Péter Dávidházi#
| Membership Number: | 3280 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - 2003 Fulbright Researcher, Columbia University
- 1985 - 2012 Head of Department, Institute of Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities
- 1985 - 1986 Visiting Research Fellow, University of California, Irvine
- 1977 - 1978 British Council Scholarship, University of Sussex,
- 1973 - 2012 Professor, Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
Fields of Scholarship
- Literature
- History of criticism
- History of Literary Scholarship
- Shakespeare Studies
- 18th-century English poetry
- 19th-century Hungarian culture
- Biblical Motifs in Hungarian Poetry
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Toldy Ferenc díj (An award for literary historians in Hungary)
- 2009 Membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Tarnai-díj (An award for scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries in Hungary)
- 2006 Széchenyi-díj (In Hungary the greatest award for scgientists and scholars)
- 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholarship
- 1992 Év Könyve díj (The award for the Book of the Year in Hungary)
