Sávai-Matuska, Ágnes - Deputy Head of Department
Senior Assistant Professor
Email:
Office location: Petőfi Building, 1st floor #128
Office phone: +36 62 544-000/3214
- Degrees: PhD in literature; Certification as English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English Translator and Interpreter; MA in Hungarian Literature and Linguistics; MA in English Literature and Linguistics
- Areas of competence: Early modern English literature and culture; Drama theory; Translation and Interpretation, Shakespeare adaptations, Intermediality
- Areas of specialization: Figures of subversion in late medieval and early modern drama, Metadrama in Tudor and Jacobean plays, Questions of mimesis and representation in artistic fiction
- Present and past academic positions and activities
- Since 2005 Senior Assistant Professor of English, University of Szeged
- Since 2008 member of the editorial staff of Apertúra online cinematic journal
- 2007 Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, USA with a project title “Transformations of the Vice character” (1 month)
- 2007 Affiliate staff member of the English Department, University of Maryland, College Park (4 months)
- 2006 Initiator and co-organizer of the biennial conference for Hungarian Shakespeare scholars (Ki merre tart a magyar Shakespeare-kutatásban? [The State of the Field of Hungarian Shakespeare Studies]) University of Szeged, Hungary
- 2005-2007 Coordinator of the English Program at the Szeged School for Translation and Interpretation
- 2003-2005 Assistant Professor of English, University of Szeged
- Research interests and work in progress:
- Transformations of the Vice-character in late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
- Metadrama and the ontology of artistic fiction
- Visual dramaturgy
- Theses topics offered:
- BA:
- Speech Patterns of Lear’s Fool
- “Beauty, Truth, and Raritie, Grace in all simplicitie…”: Mannerist Parallels in Jacopo Tintoretto’s ‘Presentation of the Virgin’ and John Donne’s ‘Apparition’
- Carnival Revels is Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- MA:
- “Through the painter must you see his skill”: Mannerist Features in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Metadrama Rules: Macbeth in Budapesti Kamara
- Possibilities of Reinterpreting and Visualising Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
- Teaching this academic year:
- Introduction to Interpreting (group 1 and 2)
- Advanced Interpreting
- The Tricksters Trade: The Early Modern and Postmodern Tradition
- Introduction to English Studies
