PhD research topics offered by instructors, as of January 2021
Annus Irén
Identity studies in American context
Gender and race/ethnicity in American culture
19th-century American culture
Visual culture in the US
Csetényi Korinna
Gothic literature
Horror literature and films
Cristian Réka Mónika
American film and film theories
Modern American drama, modern American literature
Theories of American studies
Dragon Zoltán
New Media and New Formulations of the Visual
Film Adaptation: Intertextual, Dialogic and Transmedial Approaches in English
Visual Culture in the U.S.: Photography and the Moving Image
Kérchy Anna
Intersections of Women’s Literature /Arts, Gender Studies, and Body Studies
The Literatures of the Fantastic
Parallels of the Victorian and the Postmodern fantastic imagination
Children’s/ Young Adult Literature
Fairy-tale studies
Intermedial cultural representations, transmedia storytelling
Animal/ plant studies
Kiss Attila
Mediality and Semiotics: Theories and case studies of visual and verbal cultural representations
Early modern and postmodern cultural representations in literatures and cultures in English, and their comparative analysis
Literature and the Semiotics of the Subject
Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
Interacting discourses of American literary realism and modernism
Modernist US travel writing from postcolonial perspectives
The making of racial, class, and gender identities/histories in contemporary US identity prose
African American women and the fictional rewriting of US history
Matuska Ágnes
Performance traditions in late Tudor and early modern English drama
Multimedia Shakespeare adaptations
Intersections between early modern and postmodern performance traditions
Péter Róbert
17-18th century British studies (history of ideas; religious, press and cultural history, Enlightenment studies)
Digital humanities (distant reading, visualization, topic modeling, network and metadata analyses)
British-Hungarian relations, 1600-1850. Representations of Hungary and Transylvania in the British press
History of secret societies (e.g. Freemasonry)
Szélpál Lívia Klára TBA
Szőnyi György Endre
Mediality and Semiography: Theories and case studies of visual and verbal cultural representations
Questions of English intellectual and cultural history
Imagination, the fantastic, heterodoxy, and occultism in Ango-Saxon culture (16th-21st centuries)
Theories, aesthetics and philosophies of cultural representations (with special emphasis on the Early Modern Age and its Postmodern reception)
Tóth Zsófia Anna
Cultural history of femme fatale figures, Representations of women and violence
Jane Austen studies
American popular culture and cinema (especially Disney and Pixar animated films)
Humour studies and theories (special interest in women’s humor)
Vajda Zoltán
American intellectual history and cultural history, 18th – 19th century
Zámbóné Kocic Larisa
17th-century English literature (especially John Donne and John Milton)
Women (Writers) in the Early Modern English Literature
18th-century Visual Storytelling (& Satire)
Literacy and orality of culture (Protomodern and Postmodern)
Comics and Fandom Studies (media specificity, image-text interplay, and orality of fan fictions)