ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest) Department of Italian Studies
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EDUCATION
Doctor scientiae (DSc) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2024)
Habilitation in Literary Studies, ELTE 2018
PhD, Medieval History, ELTE 2006 (Supervisor, Gábor Klaniczay)
MA Medieval Studies, Central European University (CEU), Budapest 2001
BA+MA History, University of Pécs 1999
BA+MA Italian, University of Pécs 1997
Scholarship at Bologna University – 1993, 1999
APPOINTMENTS
2025- Professor of Italian Literature and History
2019- Head of Department of Italian Studies at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) of Budapest
2019- 2025 Associate Professor of Italian History and Literature
2009-2018 Senior lecturer
1998-2009 Assistant professor
2022- Coordinator of the Doctoral program of Italian cultural and literary studies at ELTE
2021- Member of the Doctoral College of Italian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
2010- Instructor of Italian Philology at Eötvös College of ELTE
OTHER TEACHING AND RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS AND GRANTS
2026 March-June Fulbright Research Scholarship at Yale University
2024 ERASMUS Mobility, University of Bologna (History, MA, PhD)
2023 ERASMUS Mobility, University of Padua (History MA)
2022 ERASMUS Mobility, Rome, La Sapienza
2022 Invited lecturer at the Doctoral Course at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
2021, 2025 ERASMUS Mobility, Università degli studi di Roma Tre (Literature MA, History
PhD)
2021 ERASMUS Research Grant Università degli Studi di Firenze
2018, 2025 guest lecturer at Charles University of Prague
2017 ERASMUS Mobility, Università per Stranieri di Perugia
2015 Invited speaker of Séminaire Pratiques et cultures religieuses du XIIIe au début XVIe
siècle, École Normale Supérieure of Paris
2014-2015 Fellow at Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa i Tatti,
Florence
2013, 2019 ERASMUS Mobility, Università degli studi di Napoli, Federico II. (History, Art
History)
2012 Guest lecturer at the the class Mystics, Visionaries, Stigmatics. Living Saints in the Later
Middle Ages Department of Medieval Studes CEU
2009 Mellon Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa i
Tatti, Florence
2000, 2002 Invited Lecturer, University of Padua
1999, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2019, 2024 ERASMUS Mobility, University of Florence
RESEARCH TOPICS
The Meditationes vitae Christi and its textual problems, The Italian version of the Miroir des
simples âmes,
Italian translations (volgarizzamenti) of late medieval devotional writings, Late medieval female
spirituality and religious literature,
Cult of Central European saints in Italy,
Italian manuscripts in Hungary,
Franciscanism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND BOARDS
2026- Member of the Cost Action CA23143 “Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval
and Early Modern World”
2023- Member of the Editorial Board of Nuova Corvina: Rivista di Italianistica
2022- Editor in chief and founder of the book series of Eötvös publishing house ‘Italian Studies
at ELTE – Studi di Italianistica all’ELTE’
2022- present Member of Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN)
2019- present Expert – H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2020, 2021. Research Executive Agency.
European Commission
2016- present Member of the executive committee of Magyar Hagiográfiai Társaság (Hungarian
Hagiography Association)
2016- present Member of the Advisory Board of Bullettino dell’Istituto Storico per il Medievo
(ISIME) of Rome
2013-2017 Susbtitute member of the Management Committee COST Action IS1301. New
Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation
in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
2012-2016 Member of the Advisory Board of the series „Nuovi Studi Storici” Istituto Storico per
il Medievo (ISIME) of Rome
2011- Editor of Italogramma: journal of Italian Studies
2011-2018 Member of the International Marguerite Porete Society
2009- Member of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
2007- Member of the Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Santi, del Culto e dell’Agiografia
(AISSCA)
2006- Member of the Magyar Dantisztikai Társaság (Hungarian Dante Society)
2003-2007 Participant of European Curricula in New Technologies and Language Teaching
(ECNTLT) Comenius, Socrates project
2001-2006 Editor of Insegnanet, journal of Italian studies
1998-2016 Member of the Società Dante Alighieri, Comitato di Budapest
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
2025 “L’edizione critica del Testo maggiore delle Meditationes Vitae Christi.” Attraversimenti e
e Frontiere della Letteratura religiosa. Università degli Studi di Padova
2025 “ The Meditationes Vitae Christi and Jacopone da Todi” Literary Devotions. Cambridge,
Trinity College,
2024 “Budapesten őrzött olasz nyelvű kéziratok” (Italian manuscripts kept in Budapest). Nyitott Napok ELTE BTK Könyvtár- és Információtudományi Intézete
2024 “Szent Ferenc alakja a középkori olasz és magyar nyelvű irodalomban” (St Francis in the
Italian and Hungarian medieval literature) Előadások a Ferences rend történetéről, PPKE BILK
2022 “Szent Margit és a flagelláns mozgalom” (Saint Margaret and the flagellant movement),
Árpád-házi Szent Margit és kora 750 Éves Örökség, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest
2022 “The Inquisitor as Book Hunter: Observant Franciscans and Heretical Books in Italy”
Where to find that book? Chasing rare texts circa 800-1500, SDU Center for Medieval Literature
(Odense, Danmark)
2021 “I volgarizzamenti italiani delle Meditationes Vitae Christi nel Trecento” Medieval
Translator Congress, Bologna University
2021 “Dante e le Meditationes Vitae Christi” Congresso Dantesco Internazionale, Bologna –
Ravenna
2019 “Women and Heresy in the Late Middle Ages” CEU Public Lecture, Budapest
2016 “Una fonte per la ricostruzione della biblioteca di Maria d’Ungheria, regina di Napoli”
Seconda Universita di Napoli
2016 “Individual Literary Activity in Late 15th-century Italian Religious Communities:
Rewritings of the Vita Christi Tradition” Res Publica: La comunidad y el individuo en el
renacimiento. Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia
2015 “Les traductions italiannes du Miroir des simples âmes de Marguerite Porete” Séminaire
Pratiques et cultures religieuses du XIIIe au début XVIe siècle, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2015 “The Meditationes vitae Christi and the lay culture of the early fourteenth century” Modus
vivendi – Religious Reform and the Laity in late Medieval Europe, The Finnish Institute in Rome
2013 “Casi di bilinguismo e agiografia nell’Ungheria del ‘400 e ‘500” Convegno AISSCA, Rome
2012 “The Italian Version of the Mirror of Simple Souls: A Philological Analysis of the Italian
Version of the Mirror of Simple Souls” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo
2010 “St. Elizabeth’s Roses and her Tuscan Cult” Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual
Congress, Venice
2010 “The Two Italian Versions of the Miroir and its Hungarian Connections” Marguerite
Porete: 1310-2010, Colloque international, EHESS, Paris
2006 “Three levels of memory in cult of the saints: Two late-medieval case-studies” Memories
medieval and non-medieval, Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague.