Dr. Imola Bülgözdi
Studies:
2001-2010 ELTE Modern English and American Doctoral Programme Doctoral dissertation: The Arduous Search for Female Identity in the American South in Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor
1996-2002 ELTE MA Italian language and literature and teacher training
1995-2000 ELTE MA English language and literature and teacher training
Highest academic degree: Ph.D. (2010)
Membership in academic societies:
Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) and ESSE
Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS) and EAAS Women's Network
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
MTA DAB Médiatudományi Munkabizottság
Research
Gender, Translocality and the City Research Group (2015-2018)
Publications
Edited volumes
Györke, Ágnes and Bülgözdi, Imola (editors). Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West. Brill Rodopi, 2020.
Book chapters and articles
Györke, Ágnes and Bülgözdi, Imola. “Central and Eastern Europe and the West: Affective Relations.” Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West edited by Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. Brill Rodopi, 2020, 1-18.
Bülgözdi, Imola. “‘They weren’t even there yet and already the City was speaking to them’ – The Translocal Experience as Fascination with the City in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.’ Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture: Central Europe and the West edited by Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi. Brill Rodopi, 2020, 125-138.
---. "Alternatív narratívák a 21. századi déli afroamerikai identitás alakulásában. Jesmyn Ward művei" Filológiai Közlöny - Afroamerikai írónők. 2019/2, 64-82.
---. "Spatiality in the Cyber-World of William Gibson." Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction. eds. Yael Maurer, Meyrav Koren-Kuik. Leiden: Brill, 2018. pp. 120-136.
---. "Csokonai Lili: a női hang és az egyéni autonómia kérdése Esterházy regényében és filmadaptációjában." Nemek és etnikumok terei a magyar filmben. eds. Győri Zsolt, Kalmár György. Debrecen: Debrecen UP, 2018. pp. 180-191.
--- and O. Réti Zsófia. "Rock Opera and Resistance: Stephen, the King as a Building Block of
Minority Ethnic Identity in Transylvania and the United States. Popular Music History 11:(1) (2018), pp. 10-27.
---. "Space and Translocality: Revisiting Ray Bradbury's Mars." Critical Insights: Ray Bradbury. ed. Rafeeq O. McGiveron. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2017. pp. 178-192.
---. "The Civilising Power of Laughter: Shakespeare in a Fact/Fantasy Fusion." British Fantasy Society Journal 17 (2017), 19-25.
---. "Myths of Youth and Gendered Ageing in August: Osage County by Tracy Letts." albeit. 3.2 (2016). Web. http://albeitjournal.com/myths-of-youth-and-gendered-ageing-in-august-o…
---. "Girls in Search of A Viable Identity in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples." Critical Insights: American Short Story. eds. Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Emmert. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2015. 160-174.
---. "'Some Genetics Are Passed on Via the Soul:' The Curious Case of Susan Sto-Helit." Gender Forum 52 (2015). Web. http://www.genderforum.org/issues/special-issue-terry-pratchett/some-ge…
---. “Knowledge and Masculinity: Male Archetypes in Fahrenheit 451.” Critical Insights: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. ed. Rafeeq O. McGiveron. Ipswich, Mass: Salem Press, 2013, 152-66.
---. “New Criticism and Southernness: A Case for Cultural Studies.” The New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory in America. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 89-108.
---. “'Barbarian Heroing' and Its Parody: New Perspectives on Masculinity.” Conan Meets the Academy – Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring Barbarian. ed. Jonas Prida. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland Publishing, 2013, 193-212.
---. “Artificial Intelligence and Gender Performativity in William Gibson’s Idoru.” Navigating Cybercultures. ed. Nicholas van Orden. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013. (e-book)
---. “Reasons for a Contextual Approach to Literature.” Gateways to English, Current Doctoral Research. Eds. Tibor Frank & Krisztina Károly. Budapest: Eötvös University Press, 2010, 99-109. -
--. & Kató Eszter. Cultural Studies/Országismeret? – Egy „régi-új” irányzat értelmezése és megjelenése az egyetemi oktatásban. Frank, T., & Károly, K. (Szerk.) Anglisztika és amerikanisztika. Magyar kutatások az ezredfordulón. Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2009, 89-95.
---. “Where Faulkner Comes From: The South.” angolPark, 2009, May, http://seas3.elte.hu/angolpark/index2HU.htm
---. “Probing the Limits of the Self.” Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding. ed. Reine D. Bouton. Rodopi: Amsterdam & New York, 2008, 91-106.
---. “Steel Magnolias – Civil War Experiences and Southern Gender Conventions.” HUSSE 8 proceedings, 2007, http://husse8.extra.hu/?page_id=2
---. Egyetlen joggal rendelkező politikai szubjektumok. A nő mint szubjektum, a női szubjektum.
ed. Séllei Nóra. Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó: Debrecen, 2007, 128-40.
---. ”‘We Looked Like Salt and Pepper'’ – Children’s Perception of Race in Short Stories by Southern Women Writers.” The Anachronist, 2005, vol. 11, 183-95. Reviews
---. "Can the Discworld Be Disciplined?" Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 22.2 (2016), 467-72.
Conference presentations:
2020, December 5, Debrecen, MTA DAB Médiatudományi Munkacsoport – Institute of English and American Studies, Mozgóképkultúrák a 21. Században - Screen Cultures in the 21st Century
Presentation: Dokumentum- és játékfilmes stratégiák az „igazság” felkutatásának szolgálatában Neill Blomkamp District 9 című filmjében
2020, October 27-28, Budapest, ELTE, EASPOP Conference: Encounters of the Popular Kind:
Traditions and Mythologies in Dialogue
Presentation: “Genres and Bodies in Transition in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9”
2019, September 25-27, Lisbon, Portugal, 10th Annual Small Cinemas Conference
Presentation: “Alternate History and Escapism in Socialist Hungary in Lisa, the Fox Fairy”
2019 May 31-June 1, Debrecen, HAAS 13 Presentation: "Surviving the Biopolitics of Disposability in the American South: Alternative Narratives in Jesmyn Ward’s Novels"
2019 May 23-24, Budapest, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Arts and the City Conference Presentation: “Photographic Ekphrasis and Marginalized City-dwellers in ‘Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City’ by William Gibson”
2019 Apr 6, Thessaloniki, Feminism and Technoscience - 3rd Biennial European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Women’s Network Symposium Presentation: "Virtual Reality and Ludic Identity Construction: Does Cyberfeminism Stand a Chance in Hollywood?"
2018 Nov 16-18, Vienna, University of Vienna, Austrian Association for American Studies 45, American Im/Mobilities Presentation: "Distorting Mirror? Gendered Segregation in Le Guin’s 'The Matter of Seggri'"
2018 Sep 21-22, Debrecen, Institute for German Studies, DE Diversity – Performance – Society Gender Studies and Gender Diversity in History and Today Presentation: "Gender Performativity in New Media"
2018 May 25-26, Budapest, ELTE, HAAS 12 Presentation: "Freedom-Fighters of the Future: Net Neutrality in Ernest Cline's Ready Player One"
2018 April 27-28, Budapest, CEU, Migrant Narratives and the City International Conference Presentation: "Narrative Form and Narrating Affect in District 9"
2017 October 20-21, Budapest, Modern Capitals and Historical Peripheries: Central Europe from the Perspective of Contested Modernities Presentation: "The Portrayal of the Borderlands in György Dragomán's The White King and the Othering of the Communist Past in Its Film Adaptation"
2017 September 20-22, Bilbao, Diversity in Glocal Cinemas: Language, Culture, Identity The 8th Annual International Conference on Small Cinemas Presentation: "Individual Autonomy and the Female Voice on Screen in School of Senses"
2017 January 26-28, Eger, HUSSE 13 Presentation: "'Lenticular Logic' in a Hollywood Chick Flick: Representations of the South in Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes and Its Film Adaptation"
2016 December 9-10, Debrecen, MODEM and the Department of British Studies of UD: ZOOM-3: Nemek és etnikumok terei a magyar filmben Presentation: Csokonai Lili: női hang, egyéni autonómia?
2016 July 26-30, Potsdam, in/between: cultures of connectivity 10th annual NECS Conference Presentation: "Retreat to the Margins: Pseudo-Natives and Frontiersmen"
2016 June 2-3, Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen: Popular Music in Eastern Europe Presentation: “Rock Opera and Resistance: Stephen, the King as a Building Block of Minority Ethnic Identity”
2016 April 22-23, Canterbury, University of Kent: Masculinity and the Metropolis Presentation: “Satire and the City: The Construction of Place as Criticism of the Male Identity Crisis in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club”
2016 February 26-27, Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies: Gender, Translocality and the City in post-1945 Literary and Visual Culture Presentation: “‘They weren’t even there yet and already the City was speaking to them’ – The Translocal Experience in Toni Morrison’s Jazz”
2015 June 5-6, Budapest, ELTE: Gendered Identities in Contemporary Literary and Visual Cultures Conference Presentation: "Going Against the Grain: Terry Pratchett's Take on the Bildugnsroman"
2015 Jan 29-31, Debrecen: HUSSE 12. Presentation: "Writing As a Technology of the Self in Short Stories by Alice Walker"
2014 Aug 29-Sep 2, Kassa: ESSE 12. Presentation: “Katherine Anne Porter, the Southern Lady and Autobiographical Narrative.”
2012 July 15-17, Oxford: 7th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction. Presentation: “Artificial Intelligence and Gender Performativity in William Gibson’s Idoru.”
2012 June 16, Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin University: Allusions and Echoes: Cultural Recirculation and Recycling Symposium. Presentation: “The Civilising Power of Laughter: Shakespeare in a Fantasy/Fact Fusion.”
2011 June 17, Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth Annual Postgraduate Symposium: Enslavement: Colonial Appropriations, Apparitions, Remembrances. Presentation: “Contingent Identities: Southern Belles and Their Dark Sisters”
2011 May 27-8, Piliscsaba: Visions of Baseless Fabric: First Pázmány Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Presentation: “The Roundworld Project in Terry Pratchett’s The Science of the Discworld.”
2011 Jan 27-29, Piliscsaba: HUSSE 10 Conference. Presentation: “Cinematic Representations of the American South.”
2008 Nov 13-4, Budapest: ELTE English and American Studies Institute, PhD Conference. Presentation: “Reasons for a Contextual Approach to Literature.”
2008 Aug 28-9, Debrecen: Mozgásban Literary Studies PhD conference. Presentation: “Cultural Studies, ez Rólad is szól!”
2007 Nov 16-17, Budapest: Az angol helyzete Magyarországon Conferencia Presentation with Kató Eszter: “Cultural Studies – Országismeret?”
2007 Jan 24-6, Szeged: HUSSE 8 Conference. Presentation: “Steel Magnolias – Civil War Experiences and Southern Gender Conventions.”
2006 Apr 7-8, Debrecen: A nő, mint szubjektum, a női szubjektum conference. Presentation: „Egyetlen joggal rendelkező politikai szubjektumok.”
2004 June 25-26, Szeged: European Intertexts: A Study of Women’s Writing in English As Part of a European Fabric International Conference, topic Travels: ’She’s Leaving Home’ Question-answer panel participant with the essay “Where Can One Go in the American South?”
2004 Apr 26 – May 1: Heidelberg Spring Academy: American History, Culture and Politics, PhD Conference. Presentation: “The Southern Renaissance and the Emergence of Women Writers.”
Thesis Supervision
Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
BA level
Antal, Zsófia. Captain Marvel vs. Wonder Woman: Depictions of Feminism and Female Empowerment (BA 2021)
Molnár, Anett. The TV Series Supergirl and Daring to Defy the Image of the Traditional Superhero (BA 2020)
Becsei, Viola. The Influence of Social Media on Generation Z as Represented in Searching (BA 2020)
Orják, Friderika. “Gamer Mystique:” Stereotypes and Online Harassment of Female Gamers (BA 2020)
Tornyi, Anita. Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival As a Non-standard Alien Invasion Movie (BA 2020)
Kovács, Patrícia. Social Media and the Music Industry Intertwined: An Examination on BTS’s Journey to Becoming “the Biggest Boy-band in the World” (BA 2020)
Varga, Eszter. The Representation of Mental Illnesses in Eudora Welty’s Short Stories (BA 2020)
Simon, Martin. Contemporary Social Criticism in South Park (BA 2020)
Gergely, Lajos. "The Native American Experience of History and Law in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn." (BA 2019)
Róth, Katalin. "Heterotopic Spaces in the Divergent Trilogy: Analysis of Dehumanization and Its Effect on the Adolescent Identity." (BA 2019)
Benyovszki, Nikolett. "Feminist Themes in The Hunger Games Series: Masculinity and Femininity Revisited" (BA 2019) Papp, Fruzsina. "Praying in Silence, Silencing Oppression: Gender Relations in Contemporary Revisionist Westerns" (BA 2019)
Bukovenszki, Tamás. "'Evil Isn't Born. It's Made.' The Interpretation of Heroism and Villainy in the US TV Show Once Upon a Time" (BA 2018)
Lugosi, Borbála. "The American Horror - The Shining: A Comparative Analysis of Stephen King's Novel and its Adaptation by Stanley Kubrick" (BA 2018)
Szücs, Evelin. "The Objectification of Women in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and the Series Based on the Novel" (BA 2018)
Zágoni, Vivienne. "You must not tell anyone what I am about to tell you" - Silencing Faced by Maxine Hong Kingston, a Chinese Woman in America (BA 2017)
Dobi, Lilla. The Representation of Suburban Life and Underlying Problems in Sam Mendes's American Beauty (BA 2017)
Szántó, Dorina. Realms of the Burtonesque: Tim Burton's Unique Style and Gothic Influences in Sleepy Hollow (BA 2017)
Katona, Ivett. Beyoncé: Getting Black Feminism in Formation (BA 2017)
Szabó, Adél Blanka. Magic Realism and Mexican Culture in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate (BA 2017) Kovács, Réka Cecília. From Essentialism to Choice: The Quest for Identity in Neil Gaiman's American Gods (BA 2017) Nagy, László. The Changing World of Freak Shows from the 16th Century up to the 2010s (BA 2017)
Gáll, Anna Nikoletta, “Duality of Personality: Interfusion of Feminine and Masculine Features in The Hunger Games” (BA 2016)
Hancsák, Petra, “The Role of the Southern Belle in Katherine Anne Porter’s Miranda Stories” (BA 2016)
Mlinkó, Judit, "The Representation of Women's Roles in Henry James and Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady" (BA 2016)
Szabó, Nikoletta, “The Emergence of Independent Women – Cinematic Depictions of Flappers in the Film Adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby” (BA 2016)
Visnyei, Petra, “The Character and Artistry of Halsey” (BA 2016)
Kulcsár Patrícia: Slavery in the United States of America through Contemporary Women's Diaries (BA 2015)
Brendzsák Kitti: An Overview of Sexism in Advertising in American Society (BA 2015)
MA
Kovács, Réka. In Search of Meaning: The Modern Myth in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (MA 2020)
Filaj, Anxhela, "The Development of the Albanian-American Identity: Stereotyping and the Adopted Norms" (MA 2019)
isnyei, Petra, "Violence on the Screen - Adaptations of Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates" (MA 2018)
Teremi, Anikó, "Popular Culture’s Growing Role in Shaping Teenagers’ Perception of Body Image" (MA 2018)
Kertész, Emese, “The Holocaust, Gender and Suffering in William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice” (MA 2016)
Specialization theses:
14 Supervision in talent management programs:
István Hatvani Extramural College (3 students)
DETEP (5 students)
OTDK (2 students)