Professional Profile for Miklos Mezosi
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- Miklos Mezosi
Basics
- Name:
- Miklos Mezosi
- Location:
- Hungary
- Area of Interest:
- Humanities
- (School) Network:
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
- HigherEdSpace Profile:
- http://www.opencollege.com/profile/65013620
About Me (Summary)
PhD in Russian Literature (2002)
MPhil [DrUniv] in Russian (1992)
MA in Ancient Greek (1990)
MA in Latin & Russian (1986)
All obtained from ELTE University (Budapest)
1993 Research grant: Central European University.
1995-98 Grant: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (HSRF).
1993-2001 Teaching Latin & Greek (secondary ed.)
1999 Grant: Council of Europe & Ministry of Ed. of Cyprus. In-Service Training Program for Teachers of Ancient Greek in Nicosia.
1999 Publication of my first book: Canonized History and the Poetic Tradition.
2002 PhD degree. Dissertation: intersections of literature and music: Puskin & Musorgsky.
2003-06 Post-Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Russian at ELTE University). Teaching and research Ancient and Russian historiographies; drama and opera.
2005 Mellon Fellowship: IASH, The University of Edinburgh.
2006 Publication of my second book: Music, Word, Drama...
2003-09 Assistant Professor: Univ. of Pannonia (Veszprem).
2007-10 Associate Professor: University of West Hungary (Szombathely).
I have taught courses in Antiquity, Renaissance, Classicism; Old Hungarian Literature; Opera Studies; Comparative Philology; Ancient Greek; Mytho-Poetics.
Current research projects:
- From Relegation toward the GULAG: The Poesy and Myth of Exile;
- From Dionysos to the Mariinsky Theatre;
- Comparative Myth Criticism. Phenomenological and Typological Approaches.
Creative writing:
2009: My first volume of poems: These Are Attached Files.
A new volume, The Golden Pot in Pieces, is forthcoming.
I extensively publish in literary journals. I write poetry in Hungarian, English, Russian, Latin & Greek. Have published in Hungarian & Greek.
MPhil [DrUniv] in Russian (1992)
MA in Ancient Greek (1990)
MA in Latin & Russian (1986)
All obtained from ELTE University (Budapest)
1993 Research grant: Central European University.
1995-98 Grant: Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (HSRF).
1993-2001 Teaching Latin & Greek (secondary ed.)
1999 Grant: Council of Europe & Ministry of Ed. of Cyprus. In-Service Training Program for Teachers of Ancient Greek in Nicosia.
1999 Publication of my first book: Canonized History and the Poetic Tradition.
2002 PhD degree. Dissertation: intersections of literature and music: Puskin & Musorgsky.
2003-06 Post-Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Russian at ELTE University). Teaching and research Ancient and Russian historiographies; drama and opera.
2005 Mellon Fellowship: IASH, The University of Edinburgh.
2006 Publication of my second book: Music, Word, Drama...
2003-09 Assistant Professor: Univ. of Pannonia (Veszprem).
2007-10 Associate Professor: University of West Hungary (Szombathely).
I have taught courses in Antiquity, Renaissance, Classicism; Old Hungarian Literature; Opera Studies; Comparative Philology; Ancient Greek; Mytho-Poetics.
Current research projects:
- From Relegation toward the GULAG: The Poesy and Myth of Exile;
- From Dionysos to the Mariinsky Theatre;
- Comparative Myth Criticism. Phenomenological and Typological Approaches.
Creative writing:
2009: My first volume of poems: These Are Attached Files.
A new volume, The Golden Pot in Pieces, is forthcoming.
I extensively publish in literary journals. I write poetry in Hungarian, English, Russian, Latin & Greek. Have published in Hungarian & Greek.
Experience
- Postdoctoral Research and Faculty Fellow
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
- 2003 - 2006
- Pursuing research focusing on an intertextual interpretation of Nikolai Karamzin's historiographical work, The History of the Russian State, and the two Boris Godunov dramas of Pushkin and Musorgsky. Apart from conducting research, I developed and taught courses based on this research. The project was funded by a György Békésy Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Hungarian Ministry of Education.
- Assistant Professor
- Veszprémi Egyetem
- 2003 - 2009
- Teaching lectures and seminars at BA and MA levels in World Literature from the Greeks through Classicism; in Comparative Opera Studies; in Mythopoetics and Ancient Greek I, II, III, IV.
Research: participation in individual and collaborative projects leading to monographs and publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as to course materials.
- Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow
- The University of Edinburgh
- 2005 - 2005
- Conducting research into the “Boris Godunov sujet,†a narrative comprising the versions of the Boris Godunov Tale by Karamzin, Pushkin and Musorgsky, respectively.
- Associate Professor
- Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem
- 2007 - 2010
- Teaching lecture and seminar courses at BA & MA level in World Literature from the Ancients to Classicism, Old Hungarian Literature, Comparative Opera Studies and Mythopetics and Ancient Greek
Teaching lecture courses at MA level in Comparative Philology
Research: participation in a variety of individual and collaborative projects leading to course materials and publications in peer-reviewed journals and research volumes.
- Visiting Lecturer
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
- 2011 - Present
- Teaching mythopoetics and genre poetics in the Doctoral Program in Russian Literature and Literary Studies of Eötvös Loránd University. I focus on the role mythopoetics plays in European literary tradition from the beginnings; how it eventually leads to the formation of the Russian novel of the 19th century.
