Senior lecturer
Research domains:
I am a senior lecturer and a doctor in philology at the Hungarian Literary Studies Department of the Babeş-Bolyai University. I have been teaching Finnish culture and civilization, the history of Finnish literature, Finno-Ugric literatures from the Baltic region and the didactics of teaching Finnish language and literature. I have introduced the teaching of Meänkieli language and culture in 2010 and have taught it myself. Meänkieli was taught earlier as a subject only at the University of Umeå in Sweden.
My main research topics are: the sociolinguistic research of the linguistic, the ethnic and the religious identity of minotities, the postcolonial analysis of the literature of Finno-Ugric minorities in Fenno-Scandia and the history of reception of Miklós Jósika’s novels. I have published on these topics in Hungarian, Romanian, English, Finnish and Meänkieli.
I was the first one to translate Meänkieli literature into Hungarian: Bengt Pohjanen’s novel Jopparikuninkhaan poika (Bengt Pohjanen: A csempészkirály fia. Koinónia. Kolozsvár. 2011.) and poems by Bengt Pohjanen.
I am currently working on a project on the role of literature written in minority languages in the formation of the linguistic and the ethnic identity of Meänkieli, Kven and Csángó communities.