Besides the emphasis on research, following and assisting the work of talented students has always been a top priority with the staff members of the Department of British Studies. The University of Debrecen offers various programmes to undergraduates who wish to pursue extracurricular research: perhaps the students' extracurricular research society and national conference are of the most crucial importance, where our students are famously successful; but also of great significance are the István Hatvani Students Extramural College and the Talent Management Programme (DETEP) of the University of Debrecen.
Our success is indicated by the fact that two staff members at the Department of British Studies have been granted the Master Supervisor Award by the National Council of the Students' Extracurricular Research Societies for their more than ten year-long successful work as extracurricular essay supervisors: Dr. Bényei Tamás (2001) and Dr. Séllei Nóra (2003).
(For information on talent management at the postgraduate level, see MA in English Studies and Ph.D. in British Studies).
Our most outstanding students also participate in the student instructor programme. They have applied successfully for various grants to universities in the UK, Ireland, the USA, and several other countries of the EU. These grants include those under the auspices of the Erasmus programme of the EU, as well as ISEP and Fulbright grants.
Several of our former students went on to take higher degrees in notable universities of the UK and the US.
Students' Extracurricular Essay Competition and Conference
| Author | Title | Supervisor | Year | Prize |
| Győri Zsolt | The Figures of Children in Oscar Wilde’s Tales | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1995 | 2nd prize |
| Polónyi Krisztina | Prospero Figures in John Fowles The Magus and Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1995 | 2nd prize |
| Kalmár György | The Pleasure of Orlando | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 1997 | 1st prize and special award |
| Görömbei Réka | Myth in Angela Carter’s A Passion for New Eve | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | 2nd prize |
| Varga Tünde | The Uncanny in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | 2nd prize |
| Reichmann Angelika | Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | 3rd prize |
| Csengei Ildikó | Wilhelm Meister and Tristram Shandy | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | 3rd prize |
| Bányai Tamás | The Motif of Hell in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | special award |
| Fazekas Attila | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: A Rebellion against the Dominant Discourses of the Western European Cultures | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 1997 | special award |
| Herendi Krisztina | Angela Carter and Freud in The Magic Toyshop | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | -- |
| Szabó Fruzsina | Figurative Structures in Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1997 | -- |
| Csengei Ildikó | The Bildungsroman as the Unreadability of the Bildungsroman | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1999 | 1st prize |
| Kovács Gergely | The Empire Laughs Back: A post-colonial reading of Frank McGuinness's Mary and Lizzie | Dr. Bertha Csilla | 1999 | 2nd prize |
| Kőrösi Márta | In and Out of Gender and Genre: Woolf’s Orlando | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 1999 | 3rd prize |
| Végső Roland | Requiem for a Nun and the The Faulkner Canon | Dr. Abádi Nagy Zoltán Dr. Bényei Tamás |
1999 | 3rd prize |
| Marthy Barna | The Configuration of Fluids in Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, the Sea | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1999 | special award |
| Czeglédi Anett | The Textuality of the Obscene and the Obscenity of the Text | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 1999 | -- |
| Lantos Enikő | Twice-Told Tales: Fairy Tale, Gothic, and Fantasy in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 1999 | — |
| Pelyvás Ágnes | Irony as a Technique of Defamiliarisation in Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions | Dr. Abádi Nagy Zoltán Dr. Bényei Tamás |
1999 | -- |
| Nagy Krisztina | Postmodern Tragedy in Martin Amis’s Money | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | 1st prize |
| Somogyi Gyula | „Áttétel és rémregény Kemény Zsigmond Ködképek a kedély láthatárán című szövegében” | Dr. Bényei Tamás Dr. Séllei Nóra Dr. Bényei Péter |
2001 | 1st prize |
| Pozsgai Réka | Scylla and Charybdis: The Black Prince between Hamlet and Ulysses | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | 2nd prize |
| Szabó Katalin | Mystery or Mastery: Transferential Structures in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | 2nd prize |
| Csatári Annamária | Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall as a Künstlerroman | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2001 | — |
| Jakab Enikő | Illness and Family Romance: a Key Motif in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2001 | — |
| Papp Klaudia | ’Parents as Is Lovers Is Noh Parents ah all’: Aspects of Motherhood in Marina Carr's Plays | Dr. Bertha Csilla | 2001 | 3rd prize |
| Somogyi Gyula | „Áttétel és rémregény Kemény Zsigmond Ködképek a kedély láthatárán című szövegében” | Dr. Bényei Tamás Dr. Séllei Nóra Bényei Péter |
2001 | 1st prize |
| Moise Gabriella | The Trick Is to Keep Eating: The Poetics of Anorexia Nervosa in Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | -- |
| Szabó Judit | Fluidity and Phenomenonology in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | -- |
| Tukacs Tamás | Strategies of Reading in John Fowles’s The Collector | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | -- |
| Varga Judit | Plot Patterns in Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2001 | -- |
| Dóri Márta | Mirrors in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2003 | 1st prize |
| Timár Krisztina | Karnevál, nyelv és törvény Rejtő Jenő Az ellopott futár című regényében | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2003 | 1st prize |
| Veres Ottilia | The Dream of the Text: The Opening Paragraph of Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2003 | 2nd prize |
| Erdei Nóra | Miss Marple nyomoz | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2003 | 3rd prize |
| Garamvölgyi Judit | Androgünia Adrienne Rich "Diving into the Wreck" és Ingeborg Bachmann Undine Geht c. művében | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2003 | — |
| Molnár Csaba | Reading the Uncanny | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2003 | -- |
| Orosz Szilárd | Angyali ontológia (Wim Wenders: Berlin fölött az ég) | Dr. Bényei Tamás Dr. Berta Erzsébet |
2005 | first prize with special commendation |
| Nagy Nóra | Allegories of Art and Desire in the Pygmalion series of Edward Burne-Jones | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2005 | 2nd prize |
| Gergely Nikoletta | Epistemology, Rhetoric and Power in Sigmund Freud’s "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2005 | 3rd prize |
| Boros Mariann | Descent into the Underworld in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2005 | -- |
| Erdei Nóra | "The Erotic Beyond": Sexuality in Emily Dickinson’s and Christina Rossetti’s Poetry | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2005 | — |
| Gulyás Judit | The Phenomenology of Time in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2005 | -- |
| Schottner Ágnes | The Shadow of theRue Fossette — The Shadow-like Figure of Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2005 | — |
| Zimányi Eszter | Doors and Windows in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2005 | -- |
| Barna Tibor | Oleanna: Feminism, Postmodernism and Political Correctness | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2007 | — |
| Kispál Mónika | Topography and Spatiality in Ian McEwan’s The Innocent | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2007 | -- |
| Krakkó Eszter | Charlotte Brontë’s Novels: Inviting the Picturesque | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2007 | — |
| Tamási Tímea | Crime as Punishment: Violence in Hannibal | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2007 | -- |
| Zimányi Eszter | Transgressive Female Bodies in Contemporary British Novels by Women | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2007 | -- |
| Szabó Orsolya Zsuzsanna | Just Turn it Around - The Osbournes and "The Osbournes" as Images and Storytellers of Gender | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2009 | 2nd prize |
| Szeifert Ágnes | "Lost in Nebulous Time": Surrealism and Subversion in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2009 | 3rd prize |
| Ureczky Eszter | Dwelling in Doubleness: Narrative Space in Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hilland Michel Tournier's Gemini | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2009 | 1st prize and special award |
| Győri Dávid | The Figure of James Bond as the Archetypal Hero in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale | Dr.Donald E Morse | 2009 | -- |
| Szilágyi Gusztáv | Agatha Christie's Poirot: Rationality and Sensitivity | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2011 | 3rd prize |
| Szalóki Zsuzsanna | The Mother Daughter Relationship in Fairy Tales by Contemporary Women Writers | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2011 | -- |
| Szabadi István | Magic and History in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2011 | 3rd prize |
| Dabrowsky Ádám | The Postmodern Turn of American Comic Books | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2011 | -- |
| Mezei Sarolta | When Lash Touches Flesh - Sadism, Aggression and Pleasure in Some Contemporary Slasher Horror Films | Dr. Bényei Tamás, Dr. Kalmár György | 2011 | 2nd prize |
| Petneházi Anna | Gender and Power in Turn-of-the-Century British Fiction | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2011 | -- |
| Balogh Eszter | Representing the Male Body in First World War Art | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | 2nd prize |
| Csíki Ágnes | Woman, Mother, Vampire: The Resident Evil of Changing Social Anxieties | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | -- |
| Fagyal József Szabolcs | The Presence of Transference and the Ethical Aspect of Narrating in Füst Milán’s A feleségem története and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | 1st prize |
| Seifert Péter | Alasdair Gray’s Anatomy. Art and Anatomy in Poor Things | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | 3rd prize |
| Szilágyi Gusztáv | Grandeur and Fall: Imperialist and Nationalist Ideologies in J. G. Farrell’s Empire Trilogy | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | 2nd prize |
| Szurkos Anita | Ruritania Today: Representations of the Balkans in Contemporary British and American Literature | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2013 | -- |
| Bozsó Georgina | I am still Me: Gender, Madness and Spatiality in Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2013 | 2nd prize and special award |
| Seprenyi Viktória | The Pilgrim, the Tourist, and the Mestiza: Transitions in the Representation of Women in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street and Caramelo | Dr. Németh Lenke | 2013 | special award |
| Keresztesi Ferenc | Robotzsaru: Egy ikonikus kiborg születése, filmjei és kálváriája | Dr. Kalmár György | 2013 | -- |
| Róth Emese Blanka | Superhero Movies and Fandoms | Dr. Kalmár György | 2013 | -- |
| Tófalvi Katalin | The Representation of the Female Body in Self-Portraits in Contemporary Photography | Dr. Kalmár György | 2013 | special award |
| Molnár Alexandra | From "Cupid and Psyche" to "The Tyger's Bride" and Beyond: Historical Transformations of the Beauty and the Beast |
Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2015 | -- |
| Szökőcs Róbert | From The Role of Violence and Transgessive Behaviour in J. G. Ballard's Postmillenial Fiction | Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2015 | -- |
| Feldmann Fanni | Előbújni a vasfüggöny mögül: a szexuális másság ábrázolása a magyar filmben a rendszerváltás előtt és után | Dr. Győri Zsolt | 2015 | -- |
| Horváth Imre | Előbújni a vasfüggöny mögül: a szexuális másság ábrázolása a magyar filmben a rendszerváltás előtt és után | Dr. Kalmár György | 2015 | -- |
| Porcsin Ákos | Moving Pictures -- Visual Language in Comic Book Adaptations | Dr. Kalmár György | 2015 | -- |
| Kónya Marcell | Photographic Image Making of the Great War |
Dr. Moise Gabriella | 2015 | -- |
| Kruppa Terézia | (Post)colonial Encounters: Power Relations in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip |
Ureczky Eszter | 2015 | -- |
| Szabó Éva | Narrative-making as a Form of Healing Trauma in Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum | Ureczky Eszter | 2015 | -- |
| Novák Zsófia | A Quest for Meaning – The Role of Language and Narrative in Shaping Identity in American Gods and The Dancers at the End of Time |
Dr. Bényei Tamás | 2017 | 1st prize |
| Bajnay Flóra | An Open Wound: The Effects of Transgenerational Inheritance in the Descendants of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
2017 | 1st prize |
| Bodrogi Dóra | LGBTQIA Representation in Fiction – Patterns of (Mis)representation in Fiction from a British Perspective since 1885 | Ureczky Eszter | 2017 | 2nd prize |
| Szenes Marianna | "This is the Place of Betrayal": The Memory of the Magdalen Laundries in the City of Galway |
Dr. Gula Marianna, Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2017 | 3rd prize |
| Ozsváth Eszter | Run and Catch: Movement and Identity in “The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner” and The Catcher in the Rye | Dr. Györke Ágnes | 2019 | -- |
| Szabó Zoltán | The Poetics and Politics of Landscape | Dr. Győri Zsolt | 2019 | 2nd prize and special award |
| Malou Kürpick | Postcolonial Identity and Intersectionality in Zadie Smith's Swing Time | Dr. Moise Gabriella | 2019 | 1st prize and special award |
| Krisztán Daniella | The Metaphor of Cannibalism in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: The Social and Natural Disaster of Consuming | Dr. Moise Gabriella | 2019 | 2nd prize |
| Tóth Adél Imola | Paths of Education in the Novels of Anne Brontë | Dr. Séllei Nóra | 2019 | -- |
István Hatvani Students Extramural College
| Name | Supervisor | Period |
| Erdei Nóra | Séllei Nóra | 2003-2005 |
| Jaczenkó László | Bényei Tamás | 2003-2006 |
| Márton Zsuzsa Orsolya | Rácz István | 2003-2004 |
| Molnár Csaba | Bényei Tamás | 2003-2004 |
| Soós Viktória | Séllei Nóra | 2003-2005 |
| Veres Ottília Mária | Bényei Tamás | 2003-2004 |
| Gergely Nikoletta Éva | Séllei Nóra | 2004-2006 |
| Kristóf Júlia | Séllei Nóra | 2004-2008 |
| Barna Tibor | Séllei Nóra | 2006-2008 |
| Gulyás Judit | Bényei Tamás | 2006-2007 |
| Krakkó Eszter | Séllei Nóra | 2006-2007 |
| Zimányi Eszter | Bényei Tamás | 2006-2008 |
| Ureczky Eszter | Bényei Tamás | 2007-2009 |
| Kiss Boglárka | Szalay Edina/Séllei Nóra | 2008-2010 |
| Máté Éva Gyöngy | Bényei Tamás | 2008-2010 |
| Tóth Melinda | Bényei Tamás | 2008-2010 |
| Szabó Orsolya Zsuzsanna | Séllei Nóra | 2008-2010 |
| Garabuczi Katalin | Bényei Tamás | 2009-2011 |
| Hudácskó Brigitta | Séllei Nóra | 2009-2011 |
| Szalóki Zsuzsanna | Séllei Nóra | 2009-2013 |
| Dabrowski Ádám | Bényei Tamás | 2010-2011 |
| Mezei Sarolta | Bényei Tamás | 2010-2011 |
| Petneházi Anna | Bényei Tamás | 2010-2012 |
| Szabó Tibor | Bárány Attila/Bényei Tamás | 2010-2011 |
| Molnár Ágnes | Bényei Tamás | 2010-2012 |
| Szabadi István | Bényei Tamás | 2010-2012 |
| Csíki Ágnes | Bényei Tamás | 2011-2012 |
| Szurkos Anita | Bényei Tamás | 2011-2012 |
| Fazekas Hanna | Bényei Tamás | 2011-2012 |
| Setét Réka | Séllei Nóra | 2011-2012 |
| Balogh Eszter | Bényei Tamás | 2012-2014 |
| Szilágyi Gusztáv | Bényei Tamás | 2012-2014 |
| Fagyal József Szabolcs | Bényei Tamás | 2012-2014 |
| Bozsó Georgina | Séllei Nóra | 2012-2014 |
| Gubó Luca | Gula Marianna | 2013-2014 |
| Duró Evelin | Moise Gabriella | 2013-2015 |
| Szilágyi Bella Brigitta | Séllei Nóra | 2013-2015 |
| Szökőcs Róbert | Bényei Tamás | 2013-2015 |
| Seprenyi Viktória | Németh Lenke | 2013-2015 |
| Feldmann Fanni | Séllei Nóra | 2013-2016 |
| Molnár Alexandra | Bényei Tamás | 2014-2016 |
| Sugár Gabriella | Séllei Nóra | 2014-2015 |
| Tófalvi Katalin | Séllei Nóra | 2014-2016 |
| Weidisch Edit | Séllei Nóra | 2014-2016 |
| Szabó Éva | Ureczky Eszter | 2014-2016 |
| Szenes Marianna | Gula Marianna/Séllei Nóra | 2015-2017 |
| Kónya Marcell | Moise Gabriella | 2015-2016 |
| Molnár Gergely | Bényei Tamás | 2016-2018 |
| Novák Zsófia | Bényei Tamás | 2016-2018 |
| Petrik Szandra | Bényei Tamás | 2016-2017 |
| Visnyei Petra | Bülgözdi Imola | 2016- |
| Doby Jennifer | Győri Zsolt | 2016-2017 |
| Farkas Diána Erzsébet | Hudácskó Brigitta | 2016-2017 |
| László Borbála | Szathmári Judit | 2016-2017 |
| Bajnay Flóra | Ureczky Eszter | 2016-2017 |
| Bodrogi Dóra | Ureczky Eszter | 2016-2017 |
| Makláry Virág Anna | Ureczky Eszter | 2016-2017 |
| Bajnay Flóra | Bényei Tamás | 2017-2018 |
| Kovács Réka Cecília | Bülgözdi Imola | 2017- |
| Kuszinger Rebeka | Bényei Tamás | 2018- |
| Szabó Zoltán | Győri Zsolt | 2017-2018 |
Senior Members of István Hatvani Students Extramural College
| Name | Supervisor |
| Balogh Eszter | Bényei Tamás |
| Bozsó Georgina | Séllei Nóra |
| Feldmann Fanni | Séllei Nóra |
| Szabó Éva | Bényei Tamás |
Talent Management Programme of the University of Debrecen
| Name | Supervisor | Period |
| Kádár Zsuzsanna | Szaffkó Péter | 2002-2004 |
| Veres Ottília | Bényei Tamás | 2002-2004 |
| Katona Julianna | Séllei Nóra | 2002-2004 |
| Gönczi Nóra | Gula Marianna | 2005-2007 |
| Molnár Ágnes | Bényei Tamás | 2009-2012 |
| Muszka Zsuzsanna | Séllei Nóra | 2008-2010 |
| Petneházi Anna | Bényei Tamás | 2009-2014 |
| Szabadi István | Bényei Tamás | 2009-2012 |
| Szalóki Zsuzsanna | Séllei Nóra | 2009-2013 |
| Hudácskó Brigitta | Séllei Nóra | 2009-2011 |
| Kiss Boglárka | Szalay Edina/Séllei Nóra | 2009-2010 |
| Szabó Orsolya Zsuzsanna | Séllei Nóra | 2009-2010 |
| Szurkos Anita | Bényei Tamás | 2011-2013 |
| Balogh Eszter | Bényei Tamás | 2011-2014 |
| Bozsó Georgina | Séllei Nóra | 2011-2014 |
| Szabó Anett | Györke Ágnes | 2011-2012 |
| Szilágyi Gusztáv | Bényei Tamás | 2012-2014 |
| Fagyal József Szabolcs | Bényei Tamás | 2012-2014 |
| Szabó Anett | Borus György | 2012-2014 |
| Duró Evelin | Moise Gabriella | 2013-2015 |
| Szilágyi Bella Brigitta | Séllei Nóra | 2013-2015 |
| Szökőcs Róbert | Bényei Tamás | 2013-2015 |
| Seprenyi Viktória | Németh Lenke | 2013-2015 |
| Feldmann Fanni | Séllei Nóra | 2013-2016 |
| Molnár Alexandra | Bényei Tamás | 2014-2016 |
| Sugár Gabriella | Séllei Nóra | 2014-2015 |
| Makláry Virág Anna | Ureczky Eszter | 2014-2016 |
| Szabó Éva | Ureczky Eszter | 2014-2016 |
| Debreczeni Ádám | Borus György | 2015- |
| Szenes Marianna | Gula Marianna/Séllei Nóra | 2015-2017 |
| Gorondi Viktória | Györke Ágnes | 2015-2017 |
| Kónya Marcell | Moise Gabriella | 2015-2016 |
| Katkó Vivienne | Séllei Nóra | 2015-2016 |
| Tófalvi Katalin | Séllei Nóra | 2015-2016 |
| Weidisch Edit | Séllei Nóra | 2015-2016 |
| László Borbála | Szathmári Judit | 2015-2017 |
| Bajzát Krisztina | Ureczky Eszter | 2015-2017 |
| Novák Zsófia | Bényei Tamás | 2016-2018 |
| Handari Júlia | Moise Gabriella | 2016-2018 |
| Bajnay Flóra | Ureczky Eszter | 2016-2017 |
| Bajnay Flóra | Bényei Tamás | 2017-2018 |
| Gönczi Annamária | Bényei Tamás | 2017- |
| Kovács Réka Cecília | Bülgözdi Imola | 2017- |
| Kőrösi Dávid | Györke Ágnes | 2017- |
| Rácz Edina | Györke Ágnes | 2017- |
| Ozsváth Eszter | Györke Ágnes | 2018- |
| Krisztán Daniella | Moise Gabriella | 2018- |
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2023. 07. 31. 09:04