Selyem Zsuzsa EN
Zsuzsa SELYEM
senior lecturer
Research domains:
- Neo-avantgarde
- Postmodern and Metamodern Literature
- social criticism with special accent on ecocriticism and Animal Studies
Biography
My research area are mainly in the fields of Neo-avantgarde, Postmodern and Metamodern Literature from the point of view of social criticism with special accent on ecocriticism and Animal Studies. My recent research projects are: Metamodernism in contemporary literature – with Anna Keszeg and Anna Nagy. 2014-15, DOMUS Grant of Hungarian Academy of Science; Contemporary prose and film. 2006-2009, BBU Cluj, Faculty of Letters, Department of Hungarian Literature, MA Hungarian Culture and Literature. Publications: Taxidermia – Lajos Parti Nagy’ s prose: Lato, 2007/11; One’s Own Death – Peter Nadas & Peter Forgacs: Lato, 2008/10; Dolina – The Visit of the Archbishop. Lato, 2009/11; Politics and Literature in Dictatorship. Edited and coordinated volume: Magány és árnyék. Egy Szilágyi Domokos nevű ember a Szekuritáté hálójában. [Domokos Szilagyi: poet and collaboratorwith the “Securitatea”] Invizible College – Tranzit Foundation, Cluj, 2008.
Selected publications
- How Long and When: Open Time Intervanl and Dignified Living Creatures in The Turin Horse. ACTA UNIV. SAPIENTIAE, FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, 10 (2015) 105–120.
- The Fibonacci novel – Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Hommage to Mario Merz in Seiobo There Below. Philobiblon,2014/1
- New Minor Literatures or the Debt of Contemporary Art. Philobiblon,2013/1
- Where Is the Limit? In: Berszán István (ed.): Orientation in the Occurence.Komp-Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2009.
- Les enjeux de la personalité chez Imre Kertész. trans. by Clara Royer. Revue Lignes, vol. 53. pp. 145-156.
- Der Roman, in dem “die Neunte Symphonie zurückgenommen worden sei” Über die Funktion der Rücknahme in den Romanen Liquidation von Imre Kertész bzw. Doktor Faustus von Thomas Mann.Weimarer Beiträge. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft, Ästhetik und Kulturwissenschaften. 1/2006. pp. 63-81.
- Szembe szét. Humor és szentség összefüggése Esterházy Péter prózájában.[Homey-lies. Humor and sanctity in Péter Esterházy’s Prose] Koinónia, Cluj, 2004.
Teaching
- Introduction to literary studies
- Hungarian literature in the second part of 20th century
- Contemporary literature
- Inclusive literature