Hedvig Ujvári
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary

Hedvig Ujvári received an MA in German and Hungarian Studies at the József Attila University (Szeged), and completed her PhD in 2004 at Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest). Since 2003 she has been teaching the history of the press and the social history of the media at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She has won several scholarships and research grants in Hungary, Austria, and in Germany. Her publications address issues of the history of the German-language press in nineteenth-century Hungary. She is the author of Dekadenzkritik aus der “Provinzstadt”: Max Nordaus Pester Publizistik (Budapest, 2007), Kulturtransfer in Kakanien: Zur Jókai-Rezeption in der deutschsprachigen Presse Ungarns (1867-1882) (Berlin, 2011), and Zwischen Bazar und Weltpolitik: Die Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 in Feuilletons von Max Nordau im Pester Lloyd (Berlin, 2011). Her current research focuses on the role of the Hungarian German-language press, as well as on the reception of Hungarian literature in German-speaking countries.