Mihály Szegedy-Maszák#

Curriculum vitae#

Education:

• 1961 - 1966 Studies in English and Hungarian, literature and linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 1966 M.A. Eötvös University, Budapest
• 1966 Studies in 17th-century English and 20th-century American poetry, Trinity Hall and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK
• 1967 Ph. D. Eötvös University, Budapest (dissertation on Virginia Woolf)

• 1967 - 1971 Assistant Professor of English, József Attila University, Szeged
• 1967 - 1981 Research Fellow, Institute of Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy, B2udapest
• 1981 - 1990 Professor of Cultural History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 1988 - 1991 Hungarian Chair Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
• 1990 - 1994 Professor of Hungarian Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 1991 - 2008 Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington
• 1994 - present Professor of Comparative Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 2009 - present Professor Emeritus of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

• 1971, 1974, 1979 Visiting Research Fellow, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris
• 1975 Visiting Research Fellow, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
• 1976 Visiting Research Fellow, Swedish Institute, Stockholm
• 1979 - 1980 Research Fellow, King´s College, Cambridge, UK
• 1982 Visiting Research Fellow, Université de Liege
• 1984 Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington
• 1984 - 1985 ACLS Research Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo
• 1986 - 1987 Executive Editor of Hungarian Studies
• 1987 Visiting Professor of Hungarian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
• 1988 - present Advisory Editor of New Literary History (U.S.A)
• 1988 - 2004 Editor-in-chief of Hungarian Studies
• 1991 - 2004 Editor-in-chief of Protestáns Szemle (The Protestant Review)
• 1994 - present Editor of the series of monographs "Tegnap és ma" (Bratislava: Kalligram; 13 volumes to date)
• 1996 - present Editor of the series "Visegrad Books" (Bratislava: Kalligram; 5 volumes to date)
• 1996 - present member of the Editorial Board of Arcadia (Tübingen, Deutschland)
• 1998 1999 state commissioner of the Hungarian participation in the 1999 Frankfurt Book Fair
• 1999 - 2000 Fellow of Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study)
• 2000 - present member of the Editorial Board of Across Languages and Cultures
• 2009 Member of the Editorial Board of Filológiai közlöny
• 2009 Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation

• 1972-present International Comparative Literature Association
• 1983 - 1992 Co-ordinating Committeee of the International Comparative Literature Association
• 1986 - present Executive Council of the International Association of Hungarian Studies
• 1991 - present Executive Council of the International Comparative Literature Association
• 1992 - 2001 Vice-President of the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association
• 1993 - present Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1995 - present Academia Europaea
• 1996 - 2006 Vice-President of the International Association of Hungarian Studies
• 1997 - 2004 Vice-President of the International Comparative Literature Association
• 1998 - present Full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2000 - 2006 Academic Advisory Board of Collegium Budapest (Hungarian Institute for Advanced Study)
• 2001 - 2007 President of the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association
• 2002 - present Vice-President of the Hungarian UNESCO Commission
• 2002 - 2008 President of the Literary Studies Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2003 - 2009 Advisory Board of the Habsburg Institute Budapest

• 1997 Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
• 2003 Szechenyi Prize of the Hungarian Republic