IEAS BA Thesis Supervisors and Topics

2010/2011

Annus Irén
American painting and architecture
Religion in American culture
Racial and ethnic groups in the American society
Gender and 19th-century US
Identity Studies

Barát Erzsébet
Gender in the media
Researching (and) Auto/biography
Discursive Construction of Identity
Relationship between Language, Ideology and Power
Language and sexuality

Bocsor Péter
Modern/Postmodern literature
Literary therory
Semiotics
Minimalist short fiction

Cora Zoltán
British History (19-20th centuries)
Great-Britain and Europe in the 20th Century
Social and Cultural History of Britain (19-20th centuries)
Theories of History
British Aesthetics and Literature (18-19th centuries)

Cristian Réka Mónika

Modern American literature
American modernism
American drama and drama adaptations
Postcolonial theory in American literature and film
Gender and the American film
Film Theories (auteur, gender, third cinema)

Csetényi Korinna
Gothic literature
Horror literature
Victorian novel

Doró Katalin
Second language acquisition
First language development
Vocabulary studies
Psycholinguistics
Dragon Zoltán
Film theory
Film adaptations
American Film History
Contemporary Visual Culture
Digital Culture & Theory
Contemporary US fiction

Dudits András
Translation Studies
Interpreting Studies

Federmayer Éva
Postmodernism
American women writers
African American writers
Black literature and culture in the USA

Fenyvesi Anna
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism

Kenesei István
Theory of syntax
Topics in the syntax of English
The structure of tensed subordinate clauses
The structure of nonfinite clauses
Topics in descriptive semantics
Topics in philosophical semantics
Topics in English word-formation

Kérchy Anna
Body Studies
Gender and literature, (feminist) literary theory
Victorian, 20th century and contemporary British and American novel (esp. women's
writing)
The Fantastic/ Magical Realism
Children's literature
Contemporary arts (practice and theory)

Kiss Attila
English Renaissance drama
Post-War British and American drama
Semiotics of literature and culture

Kocic Larisa
16th c. Reformation and its aftermaths in England
Religious and metaphysical poetry and of the Renaissance and the Restoration (Donne,
Herbert, Crashaw, Marvell, Vaughan, Traherne, Milton)
16th-17th c. British history, philosophy, science
Pop culture (fandom, fanfic, comics, graphic novel)
Kontra Miklós
The English Only movement
Language rights in the USA
Language and education in an English-speaking country
Hungarian-English contrastive linguistic topics
Social variation in English
Hungarian attitudes to varieties of English
The English of Hungarian Americans
The Hungarian of Hungarian Americans
What is Standard English?
The English intonation of Hungarians

Kovács Ágnes Zsófia

Contexts of Realist American fiction
Voices in Modernist American fiction
Multiculturalism in American literature
Popular American literature

Kürtösi Katalin
Canadian literature and culture

Matuska Ágnes
Elizabethan and Jacobean art and literature
Late medieval morality plays
Performance Studies, Metadrama
Literary trickster-characters
Shakespeare adaptations (film and theatre)

Nagy Gergely
Medieval English literature (Old and Middle English; especially
romances, Arthurian literature, Sir Thomas Malory)
JRR Tolkien and fantasy (selected authors)
Science fiction (Star Wars, Dune, Ursula Le Guin, Asimov)
Popular music

Novák György
Colonial American History (-1826)
20 -century US history
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Detective/spy fiction
20 -century American literature
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Medieval English history (-1485)

P. Balogh Andrea
Feminism, Gender and Literature
Post-War British Literature and Culture
Modern British Drama and Theatre
Postcolonialism in British and Irish Literature and Culture
Modern Poetry
Pap Dániel
English Syntax
Comparative Syntax
The syntax of verbal particles

Peckham, Don
Second language acquisition
Communication and learning strategies
Transfer and cross-linguistic influence
Vocabulary acquisition and the lexicon

Péter Róbert
16th-19th c. British history
Religious history of modern Britain and certain aspects of the US
Cultural and intellectual history of the British Enlightenment
18th-19th c. English press history
History of the associational world - (secret) societies (e.g.
freemasonry) and clubs
Esoteric currents in modern Britain
Theories of religion, culture and secularization

Polgárdi Krisztina
Phonology-morphology interaction
Syllable-related phenomena
Segmental processes
Stress and prosodic structure
Contrastive linguistics, loan word phonology
Phonological variation, accents of English
Sound change and analogy
Language games, speech disguise, slang
The language of poetry: poetic metre, poetic rhyme
Systematic aspects of sms language

Reschné Marinovich Sarolta

19th-20th century English novel
Romanticism and Victorianism
The gothic/the fantastic
Literature and gender

Rozsnyai Bálint
American intellectual and cultural history, 17th to early 20th c.
Changing patterns of cultural production and consumption:
Material culture and the shaping of American identities
The domestic sphere
American literature 17th to late 19th c.
Authorship
The literary canon
Formation of reading/interpretive communities
Literacy and reading
Production/dissemination of information/knowledge
Szabó-Gilinger Eszter
Sociolinguistics (language planning, language rights, language and gender,
Bilingualism, language and education)
Canadian studies (educational issues, linguistic issues)
Hip hop studies

Szõnyi György Endre

Renaissance/Baroque/Augustan poetry (Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden,
Pope)
Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson)
Early novel (Bunyan, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Sterne)
University novel (Amis, Bradbury, Lodge, Davies, etc.)
Literature and the occult
British arts & music (selected topics, upon agreement)

Suszczynska, Malgorzata
Linguistic politeness (theories, empirical research)
Cross- and intercultural Pragmatics
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Gender in sociopragmatic research
Institutional discourse (medical, classroom, courtroom, media)
Conversation analysis
Speech act analysis

Tóth Zsófia
Gender and literature
Gender and film
Jane Austen (literature and film adaptations)
Violence in American cinema

Vajda Zoltán
Antebellum southern culture
19th century US history
Cultural Studies

Szeged, 15th April, 2010

BAT Committee