Dr. Boldizsár Fejérvári
lead instructor (Eötvös József Collegium)
Biography:
I was born in Győr in 1977, where I went to primary and secondary school. In 1995/96 I graduated from the Czuczor Gergely Benedictine High School in Győr and, with a scholarship from my home school, from Whitgift School, South Croydon. I started my university studies in Chemistry at ELTE, adding General Linguistics as a minor. From 1997, I switched to Scandinavian Studies (Norwegian specialisation) and English Language and Literature, graduating with honours in 2002 and 2003, respectively. I defended my doctoral dissertation on Thomas Chatterton's oeuvre and influence in 2019 at ELTE BTK. I have been teaching at the Department of English Studies at ELTE since 2000, and I was also a assistant lecturer at the Department of English Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University between 2006 and 2011. I was briefly employed as Editor-in-Chief for Athenaeum 2000 Publishing House and have contributed to hundreds of books, journal articles, studies, and other publications over the past twenty-five years as a freelance translator, editor, layout designer, and typesetting editor.
Research:
Currently, my primary research topic is 18th and 19th-century English-language poetry. In addition to close reading, I use a variety of 20th and 21st-century literary theories and critical approaches to achieve layered interpretations. In recent years, I have published number of journal articles on the career and oeuvre of Thomas Chatterton and the Chatterton phenomenon at large. Together with my students at Eötvös József Collegium, I have published a bilingual English prose reader and student's guide, while a Washington Irving reader in a similar vein is currently in preparation.
Selected publications:
- “Nosztalgia és metanosztalgia a mai norvég irodalomban” [Nostalgia and Metanostalgia in Present-Day Norwegian Literature]. Filológiai Közlöny 66.3 (2020): 57–74.
- “Thomas Rowley’s Praise of William Canynge: Chatterton’s Blueprint for His Romantic Cult.” Dániel Panka, Natália Pikli, and Veronika Ruttkay (eds.). Kősziklára építve / Built upon His Rock: Írások Dávidházi Péter tiszteletére / Writings in Honour of Péter Dávidházi (Budapest: ELTE BTK, 2018): 98–104.
- “From Fake Lit to the Value of Real Nightingales: An Interview with Nick Groom.” The AnaChronisT 17 (2012): 279–297.
- “The Parasitism of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Revisited.” Journal of Drama Studies 1 (2007): 88–101.
- “Poetics and Cosmetics: Pope’s and Chatterton’s Horatian Odes.” Genre (California State University) 26 (2006): 109–135.
Selected conferences
- “The Pleasures of Anachronism: Wordsworth’s Chatterton and Chatterton’s Rowley.” HUSSE Conference 10. Piliscsaba, Hungary, 2011.
- “Lingering in the Memory: The After Effects of Two Shelley Versions.” Cultural Memory in Literature Conference, Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, 2010.
- “What Remains is Sound or Silence? Two Shelley Versions.” Sounds of Silence Conference, Pázmány Catholic University. Piliscsaba, Hungary, 2010.
- “Donne’s Fear, Milton’s Blindness, and Cowper’s Insanity: Traumatic Experience and Poetic Resolutions.” Guest lecture at the University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD, 2010.
- “Az internet és a másodlagos szóbeliség” [The Internet and Secondary Orality], Internet.galaxis 999. Budapest: Palace of Art, 1999.
Teaching
- Introduction to Literary Studies seminar
- English Literature from the Restoration through 1890
- English Literature from 1890 through 1960
- Constructing Thomas Chatterton
- Reading Thomas Gray
Supervision
- Alexander Pope
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Chatterton
- P. B. Shelley
- 18th-century English Poetics
- English Romanticism
- Victorian Poetry
- The Literature of Modernism