Bio

Agnes Zsofia Kovacs is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at 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 on 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 boards 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, with Katalin Jancsó, at the Inter-American Research Center (IARC) at the University of Szeged.