author bio

Zsófia Bán was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1957 and grew up in Brazil and Hungary. A writer, essayist, and critic of art and literature, she made her fiction debut in 2007 with Esti iskola [Night School: A Reader for Adults], followed by Amikor még csak az állatok éltek [When There Were Only Animals, 2012]. Her short stories have been widely anthologized, and her two books of fiction have both come out in German (Abendschule, 2012, Als nur die Tiere lebten, 2014, Suhrkamp, both translated by Terézia Mora). She lives and works in Budapest, where she is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Department of American Studies.

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personal data

Name:	Zsófia Bán
Address:	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem School of English and American Studies Dept. of American Studies Rákóczi út 5. 1088 Budapest Hungary

employment

Associate Pofessor	Dept. of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 2001-
Assistant Professor	Dept. of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1992-2001
Assistant Professor	English Dept., Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1990-1992
Junior Lecturer	English Dept., Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1985-1990
Post-graduate fellow	Hungarian Academy of Science, 1985-1988
Assistant director	MAFILM International Studio (Hungarian National Film Co.), 1981 - 1985

education

Ph.D., English	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1997
Dr. univ., summa cum laude	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1996
M.A., English	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1981
M. A., French	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1981
English, French, and Portuguese language and literature studies	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1976-1981

teaching experience

main subject areas:

19th-20th-c. American Literature Critical Theory Contemporary Literary Theory American Philosophy 20th-c. American art Visual Culture Gender Studies American Culture and Civilization

international teaching and research

• 2010-11 Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University, USA
• 2001 Visiting Professor, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
• 1998 Visiting Fellow, J. F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin
• 1996 Visiting Scholar, English Dept., Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• 1992-1993 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• 1987-1988 Exchange Program of Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• 1985-1988 Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1980 Exchange Program of Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education,
  University of Lisbon
  

prizes

• 2013 Glass Marble Prize (offered by the Writers’ Bookshop, Budapest)
• 2013 Finalist for Aegon Prize
• 2012 Tibor Déry Prize (for outstanding achievement in literature)
• 2009 Mozgó Világ Prize
• 2009 Palladium Prize (awarded to the book Próbacsomagolás [Test Packing]).
• 2008 József Attila Prize (for outstanding literary achievement, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Hungary).
• 2007 Péter Balassa Prize (for achievements in scholarly and essay writing in the field of the arts, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Hungary).

memberships

• Hungarian Belletrists’ Association (Szépírók Társasága)
• European Association for American Studies
• European Association for the Study of English
• International Association of Word and Image Studies
• Hungarian Association of American Studies
• Hungarian Association for the Study of English

list of publications

conference presentations

 

©Bán Zsófia, 2005-2009.