Anna Kérchy

Anna Kérchy is a Senior Assistant Professor at the English Department of the University of Szeged, Hungary. She earned her PhD in literature from the University of Szeged and her doctoral habilitation degree in literature and culture from the University of Debrecen. She also holds a DEA in Semiology from Université Paris VII, and a post-grad certificate in (English/Hungarian) translation and interpretation in the fields of economics and social sciences. Her research interests include intermedial cultural representations, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, interfacings of Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, gender studies, body studies, human-animal studies, women’s art, and children’s literature (esp. fairy tales and nonsense fantasies). She is the author of two monographs, Alice in Transmedia Wonderland. Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children’s Classic and Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View. She is the editor of Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales, co-editor of What Constitutes the Fantastic?, the Iconology of Law and Order, Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows (with Andrea Zittlau), and of an EJES special issue on Feminist Interventions into Intermedial Studies (with Catriona McAra). She was in charge of the Hungarian back-translations in the international book-project Alice in a World of Wonderlands. The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece in 150 Languages.