• Theories of Literature and Culture 2 (20th century), American and English Studies MA lecture

• Contemporary American Fiction, MA lecture

• Women's Life Writing, MA lecture

• Re-historicizing Literature, MA seminar

• Approaches to North American Culture, MA seminar

• The Slave Narrative and the Neo-slave Narrative, MA seminar

• Travel Writing, MA seminar

• Cultural and Literary Memory, PhD seminar

• PhD Research Seminar, PhD seminar

• PhD Individual Research, PhD seminar

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MAT supervision

2027

• • Barlai, Ajna. Performances of African American femininity in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Sapphire’s Push.

2026

• • Benghanem, Malek. Whispers of Exile: Trauma, Transmission, and Gendered Resistance in the Palestinian American Diaspora — A Reading of Susan Muaddi Darraj’s Behind You Is the Sea.

  • Celebi, Sevilay. Consuming Anxiety: Hyperreal Supermarkets, Media, and Pharmaceuticals in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.

2025

• • Oustani, Meriem. Proclaiming the Value of the Marginal: Colonial Imposition, Mimicry and Hybridity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

2024

• Al Hindi, Ahmad. Robinson Crusoe: A Foe? A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Robinson Crusoe through the Lens of Coetzee.

• Ivánkovits, Ádám. Exploring Ligotti’s Notion of the Weird through the Metareferences of Songs of a Dead Dreamer.

2022

• Leknouche, Fatine. Postcolonial Rewriting in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.

2021

• Hámos, Alexandra. The future is female: feminine identity positions in neo-slave narratives with YA Afrofuturistic features. 

2020

• Ormënaj, Keida. Racial portrayal in the fiction of Kate Chopin.

2019

Sueyoshi, Kiyotaka. Walt Whitman’s Common Sense.

2018

• Szabó, Diána. Faceless reality: Representations of disintegrating middle-class executive identity in American Psycho, is film adaptation, and Imperial Bedrooms.

2017

• Németh, Lilla. Chances of Double Rebellion: Double Consciousness in Nella Larsen’s Passing.

2014

• Farmasi, Lilla. I am Laueen. But Less and Less. Corporeal Narratological Aspects in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist.

• Sütő, Zsuzsa. Postmodern Metafiction in Julian Barnes’s Novels.

2012

• Kött, Karolina Gabriella. Mark Twain and Changes of 19th-c. American Culture

• Pető, Norbert. The Urban Nomad in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.

2009

• Vágvölgyiné Jaksa, Mónika. Concepts of Marriage and Femininity in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility and in their contemporary rewriting by Helen Fielding.

2008

• Benkő, Gábor. Textual Strategies in Faulkner.

• Czepó, Beáta. Hemingway’s Ambiguous Representation of Women.

• Kéki, Ágnes. Female Identity in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country.

2007

• Fekete, Mariann. Ironic Play in Wharton’s works.

• Radics, Zsófia. The American Contradiction.

2006

• Ambrus, Attiláné. Detecting methods of the classical detective in Poe and Doyle.

• Fogas, Katalin Ildikó. Dialogism in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

• Harkainé Dahota-Szabó, Barbara. Representations of Indentity in Hemingway’s In Our Time.

• Kübeki, Katalin.  Society in the Harry Potter novels.

• László, Paulina. Life Once Removed: Bernard Malamud’s Idea of Moral Fiction.

• Mákos, Bernadett. Illusions of the Real: The American Dream as a Device in Fitzgerald and Salinger.

• Tóth, Szilvia. Dialogism in gothic stories by James and Stevenson.

2005

• Gyuris, Anita. Unexpected Horizons in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.

• Horváth, Anikó Dóra. The Architecture of Consciousness: The Filmic and Novelistic Depiction of Self-fashioning in The Portrait of a Lady.

• Nemes, Róbertné. Forming Flappers in Fitzgerald.

• Nóllné, Cséke Nikoletta. The Power of Ethos and Habitus in the Fate of Three Fictional 19th-c Women.

• Pigniczki, Péter. How do elements of metafiction construct reality in The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller?

• Szepessyné Magyar, Emese. Fact and Fiction in Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie Roget” and Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.

• Tyukász, Zsuzsanna. Hemingway in Fiction and Reality: character analysis of Frederick Henry and Robert Jordan.

• Édes, Endre. ’Cyberkids’ and the First Amendment.

• Nagy, Sándor. Figures of Memory in Faulkner.

2004

• Bacsurné Nagy, Ildikó. Ironic meanings in Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence and in Martin Scorcese’s film The Age of Innocence.

• Silaghi, Linda. Queering Ambassadors: Reading Textual Desire in James’s The Ambassadors.

• Gólya, Zita. The Principles of Composition in E. A. Poe’s Four Women Tales.

• Kovács, Tamás. Coleridge’s Romantic Ideology in Poe’s Detective Stories.

• Murinkó, Lívia. The Scientific Hoaxes of Edgar Allan Poe.

2003

• Zsámba, Renáta. Classical and Golden Age Detective Fiction.

2002

2001

BAT supervision

2027

• Obom-Egbulem, Chinomso Udo. Racialzed Language Use in Contemporary African American Fiction.

2026

• Bánfi, Anett. Christianity Through Fantasy in The Chronicles of Narnia.

• Hubik, Márton. Blurring Boundaries in Holmes and Lupin: Gentleman Detectives and Gentleman Criminals.

• Józsa, Léna. The Transformations of the Doppelgänger Motif of “William Wilson” in Critical Readings.

• Miklós, Boglárka. An Exploration of the “Missing White Woman Syndrome” and Race Representation in True Crime Podcasts.

• Sebők, Dóra. Reevaluations of Identity in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady.

2025

• Bús, Boglárka Veronika. The representation of grief in The Mentalist.

• Farkas, Kira Viktória. Victorian Gender Stereotypes as a Framework of Justice: Moral Order and Punishment in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.

• Torgyik, Péter. The Representation of Afro-American Detectives in the Novels of Chester Himes’s The Heat’s On and Cotton Comes to Harlem.

2024

• Kordás, Eszter. Victorian London Gothic and Millennial NYC Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray and American Psycho.

2023

• Héjja, Bence. Evolution of Hip-Hop: From Subculture to Mainstream.

• Kukucska, Szabolcs. Low Life Literature: The Dirty Realism of Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver’s Minimalism

2022

• Nacsa, Ottília. The Figure of the Gentleman Detective and the Spinster Sleuth

• Tóth, Bence Róbert. The Effects of Domestic Violence in Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

2021

• Török, Boglárka. The Great Gatsby in the Light of the American Dream and its Criticism.

2020

• Ruskó, Lili. Silence and Voice: Self-development in Michelle Obama’s Becoming.

2018

• Bertha, Viktória. Self-realization and clash of two religions in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” and Their Eyes were Watching God.

• Burgel, Cristina Laura. The experience of war in Hemingway and Vonnegut.

• Tóth, Ramóna. Flappers Framed: Filmic representations of the Jazz Age and the New woman in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

2017

• Lengyel, Ágnes. The literary representation of the Great War by Ernest Hemingway and Edith Wharton.

• Sejben, Mónika. Youth Culture and Disillusionment in F. S. Fitzgerald’s Short Stories of the 1920s and 30s.       

• Szemerédi, Szimóna. Race as Social Performance in 1920s African American Novels by Nella Larsen and Jessie R. Fauset.

• Varga, Renáta. Performances of African American Masculinity in The Wire.

2016

• Ábrahám, Flóra. Reform Darwinism in Gilman, Cather, and Sigerman.

• Kiss, Petra. Femme Fatale: Villain or Victim? The Representation of Women in Murder, My Sweet and Farewell, My Lovely.

• Szabados, Enikő. Slave Narrative and Domestic Fiction in The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

• Váradi, Krisztina. Trauma and Utopia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland.

2015

• Kovács, Edit. 12 Years a Slave (dir. McQueen) as a Neo-slave Narrative.

2014

• Mester, Boglárka. The discourse of slavery in Huckleberry Finn.

• Szabó, Alexandra. Invented Lives: The Fitzgeralds and Celebrity Culture.

• Szabó, Flóra. The Representation of Philip Marlowe’s Masculinity in the Cinema.

• Szemenyei, Vanda. The Resurgence of The Great Gatsby in the 21st century.

2013

• Szabó, Veronika. The Reconstruction of African-American Collective Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.

2012

• Seres, Krisztina. Aestheticism and Textual Relations in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

2011

• Illich, Ivett. The New American Woman in Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.

• Karl, Éva. Racial and gender identity in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

2010

• Csiki, Balázs. The Discourse of Madness in Poe.

• Maár, Zsuzsanna. Race talk in American literature.

• Sallai, Boglárka Judit. Hybridity, the Subaltern and Femininity in Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.

Major Paper supervision (BAT equivalent term papers before the Bologna system of spearate BA-MA programs)

2008

• Orosz, Balázs. Bukowski’s Critique of America.

• Polyák, Adrienn. Underlying Value System in Irving’s The World According to Garp.

• Szabó, János. Contrasting the Code Hero and the Wounded Hero in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

2007

• Juhász, Orsolya. Investigating the undiscovered secret in Henry James’s “The Figure in the Carpet.”

2005

• Elek, András. The American Dream in Fitzgerald.

• Radics, Zsófia. The representation of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.

• Tóth, Andrea. The representation of femininity in Katherine Mansfield’s ’Bliss’ and ’The Garden Party.’

• Benkő, Gábor. Figures of Memory and the South in Faulkner.

• Czepó, Beáta. The fake code hero and the acquittal of a ’bitch’ in Hemingway.

• Kaposvári, Márk. Vineland’s America.

2004

• Fogas, Katalin Ildikó. Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. 

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

TDK/Endorsing Excellence (even years) and OTDK (odd years) supervision

2026

• Benghanem, Malek.

• Celebi, Sevilay. 

2018, 2019

• Sueyoshi, Kiyotaka.

2012, 2013

• Sallai, Boglárka Judit.

2002, 2003

• Murinkó, Lívia.

I wish to thank all my students who chose to work with me and contributed meaningfully towards the construction of one or more research project/s (along with their thesis reguirements, of course),