Faculty & Departments

IEAS consists of three departments: English, American Studies and ELTEAL (English Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics). Their respective sites can be accessed from this page. The Institute is lead by the Director of the Institute in cooperation with the Institute Council.

Full-time Faculty

EnS = English Studies; AmS = American studies; ELTEAL = English Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics; HuS = Hungarian studies

Annus Irén, PhD Associate Professor (AmS) American culture, arts, religions, minorities in the US email, Ph: 544-000/3213, website
Aradi Csenge, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) cultural linguistics, conceptual metaphor theory and its applications in literary studies, applied cognitive linguistics in second language acquisition email, Ph: 544-261
Árvay Anett, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (HuS) Hungarian studies, sociopragmatics, cross-cultural communication email, Ph: 544-685
Bajnóczi Beatrix, MA Master Instructor (ELTEAL) language skills, testing & assessment, English for business & administration, ESP email, Ph: 544 261, website
Baranyi-Dupák Karina, PhD Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) language teaching, second language acquisition, vocabulary acquisition email, Ph: 544-689
Bálint Emma, PhD (ON LEAVE) Assistant Professor (EnS) fairy tale studies, adaptation studies, transmedial storytelling, contemporary literature email, Ph: 544 542
Bocsor Péter, PhD Master Instructor (EnS) translation/interpretation, business communication, 20 century US literature email, Ph: 544-549
Cora Zoltán, PhD Senior Assistant Prof. (EnS) Modern and contemporary British and European history and historiography, theories of history, classical, modern and postmodern aesthetics, British literature and arts (18th and 19th centuries) email, Ph: (36)-62-544-549
Cristian Réka Mónika, PhD, dr. habil. Associate Prof. (AmS) Theories of American Studies, American modernism, American drama and theater, film theory and the American film, gender and postcolonial studies in American film and literature email, Ph: 544 847, website
Csetényi Korinna, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (EnS) Gothic literature, horror literature and films, Romantic poetry email, Ph: 544 256
de Man, George (ELTEAL) Oral communication, academic writing, first-generation university students email, Ph: 544 256
Doró Katalin, PhD, dr. habil Associate Prof. (ELTEAL) applied linguistics, language skills email, Ph: 546 792
Dragon Zoltán, MPhil, PhD, dr. habil. Associate Professor (AmS), Head of Department film theory, digital culture and theories, literature and cultural theory, visual culture, photography email, Ph: 62/34-3321, website
Dudits András, PhD Master Instructor (EnS) translation and interpretation email
Farmasi Lilla, PhD (ON LEAVE) Senior Assistant Professor (EnS) cognitive poetics, postclassical narratologies, interdisciplinarity, 20th century and contemporary prose email, Ph: 544-261
Fenyvesi Anna, PhD, dr. habil. (ON LEAVE) Associate Professor (EnS), Director of Institute general linguistics, sociolinguistics, language contact email, Ph: 544-262, website
Fischer Mónika (ELTEAL) translator, interpreter, language and business coach email, Ph: 544-262
Forrester, Allan, MA Language Instructor (ELTEAL) Academic Writing, spoken communication, and use of English email, Ph: 544-689
Frankó Tamara Institute Senior Secretary email, Ph: 544 259
Galiere, Mehdi, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (Eng) English; discourse analysis, applied linguistics, critical literacy email, Ph: 544-256
Hill, Jonnie, PhD Language instructor (ELTEAL) applied linguistics, teaching methodology, simulation and games in second language acquisition, distance learning email, Ph: 544-261
Huber Máté, PhD Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) Sociolinguistics, linguistic pluricentricity, TEFL methodology email, Ph: 544 689
Kecskés Julianna Institute/ELTEAL secretary, Neptun Referent of the Institute email, Ph: 544-024
Kenesei István, DSc/PhD, dr. habil. Professor Emeritus (EnS) syntax, semantics, prosodic phonology, syntax-morphology interface email, Ph: 544 258, website
Kérchy Anna, PhD, DEA, dr. habil, dr.univ. DSc Professor (EnS) literary theory, gender studies, body studies, Victorian, 20th c. and contemporary literature, children’s literature, the fantastic email, Ph: 544000-3045
Kiss Attila, DSc, dr. habil., dr. univ., PhD Professor (EnS), Head of Department early modern English drama and theatricality, drama and theater theory, postsemiotics, semiography email, Ph: 544 260
Kovács Ágnes Zsófia, PhD, dr. habil Associate Prof. (AmS) American literature, Realism and Modernism in literature, Multiculturalism, Popular culture, Theories of narrative, theories of the novel, Ethics of narrative email, Ph: 544 847, website
Kovács Margit, MA Junior Assistant Prof. (AmS) Hungarian Studies email, Ph: 544-685
Lesznyák Márta, PhD, Deputy Director of Institute, Acting Director for Fall 2024 Senior Assistant Professor (ELTEAL), Head of Department translation competence, language teaching, intercultural competence email, Ph: 544-689
Patartics Csilla, MA (ON LEAVE) Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) foreign language teaching and learning, language skills email, Ph: 343-208
Peckham, Don, PhD Associate Professor (ELTEAL) applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language teaching email, Ph: 544 284
Perneki Marietta, MA Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) EFL/ESL and a use of technology in language teaching/learning email, Ph: 544-261
Péter Nóra, MA Language Instructor (HuS) email, Ph: 544 685
Péter Róbert, PhD, dr. habil Associate Prof. (EnS) 17th-18th c. British history, philosophy of the (counter-)Enlightenment, modern religious history, theories of culture and religion, freemasonry email, Ph: 544 549
Pinjung-Kajtár Olga Assistant Prof. (EnS) Self-fashioning, enmification, Guantánamo Bay, New American Studies email
Püski Gyöngyi Assistant Professor (ELTEAL) sociolinguistics, language attitudes and teaching/learning EFL, non-native accent, language skills email, Ph: 544 549
Sávai-Matuska Ágnes, PhD, dr. habil Associate Prof. (EnS) Early modern literature and culture, drama semiotics, translation and interpretation, intermediality email, Ph: 544 259
Szarvas Réka, MA Assistant Professor (EnS) crime fiction, metafiction, body studies, literary theory, gender studies, contemporary literature email, Ph: 544000-3045
Székesi Dóra, PhD Senior Assistant Prof. (ELTEAL) ESL/EFL Ph: 343-217
Szélpál Lívia, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (EnS) American Studies, British and American history (including the unconventional histories), the issue of history on film, urban history, 19th and 20th-century American literature and culture, Memory Studies, American intellectual history email, Ph: 544 549
Szőnyi György Endre, DSc/PhD, dr. habil. Professor Emeritus (EnS) 16-18c. British literature, Renaissance, English music and visual arts, occultism, literature email, Ph: 544 030, website
Tápainé Balla Ágnes, PhD Senior Assistant Prof. (ELTEAL) EFL methodology, applied linguistics email, Ph: 544 689
Tóth Judit (ELTEAL) secondary education, ELT methodology, effective learning email, Ph: 543-213
Tóth Zsófia Anna, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (AmS) American literature and culture, American cinema and visual culture, Gender and literature, Gender and film, Cultural studies, Literary theory, Gender studies email, Ph: 543-213, website
Vajda Zoltán, PhD, dr. habil. Associate Prof. (AmS) American studies, intellectual history, 19th-c. century American history, cultural studies email, Ph: 544 264
Williams, Thomas, PhD Senior Assistant Prof. (EnS) translation, applied linguistics, sociopragmatics email, Ph: 544 542, website
Zámbóné Kocic Larisa, PhD Senior Assistant Professor (EnS) Early Modern literature and religion, fandom and comic studies, gender studies, orality and literacy email, Ph: 544 256
Zsigri Gyula, PhD Associate Professor (EnS) phonology, phonetics, syntax, writing systems email, Ph: 343-208

Adjunct Faculty

Gombosné Haavisto Kirsi, MA email
Suszczynska Malgorzata, PhD email
Kocsik András email
Simon Péter email
Bakti Mária, PhD email

PhD Students

Literatures and Cultures in English

1st year

Budai Ágota Transmedia Transformations of Fantastic Spatial Narratives email
Dán Petra Mormon Women’s Aspirations for Equality email

2nd year

Kajtár-Pinjung Olga Self-Fashioning and Enemy Image Construction in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary email
Szokolyai Dóra Queering the Romance Quest in Jeanette Winterson’s Oeuvre email
Pardi-Oláh Roberta Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendentalist Movement email

3rd year

Armin Stefanovic An Evolutionary Perspective on the Supernatural: The Case of the Harry Potter Allure email
Aya Chelloul Literary representaions of gender roles in the MENA region email
Amira Rihab Saidi The Representation of American Masculinity Crisis in 21st-century Joker Film Adaptations email
Lina Berraf Crescendos of Silence: The Filmic Representation of #MeToo in Contemporary Hollywood Movies email
Osoliova Viktória Female Gothic: Corporeal Narratology and Feminist Hauntology email
Szántó Bálint Transmediality and Participatory Culture in American Cinema email

4th year

Bagi Dániel Gothic Nature in Weird Fiction email
Szabó Helga American Film Criticism in the Age of the World Wide Web and Beyond email

Applied Linguistics

2nd year

Syasya Qistina
Arinal Rahman
Awder Raza Aziz

3rd year

Kostic Adriana

ABD

Burai Andrea
Luyu Chen
Skadra Margit
Püski Gyöngyi
Sadouki, Fatiha
Asztalos-Zsembery Eszter
Tamás Tamara
Vásári Nikolett
Dely Zsolt
Korpas, Olivera