Curriculum Vitae ANNA MENYHÉRT

Curriculum Vitae ANNA MENYHÉRT EDUCATION AND DEGREES Dr. habil., 2011, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary. Titles of habilitation lectures: Trauma Theory and Interpretation. The Analysis of 21 st Century Literary Texts in the Framework of Trauma Studies ; Trauma and Cover Story. The Fake Holocaust Memoir of Binjamin Wilkomirski PhD, Literary Theory, 2002, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary. Title of dissertation: Dialogue, Ideology, Rhetoric: Figures of Reading Lyric Texts. PhD Studies: 09/1996 07/1999, including a research period at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Department of Comparative Literature (09/1998 12/1998) Final (pre-degree) certificate for MA in English Language and Literature, 1997, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary MA in Hungarian Language and Literature, 1995, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary MA in Russian Language and Literature, 1994, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary MA and BA studies: 09/1987 06/1997 at all the three departments listed above, including study and research periods abroad: 5 months, and later 1 month in Moscow, Russia, Lomonosov University (01 05/1988, 04/1992 respectively), 12 months in London, UK, Richmond Adult and Community College (09/1990 08/1991), 4 months in Amsterdam, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Department of Slavonic Studies (01 05/1994) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TEACHING AND RESEARCH 09/2010 Research Fellow at Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Cultural Studies and Hungarian Literature, Principal Investigator of the Trauma and Gender in Literature and Culture Research Group (https://traumaandgender.wordpress.com) 02/2014 06/2014 Visiting Guest Lecturer, Mérei Ferenc College for Advanced Studies, Budapest 07/2010 Director and owner of the Creative Writing School at 5K Központ (5K Cultural and Educational Centre), Budapest (www.5kkozpont.hu) CV Anna Menyhért 1

09/2007 06/2010 Director of the Creative Writing School of the Hungarian Writers Association 2006 2008 Research Fellow, Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 09/2003 06/2004 Visiting Lecturer at ELTE ICSHL 09/2002 08/2005 Institute Full Professor, Head of Department, Department of Hungarian Studies, Balassi Bálint Institute, Budapest 09/1997 07/2002 Assistant Professor, University of Miskolc, Department of Modern Hungarian Literature, Miskolc, Hungary 09/1996 08/1997 Instructor, University of Miskolc, Department of Modern Hungarian Literature 09/1993 06/1996 Teacher of Hungarian literature and English language at Eötvös József Gimnázium (secondary school), Budapest POSITIONS HELD IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY AND IN THE CULTURAL CIVIL SECTOR, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE 11/2007 06/2014 Director, Hungarian Literary Authors Collecting Society (www.miszje.hu) 08/2007 07/2014 Member of the Board of Supervisors of the József Attila Circle Literary Union of Young Writers 06/2005 05/2011 Vice President of the European Writers Council (EWC) (www.europeanwriters.eu) 09/2003 06/2005 Board member of the European Writers Council 08/2000 08/2006 President of the József Attila Circle Literary Union of Young Writers (JAK) (www.jozsefattilakor.hu) 01/1992 06/2002 Editor, part-time, at Anonymus Publishing Ltd, Budapest GRANTS, PRIZES, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Writing and Research Grant of the National Cultural Foundation 2012 2015 Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, OTKA PD 104 264 2010 2012 Research Fellowship at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Social Renewal Operational Grant 2011 Writing and Research Grant of the National Cultural Foundation 2006 2008 Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2002 Pro Literaria Award of the Hungarian Creators Union 2002 2003 Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences CV Anna Menyhért 2

2001 Travelling Grant of the European Writers Council for their seminar for emerging writers, Switzerland 2001 Writing and Research Grant of the National Cultural Foundation 2000 Writing and Research Grant of the Soros Fundation 1999 Móricz Zsigmond Writing and Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture 1998 Travelling Grant for Research Fellowships of the Soros Foundation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Comparative Literature 1994 Travelling Grant of the Peregrinatio Foundation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1992 Travelling Grant of Eötvös Loránd University to Moscow, Russia, University of Moscow 1987 First Prize in Literary Studies at the Hungarian National Competition for Secondary School Students 1987 Literary Award of the Király György Foundation, Student of the Year in Literature PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND ADVANCED SCHOOLS (Selected) 2015 Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups, forthcoming, paper at the conference Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe, IARCEES, Dublin, May 2015 Women s Literary Tradition. Women Writers in Hungarian Cultural Memory. Talk at Cambridge University, CRASSH, seminar series Places of Amnesia 2014 Vilma Hugonnai: The First Hungarian Doctor in Cultural Memory. Paper presented at the conference Chercez la femme. Women in Cultural Narratives, organised by the Trauma and Gender Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), 2014 Literature and Women s Literature in Hungary. Roundtable discussion and reading together with Anna T. Szabó and George Szirtes at the Nottingham Writers Studio, Nottingham, UK The Role of Women in the Humanities in Hungary. Roundtable discussion with Andrea Pető as guest and Balázs Sipos as co-facilitator, Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities 2013 CV Anna Menyhért 3

20 th Century Hungarian Women s Literature. Talk at the University of Vienna, Department of European and Comparative Literature, Austria The Patchwork of Memory in the Novel In the Beginning There Was the Garden and the Diaries of Lesznai Anna. Paper presented at the conference Transnational Woman s Literature in Europe, Budapest, Central European University in cooperation with FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship and Akademie Schloss Solitude Trauma Theory and Literature. Lecture at the Department of Hungarian Studies, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Creative Writing in the Dovetail Project. Workshop at the Nottingham Writers Studio, Nottingham Public Lending Right and Authors in Hungary. Paper presented at the International Public Lending Right Conference, Dublin Chairing the panel Future Directions at the international AT Gender workshop Tuning Gender Studies: Teaching Gender Studies between Hopes and Expectations, Budapest, Andrássy University Az Asszonynak. Modern Women in the Supplement of Az Ujsag. Paper presented at the conference All Kinds of Modern Women in Hungary before World War I. Budapest, 1913: Congress of the Suffrage World Association of Women. Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University Women s Literary Tradition. Public discussion about the book, Nyitott Műhely, Budapest, with László Arató, Anna Borgos, Tímea Turi 2012 20 th Century Hungarian Women s Literature. Talk at the University of Florence, Department of Comparative Literature, Culture and Languages, Italy Hidden Tradition. 20 th Century Women s Literature. Paper presented at the conference Gender and Tradition, organised by the Trauma and Gender Research Group and the Association of Teachers of Hungarian Literature, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Chairing the panel Testimony and Literary Narrations of War at the conference Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence, Central European University 2011 Traces True or False: Trauma in Contemporary Literary Texts. Paper presented at the conference Trauma, Event, Symptom, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Trauma and Literature. Guest participant in a roundtable discussion organised by József Attila Kör Literary Union of Young Writers (JAK) Pink Glasses: Critical Discussions About Women s Literary Tradition. Writers discussed: Minka Czóbel, Zsuzsa Rakovszky CV Anna Menyhért 4

2010 Trauma Theory and Interpretation in Contemporary Literature, Habilitation lecture, ELTE Trauma and Cover Story: The Fake Holocaust Memoir of Binjamin Wilkomirski, Habilitation lecture, ELTE Women s Best-sellers, paper presented at a conference Popular Culture and Literatue organised by JAK and Petőfi Museum of Literature Pink Glasses: Critical Discussions About Women s Literary Tradition. Writers discussed: Ilona Harmos, Kosztolányiné, Gizella Hervay, Margit Kaffka 2009 Pink Glasses: Critical Discussions About Women s Literary Tradition. Writers discussed: Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Renée Erdős, Erzsébet Galgóczi, Anna Lesznai, Alaine Polcz, Magda Szabó Popular Trends in Children Literature. Lecture for Duna Television Cimbora University, distributed in secondary education on DVD Cultural Trauma. Discussion with Anna Menyhért and psychologist Péter Popper, recorded for Duna Television Dialogue University, distributed in higher education on DVD Gender and Roles in Literature, Roundtable discussion at the conference of the Hungarian Belletrist Association and Petőfi Museum of Literature (PIM) 2008 Women Writing Literary Criticism. Paper presented at the conference organised by JAK and PIM Poems. Giving a speech and reading poetry at the International Conference of Women Writers, organised by the Cultural Foundation Essencelle, Komarno, Slovakia Wives at the Typewriter. Roundtable discussion at the conference of the Belletrist Association and PIM 2007 Gender Approaches. Roundtable discussion at Pszinapszis, Assembly of Students of Psychology, ELTE 2006 Memoirs as Words of the Mother. Paper presented at the conference The Woman As Subject Female Subjects, University of Debrecen Trauma and Literature. Chairing the Symposium at the 6 th International Congress of Hungarian Studies, University of Debrecen, presenting paper on the fake Holocaust Memoirs of Binjamin Wilkomirski CV Anna Menyhért 5

2005 Women s Mirror Autobiographies. Paper presented at a conference on Attila József, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania 2004 Chairing the panel The Image of the Other in Times of Crises at the conference Mare Nostrum III. Mediterranean: Troubled Waters or Common Ground? The Role of Authors and Literature in the Eastern Mediterranean Area, organised by the European Writers Council in Cyprus COURSES TAUGHT Contemporary Hungarian Culture Contemporary Hungarian Literature Contemporary Hungarian Poetry and Criticism Creative Academic Writing Creative Writing Critical Theory Readings Cultural Memory and Women s Writing Platforms Double Talk: Reading Ideology Between the Lines Essay and Criticism Writing Feminist Literary Criticism Introduction to Hungarian Studies Introduction to Cultural Studies Introduction to Gender Studies Literary Canon Formation Literary Theory I., II., III. Personal Reading Poetry in the 1920s Reading Emotions in Literature The Hidden Tradition: 20th Century Women s Literature Trauma and Literature Trauma Theory and Deconstruction Trauma Theory, Trauma Narratives Treasure and Secret in 20th Century Poetry Women s Best-sellers Women s Literary Tradition and Cultural Trauma Theories Women s Memoirs CONFERENCES ORGANISED (Selected) Chercez la femme. Women in Cultural Narratives, organised by the Trauma and Gender Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), 2014 Gender and Tradition in Literature, organised by the Trauma and Gender Research Group and the Association of Teachers of Hungarian Literature, 2012 Trauma, Gender, Literature, organised by the Trauma and Gender Research Group, ELTE, 2011 CV Anna Menyhért 6

International Conference on Public Lending Right, organised by PLR International, Budapest, 2007 Forum Europa. International Conference of the European Writers Council, Budapest, 2002 Re-Reader. A conference series on Hungarian literature of the first half of the 20 th century, at Miskolc University, one conference per year, 1997 2002 PUBLICATIONS (Selected for full list of publications together with citations, reviews and interviews please see: http://www.menyhertanna.hu/publikaciok/) Monographs Trauma, Literature and Cultural Memory in the Digital Age, Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, provisional title, pending Női irodalmi hagyomány. Erdős Renée, Nemes Nagy Ágnes, Czóbel Minka, Kosztolányiné Harmos Ilona, Lesznai Anna, Budapest, Napvilág, 2013, 256 pp [Title in English: Women s Literary Tradition]. Number of reviews and citations: 8 + 12 Elmondani az elmondhatatlant. Trauma és irodalom, Budapest, Anonymus Ráció, 2008, 238 pp [Title in English: Speaking the Unspeakable: Trauma and Literature] Number of reviews and citations: 11 + 34 Egy olvasó alibije (Essays and studies on 20 th century Hungarian literature, on ideology, deconstruction, hermeneutics, gender issues, Bakhtin s dialogue theory), Budapest, Kijárat, 2002, 292 pp [Title in English: The Alibi of a Reader] Number of reviews and citations: 4 + 24 Én -ek éneke. Líraolvasás (Essays and studies on 20 th century and contemporary Hungarian and Russian poetry), Budapest: Orpheusz, 1998, 204 pp [Title in English: The Songs of Selves. Reading Lyric Poetry] Number of reviews and citations: 6 + 39 Volumes Edited or Co-Edited Trauma, Gender, Irodalom: A társadalmi nemi szerepek jelentősége a traumatikus tapasztalatok irodalmi értelmezésében. Eds. Menyhért, Anna, Györe, Borbála, Szabolcsi, Gergely, Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Publishers, 2014, e-pub [Title in English: Trauma, Gender, Literature: The Role of Gender in the Literary Interpretation of Traumatic Experiences] Amihez mindenki ért. Kultúratudományi tanulmányok, Eds. Menyhért, Anna, Vaderna, Gábor, Budapest, JAK L Harmattan, 2007 [Title in English: Everonye Is an Expert At It: Essays in Cultural Studies] Kortárs irodalmi olvasókönyv I II, Budapest, Anonymus, 2006, 900 pp [Title in English: The Contemporary Hungarian Literature Reader I II.] CV Anna Menyhért 7

Művészet és hatalom. A Kádár-korszak művészete, Eds. Kisantal, Tamás, Menyhért, Anna, Budapest, JAK L Harmattan, 2005 [Title in English: Art and Power: The Art in the Kádár Era in Hungary] Essays in English, German and Russian The Acknowledgement of Helplessness: The Helplessness of Acknowledgement: Imre Kertész: Fateless. Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, pending Memoir as Motherly Word: The Attila József Biographies Written by Judit Szántó, Flóra Kozmutca, and Márta Vágó. Hungarian Cultural Studies. The Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Forthcoming A Tradition of One s Own: Women s Literary Traditon. Hungarian Cultural Studies. The Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Pending Traumatheorie und Interpretation. Die Auslegung von Gabriella Nagys Fall. Berliner Beiträge zur Hungarologie. 2013/18, 96 118. Die Einsicht der Aussichtlosigkeit Die Aussichtslosigkeit der Einsicht. Imre Kertész: Roman eines Schicksallosen. Kakanien Revisited, http://www.kakanien.ac.at/beitr/fallstudie/ AMenyhert1/2007 O szmüszle predmetnosztyi u Annü Ahmatovoj: Analiz sztyihotvorenyija Vecserom. Slavica Tergestina 2. Eds. Mila Nortman, Laura Rossi, Ivan Verc, Trieste 1994, 71 90. Poetry Szelence: Negyven vers. Budapest, Palatinus, 2009. [Title in English: Casket: Forty Poems] Poems in English, Italian and Romanian Heart of a Fox ( Rókaszív). Transl. Evans, David Robert, Formafluens: International Literary Magazine, Italy, Rome, 2009/1. Caseta ( Szelence ), Interval ( Között ). Transl. Dima, Simona-Grazia, Luceafarul de Dimineata, Romania, Bukarest, 27. March 2009. Melancolie ( Kék ), Caseta ( Szelence ), Interval ( Között ), Inima unei vulpi ( Rókaszív ). Transl. Dima, Simona-Grazia, Hyperion, Romania, Botosani, 10 12. 2009, 135 136. In-Between ( Között ), That Depression All Over Again ( És megint az a depresszió. Transl. Evans, David Robert, Staple Magazine (UK, Nottingham, Winter 2009/Spring 2010: 115 116. Books for Children The Little Horse-series: A kis ló Tündérországban. Budapest, Csodaceruza, 2010., A kis ló és a tigrisek. Budapest, Csodaceruza, 2010., A kis ló és a szívbeszélő, Budapest: Csodaceruza, 2011., A kis ló és a kacsukahal. Budapest: Móra, 2013. CV Anna Menyhért 8

Vándorlány és az elvarázsolt Kisváros. Budapest, Pagony, 2012. [Title in English: Wanderer Girl and the Enchanted Town] Tengerimalacom története. Budapest, Móra, 2014. [Title in English: The Story of My Guinea Pig] CV Anna Menyhért 9