Curriculum vitae

Personal data:
Name:				Rákai, Orsolya
 Address: 			Research Center for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of 					Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest, 1118 Ménesi út 11-				13., Hungary
 E-mail: 			rakai.orsolya@btk.mta.hu

Academic background: 

2011-:				Senior research fellow (HAS ILS, Department os Modern Literature)
2008: 				Habilitation (International Lecturer's Degree, Venia Docendi) in Pécs 				(University of Pécs)
2004: 				PhD in Szeged (History and theories of Literature), PhD thesis: The 				point of view of the ’Literaturwissenschaftler’. Social integration of 				literature and some problems of aesthetic experience in Hungarian 				literature between 1780 and 1830. (2004, summa cum laude)
2002- : 			Scientific assistant of HAS ILS Department of Modern Literature
1996-1999: 			Phd-training at the University of Szeged
1996-2009:			university lecturer of Department of Classical Hungarian 						Literature and Department of Media and Communication (Szeged)
1994-1995: 			professor’s undergraduate assistant (University of Szeged, Department 				of Classical Hungarian Literature)
1991–1996: 			Studied Russian language and literature (1991-1994), 						Hungarian language and literature (1991-1996), and Hungarian 					literature and criticism in the 19th century special courses, 						(1993–1996) at the József Attila University, Szeged (later 						University of Szeged), M.A. 1996 with honors (thesis: 						„Transfigurers of the clods of our language”. The forming of 					national language’s cult and the question of esteeming writers 
                                                at the turn of 18-19th  c.)
1980-1995: 			Music training (piano1980–1993, Liszt Ferenc Music School, 					Szeged; solo singing 1988–1995, guitar 1990-1993 Király-						König Péter Music School, Szeged; harmonics, musical theory, 					solfege 1993–1995, Liszt Ferenc Conservatory, Szeged)

Co-operation with research groups:
 2011-:				coordinating the project Corpus alienum – corporeal narratology and 				xenology as interdisciplinary possibilities in the „postcultural age” 				(with Györgyi Földes)
2008-:				participating in the Press- and Mediascience Working Committee of 				the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 2007- : 			participating in the editorial board of the digital review 'rec.iti' of the 				HAS ILS (http://rec.iti.mta.hu/rec.iti) 
2005-2007: 			project of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland 'Cult and identity'. 					International coordination on behalf of the Hungarian participants, 				organising two international conferences
2004- :				participating in international conferences (6 conference papers: 					Groningen, Netherlands 2010; Budapest, Hungary 2004; Sofia, 					Bulgaria 2004 and 2008;  Jyväskylä, Finland 2007; Berlin, Germany 				2007)
2003-2007: 			OTKA-project 'Cult, identity, image': international coordination, 					project management, organising workshops and conferences
2003-2006: 			OTKA-project 'History of the literary institutions in Hungary in the 				18th century': database building
2003-2005:	Contribution to the project ’European cultural heritage: the reception of British and Irish writers in Europe’ (London and Cambridge, project leader prof. Elinor Shaffer): elaborating the reception of Byron in Hungary and contribution to the Byron-reception database
2002-2005: 			NKFP-5-project of the Ministry of Culture and Education 						'Exploration and interpretation of the classical Hungarian literary 				heritage'
2001-2004: 			project of the University of Szeged and the College of Kaposvár 					'Interdisciplinary conversations': organising conferences, editing of 				two conference volumes
2000-2006: 			OTKA-project (abbr. Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) 					'History of literary criticism in Hungary in the 20th century': editing 				two volumes
1997- : 			participating in conferences (cca. 30 conference papers)
1996-1999: 			leading FPF-project (abbr. Financing Fund for Research Programs in 				Higher Education) 'Recent methods and tendencies in the 						historiography of literature': workshops, seminars,  editing of an 					anthology

Fellowships, grants
2009-2010: 			visiting professor at the University of Vienna, Institute of European 
				and Comparative  Linguistics and Literature (Vienna, Austria)
1999-2002: 			junior fellow of HAS ILS Department of Modern Literature, 					(Budapest, Hungary)
2001:				grant of Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Institut für 						Medienwissenschaften und Kommunikationsforschung (1 month, 					Essen, Germany)
1999: 				CEEPUS-grant for 1 month (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, 				Romania)
1998: 				CEEPUS-grant for 3 months (University of Vienna, Austria) 
1996-1999:			PhD-grant at University of Szeged

Honours and awards
2010-2012: 			Bolyai-grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1994-1995: 			grant of the Republic of Hungary

Languages: 			English (fluent), German (fluent), Russian (fluent), French 					(intermediate)

Budapest, 18th August 2013.