Kérchy, Anna
Senior Assistant Professor
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Office location: 3303
Office phone: 544000-3045
- Degrees: PhD, DEA
- Areas of competence: body studies, gender studies, literature, literary theory
- Areas of specialization: Victorian, 20th century and contemporary British and American literature, children’s literature, fantastic literature, corpusemiotics, corporeal narratology, embodiment and identity, theories and praxis of the ‘feminist grotesque‘ and counter-narratives of anatomical alterity
- member of Gender Studies Research Group of IEAS, member of HUSSE, ESSE, HAAS
- Research interests and work in progress: Counter-narratives of Anatomical Alterity; Epistemological Crisis and Embodied Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass Tales and Postmodern Adaptations
- Publications: Download the list of publications
- Theses topics offered:
- BA:
- Sexual and Textual Transgressions in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion
- Engendered Representations of Madness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
- Feminist Thought in the Carnal Art Performances of Carolee Schneemann and Orlan
- MA:
- Between Referentiality and Fiction. A Double Reading of Sylvia Plath’s Autobiographical Novel The Bell Jar
- Ironic rewriting and the Critique of the Social Fiction of Femininity in a Comparative Interface of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Fantastic Body Modifications in Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She Devil
- Teaching this academic year:
- Lectures: Romanticism and Victorianism in English Literature (with Korinna Csetényi), Madwomen in the Attic. Women, Writing and Madness.
- Seminars: Examining Grotesque Embodiments. Risk, Excess, Alterity; (Re)Inventing Wonderland. Children’s Literature in English; The Art of Seduction; Magical Realism in Literature, Film and Art; Forbidden Journeys. Victorian Fantasies and Fairy Tales; Girl Meets Boy. (Trans)Sexuality in Contemporary Literature, Film and Arts
