P. Balogh, Andrea
Assistant Professor
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Office location: 3303, 3rd floor, Arts Faculty, Szeged, Egyetem utca 2.
Office phone: (+36) 62 544 526
- Degrees: MA in English Language and Literature; BA in Russian Language and Literature and Physical Education
- Areas of competence: gender studies; Irish studies; restoration and 18th century British literature and culture; Victorian and modernist poetry; women’s poetry; postwar British literature and culture; theories of culture
- Areas of specialization: theories and cultural practices of authorship; feminist literary theory; gender theories
- I am an assistant professor. I am the member of the gender studies research group and the Irish studies specialization stream. I have been in the syllabus development team of the gender studies specialization stream. I have developed the literary and cultural studies courses of the Irish studies specialization stream. I have been the erasmus co-ordinator of the Institute of English and American Studies since 2001. I was the elected representative of the English department in the Institute Concil between between 2003 autumn 2007 autumn and the co-ordinator of acedemic writing between 2002 spring and 2004 spring. I am the secretary of the Hungarian Society of Irish Studies and the member of the Modern Language Association, the International Association for the Studies of Irish Literature, the European Society for the Studies of English, and the Hungarian Society for the Studies of English.
- Research interests and work in progress:
- Harold Pinter and the post-/modern concept of authorship (PhD dissertation)
- Eavan Boland’s poetry and feminism
- Post-socialist Hungarian women’s literature and feminism
- Post-socialist Hungarian lesbian culture and transgendered identities
- Publications: Download the list of publications
- Theses topics offered:
- BA:
- Gender and Feminist Theories
- Irish Literature and Culture
- Modern Drama and Theatre,
- Post-War British Culture
- MA:
- Irish Literature
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Literature and Feminism
- Contemporary Poetry
- Past theses supervised:
- Major Papers:
- Myths of Femininity in Angela Carter’s The Loves of Lady Purple
- Directing as the Last Step in Samuel Beckett’s Artistic Fulfilment
- The Necessity of Truth: Seamus Heaney and the status of the poetic utterance in contemporary society
- MA:
- Perspectives of Feminist Aesthetics in Eavan Boland’s Poetry
- Narrating Desire: Re-figuring Lesbian Desire in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body and The PowerBook
- The Art and Politics of Harold Pinter
- Teaching this academic year:
- Autumn semester
- Gender and Poetry (from the Victorian period to modernism)
- Samuel Beckett and Post/modernism
- History of Modern British Comedy
- Academic Writing
- Spring semester
- Postcolonial Theory in the Context of Irish Studies
- Irish Drama and Theatre
- Introduction to Literature and Culture
- Academic Writing
