Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's fields of scholarship include comparative cultural studies; comparative literature; comparative media and communication studies; postcolonial studies; (im)migration and ethnic minority studies; digital humanities (new media and knowledge management); education studies; online teaching and course design; editing and publishing (print & online); film and literature; audience studies; European, US-American, and Canadian cultures and literatures; history; bibliography; conflict management and diversity training. Education: Ph.D. comparative literature U of Alberta 1989, B.Ed. history and English as a second language U of Ottawa 1984, M.A. comparative literature Carleton U 1983, B.A. history and German studies U of Western Ontario 1980. Teaching and service: Purdue U 2000-2020, U of Halle-Wittenberg 2002-2011, U of Alberta 1984-2000, & (distinguished) visiting professorships in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Publications: single-authored books include Comparative Humanities and the Relevance of Liberal Arts (forthcoming); Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application; The Social Dimensions of Fiction & edited volumes include Digital Humanities and the Study of Intermediality in Comparative Cultural Studies; Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies; Mapping the World, Culture, and Border-crossing; Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement; Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature; Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies; Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies; The New Central and East European Culture; Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing; 200+ articles in peer-reviewed journals; also publications in Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish translation. Varia editing and publishing including Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies; U of Alberta Book Publishing Programme; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée; and special & thematic issues of learned journals.

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