Dr. Éva Pataki - CV

CERTIFICATES

  • 2009 - 2012: University of Debrecen, Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, British and North-American Literature and Culture Study Programme, British literature and culture subprogram
  • 2005 - 2008: University of Debrecen, Institute of English and American Studies, MA in English and American Studies Distance Learning Program, Master of Arts and Teacher
  • 1995 - 1997: University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, Translator and Interpreter certificate
  • 1994 - 1997: University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts, English teacher BA

Degree: Ph.D.

  • Doctoral thesis: Space, Movement and Identity in Contemporary British Asian Fiction
  • Date of graduation: 2015 (summa cum laude)

Main research interests:

  • postcolonial and postmodern literature, contemporary British Asian diaspora literature and film, cultural theory, identity, gender studies

Membership in professional associations:

  • Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE), Advisory Board member
  • Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS)
  • European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
  • Central European Assiciation for Canadian Studies (CEACS)

PUBLICATIONS

Studies published in journals:

  1. “Becoming a Cosmopolite: Identity Construction and The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian.” The AnaChronisT 23 (2025): 72-90. https://ojs.elte.hu/theanachronist/article/view/9151/9420

  2. “Spaces of Exploitation and Resistance: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist and Phenomenological Reading of Prayaag Akbar’s Leila.” Papers in Arts and Humanities 5.2 (2025): 25-39.  https://artshumanities.partium.ro/pah/en/article/view/187/104

  3. “As much as I belong”: Space, Affect, and Identity in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian.” Papers in Arts and Humanities 3.1 (2023): 1–15. https://artshumanities.partium.ro/index.php/pah/article/view/126/49

  4. “The Final Continent”: Geographies of Emotions and Emotional Geographies in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Fiction.” Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere 27 (2022). https://www.openstarts.units.it/handle/10077/34278
  5. “Lovers on the ayre”: Love as a Means and Metaphor of Identity Construction in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag. Confluenţe Texts & Contexts Reloaded T.C.R. (2022): 131-147. http://confluente.univoradea.ro/images/reviste-issues/Confluente_2022.pdf
  6. Bikics Gabriella – Pataki Éva. „Kompetenciafejlesztés a Nyelvkaland ME projekt utolsó szakaszában.” Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Közlemények 14.1 (2019): 97-107.
  7. “Nae blond wigs in Glasgae”: Urban Imaginaries and Affective Relationships in Suhayl Saadi’s Short Fiction.” Skase Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 1.1 (2019): 63-77. http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/SJLCS01/pdf_doc/06.pdf
  8. Emotional Urban Spaces: Atmosphere, Fascination and Phantasmagoria in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath (1993). Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 24.1 (2018 tavasz), 51-64.
  9. Emocionális nagyvárosi terek: Atmoszféra, bűvölet és fantazmagória Sunetra Gupta The Glassblower’s Breath című regényében. Studia Litteraria 2016/3-4 (2017), 121-134.
  10. ‘This Dasht-e-Tanhaii called the planet Earth’: The Metamorphosis of Space and Identity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 20.2 (2014), 79-100.
  11. Mozgásban: a turista és a flâneur Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal Tourism című regényében. Filológiai Közlöny 2 (2014), 183-197.
  12. On the Move: The Tourist and the Flâneur in Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism. The AnaChronisT 17 (2012/13), 264-278. http://seas3.elte.hu/anachronist/2012Pataki.pdf.
  13. Az vagyok, ahol vagyok – A lokalitás mint identitás-szimbólum két brit-ázsiai regényben. Szkholion (2011 tavasz), 75-83.

Papers published in edited volumes, conference proceedings:

  1. Oldbody to Newbody: Embodied Experiences of Age, Body and Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Body.’ In: Attila Dósa, Ágnes Magnuczné Godó, Anett Schaffer, Robin Lee Nagano (ed), Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies: Crossing Boundaries. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. 33-45.
  2. Space, Affect and Identity: The Interconnectedness of the Urban Uncanny and the Self in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag. Szellem és tudomány 11 : Special Issue 1 (2020), 458-464.
  3. Tér, affektus, identitás: A „kísérteties nagyváros” és az egyén kölcsönös egymásrahatása Suhayl Saadi Psychoraag című regényében. Szellem és tudomány 11 : Különszám (2020), 512-519.
  4. Homes and Belonging(S): The Interconnectedness Of Space, Movement And Identity In Three British Pakistani Novels. In: Kanwal Aroosa, Saiyma Masood Aslam (eds), The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing: Origins, Contestations, New Horizons. London; New York: Routledge, 2019. 274-284.
  5. ‘Sounds from the Furthest Places’: Language, Music, and the Transfusion of Identity in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag. In: Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, László Sári (eds.): Space, Gender and the Gaze in Literature and Art. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 187-200.
  6. ‘The Wilderness of Solitude’: Diasporic Spaces and Subjectivity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and Meera Syal’s Anita and Me. In: Veronika Ruttkay, Bálint Gárdos (eds.): HUSSE 11. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014. 333-348.
  7. Spaces and Topographies in British Diaspora Fiction. In: Sanda Berce, Petronia Petrar, Erika Mihálycsa, Elena Pacurar, Rares Moldovan (eds.): Cultural Imprints in the Age of Globalisation: Writing Region and Nation. The Research Centre for the Study of the British Contemporary Novel (CCRBC). Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2012, 203-13.
  8. ‘Going somewhere’: The Nomad and the Tourist in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism. The Round Table (2012), http://www.theroundtable.ro/Current/Literary/Eva_Pataki_The_Nomad_and_the_Tourist_in_Monica_Ali_s_Brick_Lane_Hanif_Kureishi_s_The_Buddha_of_Suburbia_an.pdf.
  9. I Am Where I Am: Location as a Symbol of Identity in Two British Asian Novels. In: Kinga Földváry, Zsolt Almási, Veronika Schandl (eds.): HUSSE10-LitCult. Proceedings of the HUSSE10 Conference, 27-29 January 2011. Literature and Culture Volume. Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár, 2011, 160-166. http://mek.oszk.hu/10100/10171/10171.pdf.
  10. Caught Between Two Worlds: The Confusion of Cultural Identity in Three British Asian Novels. The Round Table (2010) http://www.theroundtable.ro/pages/literary_studies/eva_pataki_caught_between_two_worlds.htm

Reviews:

  1. Egy megsokszorozódott élet: Isabella Hammad, A párizsi idegen, ford. Csonka Ágnes. 1794. (2023.03.09.) https://1749.hu/fuggo/egy-megsokszorozodott-elet-isabella-hammad-a-pari…
  2. Novel Approaches to Understanding and Conceptualizing Diaspora: Ilott, Sarah, Ana Cristina Mendes, and Lucinda Newns, eds. New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 26.1 (2020). https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7376
  3. Karádi Zsolt – Pethő József (szerk.), Az empíriától az elméletig. Tanulmányok a nyelv- és irodalomtudományok köréből. Alkalmazott Nyelvészeti Közlemények 13.2 (2018): 220-224.
  4. Postcolonial British Genres and Britishness—Challenged and Redefined: Sarah Ilott, New Postcolonial British Genres: Shifting the Boundaries. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 22.2 (2016), 478-482.
  5. Újfajta britség – Hanif Kureishi: A kültelki Buddha. A Vörös Postakocsi 1-4 (2012), 131-133.
  6. A Transnational Approach to Contemporary Anglophone Literatures: Silvia Schultermandl and Sebnem Toplu (eds.), A Fluid Sense of Self: The Politics of Transnational Identity. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 17.2 (2011), 403-406.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • 28-30 May 2026: HAAS 15 (Eger): "Subverting the Docile Body: Spatial Power and Resistance in Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)"
  • 27-28 November 2025: Symbols and Identities in Canada (Budapest): "'My Komagata Maru': Collective and Personal Memories of a Symbol of Exclusion in South Asian Canadian Literature"
  • 30 January - 1 February 2025: HUSSE 17 (Szeged): "Spaces of Exploitation and Resistence: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Reading of Prayaag Akbar's Leila (2017)"
  • 24-25 October 2024: "Looking Back Ahead: Exploring Uniquely CanadianCultural Narrative," Debrecen University Symposium (Debrecen): "'After all, we've brought India with us': Migration, Home, and Belonging in South Asian Canadian Literature" 
  • 29 June 2023: Cosmopolitanism and Urban Cultures Workshop (Budapest): Becoming a Cosmopolite: Identity Construction and The Cosmopolitan Imagination in Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian
  • 21-24 June 2023: „A múltban gyökerező identitás jelene és jövője” Nemzetközi interdiszciplináris konferencia (Veszprém): “Home is Where the Heart is: The Diasporic Subject’s Sense of Belonging and Identity Construction in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1991)”
  • 26-28 January 2023: HUSSE 16 (Miskolc): “Oldbody to Newbody: Embodied Experiences of Age, Body and Identity in Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Body’”
  • 14 October 2022: (Hi)Stories of Migration – Then and Now (Debrecen): “’New roads to explore’: Atmospheres, Emotional Geographies, and Affective Relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Hema and Kaushik’”
  • 27-29 January 2022: HUSSE 15 (Budapest, online): “’The Final Continent’: Geographies of Emotions and Emotional Geographies in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Fiction”
  • 23-24 May 2019: Arts and the City (Budapest): “Double Identities: The Urban Uncanny in Suhayl Saadi’s Glasgow Fiction”
  • 27-28 April 2018: Migrant Narratives and the City (Budapest): “Glasgow, ‘the liquid city’: Metempsychosis and Phantasmagoria in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag
  • 26-28 January 2017: HUSSE 13 (Eger): “London Desires: Fascination and Phantasmagoria in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath”
  • 26-27 February 2016: Gender, Translocality and the City (Debrecen): “Cities Hated and Loved: Emotional Spaces and Atmospheres in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath”
  • 29-31 January 2015: HUSSE 12 (Debrecen): “‘Sounds from the furthest places’: Language, Music and the Transfusion of Identity in Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag”
  • 29 August – 2 September 2014: ESSE 12 (Kosice, Slovakia): “‘Memories relived and battened down’: The Diasporic Home as a Lieu de Mémoire in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me”
  • 24-26 May 2013: Transnational Women’s Literature (Budapest): “‘A long way from home’: Transnational Movement and the Female Nomad in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath”
  • 24-26 January 2013: HUSSE 11 (Budapest): “‘The Wilderness of Solitude’: Diasporic Spaces and Subjectivity in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and Meera Syal’s Anita and Me”
  • 6-8 December 2012: Cultural Imprints in the Age of Globalization: Writing Region and Nation Workshop (Cluj, Romania): “Spaces and Topographies in British Diaspora Fiction”
  • 21 March 2012: Fiatal Irodalmárok Fóruma a Debreceni Akadémiai Bizottság Irodalomtudományi Szakbizottsága és a Debreceni Egyetem Irodalomtudományok Doktori Iskolája szervezésében: “Tér, mozgás és identitás a kortárs brit ázsiai regényben”
  • 16-17 September 2011: International Conference on English Language and Literatures in English (Oradea, Romania): “Going somewhere: The Nomad and the Tourist in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, and Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal’s Tourism”
  • 27-29 February 2011: HUSSE 10 (Piliscsaba): “I Am Where I Am: Location as a Symbol of Identity in Two British Asian Novels”
  • 15-17 May 2009: International Conference on Central Europe and the English-Speaking World (Oradea, Romania): “Caught Between Two Worlds: The Confusion of Cultural Identity in Three British Asian Novels”

EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES

Courses taught

BA in English Studies, MA in English Teacher Training:

  1. Advanced Writing and Composition (seminar)
  2. American Literature 1 (seminar)
  3. American Literature 2 (seminar)
  4. American Literature 3 (lecture): Multiethnic American Literature
  5. American Literature 4: Literary Adaptations (seminar)
  6. Autobiographical Writing (seminar)
  7. Language and Gender (seminar)
  8. Popular Culture (seminar)
  9. Skills Development: Reading and Speaking (seminar)
  10. Skills Development: Writing and Composition (seminar)
  11. Teaching Literature and Culture (seminar)

MA in English Studies:

  1. South Asian American Literature and Film (seminar)
  2. Genre Fiction (seminar)
  3. Urban Narratives (szeminárium)

Bachelor's thesis Advisement:

  • Vera Vozchikova, "Gender Roles in Representation of the 'Lost Generation' in the Modernist Novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) by E. Hemingway and The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. S. Fitzgerald." 2024-25.
  • Pataki Rita, "The Role of Choice in Trauma Recovery: An Analysis of a Holocaust Survivor's Narrative: Edith Éva  Eger's The Choice: Embrace the Possible." 2024-25.
  • Farkas Kinga Lidia, "Creating a safe Space on Paper: How Rupi Kaur Empowers Victims of Sexual Violence Through Her Poetry." 2023-24.
  • Horváth Vanessza, "The Representation of Second-Generation South-Asian Immigrants' Experiences in the USA." 2023-24.
  • Simon Viktória, "Beyond the Cage": Chaos, Death, and Mental Illness in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath." 2023-24.
  • Kósa Iván Márk, “Literary Adaptations and Viewers’ Expectations: A Comparative Analysis of Three Stephen King Novels.” 2022-23.
  • Nagy Krisztina, “A Comparative Analysis of the Novels The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: The Representation of Female Trauma in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century.” 2022-23.
  • Tóth Edina, “Exploring The Unseen Trauma: A Comparative Analysis of PTSD in Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' Within the Context of 1920's Gilded Age.” 2022-23.
  • Bathó Barna Béla, “The Correlation Between Fictitious and Real-life Violence as Portrayed by the U.S. Media.” 2021-22.
  • Héthy Amira, “The Portrayal of American Psychos in the Light of Power.” 2021-22.
  • Pető Gergő, “The Effect of 9/11 Attacks on the American Society in Terms of Mental Health in 20 Years.” 2021-22.

Master’s Thesis Advisement

  • Simon Viktória, "Trauma, Memory, and Survival Ethics in Yellowjackets (2021- ): A Study of Fragmented Narrative and Coping Mechanisms." 2025-26.
  • Kriván Zsanett, "Exploring Individualism, Masculinity and The Search for Meaning in Jack London's Martin Eden and Jack Kerouac's On the Road". 2025-26.
  • Farkas Kinga Lidia, "'A City and Shouldn't Exist': Urban Space Explorations of Queerness and Trauma in Moonlight (2016) and VA-11 HALL-A (Cyberpunk Bartender Action) (2016)." 2025-26.
  • Amal Hidouri, "Romantic Representations of Unhealthy Relationships: Domestic Abuse, Trauma, and Forgiveness in It Ends With Us (2024)." 2025-26.
  • Tóth Edina, "Haunting Legacies: Time, Space, and Voice in the Postcolonial Gothic of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jane Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." 2024-25.
  • Mózsi Péter, "Feminism and the Evolution of Gender Roles in Horror Cinema." 2024-25.
  • Vilmek Berill Enid, "The Gendered Aspects of Shaving: An Analysis of Gender Representation in Gillette Commercials, from the 1990s to 2010s." 2023-24.
  • Dió Borbála, “Transgenerational Trauma in Disney Animated Movies.” 2022-23.

OTDK Supervision

  • Farkas Kinga Lidia, "'You in the Middle of the World': Exploring Queerness and Trauma in Moonlight (2016) Through Urban Spaces." 2026
  • Farkas Kinga Lidia, "Drawing Diversity: representations of Queerness and Sexual Identity Development in Webtoons." 2024.
  • Farkas Kinga Lidia, “Creating a Safe Space on Paper: How Rupi Kaur Empowers Victims of Sexual Violence Through Her Poetry.” 2023.
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