Pál Hegyi (PhD., Dr. Habil.)
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Szeged

Bio
Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Szeged, Pál Hegyi authored numerous studies and reviews on American and Hungarian

contemporary literature and popular culture published both in Hungarian and international journals including Literatura, Filológiai Közlöny, Magyar Tudomány, Hungarian Cultural Studies, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, and Canadian Review of Contemporary Literature. As literary translator, he has works by Paul Auster, Susan Howe, David Cronenberg, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, and Elmore Leonard to his name. Following two monographs (Paul Auster: Fehér terek [Paul Auster: White Spaces] and Lovecraft Laughing: Uncanny Memes in the Weird), a third volume on the American Sublime (Az amerikai fenségesről – a puritanizmustól a metamodernig) was released in 2021. Paul Auster's Early Works and the Fallacy of Critical Reception was published to pay homage to the literary legacy of the American author in 2024.
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