BALÁZS Imre József

BALÁZS, IMRE-JÓZSEF

Associate professor, PhD

 

E-mail: lutraro@yahoo.com

 

Teaching

-            20th century Hungarian Literature

-            Theory and practice of the literary profession

-            Criticism

-            Intercultural Communication in the Modern Transylvanian Literatures

-            Creative writing

-           European modernism

-            Regional Literatures

 

Education and training

-            1998: Hungarian–English Literature and Culture, Cluj-N., Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, 1994-1998

-            1999: MA degree in Hungarian literature (In the programme Literature and Society), Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, 1998-1999

-            1999-2004: PhD research, BBU Cluj, Faculty of Letters, Department of Hungarian Literature (The Avant-Garde in Transylvanian Hungarian Literature)

 

Research interests

-            20th century Hungarian Literature

-            Avant-garde

-            Transylvanian Hungarian literature

 

Major research projects

-           1999–2004: The Avant-garde in Transylvanian Hungarian Literature (PhD thesis, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj)

-           2005–2006: Systems of Value and Integration in the Transylvanian Hungarian Literature between 1948–1965 (Sapientia Research Centre, Cluj, as project manager)

-           2011–2012: The specificity of the reception of Surrealism in the Eastern and Central European cultural and political context (postdoctoral research project, Romanian Academy of Science – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, POSDRU 61104)

-           2013–2014: Avant-gardists after the avant-garde (research grant, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, GTC 34055/2013)

 

Major publications

-            A nonsalansz esélye. (The Chance of Nonchalance). Essays. Cluj, Komp-Press, 2001.

-            Hervay Gizella. Monographical essay. Bucharest, Kriterion, 2003.

-            Humor az avantgárdban és a posztmodernben. (Humor in the Avant-garde and in Postmodernism). Study, co-author: Zsuzsa SELYEM. Cluj, Scientia, 2004.

-            Mint egy úszó színház. (Like a Floating Theatre) Essays. Miecurea Ciuc, Pallas–Akadémia, 2005.

-            Az avantgárd az erdélyi magyar irodalomban. (The Avant-garde in Transylvanian Hungarian Literature). Tg. Mures, Mentor, 2006. (Romanian translation by Kocsis Francisko, Ed. Bastion, Timisoara, 2009)

-            Avant-garde and Representations of Communism in Hungarian Literature from Romania. Ed. Didactică și Pedagogică, București, 2009.

-           Az új közép. Tendenciák a kortárs irodalomban (The New Centre: Tendencies in Contemporary Literature). Szeged, Universitas Szeged, 2012.