Dorottya Mozes
North American Department, P.O.B. 30, University of Debrecen, 4010 Debrecen, Hungary / +36706326039 ext. 22152 / mozes.dorottya@arts.unideb.hu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Intercultural Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, 2018 (summa cum laude)
Dissertation: Identity, Style, and Performance in the Postcolonial Anglophone Novel [Az identitás, a stílus és a performancia jelenségei a posztkoloniális angolszász regényben.]
M.A. in English, Duke University, 2010
B.A. English and Philosophy, Wellesley College, 2006 (cum laude, honors in English)
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor at the North American Department, Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS), University of Debrecen, Hungary, 2017–present
Lecturer of Writing, Rutgers University, Fall 2016
Lecturer of Applied Linguistics, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2015–2016
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
African American Literature and Culture, Black Studies, Afro-Diasporic Literature, Postcolonial / Global Anglophone / World Literature, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Black Geographies / Ecologies, 19th & 20th Century American Literature, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Continental Critical and Postcolonial Theory.
MANUSCRIPT
Az identitás, a stílus és a performancia jelenségei a posztkoloniális angolszász regényben. [Identity, Style and Performance in the Postcolonial Anglophone Novel.] Debrecen: University of Debrecen. 2019.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Fekete pasztorál, Jamaica Kincaid: Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas.” [Black Pastoral, Jamaica Kincaid.] Alföld. 2023, 93-108.
“It Was Like Listening to Someone Laughing Their Way Toward Death”: Black Noise, Vocal Experiments, and Sonic Silence in Chester Himes’s The Heat’s On. Open Cultural Studies 2022, 6, 167-184.
“Black Flânerie, Non-white Soundscapes, and the Fantastic in Teju Cole’s Open City.” HJEAS. 26.2, 2020, 273–298.
“Oral Performance and Pidgin Stylization in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease.” Werkstatt. 14, 2019, 58-83.
“Transcultural Identity and Translingual Practices in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” Language, Communication, Information. 14, 2019, 183–203.
“Racial Identity, Black and White Performance in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Language, Communication, Information. 13, 2018, 128–144.
“Vernacular Styling and Transnationalism in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.” University of Bucharest Review. 4/1, Spring 2014, 13–22.
“A fekete maszkulin flâneurség, városi hangtájképek és nemfehér nők hangjai Teju Cole Open city c. regényében.” [Black Masculine Flânerie, Urban Soundscapes, and Non-white Women’s Voices in Teju Cole’s Open City.] TNT. 10.2, 2020, 161–183.
“Fekete diaszporikus kontaktközösségek és vernakuláris performanciák Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah című regényében.” [In America, You Are Black, Baby: Vernacular Performances and Communities of Contact in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.] Filológiai Közlöny (Afro-amerikai írónők különszám). 15/2, 2019, 99–121.
“Metrolingvisztika, kreol stilizálás és performancia Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners című regényében.” [West Indian Identity Construction, Creole Styling and Performance in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.] Magyar Nyelvőr. 142/4, Fall 2018, 479–504.
“A menekültkérdés magyarországi kormányzati diskurzusa. A határzár és az idegenellenesség biopolitikai szemiotikájához.” [The Hungarian Government’s Refugee Discourse: The Border Barrier and the Biopolitical Semiotics of Xenophobia.] In: A hatalom jelei, képei és terei. [Signs, Pictures and Spaces of Power.] Eds. Éva Szirmai, Szergej Tóth and Edit Újvári. Szeged University Press–Gyula Juhász Press, 2016, 313–331.
“A posztkoloniális csoportidentitás performatív szemiotikája.” [The Performative Semiotics of Postcolonial Group Identity.] In: A csoportidentitás szemiotikája. [The Semiotics of Group Identity.] Eds. Éva Szirmai and Edit Újvári. Szeged: Szeged University Press–Gyula Juhász Press, 2015, 89–100.
“Szubszaharai afrikai női identitások és nyelvi megjelenítésük (Dangarembga Tsitsi Nervous conditions c. regénye alapján).” [The Linguistic Construction of Rhodesian Female Identity in Dangarembga Tsitsi’s Nervous Conditions.] In Publicationes Universitatis Miskolcinensis Sectio Philosophica, 19/1, 2015, 277–290.
“A nyelvem határai a világom határai”: a női ellenállás nyelvi aktusai Dangarembga Tsitsi Nervous Conditions c. regénye alapján.” [Female Acts of Discursive Resistance in Dangarembga Tsitsi’s Nervous Conditions.] In: Többnyelvűség és kommunikáció Kelet-Közép-Európában. [Multilingualism and Communication in East-Central Europe.] Eds. Attila Benő, Emese Fazekas and Borbála Zsemlyei. Cluj-Napoca: Transylvanian Museum Association, 2015, 383–389.
“Bimediális narratíva W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz c. regényében.” [Bimedial Narrative in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.] In: Language and Image. Eds. Tamás Gecső and Csilla Sárdi. Budapest: János Kodolányi College–Tinta Press, 2015, 163–168.
“A kreol identitás stilizálása a karibi irodalomban (Sam Selvon The Lonely Londoners című regényének elemzése).” [Stylizing Creole Identity in Caribbean literature: A Reading of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.] In: Nyelvek, kódok, hallgatók. [Languages, Codes, Students.] Eds. Rita Klippel, Hedvig Sulyok and Eszter Tóth. Szeged: Szeged University Press– Gyula Juhász Press, 2015, 68–71.
“Jelölt interkulturalitás, interkulturális jelölés: A siket kultúráról és a jelnyelvi irodalomról.” [Signed Interculturality, Intercultural Signing: On Deaf Culture and American Sign Language Literature.] In: Világ és nyelv szenvedéllyel. Köszöntő kötet Gecső Tamás 60. születésnapjára. [World and Language with Passion. In Honor of Professor Tamás Gecső.] Eds. Márta Folmeg and Anita Jóri. Budapest: ELTE BTK Applied Linguistics Department–Tinta Press, 2015, 64–70.
“A kódváltások szerepe a posztkoloniális identitásalkotásban.” [The Role of Code-switching in Postcolonial Identity Construction.] In: Nyelvi rendszer és nyelvhasználat. Eds. Mária Ladányi, Éva Hrenek, Ádám Horváth and Enikő Henriett Hugyecz. Budapest: ELTE BTK Applied Linguistics Department–Tinta Press, 2014, 130–136. “A posztkoloniális regény ’interkulturális nyelvészeti’ megközelítésben: Nyelvi hibridizáció.” [The Postcolonial Novel from the Perspective of Intercultural Linguistics: Linguistic Hybridity.] In: Nyelvész hallgatók, beszélő nyelvészek. Eds. Rita Klippel and Eszter Tóth. Szeged: Szeged University Press–Gyula Juhász Press, 2014, 144–147.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
“Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas as a Black Pastoral.” (forthcoming in Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral, eds. Shubhanku Kochar and Neepa Sarkar Ibidem Press, 2023)
“Ifemelu’s Online Linguistic and Identity Performances in Adichie’s Americanah.” (forthcoming in The African American Novel in the 21st Century, eds. Anna Pochmara and Raphaël Lambert, Brill 2024)
““Be a Breeze. A Cool Cool Breeze.” Air and Wind as Mediums of Black Non/Being and Love in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” (forthcoming in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia)
“Gardening is Not a Luxury: Ruth Foster’s Methods of Beauty, Black Aliveness, and BDSM in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” (under review with Deniz Gündogan Íbrisim for publication in Gardening to Remember, Gardening to Forget in Memory Studies or Angelaki)
“In Treatment’s Laila Green as a Black Flâneuse: Waywardness, Willfulness, Wandering, or the Blackqueer Art of Failure.” (under review with Journal of English Studies)
EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Ecofictions for an Endangered World: The Legitimacy of Hope, co-edited with Eva Federmayer, HJEAS 29:1, 2023.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Articles on intercultural linguistics and interactional sociolinguistics in Alkalmazott nyelvészeti kisszótár. [The Applied Linguistics Dictionary.] Eds. Mária Ladányi, Éva Hrenek. Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Press. 2019.
“Már legalább 20 millióan töntettek az USA utcáin a feketék.” [At Least 20 Million People Protested on the Streets against Systemic Racism in the USA.] Interview with Tóth Tamás Polgár about Black Lives Matter. Debreciner. September 11, 2020.
“Fekete és feminista: hogy lesz szebb a múlt és jobb a jövő?” [Black and Feminist: Toward a Beautiful Past and a Better Future?] Interview with Hanna Csatlós about Afrufuturism and Black Panther. HVG. March 22, 2018.
SELECTED REVIEW
Review of Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage by Frank Wilker. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. 25/1, Spring 2019, 197–200.
INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
Respondent on Black Women’s Experiences of Trauma in Contemporary Afro-Diasporic Fiction panel. Hungarian Association for American Studies conference, 2019.
Intersectionality in/as Practice. Student workshop with Fulbright specialist Dr. Leah Perry, University of Debrecen, 2019.
Storytelling. Workshop for LGBTQ+ students with Fulbright specialist Dr. Leah Perry, University of Debrecen, 2019.
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
“Sorrows and Joys in Black Geographies in Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City.” MLA Convention 2024. “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.” Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024.
“A Strategy of Survival: Flânerie as Commoning and Co-Creating Futures in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” University of Ostrava, Czechia, October 5-6, 2023.
“In Treatment: Black Flânerie, Resilience, and the Radical Imagination.” 81st College Language Association Convention. Emory University, Atlanta, April 5-8, 2023.
“Flânerie: Contemporary Geographic Practices and Black Histories.” Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance. University of Torino, Italy, 23-25 March 2023.
“Bad Mothers’ Gardens in Black Feminist Speculative Fiction.” MLA Convention 2023. “Working Conditions.” San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023.
“Air and Wind as Mediums of Aspiration and Expiration in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Association for Cultural Studies, 2022. (online)
“If you surrendered to the air: Airy Wakes, Awakenings, and Wokeness in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” The 36th MELUS Conference, New Orleans, 2022.
“Racializing Assemblages, Revolt within Captivity, and Chester Himes’s Harlem Cycle.” American Studies Association 2021. (online)
“Black Flâneuserie and Otherwise Ecologies in Jamaica Kincaid’s Seed Collecting Hike/Journey in Nepal.” 35th Conference of MELUS, 2021. (online)
“Aquifers of Memory, Afrosonic Styling and Silence in Teju Cole’s Open City.” Memory and Performance in African-Atlantic Futures conference, Leeds University, 2018.
““No Song or Rhythm, Just a Sort of Musical Noise”: Migrant Metrosonics in Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners.” Migrant Narratives and the City conference, CEU, 2018.
PANELS ORGANIZED
“Joys and Sorrows of Black Geographies.” MLA Convention 2024. “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow” Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024.
“Gardening in African American Literature.” MLA Convention 2023. “Working Conditions.” San Francisco, January 5-8, 2023.
Queering Affect, Identity and Narrative. Hungarian Association for American Studies conference, 2019.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Debrecen, Hungary (courses taught from 2017 to 2023)
Writing and Composition (required first-year writing course) American Civilization (required first-year course)
19th Century American Literature (required BA course)
20th Century American Literature (required BA course)
Afrofuturism (elective BA seminar)
Introduction to African American English (elective for MA and PhD students)
Language and Power (elective for MA and PhD students)
Black Flâneur (elective course for MA and PhD students)
Popular Culture in the American Racial Imaginary (required teacher training course) Language and Gender (required teacher training course) Scientific Writing (individual consultation for PhD students and early career researchers)
Scientific Writing (elective course for PhD students)
English for Academic Purposes I./II. (course for ELL PhD students)
Rutgers University Fall 2016 –– Expository Writing (required first-year writing course)
University of Szeged, Hungary Spring 2016 –– 21st Century Communication (2 sections) Spring 2016 –– Language and Manipulation (required Linguistics course for majors) Spring 2016 –– Language and Power (required Linguistics course for majors) Fall 2015 –– Anthropological Linguistics (seminar for Linguistics majors)
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Spring 2015 –– Racial and Nonracial Language (lecture series open to the public)
Duke University Spring 2010 –– Shame (instructor, elective English seminar) Fall 2008 –– The Art of Revolution (instructor, required first-year writing course) Spring 2011 –– Classics of American Literature (TA for Prof. Victor Strandberg) Fall 2009 –– The Cold War Culture (TA for Prof. Priscilla Wald and Laura Edwards) Spring 2008/2009 –– Victorian Poetry (TAP/TA for Prof. Kathy Psomiades) Spring 2007 –– Cultural Narratives of Genomics (TAP for Prof. Robert Mitchell)
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Dean’s Award for Excellence, 2023
IEAS Award for Service, 2023
Duke University Graduate Student Fellowship, 2006–11
Duke University Summer Research Fellowship, 2008
Wellesley College Edna V. Moffet Fellowship, 2006–07
Wellesley College Davis Fund Scholarship (Russian), Summer 2004
SERVICE
Managing Editor, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 2019–present
Editorial board member, Journal of Ecohumanism, 2023-present
Editorial board member, University of Bucharest Review, 2023-present
Co-founder and coordinator of the IEAS Writing Center, University of Debrecen, 2019–2022
AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA) 2018-19, 2022-23; American Studies Association (ASA) 2020-23; Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 2020-22; College Language Association (CLA) 2021-23; Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) 2020-23.
LANGUAGES
Hungarian and English: Bilingual Proficiency
Russian, German: Fluent
French and Esperanto: Elementary Reading Knowledge