MAT Supervisors and Topics

2010
ANNUS IRÉN
American art
Religion(s) in the US
Identities in American society and culture

BARÁT ERZSÉBET
Language use and identity
Life narratives and critical research
Discourse analysis and ideology
Gender in the media

BOCSOR PÉTER
Modern English literature
Literary theory/Semiotics
Contemporary American literature

BUKTA KATALIN
Testing in the EFL classroom
Teaching writing in the EFL classroom
Teaching English as a foreign language

CORA ZOLTÁN
British History (19-20th centuries)
Great Britain and Europe in the 20th Century
Theories of History
British Aesthetics (18-19th centuries)

CRISTIAN RÉKA MÓNIKA

Modern American drama
American modernism
Gender and postcolonialism in modern and contemporary American literature
Film Studies
American Studies

DRAGON ZOLTÁN
Film theory
Film Studies
American film history
Film adaptation
Contemporary visual culture
Digital theory
DUDITS ANDRÁS
Translation Studies

FEDERMAYER ÉVA
African American literature and culture
American women writers
Topics in Cultural Studies and African American cinema
"Race/ethnicity" in American culture and literature

FENYVESI ANNA
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism
Language contact

KENESEI ISTVÁN
Syntax (descriptive, transformational, government-binding, minimalist)
(Nonformal) semantics
Derivational morphology
Syntax-phonology interface

KÉRCHY ANNA
Body Studies
Gender and literature
20th century and contemporary women's writing
Magical Realism
Children's literature

KISS ATTILA
English Renaissance drama
Post-war British and American drama
Literature and the semiotics of the subject

KONTRA MIKLÓS
The English Only movement
Language rights in the USA
Language and education in an English-speaking country
Hungarian-English contrastive linguistic topics
Social variation in English
Hungarian attitudes to varieties of English
The history of English teacher education at SZTE
The English of Hungarian Americans
The Hungarian of Hungarian Americans
What is Standard English?
Hungarian classroom English
The English intonation of Hungarians

KOVÁCS ÁGNES ZSÓFIA

Modern American fiction
19 th century American fiction
Popular fiction
MATUSKA ÁGNES
Elizabethan and Jacobean art and literature
Late Medieval morality plays
Literary trickster-characters
Adaptations of Renaissance drama on stage and screen
Translation Studies

NAGY GERGELY
Medieval English literature (Old and Middle English)
JRR Tolkien
Science fiction
Popular music

NOVÁK GYÖRGY
Early American history
Constitutions, covenants in American history
The Modernists – Ezra Pound
The Bayeux Tapestry
English/American detective/spy fiction

P. BALOGH ANDREA
Irish Literature
Literature and feminism
Contemporary poetry
Theatre and Performance Studies

PARROTT, JEREMY
Samuel Beckett
Literary onomastics
19th-20th c. publishing history
ELT methodology
Language testing

PECKHAM, DON
Second language acquisition
Communication and learning strategies
Transfer and cross-linguistic influence
Vocabulary learning
English in Europe
American English

PÉTER RÓBERT
17-18th c. British history and philosophy
Religious history of G. Britain after the Reformation
Counter-Enlightenment
Theories of culture and religion
History of secret societies including freemasonry
POLGÁRDI KRISZTINA
English stress and prosodic structure
Syllable-related phenomena
Segmental processes
Contrastive linguistics involving English, loan word phonology
Phonology-morphology interaction
Phonological variation, accents of English
Sound change and analogy in the history of English
English language games, speech disguise, slang
The language of poetry: poetic metre, poetic rhyme in English
Systematic aspects of sms language

RESCHNÉ MARINOVICH SAROLTA

19th-20th century English novel
Romanticism
The Gothic/the fantastic
Literature and gender

SUSZCZYNSKA, MALGORZATA
Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics
Talk in institutional contexts
Linguistic (im)politeness and gender
Conversation analysis

SZABÓ-GILINGER ESZTER
Sociolinguistics
Bilingualism
Language and education
Canadian studies - linguistics / culture

SZŐNYI GYÖRGY ENDRE

Medieval/Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Shakespeare, etc.).
Renaissance/Baroque/Augustan poetry (Sydney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, etc.).
Early novel (Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Sterne).
University novel (Amis, Bradbury, Lodge, Davies, etc.).
Literature and the occult (selected topics).
British arts and music (selected topics).
Literary/cultural theory (semiotics, iconology)

TÁPAINÉ BALLA ÁGNES

Second Language Acquisition
Third Language Acquisition

VAJDA ZOLTÁN
Antebellum Southern culture
19th century US history
Cultural Studies

WILLIAMS, THOMAS
Second language learning
Task-based language learning