Mecsnóber, Tekla Dalma

Mecsnóber, Tekla Dalma

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Doctoral Studies
Year of Doctoral Defence (PhD): 2000 (degree awarded in 2001)
Discipline: Literary Studies (Modern English Literature)
Title of Thesis: The “Happy Fault” of Signs: Linguistic Self-Reflection in Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Joyce
Issuing Institution: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

MA Studies
Year of Obtaining the MA Degree: 1993
Discipline(s): English Language and Literature (with a TEFL qualification)
Issuing Institution: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

Further Studies and Qualifications

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

Previous Employer: Catholic University Leuven
Previous Position Held: Assistant lecturer

Other Previous Employers: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba
Other Previous Positions Held: Temporary lecturer

Other Previous Employers: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
Other Previous Positions Held: Assistant lecturer, temporary lecturer

Areas of Research and Teaching

My research interests have included G. M. Hopkins, James Joyce, 19th and 20th century British literature and culture, Irish Studies, Hungarian translations and editions of Joyce, (literary) relations between “Western” and “Eastern” Europe; nationalism and literature, censorship and literature, religion and literature, literary semiotics and cultural typology; script and ideology.

My current research focuses on the rather elusive ways in which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) reflect on various crucial political, linguistic and typographic phenomena and discourses of the European continent between the two world wars.

Areas of teaching: English proficiency (academic writing), English descriptive linguistics (mainly phonology and syntax) and

English Language Skills: Academic writing

English Linguistics: Introduction to English Linguistics, English Phonology, English Syntax

English Literary Studies: Introduction to the Study of English an American Literature, English Novel survey course,19^th Century English Fiction, Modern English Literature 1900-1950, Imag(in)ing the Irish, A Survey of Irish Literature in English (ca. 1800-2000); Reading James Joyce’s earlier works, Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, James Joyce and Anglo-American Censorship

Membership in Research Groups and Projects

Participant, Joyce research group, sponsored by OTKA, 2002-2004.

Participant, research group on the communicability of aesthetic values in 19^th and 20^th century Anglish and American discourses, sponsored by a Starters’ Research Grant (Fiatal Kutatók Pályaindító Pályázata), Eötvös Loránd University, 2001-2003.

Educational Functions, Curriculum Development and Other
Teaching-Related Activities

Language Skills

Honours, Distinctions, and Prizes

Membership in Academic Societies

Guest Professorships and Research Fellowships in Foreign
Institutions

Promotorship in Doctoral Studies

Opponentship in Doctoral Defences

List of Publications

Monographs

Edited Books and Journals

Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West, ed. R. B. Kershner and Tekla Mecsnóber, European Joyce Studies series no. 22, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013.

Chapters in Books

(under review) ‘Diacritic Aspirations and Servile Letters: Alphabets, Nationhood and Joyce’s Europe’

(in press) ‘Joyce, the Universe and Everything: A Reading of Finnegans Wake 123.30–124.12’

‘James Joyce and Eastern Europe: An Introduction’, Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West, ed. R. B. Kershner and Tekla Mecsnóber (European Joyce Studies series no. 22, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013), pp. 15–45.

‘James Joyce és az angolszász cenzúra’ [James Joyce and censorship in the English-speaking world], in Tamás Bényei (ed.), Átjárások: Fiatal anglisták és amerikanisták tanulmányai (Budapest: Fiatal Írók Szövetsége, 2005), pp. 252–281. (Collection of studies on English and American literature by young Hungarian scholars; year of actual publication: 2006.)

‘“Inbursts of Maggyer”: Joyce, the Fall and the Magyar Language’, Focus: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies: Special Issue on James Joyce (Pécs: University of Pécs, 2002), 30–40.

‘‘ “So Leastward On:” Reduction and the Absurd in Beckett's Late Drama’, The AnaChronisT 1996, Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, 1996. pp. 243–256.

‘ “Gorgeosity Made Flesh:” Language in Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange’, Odd Year Book, Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, 1994. pp. 11–34.

Articles in Academic Reviews (Printed and Electronic)

“Inbursts of Maggyer” : Joyce, the Fall, and the Magyar Language’ (revised version), Hungarian Studies 26 (2012) 1, 93–106. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/HStud.26.2012.1.82

‘Miért volt az Ulysses főhőse magyar (is)? A magyar motívumok szerepe Joyce műveiben’ [Why was the hero of Ulysses Hungarian (as well)? The role of Hungarian motifs in Joyce’s works] Filológiai Közlöny XLVIII (2002) 3–4. pp. 179–200.

‘James Joyce, Arthur Griffith, Trieste and the Hungarian National Character’, James Joyce Quarterly 38 (Spring–Summer 2001), 341–359.

Conference Proceedings (Printed and Electronic)

A Portrait of Art as Body: The Case of W B Yeats’, HUSSE Papers 1997: Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference, Pécs: JPTE, 1997. pp. 141–152.

Book Reviews

Review of Susan Mooney, The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2008), James Joyce Broadsheet, June 2011, p. 3.

Translations

Creative Writing

Films and Multimedia (Digital Textbooks, Multimedia Creations etc.)

‘Literature and Tradition’, ‘Literature and Society’ and ‘Literature and Gender’, chapters in Introduction to Literature in English, ed. János Barcsák (a digital undergraduate textbook sponsored by the Human Resources Development Operational Programme of the Hungarian government, 2006)

Discography

Organisation of Conferences

Co-organizer (with Dr Dóra Pődör of Károli Gáspár University) of the “Representations of Ireland” conference, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, 30–31 August 2012.

Host Committee member and academic co-ordinator (with Professor R. B. Kershner of the University of Florida), “Joycean Unions”, the XX. International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest and Szombathely, 11–17 June 2006.

Academic co-organizer, “Trans-Missions”, an international British Studies conference organised by the British Council, Budapest, 9–11 May 2002.

Academic and public Appearances (Live and Electronic)

“‘The Irish Character’: Typography and Self-Representation”, paper presented at the

“Representations of Ireland” conference, Károli Gáspár University, 30–31 August 2012.

“Joyce and Post-World War I Eastern Europe”, paper presented at the XXIII. International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 10–16 June 2012.

“Characters:” [Joyce, diacritics, typefaces and nationalism], presentation at the Zurich Joyce Workshop, 31 July–6 August 2011.

‘Irodalomtörténet és cenzúratörténet’ [Literary history and censorship history], paper presented (in Hungarian) at Károli Tudományos Napok, Károli University, Budapest, 21 April 2006.

‘Játék a szenttel: Joyce ars poeticái’ [Playing with the sacred: Joyce’s poetic creeds], paper presented (in Hungarian) at the ‘Sacrality of reality, language and communication’ conference organised by the Communication Studies Department of Károli University, Budapest, 11 October 2005.

‘Joyce, Hopkins and Catholicism’ (invited) lecture at the 2005 UCD Joyce Summer School, Dublin, 14 July 2005. ‘Returning to Bannockburn: FW 185 Defeats Censorship”, paper presented at the 2005 North-American James Joyce Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, 18 June 2005.

‘Isteni kommunikáció G. M. Hopkins költészetében’ [Divine Communication in G. M. Hopkins’s Poetry], paper presented at the “Communication and Sacrality” conference of the Communication Studies Department of Károli University, 19 November 2004.

‘Writing on the Body and the Right to Write in G. M. Hopkins and Joyce’, paper presented at the 2004 (Sixth) Szombathely James Joyce Conference, 8 October 2004.

‘Joyce, Hopkins and the Catholic Cultural Matrix’, paper presented at the XIXth International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, 17 June 2004.

‘On Gloves and Other Containers in Writings of G. M. Hopkins and James Joyce’, paper presented at the Fifth Szombathely James Joyce Conference, 10 October 2003.

‘On Shells in Joyce’, paper presented at the 2003 Zürich Joyce Workshop (‘Material Joyce’), 10 August 2003. ‘Virag, Virago, Weininger’ paper presented at the XXVIIIth International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, 17 June 2002.

‘Images of the Fall: Hungarians and the Irish in 19th century British Texts,’ paper presented at

„Trans-Missions”, an international British Studies conference organised by the British Council, Budapest, 9 May 2002.

‘A bűnbeesés előtt és után: írek és magyarok képei 19. századi brit (b)irodalmi szövegekben’, paper presented at the British Studies Roundtables (‘Britannia Kör’) of the British Council, Budapest, 22 March 2002.4

‘Virag of Szombathely: The Weininger Connection’, paper presented at the Third Szombathely James Joyce Conference, 8 October 2001.

‘Manly Anglicans and Womanly Others: National, Religious and Gender Stereotypes in Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!’, paper presented at HUSSE5, the 5th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English, Eger, 27 January 2001.

‘ “Once Honourable Vessels”: Joyce’s Changing Pottery’, paper presented at the 17th International James Joyce Symposium, London, 25 June 2000 and at the Second Szombathely James Joyce Conference, 15 September 2000.

‘Joyce’s Hungarian Bodies’, paper presented at the First Szombathely James Joyce Conference, Szombathely, 15 June 1999.

‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Incarnation’, paper presented at HUSSE4, the 4th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English, Budapest, 30 January 1999.

‘The Importance of Being Hungarian’, (invited) lecture at the second Trieste Joyce School, Trieste, 23 June 1998.

‘Cascando or Fortunous Casualitas: The Fall of Language in Beckett and Joyce’, paper read at the 16th International James Joyce Symposium, Rome, 18 June 1998.



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