Dr. Zsolt Bojti
senior lecturer
Biography:
I graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in English literature, and obtained a PhD degree in modern English and American literature and culture. During my student years, I participated in the research of several groups: Subjectivities (2015–2017), Early Modern English Research Group (2015–2019), The Human Enigma (2017–2019). I’ve been teaching at the Department of English Studies since 2016 and at the Institute of English Studies of Károli Gáspár University since 2019. I’m also co-editor of The AnaChronisT, the academic journal of the department. As research fellow in the New National Excellence Programme (2019/2020), I published the first Hungarian translation and critical edition of Imre: A Memorandum by Edward Prime-Stevenson.
Research:
My research deals with the connection between the beginning of German sexology and the English literary history of sexuality at the fin de siècle. In the beginning, my focus was on works by Oscar Wilde, which has shifted to the life and oeuvre of Eric Stenbock and Edward Prime-Stevenson. I am also interested in Gothic literature, Victorian literary and cultural history, and “literary music.” Although it is not my area of expertise, I would also like to delve into the connection between video games and literature in the future.
Selected publications:
- "The True Story of a Vampire in Context." Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Ed. Simon Bacon. Palgrave, 2023.
- “‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature.” Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Eds. Rachael Durkin, Peter Dayan, Axel Englund, Katharina Clausius. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 27–38.
- Bevezető. Bevezető a függelékhez. Jegyzetek. Imre: Egy emlékirat. By Edward Prime-Stevenson. 1906. Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó, 2021. 11–63. 219–225. 289– 304.
- “Narrating Eros and Agape: Erotext in the Exposition of Imre: A Memorandum by Edward Prime-Stevenson.” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6.1 (2020): 18–30.
- “‘People do not, as a rule, believe in Vampires!’: Nineteenth-Century Sexology and ‘The True Story of a Vampire’ by Count Eric Stenbock.” The AnaChronisT 18.1 (2018): 181–196.
Selected conferences
- "The 'Real Vampire' as a Conceptual Muddle in 'The True Story of a Vampire' by Eric Stenbock." Victorian Transformations, Leeds Trinity University, 2023.
- "From Erlkönig to the 'real vampire': On the Origins of 'The True Story of a Vampire' by Stenbock." Children of the Night: International Dracula Congress, Transilvania University of Brașov/Maria Curie-Skłodowska University/State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brasil, 2022.
- “Reading Anthologically and Rodney Garland’s The Heart in Exile (1953).” 15th HUSSE Conference, KRE, Budapest, 2022.
- “Sexual Politics in the Exposition of Imre: A Memorandum by Edward Prime-Stevenson.” Beginnings, MTA, Budapest, 2019.
- “‘That is the music which makes men mad’: Hungarian Nervous Music in Fin-de-Siècle Gay Literature.” Music and Literature, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, 2018.
- “Queer Masculinities: The Hungarian as Trope in Late-Victorian Queer Literature—An Overview.” Anxious Forms 2016: Masculinities in Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 2016.
Teaching
- Introduction to literature
- English literature from 1890 until the 1960s
- Reading Oscar Wilde in context
- The English literary history of sexuality
Supervision
- Fin-de-Siècle fiction
- Victorian literature, cultural history, sexuality
- Gothic literature
- Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Eric Stenbock, Edward Prime-Stevenson