Research areas

Theories of literature and language
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modern and postmodern narrative techniques and figures (narrative intersubjectivity, metalepsis, rhizome)
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canon theories
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speech acts in literature
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irony as speech act
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performativity in literary texts
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performative subjectivation (theoretical paradigms, modes)
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catachresis as the figure of meaning extension
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word power, Biblical word power
Poetry: history and theory
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free verse prosodies, paradigms of free verse (vers libre and vers libéré, grammetrics, visual rhythm, measures of attention)
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paradigms of modern and postmodern poetry (American innovative traditions [radical modernism, early postmodernism, Charles Bernstein and the Language poets, Augusto de Campos], concrete poetry, visuality, poetry of attention)
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metaphoric and catachretic writing
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mask lyric and Bildung poetry
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superposed traditions in American poetry
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Emily Dickinson
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Charles Olson and the Black Mountain poets
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Imagism
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the female tradition
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the American long poem
American literature, American Studies
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the history of American literature (canonicity, canon theories)
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Black Mountain College as intellectual center
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modes of subjectivation in American fiction
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theories of American Studies (paradigms, paradigm changes)
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versions of American individualism
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American and Hungarian Anabaptism (the Amish-Habán connection)
Hungarian literature, Hungarian Studies
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contemporary Hungarian poetry
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Hungarian poetry in English
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the performative construction of the subject in Hungarian literature (Ignotus, Dezső Kosztolányi, Antal Szerb, Margit Kaffka, Sándor Márai, Imre Kertész, Erzsébet Galgóczi, Péter Nádas, Géza Szőcs, Zsuzsa Rácz)
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intersubjective triangles in Hungarian literature (Antal Szerb, Sándor Márai, Péter Nádas)
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Hungarians in America
Issues of gender
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women’s literature, women writers
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the female subject in literature
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performative constructions of gender in literature
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communism, post-communism, and feminism
Issues of Jewish culture
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performativity in the Bible
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American Jewish literature
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Jewish philosophy of joy
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Sándor Scheiber, scholar rabbi
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philosemitism