A Former Intellectual Island in a World Lacking Freedom

The main topic of this conversation with Professor Győző Ferencz, literary historian, poet, and former head of the Department of English Language and Literature at ELTE, is the history of the English Department after World War II, mainly during his university years in the 1970s, and its role in mediating English-language cultures in Hungary, which was isolated by the Iron Curtain. The conversation also touches on the flourishing of Irish studies and Professor Ferencz's translations of Irish poetry.

The full article is available on the Új Pedagógiai Szemle website here.