ingelow’s Mopsa, the Fairy (1869) (in progress)
Coursebooks
13 chapters for Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature BA Survey lecture (EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00014)
Invited ((Sub)Plenary Conference) Lectures
“Alice Beyond Wonderland: Transmedia, Hybridity, and Intersemiotic Play in Contemporary Adaptations of a Children’s Classic.” Mix & Match: Hibridity and Transmediation Conference. Plenary. Universidade de Aveiro. Portugal. 2019.12.13.
„Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk? Alice and its Adaptations in Transmedia Wonderland.” Plenary Lecture. Encounters of the Popular Kind: Traditions and Mythologies in Dialogie. EASPOP. Plenary. ELTE, Budapest. MsTeams online. 27-28 October 2020.
„Translating Body-Language and Cultural Transfer: Angela Carter’s Birdwoman Travels to Hungary.” „The world is made of words.” Angela Carter translator – Angela Carter in translation. Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. Zoom. 8-10 October 2020.
“Posthuman Somaesthetics in Humanimal Body Art Performances.” Université d’Angers. CRILA Research Group/ PhD Research Seminar. 2019 Nov 5.
“Mire képes egy Viktoriánus képeskönyv? Képtelen interaktív képszövegek az Alice Csodaországban és Tükörországban első kiadásaiban.” Első Budapesti Illusztrációs Fesztivál. Konferencia. Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, 2019 Október 29.
“The Secret Life of Things: Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Postmodern Curiosity Cabinet” Université Bordeaux Montaigne, CLIMAS, PMM 2018-2019 lecture series, Puissance du Mode Mineur Research Group, (Prof Nathalie Jaeck) , 2019 Apr 5.
“Gyerekirodalom és innováció.” HUBBY Szakmai Szimpózium az Év Gyerekkönyve Díj kísérő rendezvénye. Országos Pedagógiai Könyvtár és Múzeum. 2019. febr 15.
“A tündérmese utóélete a 21. századi gyerek és ifjúsági irodalomban: Tradíció és transzmédia.” A gyerekirodalom nagykorúsítása. HUBBY- Deák Galéria/MOME. 2018 Okt 23-24.
“Gondolatok a diverzitás, sokféleség, és a Másság eltérő formáiról a társadalmi nem és a fogyatékosság kulturális olvasatainak tükrében.” Hatodik Fogyatékosságtudományi Konferencia: Sokféleség mint társadalmi érték, ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar, 2018. 11.13.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!” Cultural transpositions of the sound and the sight of nonsense in Hungarian translations of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Children’s Literature and Translation Conference, Krakow, 2018 Apr 4-5.
“Semmi – gondolta – nem volt még ilyen érdekes.” Pszichonarráció és a bizonytalanság megtestesült tudata Neil Gaiman gótikus meseregényében. [„Psychonarration and the embodied experience of uncertainty in Nail Gaiman’s children’s gothic fiction”] A test mint elbeszélő médium, a test mint elbeszélések médiuma. Korporális narratológia a befogadás és a kirekesztés vizsgálatában. PIM, MTA ITI Corpus Alienum, 2016.04.01. Symposium of the Corporeal Narratology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
“From lost little girls to curious feminist psychogeographers. Empowerment by wanderlust, dysgeographica, and playable cities in Contemporary YA Fantasy Rewritings of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Plenary lecture. Gender, Translocality, and the City in post-1945 Literary and Visual Culture. University of Debrecen. 2016. Feb 26-27.
“The Changing status of reading in the age of digital culture: current debates and future collaborations.” Organized by Bodies in Transit EU Feder Project of Departamenta de Filologia Inglesa, Faculdad de Humanidades. Universidad de Huelva, Spain. 2015. Okt. 21.
“Tükörképlékenység. A test elméleteinek alakzatai a kortárs nőművészetekben.” [On body studies and contemporary women’s art] Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Budapest. 2014. Február 13.
“Dilemmák a társadalmi nem tudomány és a fogyatékosságtudomány metszéspontjain.” [Dilemmas at the intersection of gender- and disability studies] Első magyar fogyatékosságtudományi konferencia. Az ELTE Gyógypedagógiai Kar (Fogyatékosságtudományi Doktori Műhely), a Magyar Szociológiai Társaság és az MTA Szociológiai Kutatóintézete rendezésében. 2013. november 26.
“Metaphors of Emotion and Embodiment in Hungarian Translations of The Great Gatsby.” Le corps transfrontalier du texte : quand l’Europe retraduit The Great Gatbsy. 26 octobre 2012. Université Bordeaux 3.
“A test elméleteinek alakzatai a kortárs művészetek tükrében.” [On body studies and contemporary art] Testeken át I. Testírás, tesmódosítás, tetoválás szimpózium. Grand Café. Szeged. 2013. March
“Nonsensical Disenchantment and Imaginative Reluctance in Postmodern Rewritings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales” Plenary. Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Aug 2010
“On Flesh Becoming Word Becoming Flesh. Reading Angela Carter’s Fiction from a Feminist Corporeal Narratological Perspective” Angela Carter. Estranging Feminism?, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, France, 10-11 June 2010
“’Not Waving but Drowning.’ An Agnostic Commitment to Autonomy. The Freedom of Uncertainty in Stevie Smith’s Poetry” Autonomy and Commitment in Modernist British Literature A CERVEC Conference, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III., France, 2007.
“Popular Representations of Monstrosities in Anglophone Culture.” The Monstrous Side of Science. A Celebration of Science. Catholic University of Ruzomberok, English department, Slovakia, 2008.
Conference panel organization
Sounds Victorian: Acoustic Experience in 19th Century Britain, ESSE Conference, Lyon 2020. Co-organized w Béatrice Laurent, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
The Secret Life of Things: Controversial Challenges of Anthropocentrism in Children’s Literature. Controversial Dimensions in Children’s Literature, Wroclaw, Poland. 2020.03.19-20. (cancelled because of COVID)
Image/Text/Body Panel. 14th Biennial HUSSE Conference, 2019. Jan 31-Feb 2. Pannon University Eger, Hungary.
Sounds Victorian: Voices and Noises in 19th Century Britain, ESSE Conference, Brno, 2018. Co-organized w Béatrice Laurent, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Intermedial Body Politics: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Image/Text Dynamics Seminar. 12th ESSE Conference, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Kosice, Slovakia. 29 Aug – 2 Sept, 2014 Co-organized w Catriona McAra, Leeds University of Arts
Bordercrossings, meeting points, spaces of reflection and resistance. ‘Out of place’ feminist encounters with alterity. A Találkozások Antropológiája. A Magyar Kulturális Antropológiai Társaság 4. Vándorkonferenciája. SZTE BTK: Nov 4-5, 2016.
Fairy-Tale Cinema. Posthumanist Potentials of Animal/Plant-Human Encounters. HUSSE 13. Eger. 2017 jan. 26-28.
Medial Interaction in the Literary Fantastic Workshop Salzburg-Szeged Symposium co-organizer, Sabine Coelsh-Foisner, Salzburg University, Szeged University, 2008.
Conference Papers:
“Snarls, Moans, and Cackles. The Sound of Mad Laughter in Victorian Literature and its Contemporary Cinematic Adaptations.” (with Vera Kérchy) 15th ESSE Conference Université de Lyon, France. 2021 Aug 30-Sept 3.
“A pinch of worm fat, urine of a horsefly, buttered fingers, three coins from a dead man’s pocket, and two teaspoons of wishful thinking.” Gastronomic translations of literary nonsense in Alice in Wonderland and its postmodern transmedia adaptations.” Food and/in Children’s Culture Conference. Ca Foscari University of Venice. 6-9 April 2021.
“‘Semmi – gondolta – nem volt még ilyen érdekes.’ Pszichonarráció és a bizonytalanság megtestesült tudata Neil Gaiman gótikus meseregényében” Negatív érzelmek az irodalmi befogadásban workshop. SZTE Kognitív Poétika Kutatócsoport. 2021. Március 26.
“Picturing the unimaginable for a generation of postmemory in graphic novel biografictional adaptations of Anne Frank’s Diary.” The 15th International Child and the Book Conference, 24 March 2021, Freie Universität Berlin, Transformation and Continuity: Political and Cultural Change in Children’s Literature from the Past Century to the Present Day
“A gyerektest mint médium. Humor, horror, hiátus. A groteszk gyerektest mint szövegmotor Kócos Petitől Pacasrácig.” Gyermekirodalom és medialitás. Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem. Gyerek- és Ifjúsági Irodalmi Kutatócsoportjának konferenciája. 2020. február 7.
“Taktilis tekintetek A Szolgálólány Meséjében.” Szimpózium Margaret Atwood 80. születésnapjára. Szegedi Tudományegyetem, BTK, Komparatisztika tanszék. 2019. November 18.
“Caressing Canvases: Embodied subjects and objects in the corporeagraphic metafictional museum novel.” Museums in Literature conference/Le Musée dans la littérature. MSh Paris Nord. Université Paris 13 St Denis. 2019. Nov 7-8.
“A nő mint növény. Feminista szubjektumszemiotika az antropocentrizmuson túl?” NYIM 2019 Konferencia, A feminista kritika és a metszetelmélet. 2019-okt 4-5. Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya kutatócsoport
“Acoustics of nonsense, picturing sounds, & interspecies communication: Counter-narrative strategies resisting the discursive silencing of children in Lewis Carroll’s Alice tales.” IRSCL congress, Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature, Stockholm University, 2019 August 14-18
“Art and Space in the Contemporary Museum Novel.” Arts and the City. Károli Gáspár University and The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2019 May 23-24.
“Transmediating the Wonder-Tale Canon in 21st Century Hungarian Children’s Books” The 14th The Child and the Book Conference, University of Zadar, 2019 May 8-10.
“Tracing a Story in a Network of Cracks: Ekphrasis, Ellipsis, and Craquelure as Instruments of Feminist Politics and Poetics of in Chloé Aridjis’ Asunder.” HUSSE Biennial Conference, Pannon University Veszprém, 2019 jan 31-feb 2.
“A fajok közti szolidaritás poszthumán etikai lehetőségei a kortárs feminista performanszban és a mai magyar populáris kultúrában.” (Posthuman ethical possibilities of interspecies solidarity in contemporary feminist performance arts and postmillenial popular culture) Nyelv, Ideológia, Média 14. Gender és Szolidaritás. SZTE, TNT, 2018 Szept 21-22.
„’Take care of the sounds, and the sense will take care of itself!?’ The acoustics of nonsense in Lewis Carroll.” ESSE Conference. Sounds Victorian Panel. Brno. 2018 Aug 29-Sept 2.
“L’Animal que je suis.” Posthuman Somaesthetics in Contemporary BioArt Performances” Somaesthetics: Between the Human Body and Beyond, Szeged University, Philosophy Dept, May 14-16th, 2018.
“A dodó madár dala. Környezet- és nyelvfilozófia a 19. századi angol fantasztikus irodalomban” [“The song of the dodo bird. Environmental- and language philosophy in 19th c. fantastic fiction in English”] Állati jelek, képek és terek konferencia. SZTE Jel-Kép-Tér Munkacsoport. 2017 Nov 17.
“Boundaries, Bridges, Becomings. Interspecies Politics in Women’s Performance Arts in the Contemporary US” Transgressing Borders from Above and Below Panel. organized by Gender Studies Research group. Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgresssions, SZTE, Centro InterAmerican, Nov 16-18, 2017.
“Evie in Fairyland, the Drunkard Brushmaker, and the Giggling Wooden Dog. Nonsense’s Creative Domestications and the Changing Image of the Implied Child Reader in Hungarian Translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” Translation Studies and Children’s Literature – Current Topics and Future Perspectives Conference. 19-20 Oct 2017 Brussels-Antwerpen.
“A nyelv hatalma az Alice Csodaországban magyar fordításainak tükrében” [“The power of language in Hungarian translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”] NYIM13 A nő és a hatalom SZTE, BTK, IEAS. 2017 Szept 22-23.
“Humanimal Studies: rövid áttekintés” SZTE Animalia Research Group Introductory Conference. SZAB, Szeged. 2017. 03.31.
“Vegetal Visions. Ecocritical Encounters with Plant Children in Mainstream and Art Fairy-Tale Cinema” HUSSE 13, Eger, Hungary. 2017.01.26-28..
“The chance encounter of a stuffed dodo, a fallen star, and a fruit woman automaton… The Secret Life of Things Queering the Museal Gaze in Angela Carter’s Postmodern Curiosity Cabinets” Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter. University of Bristol. 2017.01.09.-10.
“From the Circus to the Concentration Camp. Re-enacting Otherness as a Strategy of Resistance in Hungarian Jewish Dwarf Performance Artists’ Memoirs” A Találkozások Antropológiája. 4th Conference of the Hungarian Association of Cultural Anthropology. SZTE BTK: Nov 4-5, 2016.
“Amicable Alices. Lewis Carroll and his Child Friends” The Politics and Poetics of Friendship conference. University of Krakow. October 27-29, 2016.
“Alice in Transmedia Wonderland.” Guest Lecture at SZTE BTK IEAS Doctoral Research Seminar, 2016 Október 6
“Átlátszó helyek. A láttatott láthatatlan mint női térélmény Drozdik Orsolya konceptuális művészetében.” NYIM 12. Úton: A tér neme, a nemek terei. Szegedi Tudományegyetem, 2016. Sept 30-Oct 1.
“Alice’s Animal Alterities and Ethics.” Becoming Animal with the Victorians. Conference organised by the French Society of Victorian Studies. Université Diderot Paris 7. 2016. February 3-5.
„Iconotextual Sites of Alice’s Feminist Resistance in Picture Books Co-produced by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel.” Alice Through the Ages Conference, University of Cambridge, 2015. Szeptember 15-18.
“Na, húzzál haza, kisfiam!” Mrs. Robinsontól Stifler mamájáig, avagy a MILF diszkrét bája. 11. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média Konferencia, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Kutatócsoport, 2015. Szeptember 25-26.
“Lolita, a kishúgunk!? A kislány test ábrázolhatatlanságáról női szemmel.” NYIM10. 10. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média konferencia, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, TNT Kutatócsoport. 2014. Sept. 19-20.
“Iconotextual Sites of Alice’s Feminist Resistance in Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel’s Victorian Fairy-Tale Fantasy Picture Books.” Intermedial Body Politics: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Image/Text Dynamics Seminar. 12th ESSE Conference, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Kosice, Slovakia. 29 Aug – 2 Sept, 2014
“Picturebooks challenging sexual politics. Melinda Gebbie’s Pro-Porn Feminist Comics and the Case of Lost Girls” HAAS10 Conference: Crossing Boundaries: Migration, Amalgamation, and Transgression in American Literature, History, and Culture PPCU, Budapest. 30-31 May, 2014
“Alice’s Adventures through Changing Media: Looking for Wonderland in 21st century 3D CGI, iPad app, and Pop-Up Book adaptations of Carroll’s Classic” Adapting Alice Panel. IRSCL International Research Society for Children’s Literature Congress, Children’s Literature and Media Cultures. 2013, August 10-14. Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“’Mystic, awful was the process.’ Changing Meanings of Victorian Child Photography in Lewis Carroll’s Darkroom and Bright Text.” European Iconology East & West: Cultural Imageries of Body and Soul – Intermedial Representations of the Corporeal, the Psychic, and the Spiritual. Szeged University, May 29-31, 2013.
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young GirlChild: Lewis Carroll on/as Alice.” HUSSE 11. 11th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 24–26 January, 2013.
“The Street Urchin as an Iconic Agent of Childish Imagination in Dickens’ Fiction and its Victorian and Postmodern Visual Adaptations.”Dickens200: Text and Beyond. University of Pécs. 2012 November 9-10.
“A ’férfias’ fogyaték fikciója. Alternatív maszkulinitások atipikus megtestesülései a kortárs populáris vizuális kultúrában.” Nyelv, Ideológia, Média konferencia 8. A magyar „férfiuralom” terepei és határai. Szeged University, TNT, 2012. September 21-22.
“Meta-Imagination in Lewis Carroll’s Literary Fairy Tales about Alice’s Adventures.” The Fairy Tale Vanguard. University of Ghent, Belgium, 20-22 August 2012.
„(Poszt)feminizmus, (poszt)identitás, és (poszt)koncept art Drozdik Orsolya művészetében” Nyelv, Ideológia, Média 7. A társadalmi nem viszonyok a rendszerváltás elmúlt 20 évében: poszt-szocializmus (?) és feminizmus. University of Szeged. 2011. Szept 30-Okt 1.
“Creative Iconoclasm and Cultural Trauma.” Terror(ism) and Aesthetics International Conference. University of Szeged, 2011. Sept 22-24.
“Changing Media of Enchantment. Tracking the Transition from Verbal to Visual Nonsense in Tim Burton’s Cinematic Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.” American Studies and Visuality on the Horizon of Information Society. University of Szeged, American Studies Department, 2011. May 6-7.
“Queering the gaze and post-identity in Drozdik Orshi’s feminist (post)concept art.” Import-Export-Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique, and Activism in Motion. University of Vienna, Austria. 2011. April. 28-30.
“A fogyatékkal élők elfogadását célzó média/művészeti megnyilvánulások lehetőségei, korlátai, és recepciója a mai Magyarországon” Mi/Más2 Konferencia, Eszterházy Főiskola Amerikanisztika Tanszék, 2010.
“Az elme-baj, a szerzőség és a nemiség (v)iszonyai két Csáth-mítosz adaptációban” A társadalmi nemi viszonyok intézményesülése: A „magyarság” és „nemiség” metszetei, 6. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média konferencia, Szeged University, TNT, 2010.
“Recycling Waste and Cultural Trauma in the Museum Space” Museum Narratives. University of Salzburg, Austria, 2009.
“Stammering, Somniloquy and Somatized Semiosis. (Un)making Sense of Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Tales.” The Surplus of Culture. Sense, CommonSense, NonSense University of Silesia, Ustron, Poland. 2009.
“Nyilván(osan) intim. A bizalmas testiség ki/takarása a közösségi terekben.” 5. Nyelv, ideológia, média konferencia. A szexualitás terei. [Language, Ideology, Media. The Spaces of Sexuality] University of Szeged, Engl Dpt. Gender Studies Research Group. Hungary 2009.
“Ambiguous Alice. Entangled referential and metaphorical readings of Lewis Carroll” Ambiguity Conference, Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia, 2009.
“Feminist Grotesque Body Politics and Freak Ethics in Angela Carter’s Late Fiction.” Angela Carter. A Critical Exploration. The University of Northampton, UK, 2009.
‘“Curiouser and curiouser!” Epistemological Crisis and Body-Trouble in Postmodern Alice Tales.” The Fairy Tale After Angela Carter Conference, University of East Anglia, UK, 2009.
“Unraveling the Myth of Lewis Carroll’s Alice.” The Cultural/ Textual Construction of the Gendered Body – Gender Studies Research Group. HUSSE9, University of Pécs, Hungary, 2009.
“Monstrous Embodiment and Collective Identity in Tod Browning’s Freaks and Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love. On Breaking the Frames of the Bourgeois Family Romance and the Troubling Residue of Carnivalesque Counter-Spectacularity.” HAAS Conference. University of Szeged, Hungary 2008.
“A ‘nehéz napok’ gyönyörei. A patologizált női test eroticizálása a kortárs magyar kultúrában.” 4. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média Konferencia. A Nő és a Test/iség. [Language, Ideology, Media. Femininity and Corporeality] University of Szeged, Hungary 2008.
“Lilliputians, Freaks, Little People. Popular Representations of Dwarfism in Anglophone Culture.” The Body in Anglophone Culture. Université de Tours, France. 2008.
“The Ordered System’s Constitutive Outside. Disorder and Desire in Contemporary Abject Art.” The Iconology of Law. Eastern and Western Traditions of European Iconography 4. University of Szeged. 2008.
“Freaks Born and Made: Anatomical Alterity as a Technology of the Self. Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love” Embodiment and Identity. SWIPUK conference. Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Philosophy, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Hull, UK, 2008.
“Image, Music, Performance and Text in Georges du Maurier’s Trilby” Medial Interaction in the Literary Fantastic Workshop. Salzburg-Szeged Dissertation Network Symposium, University of Szeged, 2008.
“A transznemű identitás dilemmái a kortárs gender-elméletek és populáris kulturális reprezentációk tükrében.” [“Dilemmas of Trans-Gender Identity in Contemporary Theories of Gender and Popular Cultural Representations.”] Mi/Más Conference on Alterity, Eger University, 2008.
“Proto-modern/poszt-modern test-szövegek. A képtelen test kép(i)esítése” [“Proto-modern/post-modern body-texts. Images of Corpo-realities Resisting Re-presentation”] Test-Corpus-Body. A Symposium organized by the Szeged Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged. (with Kiss Attila), 2007.
“Szemtelen nemtelen? Transgender identitás és tapasztalat.” [On Transgender Identity and Experience] Nyelv, Ideológia, Média. Női és férfi identitás és tapasztalat . [Language, Ideology, Media. Fe/male Identity and Experience] University of Szeged, Hungary, 2007.
“The limits and potentials of lesbian historiographic metafiction. The Case of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet” Sexuality and Narrative Section. Lesbian Lives. Lesbian Existence and the Lesbian Continuum Conference. Global Irish Institute. University College, Dublin, Ireland, 2007.
“’From Automaton to Activist.’ Representations of Spectacular Female Performers of Late-Victorian Countercultures in Georges du Maurier’s, Angela Carter’s and Sarah Waters’ Fiction.” HUSSE 8 Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2007.
“Bifocal interpretive perspective: restless look, punctum and camp.” Communicative Strategies in Literature. Joint PhD Network Symposium. Universitat Salzburg, Austria, 2006.
“Blurred Boundaries and Loving Looks in Nacy Burson’s Art.” HAAS Biennial Conference. Frontiers, Borderlines, and Frames. University of Pécs, Hungary, 2006.
“’My gay best friend’ A fag-hag sztereotípiája.” [On the fag-hag’s stereotype.] Nyelv, Ideológia, Média. A nő és női(es)ség sztereotípiái konferencia. [Language, Ideology, Media. Stereotypes of Womanliness and Femininity] University of Szeged, Hungary, 2006.
“Angela Carter’s Vampires” Vampire Symposium, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2006.
“Seeing is believing (?) Magical Realism and the Fantastic” What Constitutes the Fantastic? University of Szeged – Universitat Salzburg Dissertationnetwork Mini-Conference. University of Szeged, Hungary, 2006.
“A női szubjektum mint szamuráj/anya Julia Kristeva Les Samouraïs című önéletrajzi regényében” [On female subjectivity and the samourai/mother in Kristeva’s autobiographical novel] A nő mint szubjektum, a női szubjektum. [Woman as Subject, the Feminine Subject] Conference organized by the University of Debrecen, English Department and the University of Miskolc, Center for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities, Debrecen, Hungary, 2006
“Autobiografikció és önéletrajzás Angela Carter regény-trilógiájában” [On autobiografiction in Angela Carter’s trilogy] Írott és olvasott identitás. Az önéletrajzi műfajok referenciális kontextusai. University of Pécs, Modern Literature and Literary Theory Department, Workshop organized by the “Written and Read Identitied” Research Group, Pécs, Hungary, 2005.
“Grotesque Body Modification, Freaked Femininity and Narrative Self-Decomposition in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve” Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature, Film and Arts International Conference. Universitat Salzburg, Austria, 2005.
“‘Kisasszonyok, vadmacskák, kékharisnyák’ Az író nő pozicionálása a mai magyar médiában.” Nyelv, Ideológia, Média. A nő helye a magyar nyelvhasználatban konferencia. University of Szeged, 2005.
“Grotesque Body, Fictionalized Identity and Somatized Narrative in Angela Carter.” Fantastic Transformations of the Body in Modern English Literature Conference. University of Szeged – Universitat Salzburg Dissertationsnetwerk, 2005.
“‘I don’t suffer, except when I see the images like you’ Violence, presence, and representations in carnal performance and body art.” Image/ Text/ Representation/ Film in the Multimedial Age International Conference. University of Szeged, 2005.
“Polyphonic Laughters in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” HUSSE 7 Conference. University of Veszprém, 2005.
“The Female Grotesque in Contemporary American Culture.” HAAS Biennial Conference. “American Studies as Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice” Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, 2004.
European Intertexts. A Study of Women’s Writing in English as a Part of a European Fabric. Travels: “She’s Leaving Home” Conference. University of Szeged–The British Academy. “ “Eyes closed I began a voyage down her spine” Remapping the Body, Renaming the Landscape in Jeanette Winterson”, 2004.
„Nőies-e a kortárs női irodalom? Átírás, újraolvasás, re-vízió és a kortárs, angol nyelvű nőirodalom”, Laikus olvasás és populáris kultúra. Dayka Gábor Társaság. National Széchényi Library Budapest. 2004.
“Könyörtelen Test Revíziók. A női szépség erőszakos ideológiájának dekonstrukciója a kortárs feminista performansz terrorista testeiben“, Erőszak és TársadalmiNem konferencia. Vizuális Erőszak, Erőszak Víziók szekció. Corvinus University of Budapest. Gender and Cultural Studies Center. 2003.
“Carnal Re-presentations: Orlan’s Body Art. Surgical Interventions Subverting the Iconography of Femininity and Beauty Myth”, The Iconography of Gender. Eastern and Western Traditions of European Iconography 3. University of Szeged. 2003.
“Anaïs Nin’s Experimental Autofiction. The Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Desiring Female Subject: A Spy in the House of Love”, The 1950s HAAS Biennial Conference 2003 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. 2003.
“Narrating the nervous female body: Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve”, HUSSE 6 conference, University of Debrecen. 2003.
“Desidero ergo sum infinitum. Testbeszéd. Nyelvgyönyör. Szójáték. Az ’új’ ’francia’ ’feminizmusok’ esete”, Nő és férfi, férfi és nő. A társadalmi nemek kutatása Magyarországon az ezredfordulón konferencia, Gender és (női) írásmódok szekció, Corvinus University of Budapest. Gender and Cultural Studies Center, 2002.
“Fictional Autobiography as Narrative Re/Deconstruction of Identity; (Re)writing on/from the Body in Sylvia Plath, Jeanette Winterson and Toni Morrison“. Women`s Writing and Autobiography. Université de Bordeaux 3. 2002.
“Transgressive Bodies and Other Voices in Contemporary British Women Writers` Fiction”, International Conference of PhD students. University of Miskolc. 2001.
“Women With Wings” (on Fay Weldon, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson), British Council Symposium and Roundtable on Contemporary British Fiction. Budapest. 2001.
“Subversive Desires Somewhere Inbetween. The Cards of Passion” (on Jeanette Winterson), HUSSE 5 conference, Eger, Hungary. 2001
Conference panel organization
Sounds Victorian: Acoustic Experience in 19th Century Britain, ESSE Conference, Lyon 2020. Co-organized w Béatrice Laurent, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
The Secret Life of Things: Controversial Challenges of Anthropocentrism in Children’s Literature. Controversial Dimensions in Children’s Literature, Wroclaw, Poland. 2020.03.19-20.
Image/Text/Body Panel. 14th Biennial HUSSE Conference, 2019. Jan 31-Feb 2. Pannon University Veszprém, Hungary.
Sounds Victorian: Voices and Noises in 19th Century Britain, ESSE Conference, Brno, 2018. Co-organized w Béatrice Laurent, Université de Bordeaux
Intermedial Body Politics: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Image/Text Dynamics Seminar. 12th ESSE Conference, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Kosice, Slovakia. 29 Aug – 2 Sept, 2014. Coorganized with Catriona McAra, Leeds University of Arts
Bordercrossings, meeting points, spaces of reflection and resistance. ‘Out of place’ feminist encounters with alterity. A Találkozások Antropológiája. A Magyar Kulturális Antropológiai Társaság 4. Vándorkonferenciája. SZTE BTK: Nov 4-5, 2016.
Fairy Tale Cinema. Posthumanist Potentials of Animal/Plant-Human Encounters. HUSSE 13. Eger. 2017 jan. 26-28.
Medial Interaction in the Literary Fantastic Workshop Salzburg-Szeged Symposium co-organizer, Szeged University, 2008.
Other Conference/ Workshop Participation
High Culture and/versus Popular Culture conference. (with John Storey) Universitat Salzburg. Interdisciplinary Research Center Metamorphic Changes in the Arts, 2007
Jacques Derrida’s lecture series on La peine de mort at École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, 1999/2000.
Julia Kristeva’s lecture series on Le génie féminin at Université Paris VII, 1999/2000
Trans-missions: Theory, Research and Teaching in British Literary and Cultural Studies in Europe, British Council. 2002
Body Studies. Roundtable with Vincent B. Leitch, University of Debrecen, 2002
Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context conference.“ Workshop with Hayden White “Metahistory: Thirty Years After.” Central European University, Budapest, 2003.
Interviews, Talks, Roundtables
“Opening Talk at the opening of Drozdik Orshi’s Exhibition”Matter and Sensuality” Az Érzékiség és az Anyag. Budapest Galéria. 2018. Szept 27.
“Opening Talk at the Exhibition It’s Always Tea Time. Artwork inspired by Alice in Wonderland” Estonian Institute, Deák 14 Gallery, Budapest, Nov 8, 2017.
“Vénuszok találkozása. Beszélgetés az Anatómiai Vénuszokról. Drozdik Orsolya képzőművész, Varga Benedek, a SOM főigazgatója, Kérchy Anna, SZTE ” Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum. [Conversation about Anatomical Venuses at the Semmelweis Medical Museum of Budapest] 2015. 10. 8.
“Lewis Carroll Csodavilága szegedi szemmel. Kérchy Anna hiánypótló köteteket alkot a Bolyai ösztöndíj támogatásával.” SZTE Magazin. 2014. 7. szám.
2014.03.05. Social problems and fictional representations of domestic violence in Hungary today. A talk with writer Czapáry Veronika and activist Rita Antoni, Szeged University Gender Studies Research Group roundtable
2014.02.14. Sexual alterity in Socialist Hungary of the 1980s. A talk with Mária Takács about her documentary film Secret years (Eltitkolt évek) Szeged, Grand Café. (with E Barát)
2007-09-10. 16.00. Kossuth Rádió. Körzeti Stúdió. Női vonal. With Erzsébet Barát. On the “Language, Ideology, Media” conference.
2003-12-09. 13.05. Kossuth Rádió. Vendég a háznál. Gyerekekről felnőtteknek. “On the Beauty Myth”
Individual Grants, Awards
2020 MTA KGYNK (Kisgyermeket Nevelő Kutató Nők Tudományos Előmenetelének Elősegítése) Grant from Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Women Researchers raising small children
2019. IRSCL Travel Grant to attend IRSCL Congress on Silence and Silencing in Children’s Literature. Stockholm Aug 14-18. Paper on “Acoustics of nonsense, picturing sounds, & interspecies communication: Counter-narrative strategies resisting the discursive silencing of children in Lewis Carroll’s Alice tales.”
2019 Fall Erasmus + Teacher Mobility Grant, Université d’Angers
2019 Spring Erasmus + Teacher Mobility Grant, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
2014-2017. János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Title of project: Postmodern Configurations of Victorian Fantasy. MTA Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj. A Viktoriánus Fantázia Posztmodern Konfigurációi.
2018 Alice in Transmedia Wonderland shortlisted for 2018 ESSE Book Award
2017. Senior Book Award of HUSSE, The Hungarian Society for the Study of English for Alice in Transmedia Wonderland című könyvért
2015 nov. Apertúra. Film. Vizualitás. Elmélet. E-folyóirat 10th anniversary of Apertura Film Journal. Most Popular Article Award. “Tapogatózások” (Essay on body studies)
2015 dec. Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment selected on Cambridge Scholars Publishing House’s Bestseller List
2014 Oct. ESSE Book Grant for 2014 to support the project Postmodern Configurations of Victorian Fantasy/ Kaleidoscopic Nonsense in the Oeuvre of Lewis Carroll
2013. August 10-15. Maastricht, The Netherlands. Balassi Institute. Campus Hungary Mobility Grant. Short Term Mobility Grant for Teachers. (B2/2R/1063) IRSCL International Research Society for Children’s Literature Congress, Children’s Literature and Media Cultures. Adapting Alice Panel. “Alice’s Adventures through Changing Media”
2012 Sept. Wonder Woman Audience Award for best paper of the 8th Language, Ideology, Media Conference, University of Szeged. “Fictionalizing manly disability. Atypical embodiments of alternative masculinities in contemporary popular visual culture.
2009. SZTE Faculty of Arts Research Grant: The Fairy Tale After Angela Carter Conference, University of East Anglia, UK. Lecture: ‘“Curiouser and curiouser!” Epistemological Crisis and Body-Trouble in Postmodern Alice Tales.”
2009. SZTE IEAS Travel Grant: Lesbian Lives. Lesbian Existence and the Lesbian Continuum Conference. “Sexuality and Narrative Section.” Global Irish Institute. University College, Dublin, Ireland, Conference lecture: “The limits and potentials of lesbian historiographic metafiction. The Case of Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet”
2005 November “The Human Body in British Fantastic Literature.” PhD Dissertationsnetwerk. Scholarship of Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn. Universitat Salzburg (1 week)
2002 Spring. Erasmus. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, English Dept., Belgium (4 months)
1999-2000 BGF scholarship of French Government. DEA predoctoral studies program. The Semiology of Text and Image Research Group, Contemporary French Literature and Literary Theory. Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, France. (9 months)
1999 OTDK. National Academic Competition for University Students. English literature (on Angela Carter) 2nd place, French literature (on Georges Bataille) 5th place
Collective grants
2020-2022 EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership. SFBB: Short Forms Beyond Borders. Short Forms as a Tool of Cultural, Educational, Social Mediation in Europe (Angers, France; Athens, Greece; Szeged, Hungary; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Giessen, Germany; Leuven, Belgium)
2018-2019 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Research Project “Bodies in Transit 2”, ref. FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P
2017-2020. EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00014. „A Szegedi Tudományegyetem oktatási és szolgáltatási teljesítményének innovatív fejlesztése a munkaerőpiaci és a nemzetközi verseny kihívásaira való felkészülés jegyében” című pályázat AP6_BTK-2 altémája. Digitális tananyag fejlesztés a Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature című BA Survey kurzushoz.
2015. Oct. 21. Az olvasás értéke a digitális média korában TÁMOP project networking. The Changing status of Reading in a Digital Era. Universidad de Huelva, Spanyolország. 2015 Dr Pilar Cuder Dominguez
2014 Sept. Intermedial Body Politics: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Image/Text Dynamics. ESSE 2014 Conference Seminar (and related book-project). Co-organized with Dr Catriona McAra, University of Edinburgh. Registration supported by HUSSE Hungarian Society for English Studies.
2014. July. 5-19. EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme. Instructor, Organizer. An Interdisciplinary Summer Course in Venice. Translating, Training, and Touring in Venice. An International Collaboration between the University of Milan, the University of Warwick, Venice Ca’Foscari University, and the University of Szeged.
2014. July 6-20. EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme. Instructor, Organizer. An Interdisciplinary Summer Course in Venice. Walking, Watching, and A-Wakening in Venice. An International Collaboration between the University of Milan, the University of Warwick, Venice Ca’Foscari University, and the University of Szeged.
2009 March, University of Milan, Designing the EU Erasmus Intensive Programme entitled Walking, Watching, and A-Wakening in Cinque Terre. Artistic Representations of the Embodied Experience of Space from Romanticism to Postmodernism in British Culture. An International Collaboration between the Universities of Milan, Glasgow, and Szeged. (3 days) – Support granted by EU Lifelong Learning Commission, Project Suspended
Participation in academic research groups
Hungarian projects
TNT Gender Studies Research Group, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
HUHI: A History of English Literatures for Hungarian Readers book project (short chapter on Lewis Carroll)
2015, 16, 17 Member of Jury of Alfabéta Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novel Award
International projects
European Network for Short Fiction Research: organized by Edgehill University, Université d’Angers, Universiteit Leuven, Steering committee member
Alice in Wonderland in 150 Languages International Translation Project, (directed by Jon Lindseth, Lewis Carroll Society) Responsible for Hungarian retranslations , bibliographies
Intermedial Body Politics: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Image/Text Dynamics. ESSE 2014 Conference Seminar and EJES special journal issue (2017) Co-organized with Dr Catriona McAra (University of Leeds)
Sounds Victorian: Voices and Noises in 19th Century Britain, ESSE Conference, Brno, 2018. Co-organized w Béatrice Laurent, Université de Bordeaux
2011-2012 Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment international cooperation, editorial work with Dr Andrea Zittlau (University of Rostock, Department of North American Cultural Studies)
2016-20019 The Fairy Tale Vanguard essay collection, co-edited with Dr Stijn Praet (University of Ghent/ Stockholm)
2017-2019 Translation and Transmedia special journal issue of Bookbird, IBBY, International Journal of Children’s Literature (co-edited with Dr Björn Sundmark, Malmö University)
2013, 2014 EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme: Interdisciplinary Summer Course in Venice. Universities of Warwick, Milano, Venice, Szeged (Hungarian coordinator)
2005-2008 The Literary Fantastic PhD Dissertationsnetwerk. Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn. Network on Fantastic Literature Universiteit Salzburg and Szeged University
Teaching Experience Abroad:
2010 July, West Virginia University, US. English Department, Graduate Summer Course, The Feminist Grotesque. Contact Person: Dr. Donald Hall
2013 Psychogeography and the Embodied Experience of Space Module in EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme Walking, Watching, and A-Wakening in Venice. an Interdisciplinary, International Summer Course in Venice, Italy Contact: Dr Margaret Rose
2014 Translation as a means of Cross-Cultural Encounters and Language Philosophical Investigations Module in EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme. Translating, Training, and Touring in Venice, an Interdisciplinary, International Summer Course in Venice, Italy. Contact: Dr Margaret Rose, Dr Loredana Polezzi
2015. October 20. University of Huelva, Spain. Guest lecture in “Literature and Society” course in Cultural Management BA programme. “Alice for the iPad. Postmillenial new media adaptations of fantasy literature.” contact person. Dr Pilar Cuder Dominguez
2016.04.18. University of Antwerpen, Belgium. Fairy Tale Rewritings in English course. Guest lecture. “Girls transformed into animals. Feral embodiments, humanimal subjectivities, posthumanist feminist identity politics” Invited by Dr Vanessa Joosen
2019 04.01-04.06. Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Erasmus + Guest Lecturer. BA seminar sessions on “The Acoustics of Nonsense Literature: the Case of Jabberwocky” & MA lecture “The Victorian Myth of the Child and the Iconic Figure of Lewis Carroll and his Alice in Wonderland” contact person: Dr Béatrice Laurent
2019 Nov 4-8. Université d’Angers, France. Erasmus Teacher Mobility Grant. BA seminar session on “Alice in Adaptation”, MA lecture on “Things Studies and Angela Carter’s Short Fiction” contact person. Dr Michelle Ryan-Sautour
Teaching Experience, Szeged University (from 2001 to the present):
2001-present. University of Szeged. Institute of English and American Studies. English Dept. Courses in English Studies BA program, Gender Studies and Cultural Iconology MA programs
Literature/Culture Lectures:
Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature (BA Literature Survey Lecture)
The Literary Fantastic (BA Literature Survey Lecture)
The Multimediality of Culture (MA Culture Survey Lecture)
Subjectivity and the Gendered Body (MA Gender Survey Lecture)
Women’s Life Writing: Histories of Women’s Writing in English (MA Gender Survey Lecture)
Madwomen in the Attic. Women, Writing and Madness (MA Gender Elective Lecture)
Culture through Gender (team taught, BA Engl. Studies, elective Lecture)
Literature/Culture Seminars:
Examining Grotesque Embodiments. Risk, Excess, Alterity
Heffalumps, Twinkling Bats, Mome Raths. Reading and Translating Nonsense Literature
Magical Realism in Literature, Film and Art
(Re)Inventing Wonderland. Children’s Literature in English
Forbidden Journeys. Victorian Fantasies and Fairy Tales
Demons of the Mind. Reading Gothic Fiction
Down the Rabbit Hole. Nonsense Fantasy Variations on Alice in Wonderland
Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Fairy Tales for Adults
Erring and Desiring. Vulnerable Bodies, Risked Selves in Contemporary Literature and Film
Before and After Pornography. Literary Erotica in English from the 17th to the 21st Century
Angelic Ladies, Fallen Women and Freaks: (Representing) Anxieties in Victorian Literature
The Art of Seduction
Lost and Found. Adolescent Figures in Contemporary Literature, Film and Art
Girl Meets Boy. (Trans)Sexuality in Contemporary Literature, Film and Arts
Woman’s Body Works/ Writing on/from the Body
Women with Wings. Transgressive Bodies & Othered Voices in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Narrative Fiction
Critical and Cultural Theories. Advanced Literary Analysis
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Drama Studies
Academic Supervision (MA/ BA/PhD levels) (2005 -2017 June):
43 MA Thesises
59 BA Thesises
OTDK papers (National Academic Competition of University Students)
4 + 9 PhD Dissertations
Co-supervision of PhD dissertations (at Szeged University, Faculty of Arts, doctoral school of literary studies, literatures and cultures in English program)
Defended:
Csetényi Korinna. The Metafictional Narrativization of the Traumatized Body and Monstrous Femininity in Stephen King’s Horror Fiction (Defense: August 2015)
Makai Péter Kristóf. Bridging the Empathy Gap: Representing Neurological Difference in Contemporary Autism Novels (Defense: April 2016)
Andrea Tóthova. Elmozduló jelentések. A feminizmus fogalmainak újragondolása az Éjszakai állatkert és a Szomjas oázis recepciójának tükrében (Defense: May 2017)
Dániel Nyikos. Colonizing Cynicism in the Works of Rudyard Kipling. (Defense: October 2019)
Tóth Zsuzsanna. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Popular Fantasy & Re-enchantment in religious, cultural, and literary context (Defense: June 2020)
Szőke Dávid Sándor. German Exile Literature and the Early Novels of Iris Murdoch (Defense: 2021 Spring)
In progress
Bagi Dániel. Reenchantment and Eco-criticism in Algernon Blackwood’s Weird fiction
Emma Bálint. New Media Adaptations of Fairy Tales: A Digital Red Riding Hood
Szarvas Réka. Reading contemporary women’s crime novels as feminist corporeagraphic metafiction
András Molnár. Reading post-Lovecraftian Weird Fiction with a Focus on Interconnections of Literature and Law
Fodor András. China Miéville’s New Weird Urban Fantasy and Theories of Space
Osoliova Viktória. Haunting Gender: The Representation of Female Gothic Anxieties in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
Tóth Zsolt. Oozing Body-Text(ure)s: Posthuman Enfreakment in and through David Cronenberg’s The Fly
Rusvai Mónika. Plant fantasies in Robert Holdstock
Elahe Mousavian. The politics of children’s literature. Samad Beranghi’s Little Black Fish
Attila Mócza. The Rhetorics of Power in Immediately Contemporary Gothic Short Fiction
External examiner of PhD dissertations
2011 Szabó Andrea: Alice Munro’s Neo-Gothic Writing (Alice Munro neo-gótikus írásművészete) University of Debrecen. Doctoral School of Literary Studies
2015 Kiss Boglárka: Integrity, Monstrosity and the Female Body in Sylvia Plath’s and Anne Sexton’s Poetry. University of Debrecen. Doctoral School of Literary Studies
2017 Ureczky Eszter: Culture of Pollution. Epidemic Disease and Biopolitics of Contagion in Conetmporary Anglophone Fiction, University of Debrecen. Doctoral School of Literary Studies
2017 Pál-Kovács Ramóna. Cartographie de la Mémoire: Pour une Lecture Géocritique de l’Autobiographie de Michel Tremblay, University of Szeged. Doctoral School of Literary Studies
2017 Kendra Reynolds. Space, Time and Bodies: The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
2018. Lipták-Pikó Judit Fantom és fikció Marie Darrieussecq regényeiben és elméleti írásaiban, SZTE, Irodalomtudományi Doktori Iskola, Francia tanszék
2018. Maja Pan. The Enchantment of Reality: The Philosophy of Gender and Queer Feminist Pedagogical Practices. University of Ljubljana, Humanities and Social Sciences Study Programme, Slovenia
Internal examiner of PhD dissertations
2012 Nagy Gergely: ‘Ye olde authour’: Tolkien’s Anatomy of Tradition in the Silmarillion.. University of Szeged. Doctoral School of Literary Studies (internal defense) (munkahelyi védés)
Comprehensive PhD exam board member
Albert Noémi (PTE) Intersections of memory and space in Contemporary British fiction
Academic Administrative Work
2020- Head of Literatures and Cultures in English Doctoral Program
SZTE IEAS Responsible for Communication with International Students and Stipendium Hungaricum Affairs
Hungarian Society for the Study of English Board Member 2011-2012
SZTE IEAS Curriculum Committee Member since 2009 (Literature BA)
Conference Co-Organization: Medial Interaction in the Literary Fantastic Workshop. Salzburg-Szeged Dissertation Network Symposium, University of Szeged, 2008
Languages:
Hungarian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (beginner), Latin (reading knowledge)
PhD dissertation’s key-words:
Angela Carter, ’self-freakings,’ grotesque dis/re-embodiment, semioticized body and somatized text, body-text, autobiografiction, corporeagraphic metafiction, bifocal interpretive perspective, corporeal/textual performances, feminist ethics, laughter/ neurosis/ seduction in their relation to femininity, corporeality and authorship
Habilitation dissertation’s key-words:
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Victorian fairy-tale fantasy, (meta)imagination, (dis)enchantment, children’s literature, adaptation, media transition, imagetext dynamics, transmedia storytelling, multimedia literacy, interdisciplinarity, popular culture
Current research projects:
The Poetics and Politics of Intermedial Dynamics in Lewis Carroll’s Nonsense (monograph)
Website in Hungarian devoted to Lewis Carroll’s work: www.ieas-szeged.hu/downtherabbithole
Translating Jabberwocky. Eds. Kit Kelen, Anna Kérchy, Björn Sundmark
Early Hungarian Women Scientists. Eds. Critián Réka Mónika, Kérchy Anna
Sounds Victorian special journal issue of CVE. Eds. Béatrice Laurent, Anna Kérchy
