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 was a member of several research groups: Subjectivities (2015–2017), Early Modern English Research Group (2015–2019), The Human Enigma (2017–2019). I’ve been teaching in the Department of English Studies since 2016 and the Institute of English Studies of Károli Gáspár University since 2019. I’m also editor-in-chief of The AnaChronisT, the scholarly 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.”
Select publications:
- "Glances Backward—Glances Forward: Rodney Garland's The Heart in Exile in Context." Hungarian Cultural Studies 17 (2024): 41–52. DOI
- "The True Story of a Vampire in Context." Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Ed. Simon Bacon. Palgrave, 2024. 157–173. DOI
- “‘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. DOI
- Bevezető. Bevezető a függelékhez. Jegyzetek. Imre: Egy emlékirat. By Edward Prime-Stevenson. 1906. Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó, 2021. 11–63. 219–225. 289–304. URL
- “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. DOI
- “‘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. DOI
Select conferences
- "Noble Uranian vs Bad Mother: Relativising ‘Sin’ in ‘The Lady with the Madonna-Face’ by Prime-Stevenson." Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present and Future, Boston University, 2024.
- “'You are a Magyar': Sexological and Literary Interdependence in Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Imre: A Memorandum." Dependencies and Alliances, AHEA, 2023.
- "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.
- “‘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
- Literary and Cultural Studies: Contemporary Approaches (BA/OT)
- English literature from 1890 until the 1960s (BA/OT)
- Reading Oscar Wilde in context (BA/OT)
- The English literary history of sexuality (OT)
Supervision
- Fin-de-Siècle fiction
- Victorian literature, cultural history, sexuality
- Gothic literature
- Oscar Wilde, George Gissing, Eric Stenbock, Edward Prime-Stevenson