Biography

Györgyi Horváth is literary historian, critic, and translator of literary theory. After graduating in Linguistics & Literature (M.A.) and Italian Studies (M.A.) from the University of Szeged, Aesthetics (M.A.) from the University of Pécs, and after the Doctoral Support Program in Gender at the Central European University, Budapest she completed a doctorate on “The Identity-Forming Function of the Historical Narrative in American Feminist Literary Criticism” at the University of Pécs in 2006. She has worked as a journalist, translator, World Literature Series editor, freelance literary critic, post-doctoral researcher, and university lecturer. Most recently she taught Gender Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Hungarian literature to international students at the Balassi Institute, Budapest. She is the author of A hiányzó B, a series of essays (Budapest: Anonymus, 2005) and Nőidő, a monograph on feminist historiography (Budapest: Kijárat, 2007). She is also co-editor of Hide and Seek. Contemporary Hungarian Writing, an English-language anthology of Hungarian literature today (Budapest: JAK, 2004), and Kortárs Irodalmi Olvasókönyv, an anthology of contemporary Hungarian literature (BBI: Budapest, 2005). Her fields of research include twentieth- and twenty-first century Hungarian literature, literary modernism, identity and literature, gender studies, and post-structuralism.