Györgyi Horváth
Balassi Institute and ELTE

Györgyi Horváth (1974, Pécs) is literary historian, critic, and translator of literary theory. After graduating in Linguistics & Literature (MA) and Italian Studies (MA) from Szeged University, Aesthetics (MA) from Pécs University, and Doctoral Support Program in Gender from CEU, Budapest, she completed a doctorate on “The Identity-Forming Function of the Historical Narrative in American Feminist Literary Criticism” in 2006, Pécs University. Up to know she has worked in several positions: journalist, translator, World Literature Series editor, free-lance literary critic, university lecturer, and post-doc researcher. Most recently she taught Gender Studies at the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture in Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, and Hungarian literature to international students in Balassi Institute, Budapest. She is the author of A hiányzó B (literary essays; Budapest: Anonymus, 2005), Nőidő (monograph on feminist historiography; Budapest: Kijárat, 2007), co-editor of Hide and Seek. Contemporary Hungarian Writing (an English-language anthology of Hungarian literature today; Budapest: JAK, 2004), and Kortárs Irodalmi Olvasókönyv (an anthology of contemporary Hungarian literature; BBI: Budapest, 2005). Her special field of research includes 20th and 21st century Hungarian literature, literary modernity, identity and literature, gender studies, poststructuralism.