Theory and practice : Nella Larsen's novels in the Hungarian classroom

Éva Federmayer

Eva Federmayer is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, and at the School of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Her main areas of research and teaching are African American literature and culture, cultural studies, ecocriticism, and gender studies. Besides publishing on Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Octavia Butler, Oscar Micheaux, Danzy Senna, ragtime, Hungarian home design, and the American presidential election, she is the author of Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism (1983) and the editor and co-author of the electronic textbook, Netting America (2006). Email: Eva_Federmayer@lit.u-szeged.hu