Dr. Ruth Karin Lévai

Assistant Professor

Office: A/6, room 3

E-mail: ruth.karin.levai@uni-miskolc.hu

Phone: 06-46/565-111/22-46

Qualifications

French and German Language and Literature (BA), Pepperdine University, USA; Russian philology, specializing in literature (MA), Lomonosov State University of Moscow;  Comparative Literature (Ph.D.), ELTE

Curriculum Vitae

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Office hours

Tuesdays 4 - 5 p.m. or by appointment

Current timetable 

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Academic interests

Comparative literature, German, French, Russian, Dostoevsky, Enlightenment and Modernism.

Thesis topics

1. The Modernist Novel
2. Modernism and Religion
3. Modernism and Colonialism
4. Fin de siécle, Oscar Wilde
5. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
6. External and Internal Darkness, Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
7. Hardy's poetry
8. Agnosticism, Fatalism, Pessimism in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
9. Epiphany, Paralysis and Gnomon in Joyce's short stories
10. Forster
11. W.B. Yeats' idea of beauty
12. Comparative studies in English, American, French, German and/or Russian literature
13. Hamlet
14. Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Goethe's Faust
15. The Metaphysical Poets
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Poetry of Anna Barbauld
18. Keats' Great Odes
19. Metaphors and Symbols in Coleridge
20. William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
21. Pride and Prejudice
22. The Enlightenment
23. Autobiographical Narratives (captivity narrative, slave narrative)
24. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Personal space

Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk: Teaching Your Own Novels

British Comparative Literature Association

John Dryden Translation Competition for students

Arthur Terry Postgraduate Essay Competition

International Dostoevsky Society

The Importance of the Humanities

On Reading Russian Literature