IEAS BA Thesis Supervisors and Topics 2015–2016 Andrási Krisztina The structure of non-finite clauses in English and in Hungarian (or a third language) Annus Irén Identity Studies (gender and race/ethnicity in the US) Visual culture in the US (painting, architecture, popular culture) Religion and American culture Balogh Erzsébet Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics Barát Erzsébet Gender in the media Researching (and) Auto/biography Discursive Construction of Identity Relationship between Language, Ideology and Power Language and Sexuality Popular Culture Sexual Citizenship Bocsor Péter Modern/Postmodern Literature Literary/Cultural Theory Cora Zoltán British History (19-20th centuries) Great Britain and Europe in the 20th Century Social and Cultural History of Britain (19-20th centuries) Theories of History British Aesthetics and Literature (18-19th centuries) Cristian Réka Mónika Modern American literature American modernism American drama and drama adaptations Postcolonial theory in American literature and film Gender and the American film Film Theories (auteur, gender, third cinema) Doró Katalin Second language acquisition First language development Vocabulary studies Psycholinguistics Dragon Zoltán Film theory Film adaptations American Film History Contemporary Visual Culture Digital Culture & Theory Contemporary US fiction Dudits András Translation Studies Interpreting Studies Fenyvesi Anna Sociolinguistics Bilingualism Kenesei István Theory of syntax Topics in the syntax of English The structure of tensed subordinate clauses The structure of nonfinite clauses Topics in descriptive semantics Topics in philosophical semantics Topics in English word-formation Kérchy Anna Body Studies Gender and literature, (feminist) literary theory Victorian, 20th century and contemporary British and American novel (esp. women's writing) The Fantastic/ Magical Realism Children's literature Contemporary arts (practice and theory) Kiss Attila English Renaissance drama Post-War British and American drama Semiotics of literature and culture Kovács Ágnes Zsófia Contexts of Realist American fiction Voices in Modernist American fiction Multiculturalism in American literature Popular American literature Lesznyák Márta Psycholinguistics Translation studies Intercultural communication Molnár Timea Sociolinguistics Third language acquisition Nagy Gergely Medieval English literature (Old and Middle English; especially romances, Arthurian literature, Sir Thomas Malory) JRR Tolkien and fantasy (selected authors) Science fiction (Star Wars, Dune, Ursula Le Guin, Asimov) Popular music Novák György Colonial American History (-1826) 20th-century US history Detective/spy fiction 20th-century American literature Medieval English history (-1485) Parrott, Jeremy Anglo-Indian fiction Samuel Beckett Literary onomastics Anglo-Irish literature Literary bibliography ELT methodology Language teaching materials ESP Contemporary British cultural studies Peckham, Donald W. Second language acquisition Communication and learning strategies Transfer and cross-linguistic influence Vocabulary acquisition and the lexicon Péter Róbert 16th-19th c. British history Religious history of modern Britain and certain aspects of the US Cultural and intellectual history of the British Enlightenment British press history, 1621-1861 History of the associational world - (secret) societies (e.g. freemasonry) and clubs Esoteric currents in modern Britain Theories of religion, culture and secularization English-Hungarian relations, 1600-1850 Digital history, distant reading, development of digital research tools, quantitative analysis Sávai-Matuska Ágnes Elizabethan and Jacobean art and literature Late medieval morality plays Performance Studies, Metadrama Literary trickster-characters Shakespeare adaptations (film and theatre) Szőnyi György Endre Renaissance/Baroque/Augustan poetry (Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope) Renaissance drama (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson) Early novel (Bunyan, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Sterne) University novel (Amis, Bradbury, Lodge, Davies, etc.) Literature and the occult British arts & music (selected topics, upon agreement) Suszczyńska, Małgorzata Linguistic politeness (theories, empirical research) Cross- and intercultural Pragmatics Interlanguage Pragmatics Gender in sociopragmatic research Institutional discourse (medical, classroom, courtroom, media) Conversation analysis Speech act analysis Tápainé Balla Ágnes Second language acquisition/learning Third (and additional) language acquisition/learning Tóth Zsófia Anna Gender and literature Gender and film Humor and gender Jane Austen (literature and film adaptations) The New Woman (literary and cultural approaches, representations) The femme fatale (literary, cultural and filmic approaches, representations) Violence in American cinema Early American cinema, Pre-Code Hollywood Disney and Pixar Animations Vajda Zoltán Antebellum southern culture 19th century US history American history American Popular Culture Williams, Thomas A. Second language acquisition/learning Tasks in second language acquisition/learning Sociocultural theory and second language acquisition/learning Developing L2 speaking Language learner perceptions/beliefs Zámbóné Kocić Larisa Early Modern Women Writers Religious/metaphysical and erotic literature of the Renaissance and the Restoration Pop culture—theory and praxis (fandom/fan fictions; comics/graphic novels) Digital Humanities