Pozíció:Végzettség, szakképzettség:
1967
egyetem, Angol- francia nyelv és irodalom szak;MA degree English and French languages and literatures
Tudományos fokozat:
1978
bölcsészdoktor ,
1989
kandidátus ,
2010
habilitált doktor ;
1978
University doctorate ,
1989
Ph.D. at Hungarian Academy of Sciences ;
2010
Doctor of Habilitation .
Munkahely, munkakör:
Kodolányi János Főiskola, Angol tanszék,
Oktatói tevékenység:
Kutatási terület:
észak-amerikai bevándorló regényirodalom; immigrant fiction into North America; Napoleon angol, francia és magyar regényirodalomban - Napoleon in fiction in English, French and Hungarian
Hazai kutatási projektek:
K+F, OTKA 1990-es évek.
Nemzetközi kutatási projektek:
Erasmus 2007-2008; Tempus Norvég Program 2008-2009.
Ösztöndíjak:
1985
magyar állami ösztöndij Carleton Egyetemre, Ottawa ;
1990
egyetemközi csereoktatás Műegyetem- Humber College, Toronto ,
1990
kanadai kormányösztöndíj Kennedy Intézet,
2000
Berlin kutatóösztöndíj ;
2001.
DAAD ösztöndíj Bonn-i Egyetem
Díjak, elismerések:
rektorhelyettesi, művelődési miniszteri dicséret 1980-as évek, Közép- európai Kanadisztikai Szövetség dicsérő oklevele 2006. Vice-rector és minister of culture diplome of merit 1980's; CEACS Diplome of merit 2006.
Szakmai közéleti tevékenység:
Magyar-Kanadai Baráti Társaság alapító elnöke 1994-96. Founding president of Hungarian-Canadian Friendship Society 1994-96.
Szerkesztőbizottsági tagság:
műegyetemi angol nyelvi jegyzetnél szerkesztőbizottsági elnök 1980-as években. Chairperson of English langue Notes at the Technical University 1980's.
Nemzetközi kapcsolatok, vendégoktatás külföldön:
participation at numerous international conferences/congresses in Canad, Europe, Hungary since 1980.
Jelentősebb szervezeti tagság:
Magyar Külügyi Társaság 1993 óta. Member of Hungarian Foreign Affairs Society since 1993.
Nyelvtudás:
Reviews published:
Elsa TRIOLET: The Lark is Silent at Noon /in Hungarian translation/ A Jövô Mérnöke /weekly of the Technical University of Budapest/
Volume XIX. No. 2O. June lO,l972. 2
(ed) E.CAMERON: The Other Side of Hugh MacLennan.Filológiai Közlöny. Volume XXVII. No.l-2. Budapest, l98l. 2l5-6.
Hugh MACLENNAN: Voices in Time. Filológiai Közlöny.
Volume XXVIII. No.l. Budapest, l982. l53-4.
(ed) Charlotte KRETZOI: High and Low in American Culture.
Filológiai Közlöny. Volume XXXIV. No.3. Budapest, l988. l9l
Marguerite MAILLET: Histoire de la littérature acadienne. Helikon. Volume XXXIV. l988/l-2. Budapest. 223.
William TOYE: The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Helikon.
Volume XXXIV. l988/l-2. Budapest. 227.
Kanada, Kanada!- review of Gabrielle ROY's La détresse et l'enchantement. Nagyvilág. Volume XXXIV. No.8. August l989. Budapest. l255-6.
Papers presented at conferences and published:
An Introduction to Canadian Literature with a Special Emphasis on Canadian Fiction in English. Special publication of the Teachers' Training College of the town of Pécs, l98O. l48-59.
Teaching Experiences in Postgraduate Language Studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Special publication of the Technical University of Budapest. l98O. 295-3OO.
Experiences Made in Language Laboratory Classes in Postgraduate English Courses at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Folio Practico Linguistica. Budapest, l982. l27-34.
Interaction in the Classroom: A New Way for Adult Language Teaching?! Special publication of Janus Pannonius University of Pécs. l983. l26-35.
Margaret LAURENCE and the Canadian Prairie. Anglistik Days '84. Eötvös University, Budapest, l986. lO2-9.
Colonial Life Depicted in the First American Novel: Frances BROOKE' s The History of Emily Montague (London, l769). EAAS Conference, Budapest, l986; published (ed) Ch.KRETZOI: Americana and Hungarica. Eötvös University, Budapest, l989. 29-34.
Social and Cultural Issues in Two Canadian Postwar Novels: Gabrielle ROY's Where Nests the Waterhen (l95O) and Hugh MACLENNAN's Each Man's Son (l95l).Cross-Cultural Studies: American,Canadian and European Literatures:l945-l985.
/ed/ Mirko JURAK. Ljubljana,Yougoslavia,l988. 235-43.
The Canadian Cultural Mosaic Image. Lingua 82/2. Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest, l988. 82-9O.
The Role of Conversation in Special Classes of English Culture.
/A társalgás szerepe az Angol kultúra speciális szeminárium keretében./ Folia Practico Linguistica. The Technical University of Budapest. Volume XVIII.No.l-2. l988. Budapest. l67-7O.
How High Degree English State Exam Requirements Are Met at the Technical University of Budapest. Folia Practico Linguistica. Volume XIX. No.2. Budapest, l989. 7l-86.
Historical and Cultural Contexts in the Novels of F.Ph.GROVE and Henry KREISEL. FILLM Congress, Guelph, Ontario, Canada l987.
/ed./ G.D.KILLAM: Historical and Cultural Contexts of Linguistic and Literary Phenomena. University of Guelph, l989. l7O-8.
Anti-Survivalism in Prairie Fiction. /ed/ C.H.W.REMIE-J.M.LACROIX: Canada on the Threshold of the 2lst Century. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. l99l. 333-8.
Regionalism and the Surgeon Figure in Hugh MacLENNAN's Fiction - Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL) at the Learned Societies' yearly congress at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, l992. (ed) Lehel VADON: Eger Journal of American Studies Vol.1.Károly Eszterházy Teachers' Training college, Eger,1993. 47-6O.
The Canadian Métis in Fiction. Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et des Littératures Modernes (FILLM) in Novi Sad, Yougoslavia, August l99O. (ed) Sándor Rot: Studies in English and American Vol.7.Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, 1995. 1O6-118.
The Scottishness of Two Canadian Writers: Hugh MacLENNAN and Margaret LAURENCE. Founding congress of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE), Debrecen, Hungary, January 27-29, l993. (Gen.ed.)Péter Szaffkó: HUSSE Papers 1993 - Literature and Culture, Vol.1. Debrecen, 1995. 246-5O.
European Background- North American Values in the Prairie Novels of Canada in the l92O's.- presented at the conference entitled 'Everyday Values in American Culture'organised by the Americanistic Department of Eötvös University on April 28-29,l994. (ed.)Tibor FRANK: Values in American Society. Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, 1995. 241-7.
Religion in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka series. (ed) Marek Wilczynski: Canons, Revisions Supplements in American Literature and Culture - Wydawnictwo Bene Nati, Poznan, Poland, 1997. 283-8.
The Myth of the Canadian Woman of Today in Aritha Van Herk's Novels, The Myth in the Works of Canadian Authors, Novi Sad, Yougoslavia. Novi Sad, May 24, 1996. 113-118.
Children and Youth Represented in Canadian Post-War Mainstream Fiction.(ed) Paul Neubauer: Children in Literature - Children's Literature Acta of the - XXth International Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes (FILLM), Regensburg, Germany- August 1996. 255-263.
Hungarians in Canadian Literature - (ed)Waldemar Zacharasiewicz - Fritz Peter Kirsch: Kanada-Europa -Chancen und Probleme der Interkulturalitat. ISL Verlag, Wien, 1998. 167-174.
Comparison of Scandinavian and Hungarian Immigrant Fiction -
(ed) Gudrun Björk Gudsteins: Rediscovering Canadian Difference - Third Triennial Nordic Association of Canadian Studies (NACS), Volume 17. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland - August 5, 1999. 84-92.
Canadian Identity - Regional Attachment to Nova Scotia: The Historical Fiction of Thomas H.Raddall (1903-1994.(ed) Ewa Welnic-Anna Branach-Kallas - Jakub Wojcik: Exploring Canadian Identities Vers L'exploration des Identités Canadiennes. Nicholas Copernicus University, Torún, Poland 2002. 133-140.
Vibrant Personalities of Metis Autobiographers: Maria Campbell' Halfbreed and Gregory Scofield's Thunder Through My Veins - read out at Bonn University's Nordamerikaprogramm, Bonn, Germany - July 2001. Published by Institute of English and American Studies Eszterházy Károly College, under the title of 'HUSSE Papers 2001', Eger, 2002.
239-246.
Means of Globalisation - The Canoe and the Railroad in Canada's Arts.
CD IPSI_2005_SLOVEN. - Conference Proceedings - Bled, Slovenia December 8-11, 2005. pp13.
Gabrielle Roy(1909-1983), écrivaine du Canada inspirée par sa culture francaise. Prisonnier de sa langue - libre dans sa langue. Universitas, ELTE, 2006. 81-87.
A Kanada Stúdiumok az ELTE-n 1979 és 2007 között- történet és emlékezet (Canadian Studies at ELTE between 1979 and 2007 - history and memories) - Conference on the State of English in Hungary -Eötvös Loránd University; (szerk.) Frank Tibor-Károly Krisztina: Anglisztika és Amerikanisztika - magyar kutatások az ezredfordulón. Budapest, Tinta Könykiadó, 2009. 427-432.
Papers published
Hungarian Appreciation of Prominent Canadian Writer Hugh MacLENNAN. Daily News. Budapest, l978. 2.
The Position of Hugh MacLENNAN in Canadian Literature of National Consciousness /in Hungarian/ Filológiai Közlöny./Volume XXIX. No.l-2. Budapest, l983. 2l2-4.
On Canadian Prairie Literature /in Hungarian/ Nagyvilág. Volume XXIX. No.l. January l984. 37-9.
Literature of the Canadian Prairie /in Hungarian/ Filológiai Közlöny.
Volume XXX. No.l. Budapest, l984. 66-72 and in Folklór,Folklorisztika és Etnológia. No.lO5. Budapest, l984. 66-72.
Writer of the Canadian Rock Generation: Matt COHEN /in Hungarian/ Nagyvilág. Volume XXX. No.l. January, l985. l3l-2.
Family and Solitude in the Canadian Short Story /in Hungarian/.Nagyvilág. Volume XXX. No.9. September l985. l3ll.
Holidays in Canada /in Hungarian/ Nagyvilág. Volume XXX. No.l2. December l985. Budapest. l784-5.
About the Work of Antonine MAILLET /in Hungarian/.Nagyvilág.
Volume XXXII. No.ll. November l987. l692-3.
On Canadian Prairie Literature as Reflected in Criticism /in Hungarian/. Helikon. Volume XXXIV. l988/l-2. Budapest. 5O-7.
English Canadian Literary Magazines /in Hungarian/.Helikon.
Volume XXXIV. l988/l-2. Budapest. l99-2O6.
In Memoriam Margaret LAURENCE /in Hungarian/ Helikon. Volume XXXIV. l988/l-2. Budapest, 28l.
Stephen PARMENIUS and Canada. Canadian Literature
Vancouver, B.C. No.l2O. Spring l989. 239-44.
Hungarian Scientists about their Homeland - News from Canada
/Magyar tudósok a hazáról- híradás Kanadából/. Magyar Nemzet. Vol.LV. No.249. Budapest, Wednesday, October 2l, l992 and 6; and in News in Hungarian Studies. No.26.January l993. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3.
A Canadian Existentialist Novel /in Hungarian/.Nagyvilág. Vol.XXXVII. No.9. September l992. ll53.
Not British and not American! - Anna JAKABFI about Canadian
Literature /in Hungarian/ -an interview made by journalist Ågnes OSZTOVITS. Magyar Nemzet. Friday, March 5, l993. Volume LVI. No.54. Supplement on the Spring Festival l993. II.
Guest writers from over the Ocean: Mordecai RICHLER - Roch CARRIER - Susan MUSGRAVE. Magyar Nemzet. Saturday, March 6, l993. Volume LVI. No.55. l8.
An Equivalence of Knowledge. The Hungarian Observer. Volume 7, Number 7, July 1994. 26.
Canadian Studies' 15 Years at Eötvös University. ASC Bulletin AEC. Vol.16.no.2-3.Summer-Fall 1994. Montreal. 28-29.
Refuge in Human Dialogue, A Means of Striving for Survival (Beatrice Harraden's Ships that Pass in the Night/1894/ and Hugh Maclennan's The Watch That Ends the Night /1958/). (Ed-s) Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski: Dialogues with Traditions in Canadian Literatures. Torun, Poland 2005. 55-59.
Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) écrivaine du Canada inspirée par sa culture francaise. (ed-s)Yann Foucault et Judit Karafiath. Prisonnier de sa langue - Libre dans sa langue. Universitas, Budapest, 2006. 81-87.
Book contributions:
The History of Canadian English Literature (co-author); The History of French Canadian Literature (co-author); Entries on Margaret LAURENCE, Jay MacPHERSON, Eli MANDEL, John MARLYN, Charles MAIR, Susannah MOODIE, Paul MORIN, Farley MOWAT and Lionel SHAPIRO, Robert J.C.STEAD, John SUTHERLAND, Aritha VAN HERK, Guy VANDERHAEGHE, Miriam WADDINGTON, John WATSON, Sheila WATSON, Tom WAYMAN, Rudy WIEBE, Anne WILKINSON, Ethel WILSON, Adele WISEMAN, George WOODCOCK, Scott YOUNG (in Hungarian)Világirodalmi Lexikon. World Literary Encyclopedia in Hungary. Volumes Kamc-My. and Volumes Sf-Suzuki Budapest, l979-84., 1992. l5-2l; 8l, 532, 6OO, 679; 4, 574-5; 6O9-lO; 64., 4O.,535-6.,788.
Entries on Margaret ATWOOD, Gérard BESSETTE, A.E. BIRNEY, Marie-Claire BLAIS, George BOWERING, Frances BROOKE, Ernest BUCKLER, John CABOT, Morley CALLAGHAN, Bliss CARMAN, Emily CARR, Leonard COHEN, Matt COHEN, Robertson DAVIES, Mazo DE LA ROCHE, William DRUMMOND, Louis DUDEK, S.J. DUNCAN to the Great Hungarian Encyclopedia ( in Hungarian) Letters A-D. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest (forthcoming)
Postword to the Hungarian edition of Joshua Then and Now. Entitled : Légy bátor és erôs. Európa Publishing House. Budapest, l986. 6l3-22.
Ferenc BAKó: Hungarians in Canada (Kanadai magyarok) professional revision. Budapest, l988. 32O pages.
(ed.) Judit KÁDÁR: Critical Perspectives on English Canadian Literature - professional revision - EKTF Líceum Publishing House, Eger, Hungary, 1996. 354.
Rudy Wiebe: Az Örült orvvadász (The Mad Trapper) novel translated by Tamás Szántai - stylistic revision and preface.(was to forthcome) October 1997.
Papers presented at conferences and/or elsewhere:
The Canadian Prairie in the Novels of Margaret LAURENCE - English Canadian Literary conference - organized by the University of Vienna, Tulbingerkogel, Austria. May 27-June 3, l984. lO pages.
Canadian Prairie - Canadian Identity: Margaret LAURENCE - Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Langues et des Littératures Modernes (FILLM) in Budapest, August 22-27, l984. 8 pages
On Canadian Literature Studies in Hungary - Carleton University, Ottawa; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; University of Alberta, Edmonton; Concordia University, Montréal; Kanada l985. 2l pages
Is Literature in Canada Distinctly Canadian? - Hungarian Modern Filological Society, Budapest, February ll, l986; Anglistic Days '87 Szeged, JATE. l3 pages.
La présence francaise au Canada - at the Department for Modern Languages of the Technical University of Budapest, June l986. l6 pages
Canada in Winter /in Hungarian/ - Hungarian Geographical Museum, Érd, March l989. 9 pages.
Thomas d'Arcy McGEE: Ireland's Contribution to the Canadian Confederation. IASAIL 89 Congress in Debrecen, Hungary, July l989. lO pages.
Words of Agriculture in a Canadian Novel / Robert STEAD:
Grain/ LSP Congress,Technical University of Budapest, l989. 8 pages.
British Civilization Studies at Two Hungarian Universities.
British Council Congress, Vienna, Austria, May l99l. l3 pages.
Towards a Global Thought Structure - The Métis in Canadian and Québec Fiction - Association of Canadian and Québec Literatures (ACQL) at the Learned Societies' yearly congress at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, l99l. - 2O pages
Hungarian References in Canadian Post-war Mainstream Fiction. Hungarian Studies Association of Canada (HSAC) at the Learned Societies' yearly congress at the University of PEI, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, l992. l3 pages.
Aboriginals in Canadian English Fiction - a special lecture presented at the Native Studies Course 1996-97/II. of the Department for American Studies at the School for English and American Studies of Loránd Eötvös University on November 18,1996. - 12 pages
Aboriginals in Canadian Art and Literature - lecture given at the Swedish Ethnographic Museum and the Canada Institute of Stockholm University respectively on March 2 and 3,1997. 15 pages
Prairie Fiction of the 192O's and 193O's in Canada - English Department, Stockholm University March 4, 1997 - 13 pages
The Oldest Immigrants(First Nations) in 19th Century Canadian Art and Literature, Cultural Society of Yougoslavia-Canada, Belgrade, May 31, 1997. - 17 pages
The Decade Around the British Conquest (1760) in two Canadian Novels: Frances BROOKE'S The Histor y of Emily Montague (1769) and William KIRBY's The Golden Dog (1877) , Canadian Studies Centre of Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba, March 24,1999. 18 pages
Continentalism and Nationhood: Morley Callaghan and Hugh MacLennan
ELTE Canadian Studies Inauguration Conference, Budapest, Hungary February 19, 2002. 6 pages.
Central Europeans in Fiction - Winnipeg, the Immigrant City
Texts and Contexts - Conference for Professor Egri - ELTE, Budapest ,
April 5, 2002. 6 pages.
Canadian Identity - Island Environment versus Mainland Environment (Thomas H.Raddall:The Nymph and the Lamp.1950) Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies NACS. Stockholm Sweden, August 2002. 7 pages.
Existentialism in Canadian Fiction - International Canadian Studies Conference, Debrecen, October 24-27,2002. 7 pages.
Exile in Space: A Craving in Montreal for the Home Region: Hugh MacLennan(1907-1990): Each Man's Son (1951) and The Watch That Ends the Night (1958) and Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983): La petite poule d'eau (1950) and Ces enfants de ma vie (1977) Cluj-Napoca, Roumania, May 22-25, 2003. 6 pages
Wars in Europe - Impact on Canada: The Napoleonic Wars in Canadian Fiction ('E.Barrington': The Thunderer /1927/ and Thomas H.Raddall: Hangman's Beach /1966/) - International Social Sciences Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, March 27,2004. 9 pages
Paving the Way for Globalization: Early Travellers' Impressions of Canada 1583-1783. CEASC Conference entitled 'Place and Memory in Canada:Global Perspectives'in Krakkow, Poland - April 29-May
3, 2004. 13 pages.
25th Anniversary of Canadian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University - 'Conference of Canadian Studies 25th Anniversary in Hungary'organised by the Canadian Embassy in Károlyi Palace, Budapest, April 29-30,2005. 7 pages.
Emotional Attachment to a National Institution - the Railroad in Canadian Literature - Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies NACS. Turku, Finnland, August 2005. - 10 pages
On Canada's history and culture (in Hungarian) - a lecture at the North America Days of the Municipal Library of the town of Győr, Hungary - September 14, 2006. 12 pages.
Napoleon and his Age in Canadian and Hungarian Fiction ('E.Barrington: The Thunderer/1927/, Thomas H.Raddall: Hangman's Beach /1966/, Antoine Gérin-Lajoie: Jean Rivard /1862/, Jókai Mór: Névtelen vár/Castle Anonymous/1877/ - Conference of the Central European Association of Canadian Studies CEACS. Debrecen, Hungary, October 2006. - 10 pages.
A Singular Transatlantic Tie: Napoleon in Canadian Fiction (Antoine Gérin-Lajoie: Jean Rivard/1862/, 'E.Barrington': The Thunderer /1927/, Thomas H.Raddall:Hangman's Beach /1966/)
International Conference 'Canadian Literature Day 2008' - University of Marburg, Germany, June 19-22, 2008. - 9 pages (forthcoming);
Special lecture for undergraduate students at Nouvelle Sorbonne-Paris III. on November 25, 2008 within the project Erasmus between ELTE and Nouvelle Sorbonne-Paris III..
A Criminal Story Enigma in Canadian Fiction: Rudy Wiebe: The Mad Trapper (1980) - Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association of Canadian Studies NACS. Tromsoe, Norway, August 6-9, 2008. - 7 pages
A Change of Regime from New France to British North America in two Canadian Novels: Frances BROOKE'S The History of Emily Montague (1769) and William KIRBY's The Golden Dog (1877) , at Nouvelle Sorbonne-Paris III. A Special presentation for undergraduate students within the Erasmus Project of ELTE and Sorbonne. Paris, November 25, 2008. 18 pages
Cultural Property and/or Appropriation - First Nations in Canadian (White) Writers' Fiction.- 31st American Indian Workshop: „Tranformation,Translation,Transgression: Native American Culture in Contact and Context", Prague, Czech Republic, March 25-28,2010. -12 pages. (forthcoming in print in Italian translation at the University of Genoa, Italy)
Books:
(ed) Anna Jakabfi: Canada and the Millennium - Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Studies Conference in Central Europe - A Selection.
Loránd Eötvös University and the Hungarian Canadianists' Association, Budapest,1999. 2l5.
(ed) Anna Jakabfi: Continentalism and Nationhood - Essays. Eötvös Loránd University - Canadian Studies Centre, Budapest, 2002.
Twentieth Century Canada in the Novels of Hugh MacLENNAN.
University doctorate degree, l977-8, Budapest, L.Eötvös University. lO7 pages.
Social and Cultural Issues in the Novels of Two Major Post-War Canadian Authors: Hugh MacLENNAN and Gabrielle ROY. Post-doctoral first academic degree (Ph.D.) l988-l989, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. 234 pages.
Transatlantic Ties in Canadian Fiction in a Historical Perspective.
Habilitation thesis. 2009. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 173 pages.
