Kutatási dolgozat témajavaslatok

Major Paper Topics

 

Dr. Andrea SZABÓ, PhD, institute director

  • Individual Authors in American Literature
  • Literature and Gender (British, Canadian, and American authors)
  • Gender in Culture
  • Gothic Literature
  • The Female Gothic
  • Popular Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries (gender and visual culture)

Dr. Éva BÚS, PhD

BA studies

Any aspect of medieval, renaissance, baroque, long 18th-century and Victorian culture, including the literature of the periods mentioned. 

  • Old English culture and literature (heroic culture, Beowulf, Battle of Maldon, spread of Christianity, religious literature)
  • high and later medieval culture and literature (culture of the court: chivalry, knighly romances, troubadour poetry, religious drama, macabre art forms - the cult of death and its legacy in later cultures)
  • renaissance poetry and drama (sonnets, typical topics in poetry, representation of the New Man, transgression and challenging the system in Renaissance drama, chief questions of history, tragedy, comedy and tragi-comedy in Shakespearean drama; modern adaptations of Shakespeare's dramas)
  • British culture in transition: new forms and cultural products in the 17th and 18th centuries (new comedy - the forerunner of sitcoms, the birth of the novel, sentimental fiction, the rise of Gothic fiction)
  • Romanticism, its cultural phenomena and literary forms (cult of Nature, anti-industrialism, romantic ballads, the Byronic hero, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, addiction problems, opium eating)
  • Victorian culture and literature (an era of polar opposites, why it's the best of times and the worst of times; Victorian novel variants, man and woman writers and their vision; the Victorian theatre, comedies, burlesques, comic opera, farce; Victorian visual culture, narrative painting, the Pre-Raphaelite movement, aestheticism and decadence, science and superstition, ghost stories, 2nd wave of Gothic literature;  Criminal subculture and the birth of detective fiction;  the legacy of Victorian times in modern and postmodern times: steampunk, horror fiction, CSI

MA studies

  • reading a variety of texts (of your choice) using specific critical methods; comparative and contrastive reading
  • parallel reading of fictional and nonfictional texts: investigating cultural and literary phenomena early or modern
  • adaptation (multiple forms, the process can be studied in a variety of examples)
    • aspects of Victorian culture and literature (thorough investigation of a controversial cultural phenomenon)

Dr. Sándor CZEGLÉDI, PhD

American (U.S.)

  • identity, identity politics
  • language ideologies
  • language rights
  • bilingual education
  • linguistic imperialism

Erika CSILLINGH, MA, MEd

  • EFL teaching methodology
  • Language pedagogy
  • Language Acquisition
  • Multilingualism: childhood multilingualism, multilingual families, multilingual awareness, multilingual speech production
  • Teaching as a career

Dr. Éva FORINTOS, PhD

  • The language use of minority communities in different domains in the (English-speaking) world
  • The contactlinguistic study of the written or spoken language of the Hungarian minority communities in the (English-speaking) world
  • Multimodal approach to language alternation in Hungarian-English written mixed-language discourse
  • Identity construction through written mixed-language discourse by English-Hungarian bilingual minorities living in diaspora
  • Multiculturalism in Australia
  • Linguistic landscape research

Zsófia FÜLÖP, MA, MEd

  • Language pedagogy (multilingual classrooms)
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • Language Acquisition (frequency of input, cognitive processes, childhood multilingualism)
  • Family language policy (parental attitudes and ideologies)
  • Minority languages, language maintenance (intergenerational language transmission)
  • Phonetics
  • Narratives in education (storytelling as a pedagogical tool)

Dr. Rabeb GHANMI, PhD

  • Multilingualism: multilingual awareness, multilingual development, multilingual processing, dominant language constellations, multilingual teaching and learning, dynamic and complexity of multilingual learning

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    Language acquisition/ foreign language learning

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    The effect of bi- and multilingualism on cognitive development, emotions, and behavior

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    The social psychology of bi- and multilingualism: bilculturalism, multiculturalism, cultural diversity

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    Minority languages/ language maintenance 

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    Code-switching and code-mixing

Dr. Petra IHÁSZ, PhD

dialectology, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, language use, bilingualism

László Gábor KATONA, M.Ed., M.Ed.

  • Curriculum Design & Mapping
  • Educational Administration & Leadership
  • Instructional Methods & Strategies
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • American Culture
  • American Minority Studies
  • American History
  • American Foreign Relations
  • Native American Culture & History

Levente Antal NAGY, MA

  • US / UK History
  • World History
  • Sociology
  • Entertainment Media

Dr. Márta PINTÉR, PhD

  • The afterlife, including various representations, of a key figure of Britain’s History.
  • The aftermath of a key event of Britain’s History.
  • The legacy of a historical phenomenon in any area of British life today.
  • British-Hungarian relations in the past and more recently (in areas of culture, society, politics).
  • British-European relations in the past and more recently (in areas of culture, society, politics).
  • Any researchable topic/issue in the field of Britain’s History and of Modern British Studies.

 Attila SALAMON, MA

  • Bi-/Multilingualism
  • Online platforms in linguistic research
  • Code-switching
  • Linguistic integration of other-language material
  • Phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax

Dr. Ágnes SÁNTHA-MALOMSOKI, PhD

Dr. Nikolett SIPOS, PhD

  • speculative fiction
  • 20th century & contemporary literatures in English
  • contemporary popular culture
  • television studies

Dr. Szilárd SZENTGYÖRGYI, PhD

  • English phonetic phenomena
  • Pronunciation problems and errors
  • Dialects of English
  • Comparative phonological description of English and another language
  • Language games, word games, puns, language humour

János UJLAKI, MA

  • ELT methodology
  • Digital and AI literacy
  • 21st century skills, transversal skills and competencies
  • The role of AI in (language) education