Dr. habil. Zsolt Komáromy

Biography:

I earned MA degrees in English literature and in aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, whereI also I conducted my doctoral studies in the Doctoral School for Literature (my supervisor was Győző Ferencz). I completed my PhD in 2003. During my graduate studies I spent a year at the University of Edinburgh (under the supervision of Colin Nicholson) with a British council scholarship, and a year at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin with a Soros doctoral research scholarship. I was awarded the Békésy György Postdoctoral Scholarship, working as a research assistant at the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, where I became an assistant professor in 2006. I have also taught at the English Department of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, and a semester each at the University of Debrecen and the University of Szeged. I completed my habilitation in 2018 and was appointed associate professor in 2019 at the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University.

Research:

My first field of research was the poetry of W. B. Yeats. My interests then shifted to earlier ages and to the history of ideas. My doctoral dissertation and my first book was written on the the notion of memory in the history of aesthetics, with a focus on 18th century British thought. My research in literature also centres on the 18th century, and on the Romantic age, with a primary interest in the work of William Wordsworth, English classicism, and the literary- and critical history of the long 18th century and romanticism. Most recently my research focuses on the problems and methods of the writing of literary history, my habilitation thesis was written in this subject, entitled "Forms and Ages. An experiment in the literary history of the long eighteenth century."

Selected publications:

• The History of English Literature from the 1640s to the 1830s. Edited by Bálint Gárdos, Zsolt Komáromy, Miklós Péti. Budapest: Kijárat, 2021. (In Hungarian)
• "Contradictions as Patterns in Literary History: Skepticism, Common Sense, and the Conversational Idiom of Churchill and Cowper." Modern Language Quarterly 80.1 (2019): 75-97.
• Figures of Memory. From the Muses to Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011.
• "'Wordsworth in Hungary': An Essay on Reception as Cultural Memory and Forgetting." Worlds of Hungarian Writing. Ed. András Kiséry, Zsolt Komáromy, and Zsuzsanna Varga. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. 29-53.
• "Innovations in dialogic poetry in the debate of Wordsworth and Coleridge." Hagyomány és innováció a magyar és világirodalomban [Tradition and Innovation in Hungarian- and World Literature]. Ed. Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó. Budapest: Eötvös Kiadó, 2020. 22-45. (In Hungarian)

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