Éva Federmayer is Associate Professor
in the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and
in the Department of American Studies, University of
Szeged, Hungary. She received her M.A. in English and Hungarian Language and Literature at Eötvös Loránd University and her
CSc/ PhD in American Literature in 1995. She pursued
postdoctoral studies and research in the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the University of Minnesota, St. Paul-Minneapolis, and Yale. Eva Federmayer was the recipient of research fellowships (IREX, ACLS, USIS, Free University /Berlin/ Fellowship, and Fulbright) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Indiana University, Bloomington, Kennedy Institute, Berlin, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She participated in various postgraduate programs and seminars in Europe and the USA, such as the Salzburg Seminar, the Stuttgart Seminar, the Pulawy Seminar and The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College.
Besides Budapest and Szeged, she had various teaching positions and assignments in Hungary and abroad: in the Teacher Training Center of the University of Economics, Budapest; Kodolányi János Teacher Training College, Székesfehérvár; Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA; the University of Turku, Finland; and La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Though most of her current research focuses on African American Studies, her professional interests range from literary criticism to cultural studies, critical race studies, gender studies, multiculturalism, and American women writers. Eva Federmayer is the author of Psychoanalysis and American Literary Criticism (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1983) and the co-author (with Irén Annus and Judith Sollosy), editor and project manager of the electronic textbook Netting America: Introduction to the Culture and Literature of the United States (Budapest, 2006, sponsored by the European Union and the National Development Fund as part of the structural and contextual development of higher education in Hungary. HEFOP-3.3.1-P.-2004-09-0134/1.0). She has published on deconstruction, Hungarian home design, ragtime, Edgar Allan Poe, Octavia Butler, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, John Howard Griffin, Danzy Senna, Rebecca Walker, and Oscar Micheaux. She has participated and given presentations at a number of conferences related to American Studies and Gender Studies in Europe and overseas.
She was co-chair of the American Association for American Studies (HAAS) from 2003 to 2007, served on the board of the László Országh Award (2000-2005), was program director of the postgraduate English Teacher Training Program of the Department of American Studies, ELTE, Budapest (1993-98), and acting director of the American Studies Ph.D. Program of Eötvös Loránd University (2002, 2004). She is on the editorial board of Americana, the electronic journal published by the University of Szeged and the Erasmus coordinator for ELTE's Department of American Studies.
Courses in American Studies at ELTE and SzTE since 1990:
American Literature: From the Beginnings to the 19th Century (survey course), American Literature: Twentieth Century (survey course), American Literature: 18th and 19th Century (seminar), American Literature: 20th Century (seminar), Feminist Criticism (seminar), Theories of Literature and Culture (seminar), Blackness in American Cinema (seminar), Contemporary African American Cinema (seminar), African American Literature from the Beginnings to Black Modernism (seminar), Contemporary African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the 1990s (seminar), Cultural Studies Research Seminar (seminar), American Culture in Hungary (seminar), Texts and Contexts in American Literature (seminar), Narratives of the Color Line (PhD seminar), Narrative Politics or the Politics of Narration (PhD seminar), American Film (lecture/seminar), American Cultural Studies (lecture/seminar), Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in American Literature (lecture/seminar), Introduction to Cultural Studies (lecture), Ecowriting/Ecocriticism (seminar).