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T. SZABÓ Levente
Associate Professor, PhD habil.
Head of the Doctoral School of Hungarian Studies
Doctoral advisor at the Doctoral School of Hungarian Studies of the Babes-Bolyai University and the Doctoral School of Literary Studies at the University of Szeged
LEVENTE T. SZABÓ
Associate Professor, PhD
External academic websites: http://szabol.adatbank.transindex.ro/
http://ubbcluj.academia.edu/LeventeSzabó
E-mail: tszabo.levente [a_t] ubbcluj.ro, tszabolevente [a_t] gmail.com
Consultation: Tuesday 9-10, room 108, 2nd floor.
Teaching: nineteenth-century Hungarian and comparative literature, methodologies of comparative literature, visuality and literary history, the social history of literature
Education and training
· 1995–1999: BA studies and degree in Hungarian and English language and literature (Babes-Bolyai University)
· 1999-2001: MA studies and degree in the social history of literature (BBU)
· 1999-2004.: PhD studies and PhD degree in literary history(BBU)
· 2004-2015: university lecturer (BBU, Dept. Of Hungarian Literary Studies)
Research interests: nineteenth-century Hungarian and comparative literature, the social history and sociology of literature, history of Eastern European literary tourism, the Összehasonlító Irodalomtörténelmi Lapok / Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum and the global beginnings of modern comparative literary studies (19th century)
Major research projects
· 2001-2002: research fellow of New Europe College. Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest
· 2004-2006: research fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia) and Collegium Budapest in the project We, the People”. Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the Europe of Small Nations
· 2008-2009: research fellow of the project Medievalism, archaic origins and regimes of historicity. Alternatives to antique tradition in the nineteenth century in East-Central, Southeast and Western Europe convened by Patrick Geary (UCLA, SUA) and Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest)
· 2007-2010, 2011-2014: János Bolyai Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Major publications:
· A tér képei: tér, irodalom, társadalom, KompPress, Kolozsvár, 2008.
. The Subversive Politics of Multilingualism in the First International Journal of Comparative Literary Studies = Paradoxes du plurilinguisme littéraire 1900 : réflexions théoriques et études de cas, dir. Benert Britta, Bruxelles: Peter Lang, (New Comparative Poetics / Nouvelle poétique comparatiste), 2015.
. À la recherche… de l’editeur perdu. Brassai Sámuel and the first international journal of comparative literary studies =Storia, Identita e Canoni lettarari, eds. Angela Tarantino, Ioana Bot, Ayșe Saraçgil, Florence University Press, 2013, 177-188. (Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna 19.)
· Narrating the ’People” and ’Disciplining” the Folk: The Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline = Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the Europe of Small Nations, ed. Diana Mishkova, CEU Press, Budapest – New York, 2009, 207-236. (önálló working paperként: T. Szabó Levente, Narrating ’the People’ and ’Disciplining’ the Folk: the Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1880-1900), Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, 2011. CAS Working Paper Series 3/2011)
· Az irodalmi hivatásosodás és az írói szolidaritás új formái a 19. század közepén: a Magyar Írói Segélyegylet esete, Irodalomtörténet 2008/3, 347-376. (a publikáció elnyerte az év legjobb klasszikus magyar irodalomtörténeti munkájának járó, az MTA ITI által megítélt Martinkó András-díjat 2009-ben.)
· The nationalization of the visual narratives. The beginnings of the Ethnographic Museum of Kolozsvár / Cluj (1902),MARTOR 2007/1.
· A magyartanárság születése, Gyulai Pál egyetemi tanársága és a magyar irodalomtörténeti képzés hivatásosodása,Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények 2006/ 6., 677-701.
· Just Pure Music? Franz Liszt Revisited: Interethnic Relationships and Literary Norms in Mid-Nineteenth–Century Hungarian Culture = Symposia. Proceedings of the International Conference of South–European Anthropologists, ed. Fifor Mihai, Aius Press, 2004, 529–546.
Membership in major academic associations, institutions:
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
- a British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) (International Corresponding Member)
- az Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- a member of the Society of Hungarian Scientist and Scholars affiliated to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia köztestületi tagja)