Barát, Erzsébet - Director of Gender Studies Track and Deputy Head of Department
Associate Professor
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Office location: Main Building, Ady tér, #3303
Office phone: +3662 544526
- Degrees:
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Lancaster, UK, 2000, Dissertation Title: A Relational Model of Identity: Negotiating (non-oppressive) relations of power in (researching) Hungarian women’s life narratives
- MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Queensland, Australia, 1993
- MA in English and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics, University of Szeged, 1982
- Areas of competence: gender studies, media studies, life writing, social linguistics, critical discourse analysis
- Areas of specialization: otheories of identity formation from the gender/sexuality intersection; post-feminism and the media; relationship between ideological investment of signification and power relations; hate speech; sexuality and citizenship, feminist critique of critical discourse analysis.
- Research interests and work in progress:
- LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence) an EU-funded FP6 research project between nine partner institutions: Leader of Gender Task Force and Work Package leader for the project “Politics and Strategies of Identity in Multicultural European Cities” in Thematic Area A “Language, Identity and Culture” (2007- 2010).
- Member of International Consultative Body for the Bologna MA in Gender Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, launched in 2007, sponsored by OSI, HESP, (2004-2009).
- Project ZONE – Department of Intermedia and Multimedia, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia; member of an international group of scholars from Vienna, Hamburg, Bremen, and Szeged. A Slovak Government project for three years, exploring the possibilities of implementation of new interdisciplinary options in education of visual arts. The central question is concerned with the role and influence of seemingly unrelated fields of knowledge, sociology, queer
theory, and semiotics on the artistic practice (education). (2008-2010) - Currently writing a book on the Hungarian debate in the 2000s on hate-speech regulation.
- Publications: Download the list of publications
- Theses topics offered:
- BA: gender and/in the media; researching (and) life narratives; discursive construction of identity; relationship between language, ideology and power; language and sexuality.
- MA: post-feminism in the media; contestations of the gaze; researching (and) auto/biography; discourse and relational models of identity; language use and ideology; sexuality and identity politics; language use and gender/sexuality.
- PhD: feminism in/and popular culture; critical discourse analysis; sexual citizenship; feminist theories of identity; lavender linguistics; feminist scholarship and queer theory: the gender sexuality intersection; ideology and language use: towards a social semiotics.
- Past theses supervised (Selection):
- MA Theses:
The Generic `he´ in the Bible (Klaudia Szabó, 2008)
Masculinity Redefined: The Eroticization of the Male Body in Advertisements (Ambrus Péter Attila, 2007)
The Lesbian Gaze in The L Word (KataLin Faragó 2006)
The Construction of Masculinity in The Matrix (Nóra Koller, 2005)
Hate Speech: The Case of Hungary (Dóra Koczor, 2004)
Strategies for Avoiding Responsibility: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Political speeches by the Previous Hungarian Prime Minister’s (Attila Krizsán, 2003)
Academics vs. non-academics in public debates: A case study of the Massachusetts Bilingual Education Controversy (Csilla Weninger, 2003) - PhD theses:
Identity Formation and the New Media (Éva Misits, University of Szeged, 2007 – current)
The EU is not them but us! Collective Identities in European Political Discourse (Attila Krizsán at University of Joensuu, Finland, co-supervision, 2007 – current)
Gender and Media Diversity: The Case of Serbian and Croatian Television (Danica Minic, at Central European University, Budapest, 2006 – current)
Self-freakings. Body-Texts in Angela Carter’s Trilogy (Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged, 2006, co-supervised)
- MA Theses:
- Teaching this academic year: The Sociology of Gender (BA and MA); Language, Ideology and Power in the Media (BA); Researching Women’s Life (MA); Qualitative Research Methods (PhD)
