Cora, Zoltán
Assistant Professor
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Office location: Room 3307 (Faculty of Arts, Ady tér)
Office phone: (36)-62-544-549
- Degrees: MA in English Language and Literature (University of Szeged, 2006); MA in History (University of Szeged, 2006); MA in Classical Philology (University of Szeged, 2009)
- Areas of competence: Modern and contemporary British and European history and historiography, theories of history, classical, modern and postmodern aesthetics, British literature and arts (18th and 19th centuries)
- Areas of specialization: 20th century history of Europe, 19-20th century British, European and Hungarian social policy, Hungarian–British relations in 20th century social policy, theories of history and historiography, classical and modern aesthetics (e.g. the question of the Sublime), British Classicism and the Gothic Revival
- 2009 Assistant Professor – University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies, Department of English Studies
- 2008 Berliner Kollegs für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas (BKVGE, Freie Universität of Berlin): after gaining its scholarship in 2008, I had the opportunity to study contemporary social theory in greater detail and to conduct research for my dissertation. Since then I have been taking part in maintaining academic relations between the BKVGE and the University of Szeged
- 2008 Membership of Hajnal István Kör Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület (István Hajnal Association of Social History)
- 2007 Membership of Hungarian Society for the Study of English
- 2006 Comparative History Project (CHP), established at the Central European University (CEU) in 2006: the network was founded by European scholars to enhance comparative historical research of European societies from Britain to Eastern Europe. As a member of the CHP network my research contributes to the further comparative historical analysis of Hungarian, British, and German social policy.
- Research interests and work in progress: Comparative historical study of British, German and Hungarian social policy in the 20th century; theory of history; British Aesthetics in the 18th century and the Gothic Revival; reception of Classical, French and German literary discourses of the Sublime in British Classicism and Romanticism, especially the Peri hypsos (On the Sublime) of Pseudo-Longinos
- PhD dissertation: a comparative analysis of German, British and Hungarian social policy of the 1940s (“Social Policy Multifaced: Alternatives and Practice in Hungary, Britain and Germany, 1941-1950”), supervisor: Dr. habil. Béla Tomka
- Publications: Download list of publications
- Theses topics offered:
BA: Modern and contemporary questions of British history; 18th century ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime; Theories and discourses of history; Modern and postmodern British aesthetics; British arts and literature (18th-19th centuries), 20th century British social policy
MA: Classical, modern and postmodern aesthetics; 18th century ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime; Modern and contemporary British and European history and historiography; Theories and discourses of history and historiography; British arts and literature (18th-19th centuries), The Fabian Society, social reforms and the Beveridge Plan, British social policy in the 20th century
- Teaching this academic year: Rise and Fall of the British Empire I-II. (BA), Great-Britain and Europe in the Short Twentieth Century (1918-1989): the Way of the UK to the EU (BA), 18th Century Ideas, Literature and Arts in Britain I-II. (BA), History and Postcolonialism (MA), Poststructuralist Aesthetics and New Aestheticism (MA)
