He studied Literature, Greek and Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and wrote his dissertation on late Roman epic poetry. He used to work as academic advisor at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, soon to be professor at our University, and editor-in-chief of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. He is also Member of advisory boards of four international journals on literary studies (Proudy, Czech Republic; Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Germany; Recherche Litteraire/Literary Research, Belgium, Primerjalna književnost, Slovenia).
He did extensive research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, and classical philology. From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association's (ICLA) Research Committee for East- and South-East Europe, 2008-2014 he was member of the standing research committee for literary theory, and 2010-16 member of the ICLA Executive Council. 2002-2012 he was secretary of Hungarian Comparative Literature Association, and since 2016 he has been president of the Association. He lectured at various universities in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, PR China, and Japan. He has published 6 books and more than 130 papers.
Some recent publications:
1.Unnecessary anachronisms as ‘facts’ in Central European historical novels. Neohelicon 43, 2016, 417–425.
2.The rights of the trees: on a Hungarian short story from 1900. Neohelicon 44, 2017, 389-401.
3.The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of theoretical Discourse. In Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Eds.), Policing Literary Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2018, 135-145.
4.McEwan Paraphrases McEwan: The Paraphrase of a McEwan Short Story in a McEwan Novel. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature 2: 355-369.
5.Descriptions of Rituals. Primerjalna književnost 42(2): 51-63.
