Pál Hegyi (PhD., Dr. Habil.)
Department of American Studies, School of English and American Studies at ELTE, Budapest

Bio
Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies, ELTE, Pál Hegyi authored numerous studies and reviews on

American and Hungarian contemporary literature and popular culture published both in Hungarian and international journals. 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 Work and the Fallacy of Critical Reception was published to pay homage to the literary legacy of the American author in 2024.