ANNA VÁRADI

Anna Váradi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. Her PhD about the portrayal of the Cold War on Trump-era television was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's South, West and Wales DTP, who now support her postdoctoral research. She is thrilled to turn back to her roots and explore cultural memories of Communist history in her native Hungary, having spent many years focusing on attitudes towards the Cold War in the USA. 

Anna has published in peer-reviewed journals as author and translator (working in German and Hungarian) and has presented at international conferences on television cultures, nostalgia, and feminist media in the UK, USA, and Denmark. Before establishing the Replaying Communism project, she worked as a Teaching Fellow and as Senior Tutor at the Universities of Reading and Warwick, and as Admissions Manager for the Rise scholarship at The Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford, collaborating with non-profits around the globe to create educational opportunities for low-resource students and refugees.

Anna was awarded the Laura Bassi Second Set Scholarship by the Editing Press for her postdoctoral research (2023), has a certificate in Strategy Execution from Harvard Business School (2021), received the TV PhD award from the Edinburgh Television Festival (2019), served as the first ever Visiting Fellow at the Paley Center for Media archives, New York (2018), and won the Graduate Scholar Award at the '14th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities', Chicago (2016).

Please get in touch if you would like to contact Anna about any of her research. 

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