Dr. István Rácz CV | Institute of English and American Studies

Name: Dr István Rácz
web: http://ieas.unideb.hu
Date of birth: 28 January 1954
Professional qualification: Undergraduate degree: qualified as a teacher of Hungarian and English at Lajos Kossuth University of Debrecen (1977)
University doctoral degree: English Literature; thesis: “Shelley’s Reception in Hungary” (1984)

PhD: English Literature; thesis: “Identity in Post-1945 British Poetry” (1994)

Jobs:
1977-1983 School teacher at Rákóczi Secondary School in Sárospatak

1983-1987 Junior Lecturer in the English Department at Lajos Kossuth University

1987-1995 Senior Lecturer in the English Department (from 1990: Department of British Studies) at Lajos Kossuth University

1995-2014 Reader in the Department of British Studies at the University of Debrecen

Since 2014 Professor in the Department of British Studies at the University of Debrecen

Academic fields of interest: 19th and 20th century British poetry (especially Romanticism and post-1945 poetry), literary translation

Habilitation: 2000, University of Debrecen; thesis: “The Poetry of Philip Larkin”
Scholarship won Széchenyi Professor’s Scholarship 1997-2001

Teaching experience: Lecture courses: 18th, 19th and 20th Century British Literature, 20th Century British Poetry, Post-1945 British Poetry

Seminar courses in Literature: British Literature from the Beginning to the 19th Century, 18th Century British Literaure, 19th Century British Literaure, 19th Century British Fiction, 20th Century British Literature, 20th Century British Poetry, Philip Larkin, Prometheus in British Literature, Introduction to Literary Studies, Literary Theory, Post-1945 British Poetry, Poetry in Translation, Topic and Form in 19th Century British Poetry, Lyric Forms in 19th and 20th Century British Literature

Language courses: English Speaking and Writing, Translation

Time spent in teaching: 6 years in secondary school, 33 years at university

The main figures of professional achievement

Number of publications: 104
Thesis guidence: 40 MA theses (mainly about 19th and 20th century poetry); at present thesis advisor of three PhD students

PhD training: participating in the British Studies programme at the University of Debrecen as Director; participating in the exam committees and defence committees of other PhD programmes

Major publications: (Note: I use my name as István D. Rácz in publications.)

„Agnosticism, Masks and Monologues in Philip Larkin”. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 1. 2. (1995), 93-120.

Költők és maszkok. Identitáskereső versek az 1945 utáni brit költészetben. Debrecen, Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, 1996.

A szép majdnem igaz. Philip Larkin költészete. Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, 1999.

„Space in Larkin and Cézanne”. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 9. 2 (2003), 119-125.

„’Like Something Almost Being Said’: Philip Larkin’s High Windows”. Szaffkó Péter és Bényei Tamás, szerk. Happy Returns. Essays for Professor István Pálffy. Debrecen: KLTE Institute of English and American Studies, 1999. 211-235.

„Are Days Where We Live?” Andrew McKeown és Charles Holdefer, szerk. Philip Larkin and the Poetics of Resistance. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006. 81-92.

A másik ország: Az angol költészet 1945 után. Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, 2006.

“’A marvellously mild-tempered, gentle person’: Shelley in Hungarian Culture”. Susanne Schmid and Michael Rossington, ed. The Reception of P.B: Shelley in Europe. The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe ser. London: Continuum, 2008. 219-228.

„Az első világháború az angol költészetben.” Studia Litteraria, 3-4, LIV (2015), 125-132.

Philip Larkin’s Poetics: Theory and Practice of an English Post-war Poet. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016.


Papers given at conferences: Leicester (1989), Tallinn (1992), Timisoara (1995, 1996, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2008), Glasgow (1995), Hull (1997, 2002, 2007) and a number of Hungarian conferences

Administrative and editorial experience:

1984-1990 Secretary of the Institute of Western Languages and Literatures
1991-1993 Deputy Director of the Institute of English and American Studies
1991-1993 Deputy Head of the Department of English Literature
1991-1993 Elected member of the Faculty Council at the Faculty of Humanities
Since 1992 Associate Editor of Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (Debrecen)
1993-1998 Director of the Institute of English and American Sudies, Head of the Department of British Studies (formerly Department of English Literature)
Since 1996 Member of the Advisory Board of British and American Studies (Timisoara)
1998-2000 Elected member of the University Council
1998-2018 Director of the British Studies PhD programme
1999-2008 Member of the Education Committee of the Faculty of Humanities
2001-2004 Project manager (“Philip Larkin and Post-1945 British Poetry”)
Since 2003 Director of the Literary Committee of the Debrecen branch of the Hungarian Academy
2008-2016 Director of the Institute of the English and American Studies
2008-2011 Member of the Education Council of the University of Debrecen
From 2015 Board member of Pro Regione Foundation
From 2017 board member of Debreceni Szemle
From 2018 Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Institute
From 2018 Director of British and North American Literature and Culture Doctoral Programme