Dr Vraukó Tamás

Associate Professor

Office: A/6, room 1

E-mail: tamas.vrauko@uni-miskolc.hu

Phone: 06-46/565-111/22-85

Qualifications

Teacher of Hungarian and English Language and Literature (MA), KLTE, Debrecen; Doctoral Degree in Comparative Linguistics (Hungarian – English), KLTE, Debrecen; Postgraduate Degree in British Studies, University of Warsaw, John Ruskin College, Oxford; PhD in American Studies, University of Warsaw; Translator in Social Sciences, ELTE, Budapest

Curriculum vitae

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Office hours

By appointment only

Current timetable

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Academic interests

Media, translation, North American culture and civilisation

Thesis topics

1. From Junipero Serra to Ricky Martin – Hispanics in American cultural history
2. Margaret Thatcher’s parliamentary reforms and their consequences
3. Men of two worlds: Why Mark Twain did not like Sir Walter Scott
4. Central European immigration to the U. S. in the 20th Century
5. From Natty Bumppo to Lucas Davenport – the WASP hero arrives in the 21st Century
6. Country and Western music: Changing values and changing worlds
7. Northern Ireland after the IRA ceasefire as depicted in the British press