Dorottya Mozes’ curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
2018 Ph.D. in Intercultural Linguistics (summa cum laude), Eötvös Loránd University
Dissertation: Az identitás, a stílus és a performancia jelenségei a posztkoloniális angolszász regényben [Identity, Style, and Performance in the Postcolonial Anglophone Novel]
2010 M.A. in English, Duke University
2006 B.A. English and Philosophy (cum laude, honors in English), Wellesley College
EMPLOYMENT
2017– Assistant Professor at the North American Department, Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS), University of Debrecen, Hungary
Fall 2016 Lecturer of Writing, Rutgers University
2015–2016 Lecturer of Applied Linguistics, University of Szeged, Hungary
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
• African American Literature and Culture
• Afro-Diasporic Literature
• Black Geographies / Ecologies
• Continental Critical and Postcolonial Theory
• 19th & 20th Century American Literature
• Postcolonial / Global Anglophone / World Literature
• Sociolinguistics
• Applied Linguistics
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
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 Press, 2019.
Selected articles and book chapters (published and forthcoming)
“Black Diasporic Flânerie in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.” (accepted by Atlantis English Studies)
“Staying Close to the Dead: Beauty, Aliveness, and Ecological Erotics in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Anglia 2025, 143/4: 746–770. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2025-0056
“Geographies of Melancholia and Complex Pleasure: Black Flânerie in Edward P. Jones’s “A New Man” and “Lost in the City.”” Brno Studies in English 2025, 51/1, 227–248. https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2025-1-12
“Ifemelu’s Online Linguistic and Identity Performances in Adichie’s Americanah.” In The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century, eds. Anna Pochmara and Raphaël Lambert, Leiden and Boston: Brill 2025, 85–109.
“The Flâneuserie of In Treatment’s Laila Green: Waywardness, Willfulness, and the Blackqueer Art of Failure.” Journal of English Studies. 22, 2024, 219–250. http://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5895
““Be a Breeze. A Cool Cool Breeze.” The Air and Wind as Mediums of Black Non/Being and Love in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 2024: 193–219. doi: 10.14746/stap.2024.58.10
“Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas as a Black Pastoral.” Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral, eds. Shubhanku Kochar and Neepa Sarkar, Hannover and Stuttgart, Ibidem Press, 2024, 187–208.
“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 6, 2022, 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.
“Fekete pasztorál, Jamaica Kincaid: Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas.” [Black Pastoral, Jamaica Kincaid.] Alföld. 2023, 93–108.
“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.
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 tüntettek 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 Afrofuturism and Black Panther. HVG. March 22, 2018.
EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
Ecofictions for an Endangered World: The Legitimacy of Hope, co-edited with Eva Federmayer, HJEAS 29:1, 2023.
Kisebbségi Földrajzok. [Minority Geographies.] Filológiai Közlöny, 2026/3.
CONFERENCE TALKS
Selected paper presentations
“Black Flânerie, Black Travel Writing.” Fourteenth CAAR Conference. Berlin. March 20-22, 2025.
“Jamaica Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas as a Black Pastoral.” Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference. Joensuu, Finland, June 12-14, 2024.
“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. 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.
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 LGBTQIA+ students with Fulbright specialist Dr. Leah Perry, University of Debrecen, 2019.
Panels organized
“Nature in Contemporary African American Literature,” co-organized with Anna Pochmara. Thirteenth Biennial MESEA Conference. Joensuu, June 12-14, 2024.
“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.
“Queer Affect, Identity and Narrative.” HAAS Conference, University of Debrecen 2019.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Debrecen, Hungary
2017– Black Flâneur (elective course for MA and PhD students)
The Real Housewives of America (elective course for MA and PhD students)
Afrofuturism (elective BA seminar)
19th & 20th Century American Literature (required BA courses)
Language and Gender (required teacher training course; elective MA course)
Language and Power (elective for MA and PhD students)
Introduction to African American English (elective for MA and PhD students)
Aspects of American English (BA lecture)
Popular Culture in the American Racial Imaginary (required teacher training course)
Aspects of English (coordinator for team-taught BA lecture)
American Civilization (required first-year course)
Writing and Composition (required first-year writing course)
Scientific Writing (course and consultations for PhD students and early career researchers)
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) 2008 Victorian Poetry (TAP/TA for Prof. Kathy Psomiades) Spring 2007 Cultural Narratives of Genomics (TAP for Prof. Robert Mitchell)
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2023 Debrecen University, Faculties of Humanities, Dean’s Award for Excellence
2023 Debrecen University, Institute of English and American Studies, Award for Service 2006–2011 Duke University Graduate Student Fellowship 2008 Duke University Summer Research Fellowship 2006–2007 Wellesley College Edna V. Moffet Fellowship Summer 2004 Wellesley College Davis Fund Scholarship (Russian)
SERVICE
2019– Managing Editor, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS)
2023– Editorial board member, HJEAS Books; University of Bucharest Review
2019–2022 Co-founder and coordinator of the IEAS Writing Center, University of Debrecen
AFFILIATIONS
• Modern Language Association (MLA) 2018-2019, 2022-2025
• American Studies Association (ASA) 2020-2026
• The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) 2024-2026
• Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) 2020-2025
• Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) 2020-2026
• College Language Association (CLA) 2021-2023
LANGUAGES
• Hungarian and English: Bilingual Proficiency
• Russian, German: Fluent
• French and Esperanto: Elementary Reading Knowledge