Louise O. Vásvari

Vasvari

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

Congratulations to Alexis Chartschlaa and Laura James, winners of the 2013 Vivien Hartog Travel Award.
 
New MA/PhD in Women's and Gender Studies
The Department is pleased to announce that the new MA/PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies has received official certification.

Faculty
E.K. Tan published a peer-reviewed journal article, 華語語系研究:海外華人與離散華人研究之反思 [Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies] in 中國現代文學 [Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (Taiwan)] 22 (Winter 2012): 41-58; and an essay, “Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture” in Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai (Columbia University Press 2013).
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.
Jackie Reich will be speaking at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on Thursday, April 25 and at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY on May 4.  
Ray Guins is a co-organizer of the History of Games conference in Montreal, June 21-23:  http://www.history-of-games.com/
E.K. Tan's new book, "Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World" was published with Cambria Press in January.
 
Students 

 

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.

Celina Hung,  has accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Literature at NYU-Shanghai.  She will be stationed in Shanghai with affiliation with the Comparative Literature Department in the NYU Manhattan campus.
Laine Nooney, has received a Distinguished Travel Award from the Grad School and GSO, a Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, and was selected for the Provost's Lecture Series.
Joana Moura has been awarded a doctoral grant (approximately $16,000 per annum) by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.
Kudos Newsletter
January 2013

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