Dr. Márta Hargitai

senior lecturer

Biography:

I got my BA in Hungarian and English language and literature at the Teacher Training College at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest; my MA in Engish at the Faculty of Arts at ELTE, where later I also received my PhD in Renaissance and Baroque English Literature.
My dissertation was entitled "Metamorphosis in Shakespeare's King Lear". I started giving courses in language development and in English/American literature at the Teacher Training College ELTE Budapest in 2000, and since 2007 I have been core member of The School of English and American Studies at The Faculty of Arts at ELTE Budapest primarily teaching courses in Renaissance drama and film adaptations.

Research:

I have a major academic interest in Renaissance drama, philosophy, art, and theology as well as in theatre and film adaptations. My publications include articles on the notion of time and space in Macbeth and The Tempest, the special affinities of Hitchcock’s films with Shakespearean theatre and dramaturgy, on masters or servants in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth, on Faustus’s decision on a possible belief-disbelief vs fixity-change spectrum, the various interpretations of the ‘bank and shoal of time’ metaphor in Macbeth, restorative and reflective nostalgia in Renaissance drama, and on chronotopes of Hell in Macbeth film adaptations. I was guest editor of The Anachronist special issue on Film and Culture. The Reel Eye (2023).

Selected publications:

“‘Fate hid in an auger hole.’ Confined space as representation of evil in Macbeth”, in: Myth, Image, Narrative: Critical Studies; L’Harmattan, 2024.
“Fleance and Obscured Scottish Futures in Screen Adaptations of Macbeth by Goold, Kurzel and Coen”, Anglistica AION. Vol. 26, issue 2 (2022) Continuity and Change in Screen Shakespeare(s), Eds. Sylvaine Bataille and Victoria Bladen, 2024. URL
“From ‘Resolute’ to ‘Dissolved’: Tracking Faustus’s Decision” Anachronist 18.2 (2019): 243-259.
“Masters and Servants in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth: Faustus and Mephistopheles vs. Macbeth and Seyton” Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance: Things Old and New. Szerk. Matuska Ágnes és Kocic- Zámbó Larisa, Newcastle upon Tyne: Egyesült Királyság, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. 27-44.
“School of time and crime: An ‘awful parenthesis’ in Macbeth.” Changing Perspectives: Studies in English. Szerk. Kenyeres János és Illés Éva. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 2019.
“Hitchcock’s Macbeth.” Film and Culture. Szerk. Jászay Dorottya és Velich Andrea. Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 2016. 87-109.

Selected conferences

II Circe Online Conference: Archives, subalternity and social justice in the adaptation of early modern theatre (film, television, multimedia, and staging). Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Universitat de València, 2024-
European Shakespeare Research Association Conference (ESRA): Then fate o’erruled”: Change in Shakespeare (PPKE, Budapest), 2023
"Action Suited to the Word": Géher-Kállay memorial conference (KRE&ELTE, Budapest), 2022
“The Reel Eye.” 2nd International Film workshop and Conference, organizer, ELTE, Budapest, Magyarország, 2021.
“Stand up for Shakespeare-Shakespeare without chairs.” iDEaS Conference & Workshop of Department of English Studies & School of English and American Studies, ELTE, Budapest, Magyarország, 2019.
“Nostalgia as displacement in three Early Modern plays: Doctor Faustus, Macbeth and The Tempest.” HUSSE Conference, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Magyarország, 2018.