Spaces in Transition

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This volume of the Papers in English and American Studies is a tribute to Sarolta Marinovich-Rcsch on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. She has been instrumental in the life and development of die Szeged English Depamnent since die 1970s. For several years she was the head of the Department (1992-95) and she bcc;une the first director of the Institute of English and American Smdies in 1995, dius tactfiilly and with great empathy administering die complicated process of institutional restaicMr-ing. Sarolta Marinovich-Resch started her scholarly career with studying English Romantic and Victorian literature and soon broadened her interest towards women's writing in diis period and beyond. She has written impoitant smdies on Godiic female writing and die postmodern recycling of these works. She is an internationally acknowledged author of women's writing as well as the theory of Women's Studies; her essays have been published in prestigious periodicals and collections. From the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This volume of the Papers in English and American Studies is a tribute to Sarolta Marinovich-Rcsch on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. She has been instrumental in the life and development of die Szeged English Depamnent since die 1970s. For several years she was the head of the Department (1992-95) and she bcc;une the first director of the Institute of English and American Smdies in 1995, dius tactfiilly and with great empathy administering die complicated process of institutional restaicMr-ing. Sarolta Marinovich-Resch started her scholarly career with studying English Romantic and Victorian literature and soon broadened her interest towards women's writing in diis period and beyond. She has written impoitant smdies on Godiic female writing and die postmodern recycling of these works. She is an internationally acknowledged author of women's writing as well as the theory of Women's Studies; her essays have been published in prestigious periodicals and collections. From the viewpoint of the evolution of English Studies in Szeged, her most important achievement has been the establishing of die Gender Studies Stream, an academic specialization oftered to English majors, which at the same time created an important research circle as well. Several successftil international conferences mark die activities of diis teaching- and research unit.
The audiors of diis collection of essays represent Gender- and English Studies nationwide. Next to members of the Universities of Budapest, Debrecen, and Pecs, Dr. Marinovich-Rcsch's own colleagues from die Szeged Institute also contribute to it. The topics range from broad dieoretical issues (Mária Joó on the influence of Simone de Beauvoir in Post-socialist thinking; Andrea P. Balogh on feminist criticism in Hungary) to specific case suidics, relating to Anglo-American literature and culture (Irén Annus on Mormon female bio-histories, Éva Federmayer on Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, Anna Kerchy on Angela Carter, Mária Kurdi on Irish female drama, and Nóra Séilei on A. S. Byatt's Morpho Eugenia). These excellent studies arc not only a testimonial to Sarolta Mariiiovich-Resch's influence on Hungarian scholarship, they also represent the high quality of it in English-related gender studies.
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