Faculty

Tibor Bónus Habil. Associate Professor
Room: 435
E-mail: bonus.tibor@btk.elte.hu

Mónika Dánél Assistant Professor
Room: 419
E-mail: danel.monika@btk.elte.hu

Kornélia Deres Habil. Associate Professor
Room: 333
E-mail: deres.kornelia@btk.elte.hu

László Földényi F. Professor Emeritus
Room: 442
E-mail: foldenyi@staff.elte.hu

Miklós Györffy Professor Emeritus
Room: 423
E-mail: gyorffy.miklos@btk.elte.hu

Zoltán Imre Professor
Room: 418
E-mail: imre.zoltan@btk.elte.hu

Ildikó Józan Habil. Associate Professor
Room: 418
E-mail: jozan.ildiko@btk.elte.hu

Pál Kelemen Assistant Professor
Room: 419
E-mail: kelemen.pal@btk.elte.hu

Ernő Kulcsár-Szabó professor emeritus
Room: 335
E-mail: kulcsar.szabo.erno@btk.elte.hu

Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó Professor
Room: 435
E-mail: kulcsar-szabo.zoltan@btk.elte.hu

Gábor Tamás Molnár Habil. Associate Professor
Room: 325
E-mail: molnar.gabor.tamas@btk.elte.hu

Borbála Pintér Assistant Professor
Room: 422
E-mail: pinter.borbala@btk.elte.hu

Attila Simon Professor
Room: 421
E-mail: simon.attila@btk.elte.hu

János Szávai Professor Emeritus
Room: 423
E-mail: szavai.janos@btk.elte.hu

Ábel Tamás Assistant Professor
Room: 419
E-mail: tamas.abel@btk.elte.hu

Edit Zsadányi Associate Professor
Room: 418
E-mail: zsadanyi.edit@btk.elte.hu

Workgroup for the Methodology of Teaching Literature

The Workgroup for the Methodology of Teaching Literature functions within the department. Its key tasks involve instructing courses related to literature teaching for students in the Hungarian teacher training program and carrying out research in the methodology of literature education.

Mónika Dánél Assistant Professor
Room: 419
E-mail: danel.monika@btk.elte.hu

Gábor Tamás Molnár Habil. Associate Professor
Room: 325
E-mail: molnar.gabor.tamas@btk.elte.hu

BorbálaPintér Assistant Professor
Room: 422
E-mail: pinter.borbala@btk.elte.hu

Introduction

Our department has been operating since 1950, making it one of the most prestigious in this academic field, even by European standards. Since its founding, it has undergone several changes in name and partial shifts in focus. For a short time, it was known as the Department of World Literature, later renamed Department of Comparative Literary History, and in the 1990s became the Department of Comparative Literary Studies. Since 2005, it has operated under its current name: Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. These evolving names reflect the expansion and partial transformation of the department’s educational and research responsibilities.

One of the department’s oldest and still most significant missions is the teaching of world literature subjects to students in the humanities. It is also responsible for overseeing comparative literature education and research, which includes the idea of mediation between modern national philologies. Since the 1990s, the department has been formally integrated into the organizational framework of the Institute of Hungarian Literary History, and later the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies. The shift in emphasis from literary history to literary studies, and the addition of cultural studies to the curriculum, reflect broader institutional trends, not just departmental ones.

In line with these developments, the department has increasingly focused on literary theory and has expanded its educational scope to include investigations into other areas of culture. Theatre, film, and visual culture now play an increasingly important role in both teaching and research.

Since the introduction of the two-cycle (BA/MA) system in 2005, our department has been responsible for a BA-level specialization in Cultural Studies, within which students can focus more specifically on Theatre Studies or Literary Translation. The department also plays a major role in the core training of the MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, and it serves as the host of one of its specializations: Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.

Illustration: Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema: A kitartó olvasó (before 1909)