Dr. Ildi Olasz

Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D., English Literature, Michigan State University
• M.A., History, Central European University
• M.A., American Studies, Babes-Bolyai University
• B.A., English Literature and Linguistics -- Hungarian Literature and Linguistics, Babes-Bolyai University

Courses Taught

• English 640 First Person Narratives
• English 530 Literature and Arts
• English 405 Senior Seminar
• English 325 Sensation Novels and Detective Fiction
• English 325 Literature and Film Adaptations
• English 305 Literary Critic’s Craft
• English 246 British Literature: Romantics to Present
• English 220 Intro to Literature
• English 112 Writing with Engagement
• English 111 Academic Literacies
• English 110 Intro to College Writing

Academic Interests

• Victorian literature
• Reception studies and book history
• Visual studies and interdisciplinary research with literature

Scholarly Activity

Recent Publications

• “‘Written in Crude Defiance of the Illustrator’: Proto-Modernist Authorship and Verbal-Visual Reception of Henry James’s Washington Square.” Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. Sept. 2008: 94-127.
• Rev. of Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, by Heidi B. Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly. Atlantikos: A Journal of Transatlantic Scholarship. May 2008: 84-87.

Recent Presentations

• "Visualization or Illustration?  Thackeray's Illustrations and Literary Reception," Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2011
• “Genre Conventions across Centuries: The Changing Reception of Mysteries and Detectives,” Reception Studies Society Conference, Maryville, MO, September, 2011
• “Lost in Syntax: English Translations of Hungarian Poetry,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, April, 2011
• “Travel as Reflection: Narrative Voice and Self-Identification in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko,” Pennsylvania College English Association Conference, Erie, PA, March, 2011
• “Pick Up a Book or Go to the Movies? Film Adaptations and Student Audience,” Reception Studies Society Conference, West Lafayette, IN, September, 2009

Other Professional Experiences

• Chair, MLA Hungarian Discussion Group
• President, Reception Study Society
• Conference Coordinator, 2011 Reception Studies Conference