Kékesi, Kun Árpád

Title: PhD, Dr. habil.
Gender: M
Year of Birth: 1972
Place of Birth (Country): Hungary
Email-address(es): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Office Phone Number: 0614832897

Doctoral Studies
Year of Doctoral Defence (PhD / CSc): 1998
Discipline: Literary Criticism
Title of Thesis: In the Shade of Thalia. A Theory of Postmodern Drama and Theatre
Issuing Institution: Eötvös Loránd University

MA Studies
Year of Obtaining the MA Degree: 1995
Discipline(s): Aesthetics; English Language and Literature
Issuing Institution: Eötvös Loránd University

Further Studies and Qualifications

Institution	Qualification	Year of Obtaining the Qualification
University of Pécs	Dr. habil.	2011

Employment
Current Employer: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Institute:
Department: Theatre Studies
Current Position(s): Associate professor

Previous Employer: Pannon University (1996-2009)
Previous Position Held: Head of Department, Associate professor

Other Previous Employers:
Other Previous Positions Held:

Areas of Research and Teaching

Areas of teaching: history of European drama; history of European theatre; poetics of theatre and drama; dramaturgy and drama analysis; aesthetics and the philosopy of art; the types of mise-en-scène; music theatre; puppet and figure theatre; theories of the theatre

Areas of Research: the history and the present forms of director’s theatre; contemporary music theatre; Shakespeare’s plays on stage

Membership in Research Groups and Projects

Theatre, Philology and the Internet. OTKA Research Project led by Prof. Dr. Jákfalvi Magdolna

Educational Functions, Curriculum Development and Other
Teaching-Related Activities

Period	Function or Activity
1998-	Theatron – Editor-in-Chief
2007-2009	Director of studies of the MA program in Theatre Studies (Pannon University)
2009-	Director of studies of the MA program in Theatre Studies (Károli Gáspár University)

Language Skills

Language	Level and Kind of Proficiency
Hungarian	Native
English	Proficient
German	Good

Honours, Distinctions, and Prizes

Name of Distinction	Issuing Institution	Year of Issuing
Soros Scholarship	Soros Foundation	1998
Magyary Zoltán Postdoctoral Scholarship	Foundation for Hungarian Higher Education and Research	1999-2001
Bolyai János Research Scholarship	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	2002-2005
Hungarian Eötvös Scholarship	Hungarian Scholarship Board Office	2005

Membership in Academic Societies

Name of Organization	Function (if any)
Committee of Theatre and Film Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Member (1999-), Chairman (2006-2011)

Guest Professorships and Research Fellowships in Foreign
Institutions

Period	Institution	Activities
1998	Roehampton Institute, London	Three-month Study Trip
1999	Universität Wien	Three-month Study Trip
2006	Universität Salzburg	Three-month Study Trip
2011-	University of Tirgu-Mureş	Teaching and Promotorship in the PhD School of Theatre Studies

Promotorship in Doctoral Studies

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Research Topic / Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence (if applicable)
Adorján Viktor, Károli Gáspár University + University of Pécs	The Laboratory Theatre from 1959 up to the Present	2012
Bíró József László, University of Tirgu-Mureş	Methodologies of Acting and Directing
Strausz Imre István, University of Tirgu-Mureş	The Aesthetic and Pedagogical Aspects of Musical
Benedek Tibor Magor, University of Tirgu-Mureş	Dramaturgical analysis of the inner stage in Liszt’s textual and programatical works
Gecse Ramóna, University of Tirgu-Mureş	Theatre as Collective Creation
Bányai Kelemen Barna, University of Tirgu-Mureş	Independent Theatre Movements in Transylvania
Bessenyei Gedő István, University of Tirgu-Mureş	Postdramatic

Opponentship in Doctoral Defences

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence
Várszegi Tibor, University of Szeged	The Joy of Dasein. The Hermeneutics of Performance	2003
Sirató Ildikó, University of Szeged	A Model of Comperative Theatre History in Researching the Structures of the National Theatre Movements in Europe from the 18th Century up to the Present	2005
Seress Ákos, University of Pécs	American Tragedies. Roles, Identities and Discrimination in Tennessee Williams’ Plays	2009
Nagy Gabriella, Eötvös University	Text and Voice in 20th Century Drama. The Performativity of the Dramatic Text	2009
Ócsai Éva, University of Szeged	Intertextual Relationships in Sándor Weöres’ Plays	2010
Rosner Krisztina, University of Pécs	The Dramatic and Theatrical Play of Presence and Silence	2011
Kérchy Vera, University of Szeged	Paul de Man’s Theory of Rhetorics and Its Challenge to the Theory of Theatre	2012
Ignácz Ádám, Eötvös University	A Composer on Stage. Problems of the Representation of Artists int he Operas of Scriabin, Schönberg and Pfitzner	2013