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Anikó Elek Tálas

Anikó Elek Tálas, MA

Doctoral candidate

Anikó earned her B.A. in German and English Studies at the ELTE University in Budapest after spending one Erasmus-year at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena mostly dealing with German classics of the 18th and early 20th centuries. After her graduation, she started Comparative and North American Studies at the University of Göttingen. Her professional and academic career can be described by devotion to cultural negotiation, and passion for the preservation of intellectual heritage: She worked as a research assistant at the Theodor Fontane- Arbeitsstelle in Göttingen, and deepened her knowledge in heritage conservation at Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Laugharne (Wales). In her master thesis, she focused on the transition from divine right to privatized belief in the religio-cultural poetics of Shakespeare’s Henriad.

Anikó joined the doctoral program in September 2019. In the course of her earlier multi-philological and interdisciplinary studies, ecology-oriented literary criticism had such a huge impact on her scientific interest that she decided to devote her PhD-thesis to the desideratum of János Csokits’ oeuvre. The aim of her comparative project is to investigate the as-yet unexplored Hungarian exile writer’s cosmological criticism – his “Poetics of Displacement: Cosmological Mindscapes and Observers“ – through his translated poems and “with the help” of his close friend, the emblematic Anglophone ecopoet Ted Hughes.

Dissertation Project: A Poetics of Displacement: Cosmological Mindscapes and Observers in J.C.’s Poetry