Dr. habil. Andrea Timár

Biography:

I am an Associate Professor (PhD. Habil.) at the Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University. I hold MAs in English and French. I am currently the Director of the Doctoral Programme in Modern English and American Literature and Culture. I am interested in the frontiers of literature, philosophy, and critical theory. I studied at the University of Leuven and Royal Holloway, University of London during my doctoral years. My monograph Cultivation, Addiction, Habits (Palgrave, 2015. paperback: 2017) was nominated for the First Book Prize by the British Association for Romantic Studies, and won the HUSSE Book Award. Between 2015 and 2019, I led the T.H.E (The Human Enigma) Doctoral Research Group. In 2019/2020, I was a research fellow at the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies, doing research on dehumanization (with a focus on the literary representations of perpetrators), and the literary implications of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. I was the co-editor of the journal The AnachronisT (1998-2021) and have been an editor of Helikon Literary and Cultural Studies Review (since 2021). In 2019-2024, I participated in Prof. Peter Cheyne’s KAKEN research project, Living Ideas: Dynamic Philosophies of Life and Matter, 1650-1850. In 2022, I was the recipient of a research grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for a publication in Arendt Studies ("Against Compassion..." 2022/6), and the ELTE grant for excellence in publication for my paper in the Q1 journal Critical Horizons ("Critiques of Violence: Arendt, Sedgwick, and Cavarero Respond to Billy Budd's Stutter"). In Spring 2024, I was a Fulbright researcher at Brown University, working on my book Reading with Hannah Arendt: Literature, Criticism, Theory (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic). Since 2025, I have been a member of the Ágota Kristof Research Group (IASK). From May to October 2025, I am the recipient of the research grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I am married, with two sons, Jonatán (2014) and Vilmos (2017).

Research:

I wrote my PhD in British Romanticism, on the writings of S.T Coleridge's, in the crossroads of literature, philosophy, and politics. Since then, I have been working on the broader issue of the “human” (including posthumanisms and dehumanization), and have a special interest in the intertwinings of medical, political, and literary discourses of immunity. I have published two essay collections (The Human Form, 2020; A fertőzés és a távolságtartás alakzatai, 2024.). I am currently writing a book on Hannah Arendt’s engagements with storytelling, and on how Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy can inspire contemporary literary studies.

Selected publications:

 

• “Coleridge and Human Individuation: the Passions” In: Cheyne, Peter (ed.) Matter and Life in Coleridge, Schelling, and Other Dynamical Idealists. Springer Nature Switzerland (2025) 359 p. 25 p. (forthcoming)
• “Post-Pandemic Immune-Politics: Jacques Derrida and Roberto Esposito after Covid-19” In: Emmrich, Thomas (ed) Interdisziplinäre Epidemiologie : Zur Diskursproduktivität von Seuchen Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag (2024) 358 p. pp. 243-259.
• "Critiques of Violence: Arendt, Sedgwick, and Cavarero Respond to Billy Budd’s Stutter" in Critical Horizons, 24:2, 164-179.
• "Against Compassion: Arendt, Benjamin, Melville, and Coleridge" in Arendt Studies, 2022/6.
• "Dehumanization in Literature, the Figure of the Perpetrator.” The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanisation. Ed. Maria Kronfeldner. New York: Routledge, 2020.
• A Modern Coleridge: Addiction, Cultivation, Habits. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• “The Murder of the Mother(tongue): Agota Kristof’s The Notebook.” Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English. ed. P. Powrie, P. Barta. London: Routledge, 2015. 222-236.

 

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