Education
PhD
2012-2017 Modern English and American Literature Doctoral Programme; Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities (ELTE-BTK), Budapest, Hungary
Dissertation: Bodily Vulnerability in Nonfiction Comics: Interaction Among Artist, Object and Reader
Supervisors: Zsófia Bán, Judit Friedrich
M.A.
2003-2010 Hungarian Language and Literature, at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities (ELTE-BTK), Budapest, Hungary
Thesis: “Photography and Narrative in László Márton’s Árnyas főutca”
M.A.
2002-2008 English Language and Literature, at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities (ELTE-BTK), Budapest, Hungary
Thesis: “The Romantic Epic: Keats. Locke’s Theory of Language
and Keats’ Hyperion-fragments”
2009-2010 Photography, Szellemkép Szabadiskola, Budapest, Hungary
Grants and Scholarships
- 2017 Research Grant by the New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities, for the topic Comics as Performance. Embodied Interpretation of Contemporary Non-fiction Comics. 5 months
- 2014-2017 member of the Representations of Violence in Contemporary American Popular Culture research project, University of Bucharest, Romania. Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup. mihaela.precup@americanstudies.ro
- 2014 European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Postgraduate Travel Grant to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Ohio State University, USA. 6 weeks
- 2014 Spring Academy in American Studies, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. 24-28 March
- 2012-2015 Doctoral Scholarship at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, at the Modern English and American Literature and Culture Doctoral Programme
- 2007 Summer University, Universität Passau, Germany, with the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), 6-31 August
- 2007 Summer University, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 25 June- 6 July
- 2007 Erasmus, creative writing at the Norwich University of the Arts, UK. Mentor: George Szirtes
- 2006-07 Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic
- 2006 Summer University, University College Cork, Ireland, 2-28 July
Courses Taught
- Word and Image Relations at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest Spring 2018. (Link to course syllabus.)
- Comics Studies: An Introduction at School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University [ELTE-SEAS], Budapest, Spring 2018 (Link to course syllabus.)
- Introduction to Literary Studies at ELTE-SEAS Fall 2014 and Fall 2013
- Cultures of Europe 1 and 2 at ELTE-SEAS Preparatory Year for International Students, Fall 2013 and Spring 2013
- Comics? Seriously! – four public lectures at “Pesti Bölcsész Akadémia” [Open Academy of Humanities, Pest] Fall 2013 (link)
Membership
- Peer reviewer for Studies in Comics – https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=168/
- News Review Correspondent for the Comics Forum – comicsforum.org
- Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE)
- Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS)
- Narratives of Culture and Identity Research Group – founder with Kata Gyuris. narrativesofcultureandidentity.wordpress.com
- Fiatal Írók Szövetsége (FISZ)
- Hungarian Comics Association – board member