​Theories of literature and language

• modern and postmodern narrative techniques and figures (narrative intersubjectivity, metalepsis, rhizome)

• canon theories

• speech acts in literature

• irony as speech act

• performativity in literary texts

• performative subjectivation (theoretical paradigms, modes)

• catachresis as the figure of meaning extension

• word power, Biblical word power

 

Poetry: history and theory

• free verse prosodies, paradigms of free verse (vers libre and vers libéré, grammetrics, visual rhythm, measures of attention)

• 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)

• metaphoric and catachretic writing

• mask lyric and Bildung poetry

• superposed traditions in American poetry

• Emily Dickinson

• Charles Olson and the Black Mountain poets

• Imagism

• the female tradition

• the American long poem

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American literature, American Studies

• the history of American literature (canonicity, canon theories)

• Black Mountain College as intellectual center

• modes of subjectivation in American fiction

• theories of American Studies (paradigms, paradigm changes)

• versions of American individualism

• American and Hungarian Anabaptism (the Amish-Habán connection)

 

Hungarian literature, Hungarian Studies

• contemporary Hungarian poetry

• Hungarian poetry in English

• 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)

• intersubjective triangles in Hungarian literature (Antal Szerb, Sándor Márai, Péter Nádas)

• Hungarians in America

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Issues of gender

• women’s literature, women writers

• the female subject in literature

• performative constructions of gender in literature

• communism, post-communism, and feminism

 

Issues of Jewish culture

• performativity in the Bible

• American Jewish literature

• Jewish philosophy of joy

• Sándor Scheiber, scholar rabbi

• philosemitism

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