Reader of Irish and English Literature
Department of British Studies
Institute of English and American Studies
Debrecen University
Debrecen 10, P.O. Box 73, Hungary--4010
Tel: 36-52-512-9oo, Fax: 36-52-431-147, email: csillabertha@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D. KLTE (Lajos Kossuh University), Debrecen, Hungary, 1994
University Doctorate, KLTE, Debrecen, Hungary, 1983
M.A. KLTE, Debrecen, 1969
Employment
1996 – Associate Professor in English and Irish Literature, KLTE, from 2000 Debrecen University
1990 – 1996 Assistant Professor in English and Irish Literature, KLTE, Debrecen
1989 – 1990 Associate Professor,
1979—1989 Assistant Professor,
1971--1979 Instructor in English Literature, Department of English, Tanárképző Főiskola, Eger
1969 – 71 Secondary School Teacher (English and Russian), Rákóczi Gimnázium, Sárospatak
Teaching abroad
2006/7, first term English and Theatre Departments, SUNY Brockport, NY, USA
2004, 2005, English Department, Partium University, Nagyvárad
2002, Maastricht, Centre for Transatlantic Studies
1993/4, 1st term Drama Department, Royal Holloway College, University of London
Honours and Grants
László Országh award, 2019
First International Faculty Fellow, SUNY Brockport, autumn 2006
British Council Grant to University of Ulster, Coleraine – research, 2000, one week,
British Council Grant to Royal Holloway, University of London - research, 1998, three months
British Council Grant to Royal Holloway, University of London – teaching, 1993, two months,
British Council Grant to Birkbeck College, University of London - lecture and participation in symposium, 1992, one week, 1993, one week,
British Council Grant to University of East Anglia, Norwich – research, 1992, two weeks
Rockefeller Study Fellowship (together with Donald E. Morse), Bellagio, Italy – translation 1991, five weeks
Visiting Scholar, Oakland University, Michigan, 1994-1995,
Visiting Scholar, Oakland University, Michigan, 1989-1990
OTKA Grant (together with István Pálffy and Donald E. Morse) - research and publication of selected essays from 1989 IASIL Conference, Debrecen, 1992—94
Courses Taught
English literature in the nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century (survey courses); English and Irish drama in the early twentieth century; Introduction to Irish History, Culture, and Literature; The Irish Dramatic Movement; Contemporary Irish drama; Postcolonialism and contemporary Irish drama; The Irish Short Story; Myth and Twentieth-Century Irish Literature; Post-WWII-English and Irish drama; Forms and varieties of the Absurd; The Poetic Drama in the Twentieth Century; Drama-Translation Criticism
Contemporary Eastern-Central European drama (taught at Royal Holloway)
Central/Eastern and Western European Absurd Drama (team-taught at Maastricht)
Central European Drama (taught at SUNY Brockport, NY, USA)
Ireland Writes Back; Postcolonial Irish Literature (SUNY Brockport)
Ph.D.courses: Colonialism -- postcolonialism and Irish drama
Team-taught: Theories of Drama
The Fantastic in Literature
Research Interests:
W. B. Yeats's drama; the Irish Dramatic Movement; trends and major figures of contemporary Irish drama; the fantastic in literature and the arts; drama and the fantastic; postcolonial Irish literature and consciousness; parallels between Irish and Hungarian literature, parallels and divergences between Western and Eastern/Central European Theatre of the Absurd; drama-translation.
Professional Services and Activities
Honorary Chair of Hungarian Yeats Society, 2014 -,
Accredited Representative for Europe of International Association for the Study of
Irish Literatures (IASIL), 2000-2003; 2003-2006
Member of Advisory Board of Irish University Review, Dublin, 2003 –
Member of IASIL Bibliography Sub-Committee, editor of annual Hungarian Irish
bibliography for i]Irish University Review, 1987—
Member of Editorial Board of Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies,
Debrecen, Hungary, 1996--
Outside evaluator of Ph.D. dissertation of Judit Nényei: “The Yeatsian Symbolism of
Dancing and Jocoserious Joy(dan)ce”, Budapest, 1999; Mónika Mesterházi: “Main Trends in Northern Irish Poetry”, Budapest, 2002; Sz. Pallai Ágnes: “The Effects of Audience Participation on the Creative Process of British Theatre in Education”, Debrecen, 2005.
Deputy Chair, Department of English Literature, 1991-92
Accredited Representative for Hungary of International Association for the Study of Anglo-
Irish Literatures 1985—1994
Member, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 1985--;
Member of Founding Committee and Advisory Board of International Centre for
Literatures in English, Graz, 1987--
Member, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), 1987--;
Member, Hungarian-Irish Association, Budapest, 1988—1993 (until it ceased to exist);
Member, Hungarian Society for the Study of English
Conference organization
Co-Chair of International Conference of IASIL (International Association for the Study of
Irish Literatures), Debrecen, 2003