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Senior Assistant Professor
Department of American Studies
Institute of English & American Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Szeged, Hungary
Office: Office 127; 6722, Szeged, Petőfi sgt. 30-34.
Office phone: 0036/62-543-213
Office hour(s): By appointment in Office 3303 (Ady Bldg)
Mail address: Institute of English & American Studies, University of Szeged, 6722, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2.
E-mail: tothzsofianna@gmail.com
Academia.edu: https://u-szeged.academia.edu/ZsófiaAnnaTóth
Zsófia Anna TÓTH received her PhD in British and American literature and culture from the University of Szeged and is currently a senior assistant professor at the Department of American Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Her PhD research topic – and the resulting book: Merry Murderers: The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations that was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK) in 2011 – was concerned with the representation of female aggression and violence in American literature, culture and especially cinema. Her research also includes Jane Austen’s works, their adaptations as well as her legacy, the New Woman (her representation and historical, cultural and academic reception), American women writers especially Sandra Cisneros as well as Disney and Pixar animations. Her current research focuses on theories of humor, the questions of humor and gender as well as women’s humor while she is currently working on a book about the work(s), humorous products/performances and the overall phenomenon of Mae West.
Teaching, Supervision and Research Areas:
American women writers, The New Woman (literary and cultural approaches, representations), The femme fatale (literary, cultural and filmic approaches, representations), Jane Austen (literature and film adaptations), American cinema, Early American film history, Pre-Code Hollywood, Violence in film, Disney and Pixar Animations, Cultural studies, The representation(s) of women in American visual culture, Humor theories and Comedy studies, Women's humor
Current Courses (2025/2026 Fall Semester):
American Film Comedies (BA seminar), American Humorous Writing (BA seminar), Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism (MA lecture), Rhetorics of the New Woman in American Literature (MA seminar), Early Women’s Challenges to the American Literary Canon (MA seminar)
Education:
January 13, 2011 PhD title (summa cum laude)
PhD dissertation: “The Merry Murderers”, The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its various adaptations; Supervisors: Reschné Marinovich Sarolta and Cristian Réka Mónika
2004-2007 University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies, Doctoral studies
2001-2003 University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Hungarian Studies minor
2000-2003 University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, European Studies minor
1998-2003 University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Institute of English and American Studies, English major
Publications:
Books, Journal Issues, Edited Volumes
2025 Topics in American Studies: History, Literature and Culture 1. Irén Annus, Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (eds). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2025. pp. 178. (ISBN: 978-615-6872-11-1 (.epub); 978-615-6872-10-4 (PoD)), available: https://ebook.ek.szte.hu/index.php/americanaebooks/catalog/book/429
2023 Guest editor: AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed), Volume XIX, Number 1, 2023, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/vol19no1
2023 Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of US Culture, Literature and History. Szeged Series in American Studies #3. Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (ed). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2023. (ISBN 978-615-5423-88-8, ISBN 978-615-5423-87-1) available: https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas03/
2012 American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society. Zoltán Vajda and Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed). Special Issue: Proceedings of the American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference (the collection of the papers presented in English), AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 2012. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol8no1
2012 Amerikanisztika és vizualitás. Metszéspontok az információs társadalom horizontján. Zoltán Vajda and Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed). Conference proceedings of the Amerikanisztika és vizualitás metszéspontjai az információs társadalom horizontján Konferencia (the collection of the papers presented in Hungarian), AMERICANA eBooks, ISBN: 978-963-89514-3-4 (.prc); 978-963-89514-2-7 (.epub), available: http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/amerikanisztika-es-vizualitas/
2011 Merry Murderers: The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. (ISBN (10): 1-4438-3171-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-3171-0)
2011 A varázsgyűrűtől az interkonfesszionális kommunikációig: Információtudományi metszéspontok bölcsészeti megközelítésben. (editor) Szeged: Primaware, 2011. (ISBN 978-963-306-108-4), available: http://otodikalprogram.huminf.u-szeged.hu/sites/default/files/Konyvek/TZsA_ebookInftud%20a%20bolcseszetben_szerk.pdf
Essays, Articles, Reviews
2025 “Managing Identity Crisis in Turning Red (2022)” in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary Vol XXI., No. 1., 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/americana.2025.1.49-58, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/47372
2025 “Choose Your Weapon, Ladies: The Fighter Heroines of Disney/Pixar” in Topics in American Studies: History, Literature and Culture 1. Irén Annus, Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (eds). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2025, 159-178. (ISBN: 978-615-6872-11-1 (.epub); 978-615-6872-10-4 (PoD)), available: https://ebook.ek.szte.hu/index.php/americanaebooks/catalog/book/429
2025 Introduction by Irén Annus, Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda in Topics in American Studies: History, Literature and Culture 1. Irén Annus, Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (eds). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2025, 1-6. (ISBN: 978-615-6872-11-1 (.epub); 978-615-6872-10-4 (PoD)), available: https://ebook.ek.szte.hu/index.php/americanaebooks/catalog/book/429
2024 “Cinderella Revisited. An Examination of the Postmodern Comic Approach in Cinderella (2021)” in Detinjstvo L (4), 2024, available: https://unicloud.kg.ac.rs/index.php/s/sAfL2HqwefPkTML
2024 “Helen of Troy in Hollywood. Review by Zsofia Anna Toth” in
AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Volume XX, Number 1, 2024, available: https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/46136/44664
2024 “On Second Thought on Wieland Schwanebeck’s “When the Community of Laughter Needed the Bathroom: Bridesmaids and the Limits of Cringe Comedy” Studies in American Humor Volume 10, No 1 (2024), pp. 3-4. The Pennsylvania State University Press (ISSN: 0095280X) https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.10.1.0002
2023 “Sisu(datu), the Funny Female Dragon of the Disney Universe” in
AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Volume XIX, Number 1, 2023, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/vol19no1/tzsa
2023 Book Review: “Review of the Disney Princess Phenomenon” in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Volume XIX, Number 1, 2023, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/vol19no1/tzsa-rev
2023 “Introduction” by Zsófia Anna Tóth in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Special Issue on American Humor, Volume XIX, Number 1, 2023, available: https://americanaejournal.hu/vol19no1/tzsa-intro
2023 “Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) portréja” (“The Portrait of Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848)”) in Újkor.hu 2023. december 19. available: https://ujkor.hu/content/emily-bronte-1818-1848-portreja
2023 “The Filmic Representations of Femmes Fatales within Information Society” in Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of US Culture, Literature and History. Szeged Series in American Studies #3. Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (ed). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2023, 132-141. (ISBN 978-615-5423-88-8, ISBN 978-615-5423-87-1) available: https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas03/
2023 “Changes in the Representation of Female Aggression in the Various Versions of Maurine Dallas Watkins’s Chicago” in Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of US Culture, Literature and History. Szeged Series in American Studies #3. Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (ed). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2023, 109-131. (ISBN 978-615-5423-88-8, ISBN 978-615-5423-87-1) available: https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas03/
2023 “Emily Dickinson’s Death Poetry Reinterpreted through the Lens of Humor and Catachresis” in Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of US Culture, Literature and History. Szeged Series in American Studies #3. Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (ed). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2023, 71-108. (ISBN 978-615-5423-88-8, ISBN 978-615-5423-87-1) available: https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas03/
2023 “Introduction” by Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda. In Further Critical, Theoretical and Analytical Explorations of US Culture, Literature and History. Szeged Series in American Studies #3. Zsófia Anna Tóth and Zoltán Vajda (ed). Szeged: AMERICANA e-Books. 2023, 1-4. (ISBN 978-615-5423-88-8, ISBN 978-615-5423-87-1) available: https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas03/
2023 „Joseph Heller, a háborúellenes tiltakozások irodalmának kulcsfigurája” („Joseph Heller, a Key Figure in Protest Literature”) in Újkor.hu 2023.05.01. https://ujkor.hu/content/joseph-heller-a-haboruellenes-tiltakozasok-irodalmanak-kulcsfiguraja
2023 „A feminista humor lehetőségei” (The Possibilities of Feminist Humor) in "So Far So Good" Festschrift in Honour of Erzsébet Barát / Tanulmányok Barát Erzsébet köszöntésére. Edited by Anna Kérchy and Irén Annus. Szeged: TNT eBooks, 2023, 217-226.ISSN 2939-7952ISBN (pdf) 978-963-306-916-5 ISBN (print) 978-963-306-915-8 DOI: 10.14232/tntebooks.1.2023
https://ebook.ek.szte.hu/index.php/btk-tnt-kutatocsoport/catalog/view/131/267/805
2022 Book Review: “Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy. By Olympia Kiriakou. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. 231 pp. Reviewed by Zsófia Anna Tóth” in in Studies in American Humor Volume 8 Issue 2 (2022), pp. 404-407. Penn State University Press (ISSN: 0095280X, https://doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.8.2.0404). available: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/american-humor/issue/8/2
2022 “Jane Austen, the Humourist” in Fidele Signaculum. Írások Szőnyi György Endre tiszteletére. / Writings in Honour of György Endre Szőnyi. Edited by Attila Kiss, Ágnes Matuska és Róbert Péter. Szeged: Szegedi Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar, Angol-Amerikai Intézet, 2022, 959-970. https://www.ieas-szeged.hu/ieas-e-books/?fbclid=IwAR2QhdtGCUM8RlsRjG1F0YHlBuYUdmCTyYhyJdevCI6EUexm7SDSBN-sEaI
2022 “At the Crossroads of American Cinema and American Studies” in Szeged Series in American Studies #2, Critical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History. Edited by Réka M. Cristian and Zoltán Dragon. Szeged: Americana eBooks, 2022, 60-68. ISBN: 978-615-5423-83-3 (.mobi); 978-615-5423-82-6 (.epub); 978-615-5423-81-9 (PoD) https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas02/
2022 “The Carnivalesque (Re)Presentation of America in the Different Versions of Chicago” in Szeged Series in American Studies #2, Critical Explorations of U.S. Culture, Literature and History. Edited by Réka M. Cristian and Zoltán Dragon. Szeged: Americana eBooks, 2022, 45-59. ISBN: 978-615-5423-83-3 (.mobi); 978-615-5423-82-6 (.epub); 978-615-5423-81-9 (PoD) https://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/szesas02/
2021 “Mae West Turning Dirty Snow White through her Comic Performances” in Szeged Series in American Studies #1, Revisiting the Past, American Culture in Contemporary Context. Edited by Irén Annus and Ágnes Zsófia Kovács. Szeged: Americana eBooks, 2021, 105-125. ISBN: 978-615-5423-77-2 (.mobi); 978-615-5423-76-5 (.epub); 978-615-5423-75-8 (PoD), http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu
2021 “Merida and her Mother Bear: Feminist Cultural Pedagogy à la Disney/Pixar” in Szeged Series in American Studies #1, Revisting the Past, American Cutlure in Contemporary Context. Edited by Irén Annus and Ágnes Zsófia Kovács. Szeged: Americana eBooks, 2021, 126-144. ISBN: 978-615-5423-77-2 (.mobi); 978-615-5423-76-5 (.epub); 978-615-5423-75-8 (PoD), http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu
2021 “Persuasion on Screen: an Authentic Aural Evocation of Jane Austen’s Early 19th Century England?” in Ágnes Zsófia Kovács (ed.) Sentiment, History, and Intermediality. Essays in English and American Studies, Students and Supervisors. Szeged: JATEPress, 2021, 107-113. ISBN: 978-963-315-470-0
2020 “Latina Humor in the Works of Sandra Cisneros” in Acta Hispanica, Supplementum II: América Latina y el Mundo: Espacios de Encuentro y Cooperación. Actas del XIX Congreso de la FIEALC. Editora: Zsuzsanna Csikós. 2020, 609-616. ISSN: 1416-7263. https://doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2020.0.609-616. available: https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/acthisp/article/view/33033
2020 Book Review: “Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics by Michelle Ann Abate. Review by: Zsófia Anna Tóth” in Studies in American Humor Volume 6 Number 1 (2020), pp. 239-242. Penn State University Press (ISSN: 0095280X, DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0239) available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.6.1.0239
2019 “Humor and Catachresis in Emily Dickinson’s Death Poetry” in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XV, Number 1, 2019, available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol15no1/toth
2019 Book Review: “Review of The Language of Humor. An Introduction.” The Language of Humor. An Introduction. Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. p. 387. ISBN 978-1-108-41654-2 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-108-40396-2 (Paperback) in AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XV, Number 1, 2019, available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol15no1/toth-rev
2019 “Borderlands and Humorous Transgressions in Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013)” in Réka M. Cristian, Zoltán Dragon and András Lénárt (ed.) Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgressions. Szeged: AMERICANA eBooks, 2019, 93-104. ISBN: 978-963-306-612-6 (.mobi), available: http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/transnational-americas/
2018 “A női humor vetületei” (“Aspects of women’s humor”) in TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat, Volume 8, Number 2, 2018, pp. 5-25, (ISSN: 2062-7084), available: http://tntefjournal.hu/vol8/iss2/tothzsa.pdf
2018 Book Review: “Comedy Begins with our Simplest Gestures: Levinas, Ethics, and Humor. Ed. by Brian Bergen-Aurand. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2017. 282 pp. REVIEWED BY ZSÓFIA ANNA TÓTH” in Studies in American Humor Volume 4 Number 2 (2018), pp. 330-334. Penn State University Press (ISSN: 0095280X, DOI: 10.5325/studamerhumor.4.2.0330) available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/studamerhumor.4.2.0330
2017 “Merida and Mother Bear: a Lesson in Feminist Cultural Pedagogy” in Anna Kérchy (ed.) Interspecies Dialogues in Postmillenial Filmic Fantasies Special Issue, AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XIII, Number 2, Fall 2017 (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol13no2/tzsa
2017 “Mae West’s America(s)” in Réka Mónika Cristian, Andrea Kökény and György Endre Szőnyi (ed.) Confluences: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership. Szeged: JATEPress, 2017, 139-153. (ISBN 978-963-315-338-3)
2017 “Disney’s Violent Women, In Quest of a ‘Fully Real’ Violent Woman in American Cinema” in Chovanec, Jan (ed). Brno Studies in English Volume 43 No 1 (2017), Brno: Masarykova Univerzita V Brnĕ, 185-212. (ISSN 0524-6881, DOI: 10.5817/BSE2017-1-11), available: https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/137093/1_BrnoStudiesEnglish_43-2017-1_13.pdf?sequence=1
2017 “Boys will be Boys – but what about Girls? Girls in a Boy Status in Jane Austen’s Fiction” in Ágnes Zsófia Kovács and László Sári (ed). Space, Gender and the Gaze in Literature and Art. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 86-106.
2015 “Cat in a tumble dryer”. Amanda Price’s Bumpy Ride of Female Development in Lost in Austen (2008). in Soňa Šnircova and Milena Kostić (ed). Growing up a Woman: The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 286-311.
2015 “Mae West. The Dirty Snow White.” in Réka M. Cristian, Zoltán Dragon and András Lénárt (ed). 10th Anniversary Edition. Inter-American Special Issue. AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume XI, Number 1, Spring 2015. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol11no1/tothzsa
2014 “Lady Susan as the Great Exemplar of Dysfunctional Parenthood in Jane Austen’s Fiction.” in Veronika Ruttkay and Bálint Gárdos (ed). HUSSE 11, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014, 284-294. available: http://www.eltereader.hu/kiadvanyok/husse-11-proceedings-of-the-11th-conference-of-the-hungarian-society-for-the-study-of-english/
2012 “‘The Defense Rests.’ Picturing the Unrest of Law and Order in Chicago.” in Anna Kérchy, Attila Kiss and György E. Szönyi (ed). Papers in English & American Studies XXI. The Iconology of Law and Order (Legal and Cosmic). Szeged: JATEPress, 2012, 267-274.
2012 “Bevezetés.” (“Introduction”) (co-written by Zoltán Vajda) in Amerikanisztika és vizualitás. Metszéspontok az információs társadalom horizontján. Zoltán Vajda and Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed). Conference proceedings of the Amerikanisztika és vizualitás metszéspontjai az információs társadalom horizontján Konferencia (the collection of the papers presented in Hungarian), AMERICANA eBooks, ISBN: 978-963-89514-3-4 (.prc); 978-963-89514-2-7 (.epub), available: http://ebooks.americanaejournal.hu/books/amerikanisztika-es-vizualitas/
2012 “Introduction.” (co-written by Zoltán Vajda) in American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society. Zoltán Vajda and Zsófia Anna Tóth (eds). Special Issue: Proceedings of the American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference (the collection of the papers presented in English), AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 2012. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol8no1/toth-vajda-introduction
2012 “The Effect of Information Society on the Representation of Femmes Fatales in American Visual Culture.” in American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society. Zoltán Vajda and Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed). Special Issue: Proceedings of the American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference (the collection of the papers presented in English), AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 2012. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol8no1/tzsa
2012 “Emma: Jane Austen’s Most Imperfect Heroine and Most Perfect Novel” in TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat, Volume 2, Number 1, Special Issue, 2012, pp. 82-89. (ISSN: 2062-7084), available: http://primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/ieas/gender/tntef/vol2/vol1_special_issue/08_toth.pdf
2011 “Jane Austen Reloaded.” in Kinga Földváry, Zsolt Almási and Veronica Schandl (eds). HUSSE 10-LitCult, Proceedings of the HUSSE 10 Conference, Literature & Culture Volume. Debrecen: Hungarian Society for the Study of English, 2011, 302-310.,
available: http://mek.oszk.hu/10100/10171/10171.pdf
2011 “Bevezetés.” (“Introduction”) (co-written with László Z. Karvalics) in Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed.) A varázsgyűrűtől az interkonfesszionális kommunikációig: Információtudományi metszéspontok bölcsészeti megközelítésben. Szeged: Primaware, 2011, 4. (ISBN: 978-963-306-108-4)
2011 “The Carnivalesque Image of America in the Different Versions of Chicago.” in Gabriella Varró and Zoltán Simon (eds.) Special Issue: Proceedings of the 8th Biennial HAAS Conference, Images of America - Responses to a Changing Social, Cultural and Literary Landscape, AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume VII, Number 2, Fall 2011. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol7no2/tzsa
2011 “‘The Merry Murderers,’ The Carnivalesque Femmes Fatales of Chicago (2002).” in Ewa Borkowska et als. (eds.) The Language of Sense, Common-Sense and Nonsense. Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna, 2011, 173-181.
2011 „A Chicago (1924-2002) karneváli végzet asszonyai: élet-halál/információ-dezinformáció zsonglőrök az információs társadalom hajnalán” (“The Carnivalesque Femmes Fatales of Chicago (1924-2002): Jugglers of Life/Death-Information/Disinformation at the Dawn of Information Society”) in Zsófia Anna Tóth (ed.) A varázsgyűrűtől az interkonfesszionális kommunikációig: Információtudományi metszéspontok bölcsészeti megközelítésben. Szeged: Primaware, 2011, 90-96. (ISBN 978-963-306-108-4)
2010 “‘The Merry Murderers,’ The Female Grotesque in Chicago.” in Silvia Pokrivčáková (ed.) Linguae.eu, A Trimestrial European Scientific Language Review, (ISSN: 1337-8384 ), Issue 4, October 2010, 4-11.
2010 “A szörnykirálynő és a Nagy Anya archetípusa - egy „zs” kategóriás horror kicsit másképp” (“The Archetype of the Queen Monster and the Terrible Mother in a Z-List Horror Film”) in Nőkért.hu, 2010. július 21. szerda, available: http://nokert.hu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=576:a-szoernykiralyn-es-a-nagy-anya-archetipusa-egy-qzsq-kategorias-horror-kicsit-maskepp&catid=44:a-feminizmus-es-a-film&Itemid=82
2010 “Let me mend your pen, Mr Darcy”: Lewd and Aggressive Women in Jane Austen’s Fiction.” in Andrew C. Rouse, Gertrud Szamosi and Gabriella Vöő (ed.). CrosSections Volume 2: Selected papers in literature and culture from the 9th HUSSE conference. Pécs: Molnár Nyomda és Kiadó, 2010, 185-195.
2009 “The Paradox of Kurt Wimmer’s Film Equilibrium.” in Sabine Coelsch-Foisner et als. (ed). What Constitutes the Fantastic? Papers in English & American Studies XVII. Szeged: JATEPress, 2009, 137-147. (ISBN: 978-963-482-991-1, ISSN: 0230-2780)
2009 “American Cinema at the Crossroads of American Studies.” in Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2008 HAAS Conference, in Réka M. Cristian and Zoltán Dragon (ed), AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume V, Number 2, Fall 2009. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol5no2/tzsa
2008 Book Review: “Violent Women on the Screen,” Reel Knockouts, Violent Women in the Movies ed. by Martha McCaughey and Neal King in Réka M. Cristian and Zoltán Dragon (ed), AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume IV, Number 2, Fall 2008. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol4no2/tzsa-review
2008 “S1m0ne. Simulacrum and Simulation Incarnated in The Perfection of Humanoid Virtuality.” in Dorian Grieve et al. (ed), eSharp, Issue 12 (Winter 2008): Technology and Humanity, University of Glasgow, (ISSN: 1742-4542), available: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/esharp/issues/12winter2008technologyandhumanity/ or http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_103036_en.pdf
2008 “Greta Garbo, Her Transgressions and Unconventional Ways On and Off Screen.” in Chovanec, Jan (ed). Brno Studies in English 34 (2008), Brno: Masarykova Univerzita V Brnĕ, 2008, 105-124. (ISBN, ISSN: 1211-1791)
2008 “The Representation of Aggressive Women in Various Adaptations of Maurine Dallas Watkins’s Chicago.” in Réka M. Cristian and Zoltán Dragon (ed). AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Volume IV, Number 1, Spring 2008. (ISSN: 1787-4637), available: http://americanaejournal.hu/vol4no1/toth
2008 Translation: “KÉP/ELMÉLET: Bevezetés” (Introduction) and “A képi fordulat” (The Pictorial Turn)” in Szőnyi, György Endre and Szauter, Dóra (ed). A képek politikája. W. J. T. Mitchell válogatott írásai. Ikonológia és Műértelmezés 13 (The Politics of Images. W.J.T. Mitchell’s Selected Writings), Szeged: JATEPress, 2008, 123-130 and 131-153. (ISBN: 978-963-482-897-6, ISSN: 0237-5079)
2008 “Chicago in its Doubles.” in Chovanec, Jan (ed.): Brno Studies in English 32 (2006), Brno: Masarykova Univerzita V Brnĕ, 2008, 171-183. (ISBN, ISSN: 1211-1791), available: http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/BSE/BSE_2006-32_Offprints/BSE%202006-32%20(171-183)%20Toth.pdf
2007 “On the verge of reality, Roxie’s day-dreaming as passage between two realms of existence in Chicago (2002).” in Vránková, Kamila and Koy, Christopher (ed). Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature, South Bohemian Anglo-American Studies No.1., České Budějovice: University of South Bohemia, 2007, 147-152. (ISBN 978-80-7394-006-5), available: http://www.pf.jcu.cz/stru/katedry/aj/doc/sbaas01-toth.pdf
2006 “Dangerous Dames in Pre-Code Hollywood.” in Drápela, M.; Vomlela, J. (ed). Silesian Studies in English 2006. International Conference of English and American Studies Opava 18-19 September 2006 (Proceedings). Opava: Silesian University in Opava, 2006, 256-267. (ISBN 80-7248-400-1)
2005 “The (Im)morality of the New Woman in the Early 20th Century.” in Chovanec, Jan (ed). Theory and Practice in English Studies, Volume 4: Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies. Brno: Masaryk University, 2005, 255-260. (ISBN 80-210-3836-5), available: http://www.phil.muni.cz/plonedata/wkaa/Offprints%20THEPES%204/TPES%204%20(255-260)%20Toth.pdf
2005 “A magyar kultúra oktatása a hímzések segítségével.” (Teaching Hungarian Culture to Foreigners With the Help of Embroideries) in Nádor, Orsolya and Szűcs, Tibor (ed). Hungarológiai Évkönyv 2005, VI. évfolyam 1. szám (The Hungarian Studies Yearbook 2005, Volume VI., No. 1.), Pécs: Pécsi Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kara, 2005, 166-179. (ISSN: 1585-9673)
2005 Book Review: The Covenant and The Betrayal by Beverly Lewis, in Women Writers (ISSN: 1535-8402535-8402), available: http://www.womenwriters.net/summer05/bookreviews/TheCovenant1.htm
2004 Book Review: It’s My Heaven by E. S. Pahls, in Women Writers (ISSN: 1535-8402535-8402), available: http://www.womenwriters.net/summer04/reviews/ItsMyHeaven.htm
2003 Book Review: Don’t Ever Tell Me You Can’t by Celia Ruiz Tomlinson, in Women Writers (ISSN: 1535-8402535-8402), available: http://www.womenwriters.net/may2003/donttellme.htm
Conferences
March 6-8, 2026 (forthcoming) 16th Humor Research Conference (HRC 2026)- online conference, Applied Linguistics Lab at East Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX, USA
Paper: “Multilayered Humor Use in Zootopia (2016) and Zootopia 2 (2025)”
November 7-8, 2025 The Diverse Impact of US Latinos/Impacto multifacético de los Latinos en Estados Unidos International Conference, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “Encanto (2021) vs Vivo (2021), The Troubled Waters of Latinx Representation”
October 9-11, 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) 2025 (Virtual) Conference, (Online access through Eventbrite/Sched), Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Paper: “The First Comic Couple in the Disney Oeuvre: Rapunzel and Flynn Rider in Tangled (2010)”
September, 26-27, 2025 NYIM 20 Conference (Női tudósok, női tudások), Szeged
Paper: “Ursula nővér: episztémé és praktikum humorosan” (“Nurse Ursula: Episteme and Practicality through Humor”)
June, 24-26, 2025 DisNet Annual Conference: Third Annual DisNet Conference - Disney and the Multi-Media-Verse: Disney’s Engagement with Multimedia, Space and Culture, USA&UK
Paper: “Humor and Laughter in Turning Red (2022)”
June 27-28, 2025 Por Tierras de Las Américas / Through the Lands of the Americas Conference, University of Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Unities through Travel across the Americas in Vivo (2021)”
January 30- February 1, 2025 HUSSE 17 Conference, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “The Unique and Uncustomary Familial Relations in Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)”
October 3-5, 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid Conference, (Online access through Eventbrite/Sched), Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Paper: “Transcendentalism with a Satirical Twist in Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott”
August, 26-30, 2024 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper: “James Bond Humorously Reloaded as Susan Cooper in Spy (2015)”
June, 24-28, 2024 DisNet Annual Conference: “Disney in a Time of Global Transformation” 2nd online conference, USA&UK
Paper: “The Funny Women of the Disney Animated Films”
May, 24-25, 2024 14th Biennial HAAS Conference, “America Beyond Crisis: Regeneration, Coping, Healing,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “To Turn Red or Not to Turn Red, Teenage Identity Crisis in Turning Red (2022)”
April, 19-21, 2024 International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 34) concurrently with the 14th Humor Research Conference (HRC 14), Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX, USA – online conference
Paper: “The Curious Case of Hungarian Female Humorists”
October 12-14, 2023 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s 2023 Virtual Conference, Online conference through Eventbrite/Sched (probably via Southern New Hampshire University), USA
Paper: “The Funny Philosophy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
September, 22-23, 2023 NYIM 18 Conference (Át/változások, Changes/Transformations), Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Változások és átváltozások Mae West humoros performanszain keresztül” (“Changes and Transformations via Mae West’s Humorous Performances”)
July 10-12, 2023 Comedy/Humor Studies Conference of the American Humor Studies Association and The Comedy and Humor Studies SIG of SCMS, Empire State College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Paper: “The Ludicrous Lady Liberty: Mae West’s Comedies of Survival”
Roundtable presentation: “Are Women Funny or Not? - A Current Public Debate in Hungary” as part of the ‘The Future of (Global) Stand-up Comedy Studies’ Roundtable Discussion
June 26-30, 2023 Disney at 100 Years: Everlasting Entertainment and a Spellbinding Future, The Disney Culture & Society Research Network’s First Annual Conference (online conference), USA&UK
Paper: “Choose Your Weapon: The Fighter Heroines of Disney/Pixar”
November 24-26, 2022 EU Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Project, Short Forms Beyond Medial Borders Symposium, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Brevity is the soul of wit: Women and humor in a nutshell”
October 20-22, 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s 2022 Virtual Conference
Paper: “Jane Austen vs. Romcom Adaptations”
September 23-24, 2022 NYIM 17 Conference (Feminism and Remembrance), Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Emlékezet és múlt-rekonstrukció Alice Munro The Progress of Love / A szeretet útja című novellájában” (“Remembrance and Past-Reconstruction in Alice Munro’s Progress of Love”)
September 17-18, 2022 Women Writers and Comedy 1890 – 1950 International Conference of The Elizabeth von Arnim Society, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK (online conference)
Paper: “Mae West and Charged Humor”
August 29-September 2, 2022 16th ESSE Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (Part of the Comic Women and Theories of Humor session)
Paper: “Jane Austen, The Lady Humourist?”
January 27-29, 2022 15th HUSSE Conference, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “The Transfigurations of the Humour of Jane Austen’s Emma”
November 4–6, 2021 The South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 93rd Annual Conference “Social Networks, Social Distances,” Hosted Virtually by Accelevents, Atlanta, USA
Paper: “Sisu, the Funny Dragon”
October 25-26, 2021 RINGS Conference, Forging New Solidarities: Networks of (Academic) Activism and Precarity, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “Precarity in COVID-19 Humor”
October 21-23, 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 2021 Virtual Conference through Eventbrite/Sched, USA
Paper: “Emily Dickinson’s Comic Take on Death in her Poetry”
September 24-25, 2021 NYIM 16 Conference: “Az ellenállás és együttműködés lehetőségei,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Humor, mint kihívás és egyben kooperáció – ellenállás és együttműködés” (“Humor as Challenge, and at the same time, Cooperation – Resistance and Collaboration”)
July 16, 2021 Works-in-Progress Conference of the American Humor Studies Association (July 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th), New-Books-in-Progress Session, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Paper: “Mae West: a Monument, a Milestone and a Momentum in the History of American Humor”
May 6-8, 2021 Funny Women. An International Symposium, Bavarian American Academy, Munich, Germany
Paper: “Empowerment and Survival in Sandra Cisneros’ Intersectional Humor”
November 13-15, 2020 The South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 92nd Annual Conference “Scandal! Literature & Provocation: Breaking Rules, Making Texts”, A Virtual Conference through Accelevents, Atlanta, USA
Paper: “Mae West, the Comic Scandal Queen” Part of Session: Scandalous Humor/Humorous Scandal
September 25-26, 2020 (forthcoming – postponed due to COVID-19) NYIM 16 Conference: “Az ellenállás és együttműködés lehetőségei,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Humor, mint kihívás és egyben kooperáció – ellenállás és együttműködés” (“Humor as Challenge, and at the same time, Cooperation – Resistance and Collaboration”)
June 24-28, 2019 XIX Congreso de la FIEALC, América Latina y el Mundo: Espacios de Encuentro y Cooperación, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Latina Humor in Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros”
January 31-February 2, 2019 HUSSE 14 Biennial Conference, Pannon University, Veszprém, Hungary
Paper: “Lady Susan’s Comic Transfigurations across Media” (part of IMAGE/TEXT/BODY panel)
August 29-September 2, 2018 14th ESSE Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Paper: “Persuasion on Screen: an Authentic Aural Evocation of Jane Austen’s Early 19th Century England?” (part of S68 Seminar Sounds Victorian: Voices and Noises in 19th Century Britain)
May 25-26, 2018 HAAS Conference 2018, 12th Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies entitled “Constructing America in a Time of Change,” Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “The Proliferation of American Female Humorists in the 21st century”
November 16-18, 2017 Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgressions Conference, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: "Borderlands and humorous transgressions in Machete (2010) and Machete Kills (2013)"
September 14-15, 2017 V. Magyar Interdiszciplináris Humorkonferencia. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary
Paper: "A női humor vetületei" (“Aspects of women’s humor”)
April 19-22, 2017 TALKING BODIES: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Identity, Sexuality and Representation, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom
Paper: “Mae West, the great female impersonator and comic giant”
January 26-28, 2017 HUSSE 13 Conference, Eszterházy Károly University of Applied Sciences, Eger, Hungary
Paper: “Merida and Mother Bear: a lesson in feminist cultural pedagogy”
November 4-5, 2016 The Anthropology of Encounters: Frictions in the Past, Present and Future, Conference of the Hungarian Cultural Anthropological Association, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Spaces in transition through encounters with women’s humor”
September 30-October 1, 2016 NYIM 12 Conference: “Úton: A tér neme, a nemek terei”, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: „Női térnyerés a humoron keresztül A Kém (2015) című filmben” (“Women making headway/gaining space through the use of humor in Spy (2015)”)
May 12-14, 2016 HAAS 11 Conference: The Americas: Global Challenges and Responsibilities, University of Pécs, Pécs
Paper: ““I’ve been things and seen places.” The Diversity of the Americas in Mae West’s works.”
October 2-3, 2015 Discovering the Americas Conference, University of Szeged, Szeged
Paper: “Mae West’s America/Americas”
January 29-31, 2015 HUSSE 12 Conference, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Paper: “Boys Will Be Boys – but What About Girls? Girls in a Boy Status in Jane Austen’s Fiction”
May 30-31, 2014 HAAS10 Conference: Crossing Boundaries: Migration, Amalgamation, and Transgression in American Literature, History, and Culture, Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest
Paper: “Mae West’s Challenges and Transgressions”
January 24-26, 2013 HUSSE 11 Conference, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest
Paper: “Dysfunctional Parenthood and Family Crises in Jane Austen’s Fiction”
November 25, 2011 Conference in honor of Dr. Sarolta Marinovich, founder of the TNT Research Group, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Emma: Jane Austen’s Most Imperfect Heroine and Most Perfect Novel”
May 6-7, 2011 American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “The Effect of Information Society on the Representation of Femmes Fatales in American Visual Culture”
February 3, 2011 Információs Társadalom Alprogram Szakmai Konferencia, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: „A Chicago (1924-2002) karneváli végzet asszonyai: élet-halál/információ-dezinformáció zsonglőrök az információs társadalom hajnalán” (“The Carnivalesque Femmes Fatales of Chicago (1924-2002): Life/Death-Information/Disinformation Jugglers at the Dawn of Information Society”)
January 27-29, 2011 HUSSE 10 Conference at PPCU, Piliscsaba, Hungary
Paper: “Jane Austen Reloaded”
November 11-13, 2010 8th Biennial HAAS Conference, Images of America - Responses to a Changing Social, Cultural and Literary Landscape, Debrecen, Hungary
Paper: “The Carnivalesque Image of America in the Different Versions of Chicago”
February 4-6, 2010 Diversification and Its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline. 9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic
Paper: “‘The Merry Murderers,’ The Female Grotesque in Chicago”
September 16-19, 2009 The Surplus of Culture: Sense, Common-Sense, Non-Sense Conference, Ustroń, Poland
Paper: “‘The Merry Murderers,’ The Carnivalesque Femmes Fatales of Chicago (2002)”
January 22-24, 2009 HUSSE 9 Conference, Pécs, Hungary
Paper: “Let me mend your pen, Mr Darcy. Lewd and Aggressive Women in Jane Austen’s Fiction”
October 17-18, 2008 HAAS 2008 Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Americanness of American Cinema as seen by American Studies inside and outside of the United States”
September 19-20, 2008 A nő és a test/iség Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “A női test/iség Jane Austen-nál” (The Female Body/Carnality in Jane Austen’s works)
July 14-16, 2008 Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Literature, Media and Film, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Paper: “‘The Merry Murderers,’ Criminality in Musical Disguise in Chicago (2002)”
July 6-10, 2008 4th Conference on Eastern & Western Traditions of European Iconography, The Iconology of Law and Order, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “‘The Defense Rests,’ Picturing the Unrest of Law and Order in Chicago”
April 4-5, 2008 Medial Interactions in the Literary Fantastic, Salzburg-Szeged Dissertation Network Workshop, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Intermediality, dialogism and intertextuality in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and its reinterpretation in the 1986 BBC adaptation”
November 22, 2007 Szeged-Salzburg Project, PhD Network Symposium, Salzburg, Austria – member/participant
June 19, 2007 Horror Symposium, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Gender az Alien vs. Predator (2004) c. filmben” (Gender in Alien vs. Predator (2004))
March 15-18, 2007 HELAAS Graduate Student International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
Paper: “The evolution of the concept of American identity in the various versions of Chicago”
January 25-27, 2007 HUSSE 8 Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Made and/or self-made women in the early 30’s”
November 3-4, 2006 Joint PhD Network Symposium: Communicative Strategies in Literature, Salzburg, Austria
Paper: “Satire in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and her Other Major Works”
October 6-7, 2006 HAAS Biennial Conference; Frontiers, Borderlines, and Frames, Pécs, Hungary
Paper: “Greta Garbo: a Transgressing Filmic Persona”
September 18-19, 2006 SILSE 2006 – Silesian Studies of English, International Conference of English and American Studies, Opava, Czech Republic
Paper: “Dangerous Dames in Pre-Code Hollywood”
June 30-July 2, 2006 Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature, International Literary Conference, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Paper: “On the verge of reality, Roxie’s day-dreaming as passage between two realms of existence in Chicago (2002)”
June 12, 2006 Vampire Symposium, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “The Emergence of the Vamp in Early Film History”
June 9-10, 2006 “What Constitutes the Fantastic?” Conference (Szeged-Salzburg Project), Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Equilibrium in paradox as a play with the fantastic”
April 7-8, 2006 “A nő mint szubjektum, a női szubjektum” (The Woman as Subject, the Female Subject) Conference, Debrecen, Hungary
Paper: “A flapper mint a női szubjektivitás devianciája” (The Flapper as Deviance of Female Subjectivity)
November 3-6, 2005 Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature, Film and Art Conference, (Szeged-Salzburg Project), Salzburg, Austria
Paper: “The Fantastic Body’s Representation in S1m0ne (2002)”
September 12, 2005 “Creativity in Literary Studies,” British Council Videoconference, Szeged, Hungary – roundtable participant
September 9-11, 2005 Feminist & Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland), 18th Annual Conference – Gender and Violence, Aberdeen, Scotland
Paper: “Who says that murder is not an art?” Female violence as a means to become famous in Maurine Dallas Watkins’s Chicago and in its adaptations”
June 17, 2005 “Post-colonialism, Globalisation and Terror,” British Council Videoconference, Budapest, Hungary – roundtable participant
April 25-27, 2005 IMAGE/TEXT in the Multimedial Age Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “A hírnév reprezentációja a „Chicago”-ban” (The Representation of Fame in Chicago)
February 2-4, 2005 The Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic
Paper: “(Im)morality of the New Woman in the Early 20th Century”
January 27-29, 2005 HUSSE 7 Conference, Veszprém, Hungary
Paper: “Is the image of a female murderer grotesque?”
November 26-27, 2004 HAAS Biennial Conference, American Studies As Cultural Studies: Theory And Practice, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “Women of the 20s”
June 25-26, 2004 European Intertexts. A Study of Women’s Writing in English as a Part of a European Fabric. Travels: “She’s Leaving Home” Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Travel as a possibility of becoming yourself. Travels as modes of learning and improvement in Sarah Orne Jewett’s A Country Doctor”
May 18-20, 2004 Second International Conference of American Theater and Drama, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Paper: “A murderess as feminine and masculine. Women as victims and perpetrators in Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins and in its adaptations”
October 27-29, 2003 “Erőszak és nemek” (Gender Studies) Conference, Budapest, Hungary
Paper: “Női erőszak, erőszakolt nők” (Female violence/violated females)
Chairing at conferences
31 August – 4 September, 2026 (forthcoming) 2026 European Society for the Study of English Conference, 18th ESSE Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Session: Humour in Children’s Literature and Media
October 9-11, 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s (NEPCA) 2025 (Virtual) Conference, (Online access through Eventbrite/Sched), Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts, USA
Session 1: Thursday October 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:15pm EDT, Comedy Studies Panel – Humor Me: Comedy Across Media and Popular Culture
Session 2: Friday October 10, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT, Fantasy and Science Fiction 3: Shaping the Future: Speculative Media and Youth Audiences
September, 26-27, 2025 NYIM 20 Conference (Női tudósok, női tudások), Szeged
Session: Saturday, 27 September, 11:30-13:30, NŐI NYELV, NŐÍRÁS
January 30- February 1, 2025 HUSSE 17 Conference, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Session: Friday, 31 January: Session 3: 8.30-10.00 S3/7 Literature: Gendered Violence
Session: Saturday, 1 February: Session 5: 8.30-10.00 S5/6 Literature: Young Adult Literature
October 4-5, 2024 NYIM 19 Conference (Auto/biography, Self-/Life-writing), University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Session: (Oct 4) Társadalom (Society), 16:00-18:30
August, 26-30, 2024 2024 European Society for the Study of English Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
Session: Fictional Criminality and Humor
Co-Convenors: Zsófia Anna Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary) and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (University of Bamberg, Germany)
May, 24-25, 2024 14th Biennial HAAS Conference, “America Beyond Crisis: Regeneration, Coping, Healing,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Session: Saturday, 25 May 10.00-11.30 Section 4, Culture 4/B Chair: Zsófia Anna Tóth (Room 3)
October 12-14, 2023 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s 2023 Virtual Conference
Session: (Oct 14) Television 5: Politics and Ideologies on TV
October 20-22, 2022 Northeast Popular Culture Association’s 2022 Virtual Conference
Session: (Oct 22) Romance/Popular Romance Fiction 5: Gender/s and Sexuality/ies in Romance
September 23-24, 2022 NYIM 17 Conference (Feminism and Remembrance), Szeged, Hungary
Session: (Sept 24) Popkultúra (Popular Culture)
August 29-September 2, 2022 16th ESSE Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Session: Comic Women and Theories of Humor
Co-Convenors: Dr Zsófia Anna Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary), Dr Franziska Quabeck (University of Münster, Germany) and Dr Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (University of Bamberg, Germany)
January 27-29, 2022 15th HUSSE Conference, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary
Session: HUSSE 2021, Humour Theories and Practices Panel – British part
Session: HUSSE 2021, Humour Theories and Practices Panel – American part
September 24-25, 2021 NYIM 16 Conference: “Az ellenállás és együttműködés lehetőségei,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Session: Friday (Sept 24), 16:00-18:00 Plenary Session
October 4-5, 2019 NYIM 15 Conference: A feminista kritika és a metszetelmélet. Szeged, Hungary
Session: 16:00-18:00, Session A (Oct 4, Friday)
September 21-22, 2018 NYIM 14 Conference: Gender és Szolidaritás. Szeged, Hungary
Session: 16:30-18:00, Session A (Sept 21, Friday)
April 19-22, 2017 TALKING BODIES: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Identity, Sexuality and Representation, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom
Session (panel): 7C/Bodies and Selfhood (April 20, 14:30-16:00)
January 26-28, 2017 HUSSE 13 Conference, Eszterházy Károly University of Applied Sciences, Eger, Hungary
Plenary lecture chair: Alison Waller: “Mapping Childhood Reading” (27 January, 15:45-16:30)
January 26-28, 2017 HUSSE 13 Conference, Eszterházy Károly University of Applied Sciences, Eger, Hungary
Session: Woman as Other, (26 January, 16:10-17:40)
September 19- 20, 2014 NYIM 10. Nyelv, Ideológia, Média: Interdiszciplináris Gender Konferencia, „A Feminista Kutatás és oktatás távlatai Magyarországon”, Szeged, Hungary
Session: 13:30-15:30, B Szekció
May 6-7, 2011 American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference, Szeged, Hungary
Session: 12:00-12:50 – papers by Irén Annus and Anna Kérchy
July 14-16, 2008 Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Literature, Media and Film, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Session: Noir
September 9-11, 2005 Feminist & Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland), 18th Annual Conference – Gender and Violence, Aberdeen, Scotland
Session: Strand D – Media Responses (Sunday 9:30)
February 2-4, 2005 The Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic
Session: FILM I
Lectures
February 8, 2025 The Open Day of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Szeged
Mini class/lecture: “Disney/Pixar Animations”
December 16, 2024 The Open Day of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Szeged
Mini class/lecture: “Disney/Pixar Animations”
May 11, 2024 Animated Laughter: Varieties of Humorous Experience in Animated Films Webinar of the ISHS 2024 Webinar Series (International Society for Humor Studies), USA, online
Paper: “Raya and the Last Dragon (2021): a Paradigm Shift Regarding Women’s Humor at The Walt Disney Company”
October 12, 2023 Gendering Theory/Theories of Gender: A Cultural Historical Perspective lecture at the MA Program of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
Paper: “Women and Humor”
October 5, 2023 PhD Research Seminar of the English & American Literatures and Cultures Doctoral Program at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
Paper: “Is Humor Really Janus-Faced?”
April 7, 2011 Technical University of Liberec, English Department, Liberec, Czech Republic
Paper: “Comic and Tragic Approaches to Femmes Fatales in American Cinema”
July 23, 2007 Szegedi Társadalomtudományi Szakkollégium (“The Specialized Dormitory of Social Science in Szeged”), Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “Could the single woman be the symbol of the 21st century?”
February 20, 2007 “Mindentudás Kollégiuma” ("Dormitory of Omniscience") lecture series, Szeged, Hungary
Paper: “A női deviancia ábrázolásának változásai az amerikai filmben a XX. század folyamán” (The Changes in the Representation of Female Deviance in American Cinema Throughout the Twentieth Century)
Conferences (organization)
May, 24-25, 2024 14th Biennial HAAS Conference, “America Beyond Crisis: Regeneration, Coping, Healing,” University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary (co-organizer as part of the Department of American Studies
November 16-18, 2017 Transnational Americas: Home(s), Borders and Transgressions Conference, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary (co-organizer)
May 6-7, 2011 American Studies and Visuality – on the horizon of information society Conference, Szeged, Hungary (co-organizer)
February 3, 2011 Információs Társadalom Alprogram Szakmai Konferencia (Conference on Information Society), Szeged, Hungary („TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0005 – Creating the Center of Excellence at the University of Szeged” Project) (co-organizer)
Editorial work
June, 2023 – board member, International Journal of Disney Studies, https://www.intellectbooks.com/ijds
September, 2014 – board member, AMERICANA, E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, http://americanaejournal.hu/
September, 2012 – September, 2017 review editor, TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat, http://tntefjournal.hu/
Academic administrative work
June, 2024- NEPCA (Northeast Popular & American Culture Association) Comedy Studies Area Chair, https://nepca.blog/conference/conference-areas/
January, 2023 – OMAT (Teacher-training MA) Committee member, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
September, 2014 – MTMT administrator for the Department of American Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
September, 2014 – August, 2017 BAT Committee member, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
Fellowships, memberships
2023- Gyerek- és Ifjúsági Irodalom és Kultúra Kutatóközpont (Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture Research Center)
2022- DisNet: Disney, Culture & Society Research Network
2022-2023 The International Elizabeth von Armin Society
2021- Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
2021- Digitális Kultúra és Elméletek Kutatócsoport, Szegedi Tudományegyetem
2020-2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association
2018- International Association of Inter-American Studies
2017- Mensa HungarIQa
2017- Mensa International
2017- International Society for Humor Studies
2017- American Humor Studies Association
2010- TNT, a Szegedi Tudományegyetem Angol-Amerikai Intézetének Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Kutatócsoportja (The Gender Studies Research Group at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged)
2004- Hungarian Association of American Studies
2004- Hungarian Society for the Study of English
2004- European Association for American Studies
2004- European Society for the Study of English
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