Thomas Cooper
Title: PhD
Gender: Male
Year of Birth: 1971
Place of Birth (Country): USA
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Office Phone Number: 06 30 584 4958
Doctoral Studies
Year of Doctoral Defence (PhD / CSc): 2003
Discipline: Faculty of Humanities (Comparative Literature)
Title of Thesis:
Issuing Institution: CONSTRUCTION OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL: MIMESIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE NOVELS OF ZSIGMOND KEMÉNY
MA Studies
Year of Obtaining the MA Degree: 1998
Discipline(s): Central Eurasian Studies
Issuing Institution: Indiana University
Further Studies and Qualifications
| Institution | Qualification | Year of Obtaining the Qualification |
| New England Conservatory | Piano | 1993 |
Employment
Current Employer: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Institute: Institute of English Studies
Department: Department of English Literatures and Cultures
Current Position(s): Adjunct
Previous Employer: Eszterházy Károly College
Previous Position Held: Associate Professor
Other Previous Employers: Columbia University
Other Previous Positions Held: Assistant Director, Institute of Comparative Literature and Society
Areas of Research and Teaching
Literary history, comparative literature, translation, translation theory
Membership in Research Groups and Projects
Educational Functions, Curriculum Development and Other
Teaching-Related Activities
| Period | Function or Activity |
Language Skills
| Language | Level and Kind of Proficiency |
| French | Near fluency |
| German | Near fluency |
| Magyar | Near fluency |
| English | Mother tonguee |
Honours, Distinctions, and Prizes
| Name of Distinction | Issuing Institution | Year of Issuing |
| Ránki György Prize | Indiana Unversity | 1998 |
Membership in Academic Societies
| Name of Organization | Function (if any) |
| Hungarian English Society | |
| American Hungarian Society | |
Guest Professorships and Research Fellowships in Foreign
Institutions
| Period | Institution | Activities |
| 2006 | Columbia University | Researcher, instructor |
Promotorship in Doctoral Studies
| Name of Doctoral Student, Institution |
Research Topic / Title of Dissertation | Year of Defence (if applicable) |
Opponentship in Doctoral Defences
| Name of Doctoral Student, Institution |
Title of Dissertation | Year of Defence |
List of Publications
Monographs
Edited Books and Journals
•„New Europe, Old Europe: The Council of Europe and the Slovak Language Law of 1995.”
In: East Meets West: The Challenge of Enlarging the European Union. Eds. Len Kosta and Stephen Fromart. Columbia, NY: Institute on Western Europe, 1998. 201–213.
•„Az ábrázolásmód rekonstruálása: az 1956-os események és az irodalom.”
In: János Rainer–Judit Topits (eds.): Ezerkilencszázötvenhat az újabb történeti irodalomban. 1956 Institute. Budapest, 2007.
•„Herta Müller: Between Myths of Belonging.”
Exile and Homecoming: East-Central European Writers in a Twentieth-Century Diaspora. Eds. John Neubauer, Zsuzsa Török. John Benjamins Publishers, Amsterdam. 2009. 363–380.
•„Towards a Multinational Concept of Culture.”
In: Jenny Carl–Patrick Stevenson (szerk.): Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. New York, 2009. 224–238.
•„Obstinate Difference: Resistance to Meaning in the Translations of Ezra Pound.”
In: Vadon Lehel (ed.): To the Memory of Sarolta Krotzoi. Eszterházy Károly College, 2009. 105-118.
•„Translation and the Rediscovery of the Multinational Central European.”
The Translator as Mediator of Cultures. Eds. Maria Esposito Frank, Marcia Moen, and Humphrey Tonkin. John Benjamins Publishers, Amsterdam. 2009.
Chapters in Books
•„Dezső Kosztolányi and Intertextuality: Anticipations of Post-Modern Literary Criticism.”
Journal of Hungarian Studies. Ed. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000. V. 14. 45–54.
•„Zsigmond Kemény’s Gyulai Pál: Novel as Subversion of Form.”
Journal of Hungarian Studies. Ed. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2002. V. 16. 29–50.
•„Shifts in Style and Perspective in Kemény’s The Fanatics.”
Journal of Hungarian Studies. Ed. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 2002. V. 16. 277–284.
•„Mimesis of Consciousness in Narrative Fiction.”
Journal of Hungarian Studies. Ed. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 2003. V. Pp. 17. 97–156.
•„Az ábrázolásmód rekonstruálása: az 1956-os események és az irodalom.”
Holmi. Ed. Pál Réz. Budapest: Vörösmarty Társaság. October 2006. Vol. 18, No. 10. 1385–1391.
•„Fidelity as Pretext: Readings of the Translations of Ezra Pound.”
Eger Journal of American Studies. Ed. Lehel Vadon. Eger: Líceum Kiadó, 2006. Vol. IX. 11–29.
•„Histories of Hungarian Literature”
Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Bloomington, IN. Indiana University Press. 223–226. 2008.
•“Translation as Tradition: A Study of Translation in Contrasting Cultural Contexts.” Journal of Hungarian Studies. Ed. Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 2011.
•„Herta Müller: Descriptions of Displacement.” Hungarian Review. Ed. Gyula Kodolányi. Budapaest. 2011/3.
•„Tonal Innovations in Ferenc Liszt’s Earlier Piano Compositions.” Hungarian Review. Ed. Gyula Kodolányi. Budapaest. 2011/4.
•„Books Re-Visited: Translating Zsuzsa Rakovszky and the Art of Storytelling.” Hungarian Review. Ed. Gyula Kodolányi. Budapaest. 2012/2.
•„Poet Between Languages: Ádám Makkai.” Hungarian Review. Ed. Gyula Kodolányi. Budapaest.. 2012/6.
Articles in Academic Reviews (Printed and Electronic)
Conference Proceedings (Printed and Electronic)
Book Reviews
Translations
(Selected translations)
•Herta Müller: Vater telefoniert mit den Flieden. Carl Hanser Verlag, München (forthcoming).
•Imre Kertész: „The Holocaust as Culture.” Seagull Publishing House, London (2012)
•Chantal Delsol: „Historical Forgiveness in Question.” Hungarian Review: 2013/3.
•Zsuzsa Rakovszky: A kígyó árnyéka. Seagull Publishing House, London (forthcoming).
Creative Writing
Films and Multimedia (Digital Textbooks, Multimedia Creations etc.)
Discography
Organisation of Conferences
Academic and public Appearances (Live and Electronic)
2009: Amsterdam: Invited Speaker at Spui 23: Herta Müller: Between Myths of Belonging
2015: Presenter at the conference of the United Nations Study Group on Languages, New York.
