I. PERSONAL DATA:
Name: Dr. Tamás Bényei
Date of birth: 1966
Place of birth: Debrecen, Hungary
Place of employment:
Department of British Studies
University of Debrecen,
Institute of English and American Studies
Address: Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1. P.O.Box 73. H-4010 Hungary
Telephone: (36)(52)512 900/22495
Fax (university) : 36 52 431147
Email: tamasbenyei@yahoo.com
Professional qualification:
Undergraduate degree: obtained at the Faculty of Humanities of Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary (1989)
qualified as a teacher of Hungarian literature and linguistics and of English literature and linguistics
Postgraduate degrees:
(1) PhD in English literature, granted by Kossuth University in 1991. Thesis: The Anti-Detective Story as a Postmodern Genre (submitted in Hungarian). Qualification: with distinction /summa cum laude)
(2) “Candidature,” granted by the Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1998. Thesis: Apocryphal Writings (On Magic realist Novels) (submitted in Hungarian). Qualification: 100 per cent.
(3) Dr. Habil. degree, in 1999. Thesis: Acts of Attention: Figure and Narrative in Postwar British Fiction. Qualification: 100 per cent.
Language competence:
Hungarian State language examinations
Advanced: English
Intermediate: Russian, Spanish, French
Reading: German
Positions held:
1995-98: lecturer at the Department of British Studies, Kossuth University
1992-95: junior lecturer at the Department of English Literature, Kossuth University
1998- : senior lecturer at the Department of British Studies in the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen (formerly Kossuth University)
Present position:
professor at the Department of British Studies
II. TEACHING
Required-optional courses for British track students and MA students
Desire and narrative in Post-war British fiction
Magic realism(one-semester version and two-semester version)
Love stories in post-war British fiction
Literature and psychoanalysis”(as a one-semester course and as a two-semester course)
British fiction at mid-century
British fiction in the 1980s
Postmodern British fiction
Theories and stories of love
Postcolonial culture and literature
Contemporary Scottish fiction and film
Crime fiction and film
English literature at the turn of the century
Translating fiction
Metamorphosis
Postgradual courses:
Postcolonial fiction and theory
Space and subjectivity in literature, philosophy and culture
Memory in philosophy, theory and literature
Theories of intersubjectivity and postcolonial literature
III. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twentieth-century English fiction (esp. post-1945) (e.g. Samuel Beckett, William Golding, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Martin Amis, Graham Swift, Iris Murdoch, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Ian McEwan)
Postcolonial cultural theory, colonial and postcolonial literature (e.g. Kipling, Forster)
Crime fiction and film, other genres of popular literature
Women writers, feminist literature (e.g. feministrevisions of gothic tales, fairy tales etc.)
Psychoanalytical theory and interpretation
Theories of narrative, theories of the novel, deconstruction
Latin-American fiction (e.g. Borges, García Márquez)
AWARDS:
2006: Award of the literary journal Alföld
2001: “Mestertanár” Award (“Master Instructor”): a national award, awarded to the most successful supervisors of student papers sumbitted to the national undergraduate essay competition
2000: Soros Award (awarded as a one-year scholarship)
1999: Zoltán Kanyó Award (awarded to specialists in literary theory under 35, by the University of Szeged, Hungary)
1996: Soros Award (awarded as a one-year scholarship)
1992: awarded third place at the essay competition for Academy scholarship holders
1989: Géza Juhász Award (awarded to the most outstanding undergraduates by the Institute of Hungarian Literature, Kossuth University)
1989: Pro Scientia Award (awarded to the most outstanding first prize-winners at the National Undergraduate Essay Competition)