Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen

01/06/2026

📢 A héten intézetünk két PhD-jelöltjének nyilvános vitájára kerül sor:

🔹 2026. június 2-án Novák Zsófia (Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen);

🔹 2026. június 4-én pedig László Borbála

doktori értekezésének nyilvános zajlik majd.

Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel vár az Irodalom-, Kultúra- és Nyelvtudományok Doktori Iskola, Debreceni Egyetem!

28/05/2026

Celebrating 3 years of intercultural connection🙏

For the third year running, our institute teamed up with Ady Endre Secondary Grammar School for their awesome C-Day intercultural festival!

Six international PhD students from the doctoral programme of Education visited the high school to share their cultures, representing Cambodia, Malaysia, Albania, Iraq, and Pakistan. 🌎
This beautiful tradition is organised by our alumna Eva Frantsik Agostonne, alongside Fruzsina Szabo’s doctoral students, Meyly Kheng and Amalina Rusli. 👏

Huge thanks to everyone involved for opening up the world to these Hungarian high school students and creating such a wonderful, eye-opening experience! 🙌

28/05/2026

The new open access volume in the HJEAS Books series published by our institute is available in e-book and pdf formats. Congratulations to Professor Donald E. Morse and the volume's editor, Dorottya Mózes!

We are delighted to announce that the latest open-access volume in the HJEAS Books series is now available in epub and pdf formats!

Reflections through Literature has grown out of a long career teaching at universities in several countries and raises basic questions about life such as the nature of mortality, the importance of love, the practice of attention, the need for heroism, the necessity of renunciation, the possibility of su***de, the importance of baseball, as well as the threat of nuclear annihilation, the difficulty of surviving brutal dictatorships, and so forth. These issues and others equally important have been examined by authors through their imaginary characters in literature from Shakespeare’s King Lear to Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim. Since fictional lives unlike human lives are complete; we as readers know more about Frodo or Leopold Bloom than we do about most people. Literature is therefore an excellent medium for focusing on issues central to living.

https://reference-global.com/book/9788368412567

19/05/2026

Nagyon sok szeretettel gratulálunk a Hatvani István Szakkollégium Anglisztika-Amerikanisztika szakcsoport tagjainak és témavezetőiknek a kiváló konferencia-előadásokhoz!

2026. május 15., Hatvani István Szakkollégium, 2026. évi Tavaszi Tudományos Hallgatói Konferencia

Levezető elnökök: Urbán Éva és Törzsök Réka

Előadók balról jobbra:
Törzsök Réka (I. Angol irodalom és kultúra PhD): Variations on Transgression: A Bataillean Reading of “Lotus Eaters” and “Circe” in Ulysses
Témavezető: Oroszné Dr. Gula Marianna

Radóczi Kornélia (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Könyvtárostanár OMA): A Comparison of English Coursebooks: The Aspects of Narrative-Driven and Patchwork-Like Coursebooks
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Juhász Fanni (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Magyar nyelv és irodalom szakos tanár OMA): Narrating Trauma: Language, Voice, and Narrative Transformation in Viola Ardone’s Oliva Denaro
Témavezető: Dr. Ureczky Eszter

Szabó Tulipán (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Német nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): Trickster as a Response to Colonial Trauma in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Témavezető: Dr. Szathmári Judit

Farkas Kinga Lidia (II. Amerikanisztika MA): Reflections of Queerness, Trauma and Healing in the Urban Spaces of VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (2016)
Témavezető: Dr. Pataki Éva

Takács Jázmin Tiara (II. Anglisztika BA): Emigration to Canada and to the USA through the Eyes of Hungarian Women in the 20th Century
Témavezető: Dr. Lénárt-Muszka Zsuzsanna

Török Luca Rozanna (II. Anglisztika BA): Examples of Colour-coding in Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey
Témavezető: Prof. Dr. Bényei Tamás

Majtényi Csenge Luca (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA: Possible Relationship between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Pedagogy and Technology Induced Attention Deficit
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Dancs Dorka Sára (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): “Providing Help to the Hungarian Community through the Blessed Hands of Women”: The History and Role of the Women’s Society of the Hungaria Social Club in Montreal
Témavezető: Dr. Venkovits Balázs

Borbély Rózsa Barbara (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): Film-Based Language Learning - Turning Cinematic Leisure into an Active Learning Tool
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Szakács Tibor Dominik (VI. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Történelem és állampolgári ismeretek tanára OMA): Perspectives of the Monomyth - Comparative Analysis of the Feminine Representations in the Hades series
Témavezető: Dr. Orosz-Réti Zsófia

18/05/2026

🌏 Kollégánk, Tóthné Dr. Espák Gabriella (North American Department, University of Debrecen) szerepelt a Delta legutóbbi adásában, amelynek témája egy világörökségi helyszín, az ausztráliai Uluru tanúhegy volt.

➡️ Az adás visszanézhető a Médiaklikk oldalán:

A vörös tanúhegyre, az ausztráliai Uluru vidékére utazik a nézőkkel Bíró Ada, a Delta kilencedik részében. Ez a hosszú évmilliók alatt fejlődött magányos szigethegy több tekintetben is különlegességnek számít, kiváltképp a kőzetei és a hegységképző mozgások miatt, ame...

14/05/2026

📢 We are happy to welcome back Professor Leah Perry who was a Fulbright Scholar (2018-19) and Fulbright Specialist (2019) at North American Department, University of Debrecen.

Prof Perry has authored Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire (Ohio State University Press, 2024) and The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Gender, Race, and Media (NYU Press, 2016).

✨ All are welcome to her talk on May 19, 11 AM, Studio 111. ✨

➡️ Link to the Facebook event in the first comment.

14/05/2026

📢 Our colleague, Dr. Fruzsina Szabó (Department of English Language Pedagogy, University of Debrecen) ran a workshop and delivered a talk at IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) 2026 in Brighton at the end of April.

🧠 Her workshop focused on the perceived gaps between pre-service teacher trainees' methodological knowledge and the reality of classroom practicum.

🧘‍♀️ Her presentation talk introduced the findings of a pilot intervention programme to enhance mental health awareness in pre-service trainees' teacher training courses.

11/05/2026

On 7 May many of our MA and PhD students attended Károli English Studies Conference 2026 at Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem. The following students participated in the conference:

🔹 Safa Merzougui: Haunting Across Generations: Gothic Motifs as a Manifestation of Intergenerational Trauma in Mansoura EzEldin’s Maryam’s Maze (2007)
🔹 Rita Júlia Jansik: Postmodern Hauntings: The Unhomely in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves
🔹 Éva Urbán: Indigenous Cosmological Storytelling and Contemporary Social Issues in Bad Medicine
🔹 Regina László: Domesticating Sovereignty: Televisual Modernity and the Reinvention of Monarchy in Royal Family (1969)
🔹 Fedoua Manar Grouri: Beyond the Poetics of Military Condemnation: Technology and Perception Interwoven in David S. F. Wilson’s Bloodshot (2020)
🔹 Minh Duc Ngo: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): Reinterpreting and Reconstructing Asian Identities in Contemporary American Cinema
🔹 Mawada Saeed: Nostalgia and Haunting in Jamal Mahjoub’s Wings of Dust (1994)
🔹 Chahra Zed Khodja: Intergenerational Trauma and Spiritual Healing in Sahar Mustafah’s The Beauty of Your Face (2020)
🔹 Réka Törzsök: “Delude the world to its undoing”: War, Religion, and Ethics in Theodora Wilson Wilson’s The Last Weapon
🔹 Zouhour Kacem: The Deferred Wound: Delayed Remembrance and Trauma in Beloved
🔹 Sára Viktória Valicskó: Weird Girl Lit: Shifting Representations of Twenty-First-Century American Womanhood
🔹 Tabish Nabi: “These Bones Shall Live”: The Body as Mnemonic Archive in Enslaved Christian and Muslim Practice

✨ Congratulations to all who attended the conference! ✨