Dr Anna Kérchy
CURRICULUM VITAE (June, 2016)
ANNA KÉRCHY Senior Assistant Professor of English University of Szeged, Hungary Work Address: University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, English Department Szeged 6722, Egyetem u 2, Room 3303, Hungary Phone: 36-62-544 526 Fax: 36-62-544 259 E-mail:
[email protected] EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 2016 Doctoral habilitation in Literature and Culture, University of Debrecen, Hungary (26/2016 hab. FI17198) 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 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: Since 2008 Senior Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary (2003-2006 Lecturer, 2007 Part-Time Research Assistant, 2008 Febr. Assistant Professor) MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS • IRSCL International Research Society for Children’s Literature • ISIS International Society for Intermedial Studies • The Lewis Carroll Society • ATHENA European Women’s Studies Network • SFEVE Société Française des Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes • HUSSE Hungarian Society for the Study of English • ESSE European Society for the Study of English • HAAS Hungarian Association for American Studies • EAAS European Association for American Studies 1
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PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH GROUPS • TNT Gender Studies Research Group, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies • 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 • 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) • 2015, 2016 Member of Jury of Alfabéta Hungarian Comics and Graphic Novel Award • EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme: Interdisciplinary Summer Course in Venice. 3 years long summer school coorganized by the Universities of Warwick, Milano, Venice, and Szeged (Hungarian coordinator) --2013. July 6-20. Walking, Watching, and A-Wakening in Venice. title of my course: Psychogeography and the Embodied Experience of Space Module. --2014. July 5-19. Teaching, Touring, Translating in Venice. course title: Translation as a means of Cross-Cultural Encounters and Language Philosophical Investigations • 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) (Collection of essays published with Cambridge Scholars Press in 2012) • 2005-2008 The Literary Fantastic PhD Dissertationsnetwerk. Stiftung Aktion ÖsterreichUngarn. Network on Fantastic Literature Universiteit Salzburg and Szeged University • Medial Interaction in the Literary Fantastic Workshop Salzburg-Szeged Symposium coorganizer (SZTE 2008) PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Alice in Transmedia Wonderland. Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children’s Classic. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. (forthcoming) 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: 0-7734-48926 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4892-6) EDITORIAL WORK 5. Co-editor of EJES special journal issue Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies (forthcoming in 2017) with Dr Catriona McAra 4. 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) 3. 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) 2. 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 1. What Constitutes the Fantastic? Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, György E. Szőnyi, Sarolta Marinovich-Resch, Anna Kérchy. Szeged: JATE University Press, 2010.
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Dr Anna Kérchy o From 2011 Editor of TNT Ef Interdisciplinary E-journal of Gender Studies, http://tntefjournal.hu/en/index.html#editorial o From 2012 Reading committee member of Journal of the Short Story in English. Les cahiers de la nouvelle. Université d’Angers o External Reviewer for Libri & Liberi, Bookbird, Victorian Poetry, The Anachronist REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 68. “Alice’s Animal Alterities and Ethics.” Becoming Animal with the Victorians. Ed. Sara Thornton. (forthcoming) 67. “‘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.” Emotional Geographies: Gender, Affect, and Urban Space in Post-1945 Translocal Literary and Visual Texts Eds. Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. (forthcoming) 66. “Psychogeography in the Curiosity Cabinet. Angela Carter’s Poetics of Space.” The Arts of Angela Carter. Ed. Marie Mulvey Roberts. Manchester University Press. (forthcoming) 65. “Queering the gaze in the museal space. Orshi Drozdik’s feminist (post)concept art.” Gender, Space, and the Gaze. Eds. Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, László B Sári. Newcastle Upon Thyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. (forthcoming) 64. “’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, 2016. (forthcoming) 63. “Alice’s Eroticized Adventures on the Other Side of the Looking-Glass.” Tantalizing Alice. A Classic and its Adaptations. Eds. Sissy Helff and Ian Copestake. Ashgate. 2016. (forthcoming) 62. “Meta-imagination in Lewis Carroll’s Literary Fairy Tales about Alice’s Adventures.” The Fairy-Tale Vanguard. Ed. Stijn Praet. (forthcoming) 61. “On Flesh Becoming Word Becoming Flesh. Reading Angela Carter’s Fiction from a Feminist Corporeal Narratological Perspective” Angela Carter. Estranging Feminism? Ed. Béatrice Bijon. (forthcoming) 60. “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. 59. “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. 58. “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. 57. “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. http://uj.apertura.hu/2015/tavasznyar/kerchy-csaloka-csodaorszag-a-kepzelet-korlatai-es-a-gyermeki-fantaziametafantaziaja-terry-gilliam-dagalyorszag-cimu-fantasy-filmjeben/ 3
Dr Anna Kérchy 56. “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. 55. “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: 8195. 54. “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. http://tntefjournal.hu/vol5/iss1/kerchy.pdf 53. “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. 52. “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. 51. “Creative Iconoclasm and Cultural Trauma.” Terror(ism) and Aesthetics. Ed. György Fogarasi. Et al. e-journal. 2014. 1. http://etal.hu/en/archive/terrorism-and-aesthetics2014/kerchy-creative-iconoclasm-and-cultural-trauma/ 50. “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. 49. “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. 48. “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. http://tntefjournal.hu/vol3/iss1/kerchy.pdf 47. “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. 46. “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. http://www.c-sp.org/flyers/978-1-4438-4134-4-sample.pdf 45. “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. 44. “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. http://americanaejournal.hu/vol8no1/kerchy 43. “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. 42. “(Poszt)feminizmus, (poszt)identitás és (poszt)koncept art Drozdik Orsolya művészetében.” [(Post)feminism, (post)identity and (post)concept art in Orshi Drozdik’s
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Dr Anna Kérchy Oeuvre] in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2012/2. http://tntefjournal.hu/vol2/iss2/03_kerchy.pdf 41. “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. 40. “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) http://tntefjournal.hu/vol2/iss1/09_kerchy_antoni.pdf 39. “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. 38. “Elmebaj, szerzőség és nem/iség (v)iszonyai két kortárs magyar Csáth-mítosz adaptációban.” [Madness, authorship, and gender in contemporary takes on the Csáthmyth] in: TNT Ef. Interdisciplinary E-journal Of Gender Studies. 2011/2. 37. “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. 36. “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. 35. “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. 34. “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. 33. “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. 32. “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. http://www2.arts.u-szeged.hu/ieas/gender/tntef/vol1/iss1/17_kerchy.pdf 31. “A feminista pszichogeográfia és Jeanette Winterson szenvedélyei.” [On Feminist Psychogeography and Jeanette Winterson] Filológiai Közlöny. Utazás, Otthon, Nőiség szám. 56.4. (2010): 367-381. 30. “’Not Waving but Drowning.’ An Agnostic Commitment to Autonomy. The Freedom of Uncertainty in Stevie Smith’s Poetry” in: Autonomy and Commitment in TwentiethCentury British Literature. Eds. Christine Reynier, Jean-Michel Ganteau. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. 2010. 145-161. 29. “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. 28. “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. 5
Dr Anna Kérchy 27. “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. 26. “Tapogatózások. A test elméleteinek alakzatai.” [“Corporeal Configurations. Towards a Definition of Body Studies.”] Apertúra. Film-Visuality-Theory. 2009. IV.2. http://apertura.hu/2009/tel/kerchy 25. “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.
24. “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) 23. “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. 22. “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. 21. “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. 20. “Seeing Is Believing(?) Blurred Boundaries and Loving Looks in Nancy Burson’s Art.” Focus, Pécs UP. 2007. 199-217. 19. “‘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) 18. “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. 17. “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. 16. “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. 15. “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): 173189.
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Dr Anna Kérchy 14. “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 nemprofesszionális 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. 13. “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):. http://magyar-irodalom.elte.hu/palimpszeszt/24_szam/09.html 12. “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. 11. “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. 10. “Corporeal and Textual Performance as Ironic Confidence Trick in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” The AnaChronisT. 10. (2004): 97-125. 9. “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. 8. “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. 7. “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. 6. “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. 5. “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. 4. “Wild Words. Jazzing the Text of Desire: Subversive Language in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” The AnaChronisT . (2002): 264-288. 3. “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. 2. “Why should we deconstruct Harry?“ [On Deconstruction and Woody Allen] Szótár. Szegedivatlap. I./ 2. (2001) 1. “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 14. „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. 13. „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. 12. „A női géniusz színeváltozásai: Alkotónők egyetemes enciklopédiája. Review of Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, eds. Le Dictionnaire des Femmes
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Dr Anna Kérchy 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, 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 PAPERS: 63. “Amicable Alices. Lewis Carroll and his Child Friends” The Politics and Poetics of Friendship conference. University of Krakow. October 27-29, 2016. (accepted abstract) 62. “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. (accepted abstract) 61. “Semmi – gondolta – nem volt még ilyen érdekes.” Pszichonarráció és a bizonytalanság megtestesült tudata Neil Gaiman gótikus meseregényében. A test mint elbeszélő médium, a test mint elbeszélések médiuma. Korporális narratológia a befogadás és a kirekesztés vizsgálatában. 2016.04.01. PIM, MTA ITI Corpus Alienum Kutatócsoport szimpóziuma 60. “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. 59. „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. 58. “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. 57. “Lolita, a kishúgunk!? A kislány test ábrázolhatatlanságáról női szemmel.” NYIM10. 10. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média konferencia, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, TNT Kutatócsoport. 2014. Sept. 19-20. 9
Dr Anna Kérchy 56. “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 55. “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 54. “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.
53. “’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. 52. “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. 51. “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. 50. “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. 49. “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. 48. „(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. 47. “Creative Iconoclasm and Cultural Trauma.” Terror(ism) and Aesthetics International Conference. University of Szeged, 2011. Sept 22-24. 46. “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. 45. “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. 44. “A fogyatékkal élők elfogadását célzó média/művészeti megnyilvánulások lehetőségei, korlátai, és recepciója a mai Magyarországon” Mi/Más2 Konferencia, Eszterházy Főiskola Amerikanisztika Tanszék, 2010. 43. “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. 42. “Recycling Waste and Cultural Trauma in the Museum Space” Museum Narratives. University of Salzburg, Austria, 2009. 41. “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.
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Dr Anna Kérchy 40. “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. 39. “Ambiguous Alice. Entangled referential and metaphorical readings of Lewis Carroll” Ambiguity Conference, Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia, 2009. 38. “Feminist Grotesque Body Politics and Freak Ethics in Angela Carter’s Late Fiction.” Angela Carter. A Critical Exploration. The University of Northampton, UK, 2009. 37. ‘“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. 36. “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. 35. “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. 34. “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. 33. “Lilliputians, Freaks, Little People. Popular Representations of Dwarfism in Anglophone Culture.” The Body in Anglophone Culture. Université de Tours, France. 2008. 32. “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. 31. “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. 30. “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 29. “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 28. “Proto-modern/poszt-modern test-szövegek. A képtelen test kép(i)esítése” [“Protomodern/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 27. “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 26. “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 25. “’From Automaton to Activist.’ Representations of Spectacular Female Performers of LateVictorian Countercultures in Georges du Maurier’s, Angela Carter’s and Sarah Waters’ Fiction.” HUSSE 8 Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2007
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Dr Anna Kérchy 24. “Bifocal interpretive perspective: restless look, punctum and camp.” Communicative Strategies in Literature. Joint PhD Network Symposium. Universitat Salzburg, Austria, 2006 23. “Blurred Boundaries and Loving Looks in Nacy Burson’s Art.” HAAS Biennial Conference. Frontiers, Borderlines, and Frames. University of Pécs, Hungary, 2006 22.“’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 21. “Angela Carter’s Vampires” Vampire Symposium, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2006 20. “Seeing is believing (?) Magical Realism and the Fantastic” What Constitutes the Fantastic? University of Szeged – Universitat Salzburg Dissertationnetwork MiniConference. University of Szeged, Hungary, 2006 19. “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 18. “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 17. “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 16. “‘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 15. “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 14. “‘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 13. “Polyphonic Laughters in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” HUSSE 7 Conference. University of Veszprém, 2005 12. “The Female Grotesque in Contemporary American Culture.” HAAS Biennial Conference. “American Studies as Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice” Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, 2004 11. 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 10. „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 9. “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 12
Dr Anna Kérchy 8. “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 7. “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 6. “Narrating the nervous female body: Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve”, HUSSE 6 conference, University of Debrecen. 2003 5. “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 4. “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 3. “Transgressive Bodies and Other Voices in Contemporary British Women Writers` Fiction”, International Conference of PhD students. University of Miskolc. 2001 2. “Women With Wings” (on Fay Weldon, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson), British Council Symposium and Roundtable on Contemporary British Fiction. Budapest. 2001 1. “Subversive Desires Somewhere Inbetween. The Cards of Passion” (on Jeanette Winterson), HUSSE 5 conference, Eger, Hungary. 2001 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 “Vénuszok találkozása. Beszélgetés az Anatómiai Vénuszokról. Drozdik Orsolya 6. 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. 5. “Lewis Carroll Csodavilága szegedi szemmel. Kérchy Anna hiánypótló köteteket alkot a Bolyai ösztöndíj támogatásával.” SZTE Magazin. 2014. 7. szám. http://www.uszeged.hu/sztemagazin/kutatas/lewis-carroll 4. 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 3. 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 Dr Barát Erzsébet) 2. 2007-09-10. 16.00. Kossuth Rádió. Körzeti Stúdió. Női vonal. With Erzsébet Barát. On the “Language, Ideology, Media” conference. 1. 2003-12-09. 13.05. Kossuth Rádió. Vendég a háznál. Gyerekekről felnőtteknek. “On the Beauty Myth”
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Dr Anna Kérchy GRANTS, AWARDS 2015 nov. Apertúra. Film. Vizualitás. Elmélet. E-folyóirat 10th anniversary of Apertura Film Journal. Most Popular Article Award. “Tapogatózások” (Essay on body studies) earned 17 independent citations on MTMT 2015 dec. Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment selected on Cambridge Scholars Publishing House’s Bestseller List 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. 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.” 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 INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS 2015. Oct. 21. Az olvasás értéke a digitális média korában TÁMOP projekt networking. The Changing status of Reading in a Digital Era. Kapcsolatépítő tapasztalatcsere. 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. Teaching in EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme. 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. Instructor of Translation as a means of Cross-Cultural Encounters and Language Philosophical Investigations module 2013. July 6-20. Teaching in EU Erasmus Intensive Lifelong Learning Programme. 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. Instructor of Psychogeography and the Embodied Experience of Space Module. http://primus.arts.uszeged.hu/ieas/gender/venice_module2.html 2012 Co-editing an international, multi-author collection of essays on Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows with Dr Andrea Zittlau, University of Rostock, Department of North American Cultural Studies
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Dr Anna Kérchy 2011-2015 Alice in 150 Languages. International translation project back-translating Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland from 150 languages into English. Co-ordinated by Jon A. Lindseth, one of the world’s major collectors of "Alice" and the Lewis Carroll Society 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 TEACHING EXPERIENCE ABROAD: 2010 July, West Virginia University, US. English Department, Graduate Summer Course, The Feminist Grotesque 2013, 2014 Erasmus Intensive Summer Course in Venice (see International projects) 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.” 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" TEACHING EXPERIENCE, SZTE (FROM 2001 TO THE PRESENT): 2001-present. University of Szeged. Institute of English and American Studies. English Dept. Literature/Culture Lectures: • The Multimediality of Culture • The Literary Fantastic • Subjectivity and the Gendered Body • Madwomen in the Attic. Women, Writing and Madness • Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature • Women’s Life Writing (Histories of Women’s Writing in English) • Introduction to Gender Studies (team teaching, Gender Specialization Stream) 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 • The Adolescent Novel/ 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 and Other/ed Voices in Contemporary Women’s Writing • Narrative Fiction • Critical and Cultural Theories. Advanced Literary Analysis 15
Dr Anna Kérchy • Introduction to Literature • Introduction to Drama Studies MA/ BA/OTDK/PHD SUPERVISION (SINCE 2005): 37 MA Thesises, 40 BA Thesises, 4 OTDK papers Co-supervision of 8 PhD dissertations in progress: Csetényi Korinna. The Metafictional Narrativization of the Traumatized Body and Monstrous Femininity in Stephen King’s Horror Fiction (defended in 2015 August) Makai Péter Kristóf. Bridging the Empathy Gap: Representing Neurological Difference in Contemporary Autism Novels (Defended in 2016 April) Tóth Zsuzsanna. Religiosity without God? Contextualizing Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Fantasy Trilogy Andrea Tóthova. A magyar irodalomkritika kritikája: nyugati elméletek keleti értelmezése Emma Bálint. Contemporary American Fairy Tales in New Media Rita Antoni. Queer Vampires in Literature and Film Attila Mócza. The Rhetorics of Power in Immediately Contemporary Gothic Short Fiction András Molnár. A vámpírregények helye a kortárs populáris irodalomban: Les Daniels Don Sebastian ciklusa Second reader of PhD dissertations: 2011 Szabó Andrea: Alice Munro neo-gótikus írásművészete. University of Debrecen. 2012 Nagy Gergely: 'Ye olde authour': Tolkien's Anatomy of Tradition in the Silmarillion. internal defense. University of Szeged 2015 Kiss Boglárka: Integrity, Monstrosity and the Female Body in Sylvia Plath’s and Anne Sexton’s Poetry. University of Debrecen. ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE WORK • Hungarian Society for the Study of English Board Member 2011-2012 • SZTE IEAS Curriculum Committee Member since 2009 • 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) MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gender/queer/feminist studies, body studies, intermedial cultural representations, image-text relations, cultural- and literary-theory (particularly the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, corpusemiotics, and corporeal narratology), 19th century (Victorian) and 20th-21st century (postmodern) imagination, women’s writing, children’s literature, the Fantastic (fairy tale, magic realism, nonsense fantasy). 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-
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS: • The Politics and Poetics of Nonsense in the Oeuvre of Lewis Carroll, Fantasist, Philosopher, Photographer, Mathematician (monograph) • Website in Hungarian devoted to Lewis Carroll’s work • Feminist Interventions in Intermedial Studies (EJES special journal issue co-edited w Dr Catriona McAra) • Feral embodiments, humanimal subjectivities, posthumanist feminist identity politics (essay collection)
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