ACADEMIC CAREER
April – September 2021 KWI International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen
Project: Theme Parks in an Intermedial Context
2018-2020 Crafoord Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Linnaeus University’ Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies
Part of: “Communicating across Media Borders” Project
Research Project: “The Greatest Story Ever Told: Evolution’s Journey Across Mediascapes”
2017 Fall Adjunct Faculty at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest – Department of English Language Pedagogy and Translation Studies
Teaching: English-Hungarian Translation
2011-2016 University of Szeged, Doctoral School for Literary Studies – Subprogram for English Literatures and Cultures
Dissertation: „Bridging the Empathy Gap: Representing Neurological Difference in Contemporary Autism Novels”
Supervisor: Kérchy Anna and Cristian Réka Mónika
2013 School of Criticism and Theory, 2013 Summer Session – Cornell University
Seminar: Narrative, Intellectual Disability and the Boundaries of the Human
Seminar leader: Michael Berubé
2011-2009 English MA – University of Szeged, Insitute of English and American Studies
M.A. Thesis: Spatial Narratives and Intermedial Metareferencing Incorporated in Two Synthetic Themed Environments
Supervisor: Nagy Gergely
2010 Aarhus Universitet – Intensive Program In Narratology
Theme: “New Media/New Narratives”
Organiser: Stefan Iversen
Jan-May West Virginia University – Exchange program (1 semester)
Subjects studies: Research Methods in the Digital Age, Metadrama and Metatheatre, Postcolonial Magical Realism
2009-2006 English (B.A.) – University of Szeged, Insitute of English and American Studies
B. A. Thesis: The Ludological Secret of Monkey Island
Supervisor: Dragon Zoltán
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Game studies
- Theme park studies
- Science Fiction and Fantasy studies
- Evolutionary and cognitive cultural studies
- Narratology
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
forthcoming:
“Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games.” In: Linderoth, Jonas, Björn Sjöblom and Anders Frank, eds. Playful rivalry: The representation of conflicts in games. New York and London: Routledge Advances in Game Studies series.
“Games: Playable Arda.” In Stuart E. Lee, ed. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Second edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
“Building the Theme Park of Your Imagination: Virtualising the Theme Park Experience in Digital Games.” In: Dave Gottwald, Vahid Vahda and Gregory Turner-Rahman, eds. Virtual Interiorities. New York and London: Routledge.
“Recycling Cardboard: Climate Change Board Games.” Paradoxa 31, 77-104 (2020).
“Three Ways of Transmediating a Theme Park: Spatializing Storyworlds in Epic Mickey, the Monkey Island Series and Theme Park Management Simulators.” In: Lars Elleström and Niklas Salmose, eds. Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. 164-185.