Louise O. Vásvari
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Louise O. Vásvari’s interests include medieval literature, socio-linguistics, folklore, translation theory, Hungarian, and Holocaust studies (all informed by gender theory). She has published widely in these areas, ranging from medieval Spanish, Italian, and English to queer theory, the latter in particular in relation to emerging queer discourses in Hungarian. Related to the Spanish Romancero she has published The Heterotextual Body of the “Mora Morilla” (1999). She has also published, with Louise Haywood, A Companion to the “Libro de Buen Amor” (2004), and, with Steven Tötösy, Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature (2005) Comparative Central European Discourses of the Holocaust (2009), and Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies (2011). She currently has in press Women’s Gendered Voices: Hispanic Studies in Comparative Culture and the Romancero. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis, at the Oetvos Lorand University and the Central European University (Budapest), as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (2006), Université de Jules Verne, Amiens (2007), Distinguished Scholar at Cambridge University (2008), and as Senior Fulbright Professor, E.L.T.E., Budapest, and the University of Szeged, Hungary, where she is also External Professor. She las also taught language and gender in the Linguistics Department at New York University for the last decade. |
Ph.D. in Romance Philology, University of California, Berkeley
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Spring 2013
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Department
Brooke Belisle, a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies will join the department next year. "Click here for more info"
Vivien Hartog Award Recipients Announced
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.
Sarah Paruolo, gave a paper at ACLA 2013 in Toronto titled "Shadows of Trujillo:Oscar Wao and the Haunting of a People."
Marcus Brock, was admitted into the 2013 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, was invited to moderate the VIP screening and reception for the filmPortrait of Jason, and will give a talk at the Stony Brook LGBTA Spring Retreat.


