Bio

Agnes Zsofia Kovacs is an associate professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests include late-nineteenth-century protomodern fiction, conversions of literary modernisms, popular fiction genres, and contemporary multicultural American fiction. Her current research into neo-slave narratives traces Toni Morrison's legacy in contemporary African American literature. She has published three books, The Function of the Imagination in the Writings of Henry James (2006), Literature in Context (2010), and The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton's Travel Writings (2025); co-edited Space, Gender and the Gaze (2017) and edited Edith Wharton’s Osprey Notes (2021). She is an editor of TNTeF (Szeged) and sits on the editorial board of Americana E-Journal (Szeged) and Studia Philologia (Cluj, Romania). She is the president of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS) and head of research at the Inter-American Research Center (IARC) of the University of Szeged.