CV/Szakmai életrajz

Éva Federmayer, Dr. habil.

CURRICULUM VITAE

WORK

Associate Professor (guest professor), School of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Rákóczi út 5. H-1088: 2016 to the present

Associate Professor (full-time), School of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Rákóczi út 5. H-1088: 1985-2016

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: 1975-1985

Associate Professor (part-time), Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Szeged, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2, H-6722:1996-2014

EDUCATION

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary: 1970-74; majors: English, Hungarian

József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary: 1969-70; majors: English, Hungarian

DEGREES

Habilitation: 2017 (Eötvös Loránd University)

Ph.D./CSc ('kandidátusi fokozat'): 1996 (American Literature)

University Doctoral Degree ('egyetemi doktori fokozat'): 1984 (English and American Literature)

High School Teacher's Degree in Hungarian and English Language and Literature: 1974

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, August 2007-January 2008: “Jazz Discourses, Gender, Race and African American Culture” (Fulbright Grant)

University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, April-July, 2002: “Narratives of the Color Line” (Kellner Research Grant)

Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Germany, August, 1997: "Gender, Race and African American Literature" (Free University of Berlin Fellowship)

Salzburg Seminar, Center for the Study of American Literature and Language, Austria, September 23-October 6, 1995: "Literature of Ethnicity in the United States" (U.S.I.A. Grant)

The School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, NH, U.S.A., July-August, 1994: "Signs, Differences, Genders: Readings in Feminist Theory"

Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993-94: "Challenges to Dominant Discourses: Feminist and African American Literary Criticism" (Fulbright Research Fellowship)

Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Germany, August 1993: "Feminism and Gender in U.S.A.Culture" (Free University of Berlin Grant)

Stuttgart Seminar, Germany, July 1991: "Beyond Postmodernism" (University of Stuttgart Grant)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1989-90: "Edgar Allan Poe and Postmodern Literary Criticism" (ACLS Fellowship)

Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Germany: June 1989: "Edgar Allan Poe and Psychoanalytic Criticism" (Free University of Berlin Grant)

Salzburg Seminar 242, Salzburg, July 1985: "Canonization and Literary History" (U.S.I.S. Grant)

University of Minnesota, St. Paul-Minneapolis, 1980-81: "American Literary criticism: Psychoanalytic Theories; Northrop Frye" (U.S.I.S. Grant)

Yale University, U.S.A., 1975: Harold Bloom’s lectures and seminars on “the anxiety of influence” (Hungarian-American Friendship Society Grant)

University of Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.A: 1974-75: majoring in American Literature (Hungarian-American Friendship Society Grant and IREX Grant)

TEACHING

Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary: 1996—2016

Part-time Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary: 1996 until the end of spring semester 2014

Senior Assistant Professor, Department of English, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary: 1985-1996

Part-time Assistant Professor, Department of English and American Studies, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary: 1994-1996

Visiting Professor, English Department, Kodolányi János Teacher Training College, Székesfehérvár, Hungary: 1994

Visiting Professor, Department of Foreign Languages / Teacher Training Center, University of Economics: 1994-1995.

International Language School, Budapest: 1983-1989

COURSES TAUGHT

-- American literature from the colonial times to the present

-- contemporary American society and culture

-- feminist theories of the body (body studies)

-- introduction to feminism

-- feminist literary criticism

-- African American literature

-- contemporary theories of culture and literature

-- the representation of “blackness” in American cinema

-- the history of American cinema

-- comparative American studies: Hungarian-American cultural studies

-- race/ethnicity, class and gender in Anglo-American culture

-- ecocriticism

-- ecology, culture and literature

TEACHING ABROAD

University of Passau, Germany ("Geographies of Identities: Reading Blackness in Film and Literature"), November 2014.

Erasmus course (“Race/Ethnicity, Class and Gender in American Literature”), La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, for graduate students, May 2011.

Erasmus course (“Narratives of the Color Line”), University of Turku, Turku, Finland for upper-division and graduate students, April 2001.

Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA: undergraduate seminar (“Representation of Racism in Hungarian Literature”), April 1990.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Theory: gender studies, critical race studies, cultural studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism

American literature: African American literature, contemporary American literature with a special emphasis on ethnic literatures of the U.S.; women in literature and American women authors.

CONFERENCE and ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS

Member of the Conference Committee, 8^th European Feminist Research Conference (“The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012”), May 17-20, 2012 | Budapest, Hungary

http://www.asszisztencia.hu/gender/index.php?menu=1

Strand Coordinator for “Located at the Crossroads of Race and Gender: Intersectional Analysis in Women’s and Gender Studies,” 8^th European Feminist Research Conference, 2012

Head of the Organizing Committee, HAAS (Hungarian Association for American Studies) Biennial Conference , 2003 (“American Studies as Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice”), Budapest, November 26-27, 2003

http://www.geocities.com/haas_budapest)

Organizing Secretary: ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Conference, 1986, Budapest

Acquisition of and processing Dr. Antonia Burrough’s 2500-volume gender studies private library donation for the Library of English-American Studies (negotiations, transportation, organizing students for processing books for the library)

Member of the editorial boards of Americana http://americanaejournal.hu/ and TNTeF, Társadalmi Nemek Tudománya Interdiszciplináris eFolyóirat (Gender Studies Interdisciplinary e-Journal) http://tntefjournal.hu/

Peer-reader for Americana http://americanaejournal.hu/, Anachronist http://anachronist.atw.hu/, American Studies in Scandinavia https://sites.google.com/site/naasstudies/journal-american-studies-in-scandinavia and TNT eFJournal http://tntefjournal.hu/.

Referee and examiner for doctoral schools at Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Debrecen, the University of Szeged

Chair in Master Degree of Gender examination committees at Central European University (2018, 2019, 2020)

OFFICES HELD

Erasmus coordinator, Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University: 1999-present

Co-President of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS): 2003-2007

Member of the Editorial Board of Americana, e-Journal of American Studies in Hungary

http://americanaejournal.hu/ : 2005-present

Acting American Studies Graduate Program Director: 2002, 2004

Board member of László Országh Award, 2000-2004

Director of Postgraduate English Teacher Training Program at the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1993-99

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-5104