Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen

🎓 Our colleague, Dr. Fruzsina Szabó (Department of English Language Pedagogy, University of Debrecen) gave a talk titled “Psychology in the Language Classroom: Raising Mental Health Awareness and Literacy of Pre-service Trainees - The Benefits of an Intervention Project” at PLL6, The 6th Psychology of Language Learning Conference at Shantou University, China, last month.

👩‍🎓We are proud to acknowledge that she was selected to be an executive board member of the Association of the Psychology of Language Learning.

🇪🇪 PLL7 is to be held in 2028 in Tallin, Estonia.

🎓 On 23 June, Tamari Narimanishvili has successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled "Metaphorical Language Production in L2 Writing: A Case Study of Georgian EFL Essays" with top honours (summa cm laude). Supervisor: Dr. Enikő Tóth (Department of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen) 🎓

✨ Congratulations, Tamari! ✨

🎓 On 4 June 2026, Borbála László defended her dissertation titled Kin(e)ships: Cinematic Traces and Transformations of The Human-Canine Bond (supervisor: Dr Tamás Bényei, Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen).

🐾 Congratulations on this fur-midable achievement! 🐕🐾

🎬 Our third-year BA student, Privóczki Anna recently participated in The Undergraduate Summer School in Film & Philosophy of Education - “THE ROAD MOVIE SUMMER SCHOOL” at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom). The summer school focused on road movies, as well as the language of cinema and film conventions, and how the artform of film enacts education.

✨ Congratulations, Anna!✨

🇪🇸 Embajada de España en Hungría are seeking Language & Culture Assistants to Spain for the 2026‐2027 academic year.

Language and Culture Assistants is an international program sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports of Spain, managed by the Embassy of Spain’s Education Office.

It is aimed at young Hungarian graduates or senior year University students with a high command of the English language. The language assistants are assigned to primary and secondary State schools in Spain for a full academic year.

The language assistants help and support the classroom teacher in reinforcing the students’ oral skills in the foreign language and contribute to develop cultural awareness.

Application process is OPEN from the 2nd to the 30th (19:59) of June 2026.

➡️ For more details, see the attached flyer and visit: https://www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es/hungria/portada.html

🎓 On 2 June 2026, our colleague Zsófia Novák (Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen) defended her PhD dissertation titled Empathy Matters: Embodied Encounters and Entanglements in Anthropocene Fiction and Film (supervisor: Dr Tamás Bényei).

✨ Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Novák! We are proud of you! ✨

📢 A héten intézetünk két PhD-jelöltjének nyilvános vitájára kerül sor:

🔹 2026. június 2-án Novák Zsófia (Department of British Studies, University of Debrecen);

🔹 2026. június 4-én pedig László Borbála

doktori értekezésének nyilvános zajlik majd.

Minden érdeklődőt szeretettel vár az Irodalom-, Kultúra- és Nyelvtudományok Doktori Iskola, Debreceni Egyetem!

Celebrating 3 years of intercultural connection🙏

For the third year running, our institute teamed up with Ady Endre Secondary Grammar School for their awesome C-Day intercultural festival!

Six international PhD students from the doctoral programme of Education visited the high school to share their cultures, representing Cambodia, Malaysia, Albania, Iraq, and Pakistan. 🌎
This beautiful tradition is organised by our alumna Eva Frantsik Agostonne, alongside Fruzsina Szabo’s doctoral students, Meyly Kheng and Amalina Rusli. 👏

Huge thanks to everyone involved for opening up the world to these Hungarian high school students and creating such a wonderful, eye-opening experience! 🙌

The new open access volume in the HJEAS Books series published by our institute is available in e-book and pdf formats. Congratulations to Professor Donald E. Morse and the volume's editor, Dorottya Mózes!

We are delighted to announce that the latest open-access volume in the HJEAS Books series is now available in epub and pdf formats!

Reflections through Literature has grown out of a long career teaching at universities in several countries and raises basic questions about life such as the nature of mortality, the importance of love, the practice of attention, the need for heroism, the necessity of renunciation, the possibility of su***de, the importance of baseball, as well as the threat of nuclear annihilation, the difficulty of surviving brutal dictatorships, and so forth. These issues and others equally important have been examined by authors through their imaginary characters in literature from Shakespeare’s King Lear to Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim. Since fictional lives unlike human lives are complete; we as readers know more about Frodo or Leopold Bloom than we do about most people. Literature is therefore an excellent medium for focusing on issues central to living.

https://reference-global.com/book/9788368412567

Nagyon sok szeretettel gratulálunk a Hatvani István Szakkollégium Anglisztika-Amerikanisztika szakcsoport tagjainak és témavezetőiknek a kiváló konferencia-előadásokhoz!

2026. május 15., Hatvani István Szakkollégium, 2026. évi Tavaszi Tudományos Hallgatói Konferencia

Levezető elnökök: Urbán Éva és Törzsök Réka

Előadók balról jobbra:
Törzsök Réka (I. Angol irodalom és kultúra PhD): Variations on Transgression: A Bataillean Reading of “Lotus Eaters” and “Circe” in Ulysses
Témavezető: Oroszné Dr. Gula Marianna

Radóczi Kornélia (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Könyvtárostanár OMA): A Comparison of English Coursebooks: The Aspects of Narrative-Driven and Patchwork-Like Coursebooks
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Juhász Fanni (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Magyar nyelv és irodalom szakos tanár OMA): Narrating Trauma: Language, Voice, and Narrative Transformation in Viola Ardone’s Oliva Denaro
Témavezető: Dr. Ureczky Eszter

Szabó Tulipán (IV. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Német nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): Trickster as a Response to Colonial Trauma in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Témavezető: Dr. Szathmári Judit

Farkas Kinga Lidia (II. Amerikanisztika MA): Reflections of Queerness, Trauma and Healing in the Urban Spaces of VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (2016)
Témavezető: Dr. Pataki Éva

Takács Jázmin Tiara (II. Anglisztika BA): Emigration to Canada and to the USA through the Eyes of Hungarian Women in the 20th Century
Témavezető: Dr. Lénárt-Muszka Zsuzsanna

Török Luca Rozanna (II. Anglisztika BA): Examples of Colour-coding in Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey
Témavezető: Prof. Dr. Bényei Tamás

Majtényi Csenge Luca (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA: Possible Relationship between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Pedagogy and Technology Induced Attention Deficit
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Dancs Dorka Sára (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): “Providing Help to the Hungarian Community through the Blessed Hands of Women”: The History and Role of the Women’s Society of the Hungaria Social Club in Montreal
Témavezető: Dr. Venkovits Balázs

Borbély Rózsa Barbara (III. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Francia nyelv és kultúra tanára OMA): Film-Based Language Learning - Turning Cinematic Leisure into an Active Learning Tool
Témavezető: Dr. Szabó Fruzsina

Szakács Tibor Dominik (VI. Angol nyelv és kultúra tanára–Történelem és állampolgári ismeretek tanára OMA): Perspectives of the Monomyth - Comparative Analysis of the Feminine Representations in the Hades series
Témavezető: Dr. Orosz-Réti Zsófia