About the Author

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship include (comparative) literature and cultural studies, comparative media and communication studies, postcolonial studies, and migration and ethnic minority studies. He is the editor of the journal CLCWeb and series editor of the Comparative Cultural Studies. Louise O. Vasvari is professor emerita at Stony Brook University. Since 2000 she has taught in the Department of Linguistics at New York University, at the University of Szeged, and at Central European University. Vasvari works in medieval studies, historical and socio-linguistics, translation theory, Holocaust studies, and Hungarian cultural studies, all informed by gender theory within a broader framework of comparative cultural studies.

Reviews

Focusing on Hungary, 27 articles contribute to comparative cultural studies generally and the study of Central and East European culture in particular.They cover the history, theory, and methodology for comparative Hungarian cultural studies; literature and culture; the other arts; gender studies; and contemporary Hungary. Among the topics are memory and modernity in Fodor's geographical work on Hungary, the absurd as a form of realism in Hungarian literature, art nouveau and Hungarian cultural nationalism, women managers communicating gender in Hungary, and the Jewish renaissance in post-1989 Hungary. (Annotation (c)2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)Reference Research Book News October 2011