Éva Federmayer
associate professor, retired member of the Department of American Studies
- contact
- federmayer•eva ¤ gmail•com, http://senna53.caesar.elte.hu, more...
- degrees
- university doctor
PhD (kandidátus),
Dr. Habil.
- functions
- CONFERENCE and ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS
Member of the Conference Committee, 8th 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,” 8th 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/.
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
- experience
- -- Literature Doctoral School/American Studies + Gender in English and Am. Literature Program
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.
- languages
- Hu: native
Eng: prof.
Russian: intermed.
- courses
- OT–ANG17–390.05 Race, Class and Gender in Postcolonial American Literature (spring 2024)
- BBN–AME17–312.07 Ecology, Culture, and Literature (autumn 2023)
- BBN–AME17–312 Gender and race in American Literature: Identities and Trangressions (autumn 2020)
- BBN–AME17–312.04 Ecology, Literature and Culture (spring 2019)
- BBN–AME–312.02 Gender and "race" in American Literature: Identities and Trangressions (autumn 2018)
- BBN–AME–312.04 Ecology, Literature and Culture (spring 2018)
- BBN–AME11–312.04 Ecology, Literature and Culture (spring 2018)
- BBN–AME11–312.102 Figurations of the Postcolonial in Contemporary American Literature (autumn 2017)
- BBN–AME11–312.31 Feminist Literary Criticism (autumn 2016)
- BBN–AME–214 American Literature 3 (autumn 2015)
- BBN–AME11–312.18 Black in American Cinema (autumn 2015)
- BMA–AMED–120 American Cultural Studies (autumn 2015)
- BMA–AMED–300 Gender, 'Race' and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture (autumn 2015)
- BMA–AMED–300.04 Geographies of Identities: Reading American Literature Intersectionally (autumn 2015)
- BBN–AME–216 American literature 4 (spring 2015)
- BBN–AME11–312.32 Reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (spring 2015)
- BMA–AMED–400.31 Feminist Literary Criticism (spring 2015)
- BMA–AMED–421.01 Ecology, Literature and Culture (spring 2015)
- BMA–AMED–320.01 Theorizing the Body and Embodiment (autumn 2014)
- BBN–AME11–312.15 Contemporary African American Cinema (spring 2014)
- BBN–AMW–505.02 Eco-Writing/Ecocriticism (spring 2014)
- BMA–AMED–400.32 Reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (spring 2014)
- BMA–AMED–301.02 Subjectivity and the Gendered Body (autumn 2013)
- BMA–AMED–321.02 Representations of Blackness in American Cinema (autumn 2013)
- BBN–AME–312.31 Feminist Literary Criticism (spring 2013)
- BBN–AME–312.15 Contemporary African American Cinema (spring 2013)
- BBN–AME–312.32 Reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (spring 2013)
- BBN–AMW–306.02 Eco-Writing/Ecocriticism (spring 2013)
- BMA–AMED–300.02 Gender, 'Race' and Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture (autumn 2012)
- BMA–AMED–321.18 Blackness in American Film (autumn 2012)
- BMA–AMED–400.01 Contemporary African American Cinema (spring 2012)
- BMA–AMED–400.02 Readings in African American Literature (spring 2012)
- BMA–AMED–401.02 Theories of Gendered Subjectivity (spring 2012)
- BBN–AME–312.18 Representation of Blackness in American Cinema (autumn 2011)
- BMA–AMED–321 American Film (autumn 2011)
- BBN–AME–312.19 Major Figures of Twentieth-Century American Literature (spring 2011)
- BMA–AMED–301 Feminist Criticism (spring 2011)
- BBN–AMW–312.15 Journalism Internship or Special Project (autumn 2010)
- BBN–AME–312.10 Specialization course in American literature (spring 2010)
- BBN–AME–312.05 Multicultural Voices in American Literature from Kate Chopin to Edwidge Danticat (autumn 2009)
- BBN–AME–312.06 Identity Narratives: From Charles Chesnutt to Percival Everett (autumn 2009)
- AMN–340.120 Readings in African American Literature and Culture (spring 2009)
- AMN–340.121 Cultural Studies Seminar (spring 2009)
- AMN–340.57 Black in American Cinema (spring 2009)
- AMN–449 Comprehensive examination in literature (spring 2009)
- BBN–AME–311 Cultural Studies and American Studies (spring 2009)
- AMN–340.114 Black, White, and Mixed-Race: Discourses of Race in American Litarature (autumn 2008)
- AMN–340.115 Contemporary African American Cinema. (autumn 2008)
- AMN–340.116 Feminist Criticism (autumn 2008)
- AMN–340.58 Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Class in 20th Century American Literature (autumn 2008)
- AMN–242 American literature 2 (spring 2008)
- AMN–340.45 Theories of Culture and Literature (spring 2008)
- AMN–340.81 Contemprary Black Cinema (spring 2007)
- AMN–240 American literature 1 (autumn 2006)
- AMN–300.50 Cultural Studies Research Seminar: American Culture in Hungary (autumn 2006)
- AMN–340.59 Introduction to Feminist Criticism (spring 2006)
- ANN–312.70 Text & Context: 20th Century American Literature (spring 2005)
- more ...
- publications (see MTMT)
