Dr. Judit Szathmári - CV

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Judit Szathmári
Assistant Professor
Date and place of birth: Karcag, Hungary 1973. 09. 15.
Phone: (52)512-900/22152; (52)431-147
Email: szathmarijudit@gmail.com, szathmari.judit@arts.unideb.hu
Office: Main Bldg. 108/1 (Egyetem tér 1.)

Higher Education:

  • 2006: Ph.D. in literature: University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary doctoral thesis: “In Between Cultures: American Indians in Multicultural American Society” qualification: summa cum laude
  • September 1997 – August 2000: Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary Ph.D. student in the program 19th and 20th century American culture and literature
  • September 1992 – June 1997: Kossuth Lajos University, Faculty of Humanities MA in English and American Studies, thesis title: “Wiwanyag Wachipi: The Sun Dance of the Sioux”

Teaching experience and positions:

  • February 2014– present: assistant professor: University of Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies
  • January 2007 – January 2014: associate professor: Eszterházy Károly College, Department of American Studies
  • June 2004 – January 2007: assistant professor: College of Nyíregyháza, English Department
  • June 2002 – June 2004: instructor: College of Nyíregyháza, English Department
  • January 1998 – June 2002: teaching assistant: College of Nyíregyháza, English Department
  • June 1998 – January 1998: teaching assistant: College of Nyíregyháza, Foreign Languages Department

Courses taught:

  • American Literature 1 (BA)
  • American Literature 2 (BA)
  • American Literature 3 (BA)
  • Skills development: reading and speaking (BA)
  • Skills development: speaking and listening (BA)
  • Federal Indian Policy (BA) AlterNative PERSPECTIVES: Cinematic Representations of The Milestones in Indian Policy (BA)
  • Native America: American Indian Cultural Diversity (BA)
  • American Literary Culture 1 (MA)
  • American Literary Culture 2 (MA)
  • Topics in North American Literature before 1900: Multiracial Interaction in American Literature before 1900 (MA) Native American Humor (MA)
  • Cowboys and Indians (MA II)
  • American Indian Humor (MA II)
  • Introduction to Hungarian Culture

Research interests:

  • American Indian literature and cultures, Indigenous sovereignty, literary and cultural representations of urban Indian communities

Grants and scholarships:

  • April 2014–September 2014: Fulbright Research Grant: D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, the Newberry Library, Chicago
  • February 2009: Erasmus Exchange: American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad: course offered: Contemporary American Indian Fiction
  • September 2001– September 2002: predoctoral scholarship awarded by the University of Debrecen
  • August 1999 – June 2000: Fulbright visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the Department of Anthropology of the Milwaukee Public Museum
  • September 1996 – January 1997: United States Information Service scholarship to the University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • August 1990 – January 1991: Soros Foundation scholarship to Madera, California

Conferences:

Organizer:

  • 2012: HAAS 9, Eger
  • 2010: One/An/Other, Eger
  • 2008: One/An/Other, Eger

Conference presentations:

2023: CELLTTS: WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE: AMERICAN INDIAN HUMOR IN THE CLASSROOM (Sarajevo)

  • 2023: American Indian Workshop (AIW): “This is how you see me the space in which to place me”: Mapping Indian Country in Hungary (plenary, Budapest)
  • 2022: Histories of Migration: "The Jesus Highway" (Debrecen)
  • 2021:  HUSSE, "House Made of Jokes"
  • 2019: HUSSE, Veszprém: “New Indian Idealism: the Declaration of Indian Purpose”
  • 2017: HUSSE, Eger: “BIEase, SKINship, and COUNCILMENopause: American Indian political humor”
  • 2016: Gender, Translocality, and the City Conference, Debrecen “Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the origin of the Universe / I heard her singing Kiowa war dance songs at the corner of Fourth and Central once”
  • 2016: American Indian Workshop, Odense, Denmark “No Kiddin’: Humor in Sovereignty Issues”
  • 2015: HUSSE, Debrecen “Squirrels, Czechoslovakia, and Indian Country: 20th and 21st Century Interpretations of American Indian Sovereignty”
  • May 2012: HAAS, Eger. “(Mis)understanding Sherman Alexie” March 2011: American Indian Workshop, Graz, Austria. “Indian? Fiction? Indian Fiction?”
  • November 2010: Hungarian Association of American Studies (HAAS) Debrecen, Hungary. “Inside the Outside: Communicating Culture between Reservation and Non-Indian Realities in Contemporary Indian Literature”
  • October 2010: One/An/Other Eger – Diversity and Tolerance, Eger, Hungary. “Kommunikáció a kortárs indián irodalomban” (Communication in Contemporary Indian Literature”
  • March 2010: American Indian Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic. “‘It was an all-Indian Catholic rock and roll band’ - Reinventing the Reservation: Sherman Alexie’s postIndian prose reconstruction of American Indian Homeland”
  • January 2009: Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) Pécs, Hungary. “Imagining the Reservation: A Reconstruction of American Indian Homeland in the 21st century”
  • April 2008: One/An/Other – Diversity and Tolerance, Eger, Hungary. “Modern indián harcosok. Egy indián iskola alapításának körülményei” (Modern Indian Warriors. The Foundation of a Tribally Run School)
  • January 2007: Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) Szeged, Hungary. “The Figurative Indian Space: Indian Country”
  • January 2005: Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) Debrecen, Hungary. “Bingo: War on the New Buffalo”
  • November 2004: Hungarian Association of American Studies (HAAS) Budapest, Hungary. “The New Indian Country: The Effects of Relocation on Urban Indian Communities”
  • March 2003: Doktorandusz Konferencia, College of Nyíregyháza. “Amerikai indián mozgalmak” (Urban Indian Activism)
  • January 2001: Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) Eger, Hungary. “American Indian Activism”

Professional Associations:

  • Intercultural Studies Group: board member American Indian Workshop (AIW): 2010 - Present: member
  • One/An/Other Research Group: founding and board member
  • Hungarian Association of American Studies (HAAS): 2004 - Present: member, 2013-2018: secretary
  • Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE): 2001 - Present: member

Administrative responsibilities:

  • E, IEAS, North American Department, deputy chair

Presentations/ talks:

  • 2016. 02.05. Unghváry László Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Szakközépiskola és Szakiskola, Cegléd “American Indians Then and Now” “Fenntartható fejlődés: amerikai indián kultúrák”
  • 2015. 11.18. Science Café 2015.09.25. Kutatók Éjszakája: “(M)ilyen volt – (m)ilyen lett: Pocahontas”
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