IEAS Major Paper Supervisors and Topics

2007/2008

Annus Irén
American painting and architecture
Religion and American culture
Ethnicity/race in the US
Identity Studies

Bajnóczi Beatrix
The British and American culture of business life
ESP
Reading

Barát Erzsébet
Gender in the media
Researching (and) Auto/biography
Discursive Construction of Identity
Relationship between Language, Ideology and Power
Language and sexuality

Bocsor Péter
Modern/Postmodern literature
Literary therory
Semiotics
Minimalist short fiction

Cristian Réka Mónika

Modern American literature, American modernism
Modern American drama
Postcolonial theory and American literature
Film Studies: The American Film

Csetényi Korinna
Gothic literature
Horror literature
Victorian novel

Doro Katalin
Second language acquisition
Language development

Dragon Zoltán
Film theory
Film adaptations
Cinema Studies
American Film History
Visual Culture
Contemporary US fiction
Dudits András
Translation Studies
Interpreting Studies

Federmayer Éva
Postmodernism
American women writers
African American writers
Black literature and culture in the USA

Fenyvesi Anna
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism

Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi

Communication in business contexts
ESP
Reading

Kelly, Edward
Irish Studies - Irish history, politics and international relations,
Contemporary Ireland.

Kenesei István
Theory of syntax
Topics in the syntax of English
The structure of tensed subordinate clauses
The structure of nonfinite clauses
Topics in descriptive semantics
Topics in philosophical semantics
Studies in legal semantics

Kérchy Anna
19th and 20th c. and contemporary women writers
Feminist literary theory
Gender and literature
Body Studies

Kiss Attila
English Renaissance drama
Post-War British and American drama
Semiotics of literature and culture

Kocic Larisa
16th c. Reformation and its aftermaths in England
Religious poetry and of the Renaissance and the Restoration (Donne, Herbert,
Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, Traherne, Milton)
16th-17th c. British history, philosophy, science
Kontra Miklós
The English Only movement
Language rights in the USA
Language and education in an English-speaking country
Hungarian-English contrastive linguistic topics
Social variation in English
Hungarian attitudes to varieties of English
The English of Hungarian Americans
The Hungarian of Hungarian Americans
What is Standard English?
The English intonation of Hungarians

Kovács Ágnes Zsófia

19th-20th c American novel
Theories of the novel/narrative
Popular literature and culture

Kürtösi Katalin
Canadian literature and culture

Matuska Ágnes
Elizabethan and Jacobean art and literature
Late Medieval morality plays
Metadrama
Literary trickster-characters
Shakespeare on film

Nagy Gergely
J. R. R. Tolkien
Sir Thomas Malory
Medieval romance
Old English literature

Nagy Imre
Native American Studies (selected topics, upon agreement)

Novák György
Colonial American History (-1826)
20th-century US history
Detective/spy fiction
Modernist literature (E. Pound)
Medieval English history (-1485))

P. Balogh Andrea
Modern Poetry
Irish Literature and Culture
Modern Drama, Theatre, Gender and Feminist Theories
Post-War British Culture
Pap Dániel
English Syntax
Comparative Syntax
The syntax of verbal particles

Peckham, Don
Second language acquisition
Communication and learning strategies
Transfer and cross-linguistic influence
Vocabulary acquisition and the lexicon

Péter Róbert
17th-18th c. British history, philosophy, (high and popular) culture, science and magic
British religious history and theology after the Reformation
Counter-Enlightenment
Theories of culture and religion
Secret societies (Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Orange Order, etc.) and literature

Polgárdi Krisztina
Phonology-morphology interaction
Syllable-related phenomena
Segmental processes
Stress and prosodic structure
Contrastive linguistics, loan word phonology
Phonological variation, accents of English
Sound change and analogy
Language games, speech disguise, slang
The language of poetry: poetic metre, poetic rhyme
Systematic aspects of sms language

Reschné Marinovich Sarolta

19th-20th century English novel
Romanticism and Victorianism
The gothic/the fantastic
Literature and gender

Rozsnyai Bálint
American intellectual and cultural history, 17th to early 20th c.
Changing patterns of cultural production and consumption:
Material culture and the shaping of American identities
The domestic sphere
American literature 17th to late 19th c.
Authorship
The literary canon
Formation of reading/interpretive communities
Literacy and reading
Production/dissemination of information/knowledge

Szabó-Gilinger Eszter
Sociolinguistics
Canadian Studies
Szõnyi György Endre
Renaissance/Baroque/Augustan poetry (Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden,
Pope)
Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson)
Early novel (Bunyan, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Sterne)
University novel (Amis, Bradbury, Lodge, Davies, etc.)
Literature and the occult
British arts & music (selected topics, upon agreement)

Suszczynska, Malgorzata
Linguistic politeness (theories, empirical research)
Cross- and intercultural Pragmatics
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Gender in sociopragmatic research
Institutional discourse (medical, classroom, courtroom, media)
Conversation analysis
Speech act analysis

Tanács Ágnes
Renaissance Drama
Early modern medicine and anatomy
Renaissance science and superstitions

Tóth Gabriella
Syntax
Diachronic Syntax
Syntax-semantics interface
English Syntax
Morphology-Syntax interface
Lexicon-Syntax interface
The Syntax of aspect
Comparative Syntax

Vajda Zoltán
Antebellum southern culture
19th century US history
Cultural Studies

Szeged, 20th February, 2007

MP Committee