Erzsébet Barát
University of Szeged

Erzsébet Barát is Associate Professor in the Department of English, at the University of Szeged and since 2000 Recurring Visiting Professor at CEU. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK. At Szeged she is director of the ‘Gender through Literatures and Cultures in English’ Track in the English Studies MA. Her research interests include feminist critical theory, relational models of identity, the relationship between language, power and ideology, the intersection of feminist and queer scholarship, and “lavender” linguistics. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian journal, TNTeF: Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of Gender Studies (http:/primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/ieas/gender/tntef.htm). She launched and has organized the annual gender studies conference in Szeged since 2005. She is a regular contributor to edited volumes and journals. Her major publications include “The ‘Terrorist Feminist’: Strategies of Gate-Keeping in the Hungarian Printed Media” in M. M. Lazar (ed.) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse. (London: Palgrave, 2005, 205-228); “Queer in Hungary: Hate speech regulation. Queering the speech/conduct binary” in Lisa Downing and Robert Gillet (eds.) Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies. (London: Ashgate, 2011, 85-98).