Enikő Molnár Basa
Library of Congress

Enikő Molnár Basa received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught at universities in the Washington, DC area before accepting a position at the Library of Congress. She is a founder and currently Executive Director of the American Hungarian Educators Association, as well as an active member of the Southern Comparative Literature Association and the Modern Language Association, where she has served on the Board of the Hungarian Discussion Group. Her publications include Sándor Petőfi in the Twayne World Authors Series. She was editor of the series and saw four other works to publication. She edited Hungarian Literature in the Review of National Literature series. In addition to articles published in various journals, both in the United States and Hungary, she has presented papers on various aspects of Hungarian literature at scholarly conferences. In 2002-2003 she was Kluge Staff fellow at the Library of Congress and is currently working on a book that will be largely based on research begun at the time. It will examine the work of poets as “spokesmen for the nation” when political and social commentary was stifled.