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Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK

Institutional Address: Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, and Film/Media Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6. Ph.: 780-492-2174, Fax: 780-492-2715,  E-mail: steven.totosy@ualberta.ca
Home Address: 10953-73rd Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 0C3; Ph.: 780-438-6486

DEGREES HELD

    Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (1984-89), University of Alberta, Department of Comparative Literature. Specialization in literary/critical and culture theory (theories of communication and the sociology of literature), the modern and contemporary European and North American novel, and film and literature. Degree conferred August 1989. Dissertation: Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System. Dissertation Abstracts International 1990 May v50.11, p3596A-3597A.
    Bachelor of Education (1983-84), Université d'Ottawa, Faculty of Education. Specialization in English as a second language and History. Permanent Secondary School Teacher's Certificate (No. 469-016-380). Degree conferred May 1984.
    Master of Arts in Comparative Literature (1980-82), Carleton University, School of Comparative Literature. Specialization in literary and critical theory and the modern short story. Degree conferred May 1983.
    Graduate Studies at the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies (literature, political science, sociology, economics, and history). Carleton University, Faculty of Arts, 1980-83.
    Bachelor of Arts (1976-80), The University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Arts. Specialization in modern European and North American history and German language and literature. Degree conferred August 1980.
    Secondary School Education: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; Language courses in Oxford, England and Genève, Switzerland, 1964-71.

PERSONAL DATA
    Languages: Fluent written and oral English, German, French, and Hungarian; reading knowledge of Latin; limited Spanish and Russian. Citizenship: Naturalized Canadian citizen (Born 22 November 1950 in Budapest, Hungary). Marital Status: Married to Dr. Joanne E. Tötösy de Zepetnek née Toms (PhD in Pharmacology; Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, CV Technologies Inc., Edmonton). Children: Chantal Patricia (born in Ottawa 1982) and Julia Olga (born in Ottawa 1984).
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS and FUNCTIONS

    Associate Director, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1995-; Assistant Director, 1993-95; Research Associate 1989-92; Research Assistant 1987-89.
    Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, and Film/Media Studies, University of Alberta, 1994-.
    Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (University of Alberta at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/), 1998-.
    Associate Editor and Desktop Publisher, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta), 1994-97; Assistant Editor, 1989-94.
    Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1992-94.
    In-House Editor, Publishing Program of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1990-99.
    Invited Lecture Tour, funded by the Canadian Studies Program of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, and the universities of Vienna, Graz, and Klagenfurt, June 1999.
    Visiting Professor, funded by Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig, Germany, Invited Public Lectures and co-operation on project "Exil und Dissens," June 1998.
    Visiting Professor, funded by the Chinese Education Commission, the Department of English, and the Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Culture at Peking University, Beijing, Department of English, April-May 1996.
    Visiting Professor, funded by the "Pro renovanda cultura Hungariae" Foundation, at József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, Department of Comparative Literature, February-May 1995.
    Associate Editor, Applied Systems Studies: An International Journal on Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches (Cambridge International Science Publishers), 1999-.
    Advisory Board Member, Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship (University of Illinois at Chicago), 1995-.
    Advisory Board Member, Exemplaria: Revista Internacional de Literature Comparada (Universidad de Huelva), 1998-.
    Advisory Board Member, Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, 1998-.
    Member, Executive Committee, Hungarian Literature Discussion Group, MLA: Modern Language Association of America, 1995-2000.
    Vice-President, IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 1997-.
    Member of the Executive, IALS: International Association of Literary Semantics, 1997-.
    President of IGEL: Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft / International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature / Association internationale pour l'étude empirique de la littérature, 1994-96; Past President 1996-98; Member of the executive 1992-94, 1994-96, 1996-98.
    Chair, Committee for Communication and Information, International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, 1994-97, 1997-2000.
    Manuscript, faculty position, project funding, and thesis assessments for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, Tel Aviv University, National Defence (Canada), University of British Columbia Hampton Foundation, Peking University, various learned journals, etc., 1994-.
    Member of the Executive, Comparative Literature Association of Alberta, 1989-93.
    Organizer and conference convener, "Central European Culture Today: An International Invitational Conference," Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, September 1999.
    Organizer and Chair, Panel, "Comparative Culture and Hungarian Studies," 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators' Association, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA, April 1999.
    Organizer and Chair, Panel, "Methodology and the Study of Literature and Culture," the XVth Biannual Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," September 1998.
    Organizer and Chair, Workshop, "Theoretical and Methodological Innovation in the Study of Literature: The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture," the XVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, University of Leiden, August 1997.
    Organizer, with Yiu-nam Leung (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), the 1997 International Conference on Canadian Studies, National Tsing Hua University at Taipei and Hsinchu, April 1997.
    Chair, Section "Teaching Literature on the Internet" at the Fifth International Symposium and Book Fair of the English Teachers' Association, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1996.
    Organizer, the Vth Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, University of Alberta, August 1996.
    Organizer and Chair, Round Table 3, "Reading and Readership: Theories, Application, Practice / Lecture et lecteurs: théories, application, pratique," the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, University of Alberta, August 1994.
    Executive Secretary and co-organizer, with Milan V. Dimic, of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta, August 1994), 1992-94.
    Special Projects Editor, Encyclopaedia Hungarica, Ed. László Bagossy. Calgary: Hungarian Ethnic Lexicon Foundation and Budapest: Egyetemi Nyomda, 1992. Vol. I.
    Chair, Section 5, IIIrd World Congress of Hungarian Studies, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, August 1991.
    Member, Board of Directors and Executive Secretary, Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta, University of Alberta, 1986-88.
    Co-organizer, with Michael Gnarowski, of the Conference on Language, Culture, and Literary Identity in Canada, Carleton University, May 1984.
    Editorial Assistant, Les Littératures de langues européennes au tournant du siècle: lectures d'aujourd'hui, Carleton University, School of Comparative Literature, 1981-82.
    Graduate Student Representative and Member of the Graduate Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1986-89.
    Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Students' Association, Carleton University, 1981-82.
    President, Faculty of Arts Students Association and Student Member, Senate Committee on Promotion and Tenure, The University of Western Ontario, 1977-80.
    President, German Club, The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Arts, 1977-80.


COLLABORATIVE/TEAM RESEARCH PROJECTS
    "Central European Culture Today," team project with Roumiana Deltcheva (Alberta) and Markus Reisenleitner (Alberta and Vienna), and two post-doctoral fellows (Alberta and Austria); includes the organization of four international conferences. Funded by the Ministry for Science and Transportation (Austria), Can$ 187,000.00. Housed in the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies (University of Alberta), 1999-2001 (pending approval).
    "Problems in/of Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing," team project with Milan V. Dimic (Alberta), Rene Dionne (Laval), Lucie Lequin (Concordia), Enoch Padolsky (Carleton), and Joseph Pivato (Athabasca); included the organization of two national conferences. Funded by the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State (Canada), Can$ 88,000.00. Housed in the Research Institute for Comparative Literature (University of Alberta), 1990-1992.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
    University of Alberta and as invited guest professor, 1984-present: Courses and seminars in areas of Comparative Literature, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, English- and German-language literatures, language courses of German (incl. translation) and English, Canadian literatures: English-, French-, Québécois-, and Ethnic-Canadian, aspects of cross-cultural studies, editing and desk-top publishing, the modern novel, themes and motifs in world literature, the literary system, and the sociology of cultural participation and reading (incl. the history of the book and media); also Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, courses in English as a Second Language (adult classes).
AWARDS and GRANTS RECEIVED
    Funding for the organization and hosting of "Central European Culture Today: An International Invitational Conference," hosted by the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, September 1999, Can$ 25,300.00 from the University of Alberta President's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Austria.
    Funding, with Earle H. Waugh (Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Studies, University of Alberta), for a new position in Chinese and Western Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Alberta from the Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, US$ 100,000.00, 1996-97 (renewed for 2000-2003).
    Funding, with Yiu-nam Leung, for the organization of the 1997 Taiwan International Conference on Canadian Studies in Taipei and Hsinchu, April 1997, US$ 20,000.00 from the Canadian Trade Office, Taipei, Can$ 5,000.00 from the International Council for Canadian Studies, Can$ 800.00 from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Canada and US$ 17,000.00 from the Taiwan Ministry of Education, as well as limited private donations and sponsorship.
    Funding for the IVth Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, the University of Alberta President's Office ($ 1,000.00), the University of Alberta Conference Fund ($ 2,000.00), and the Siegen University Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research ($ 2,000.00), August 1996.
    Funding for a lecture tour at four universities in Taiwan, by the Taiwan National Science Council ($ 4,000.00), April 1995.
    Funding for honorarium and accomodation expenses by the Chinese Education Commission, the Department of English, and the Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, as Visiting Professor ($ 1,500.00), April-May 1996.
    Funding for conference participation, lecture series, and representation of Canadian Studies in China from the "Cultural Personalities Exchange Program," External Affairs and International Trade Canada ($ 1,600.00), October 1995.
    Grants for Summer Graduate Student Employment as Editorial Assistants and Publishing Trainees (STEP, Province of Alberta and SEED, Government of Canada), 1990 (2 positions $ 2,500.00/each); 1991 ($ 2,600.00); 1995 ($ 2,770.00).
    Grants for International Representation and conference participation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 1993 ($ 3,100.00); 1994 ($ 3,100.00); Central Research Funding, University of Alberta, 1992 ($ 1,500.00); 1993 ($ 2,200.00); 1994 ($ 1,120.00).
    Funding, with M.V. Dimic, for the organization and hosting of the XIVth Triannual Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 1992-94: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, "Aid to International Congresses in Canada" ($ 20,000.00); Department of Heritage Canada ($ 7,500); International Association of Canadian Studies ($ 5,000.00); Department of External Affairs Canada ($ 5,000.00); University of Alberta Conference Fund ($ 3,000.00); Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal) ($ 2,500.00); UNESCO ($ 5,000.00), etc.
    Funding, with M.V. Dimic, for the publication of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, "Aid to Scholarly Journals," 1992-95 ($ 12,400.00/year); 1996-99 ($11,400.00/year).
    Group Research Grant, with M.V. Dimic, R. Dionne, L. Lequin, E. Padolsky, and J. Pivato, from the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State Canada, "Problems in/of Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing," 1990-92 ($ 88,000.00).
    Research Grant, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, "Readership Survey," 1989 ($ 1,000.00).
    Funding for the publication of Literatures of Lesser Diffusion/Les Littératures de moindre diffusion Special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 16.3-4 (1989) from the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State Canada, 1989 ($ 7,500.00).
    Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta: 1988 ($ 12,000.00); 1989 ($ 12,000.00).
    The University of Alberta Hungarian Studies Scholarship, 1986 ($ 500.00).
    The University of Alberta Henry Kreisel Scholarship in Canadian Literature, 1985 ($ 500.00).
    Funding for the research and writing of "The History of the Edmonton Hungarian Cultural Society 1946-1986" from the Edmonton Hungarian Cultural Society, 1985-87 ($ 2,000.00).
    Funding for the research of "A History of German-Canadian Literature" from the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State Canada, 1983-84 ($ 9,500.00).
    The University of Western Ontario Dean's Honours List, 1979.
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP in PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
    ACCUTE: Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
    CCLA: Canadian Comparative Literature Association (life member)
    IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
    ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association (life member)
    MLA: Modern Language Association of America
PUBLICATIONS

Interests in research include cultural, literary, and critical theory, Comparative Literature and/as Culture and Media Studies (theory and application), the sociology of cultural participation and production, film and literature, scholarly editing and new media, scholarship in the humanities and new technology, modern and contemporary European (Western and Central European) and North American literatures, diaspora and ethnic cultures and literatures, translation studies, pedagogy, and history.

BOOKS

    1998. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Preface by F. Elizabeth Dahab. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 18. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3. 299 pages, bibliography, and index. The focus of the work is on operational and functional aspects of methodology and application for the study of literature and culture, based on a systemic and empirical approach to literature and culture. A theoretical chapter on approaches in German, Israeli, and French scholarship is followed by applications to aspects of cultural participation (readership and other media participation incl. film and literature), literature and science, women's literature, translation theory, the impact of electronic media on scholarship, etc., and analyses of European (English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian) and English-Canadian modern and contemporary literature.

    1997. Wen hsüe yen chiu ti ho fa hua -- Chen t'i hua ho ching yen chu i wen hsüe yü wen hua yen chiu fang fa (Legitimizing the Study of Literature. A New Pragmatism: The Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture.) Preface by Yue Daiyun. Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i. Peking University Academic Lectures Series, Vol. 7. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1997. ISBN 7-301-03482-2. 217 pages. The book contains the texts of public lectures on radical constructivism, literary theory and methodology, women's writing, and Canadian and Hungarian modern and contemporary prose presented at Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1995 and 1996.

    1993. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Preface by Clément Moisan. Siegen University NIKOL series vol. 15. Braunschweig-Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7. 188 pages, index, and bibliography. Book reviews by Manuel Ribeiro in Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (U of Lisbon) 3-4 (1993-94): 298-300; Robin Howells in British Journal of Canadian Studies (U of Edinburgh) 9.2 (1994): 437-38; Vivienne J. Rundle in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (U of Calgary) 26.3 (1995): 167-73; Mary Lu MacDonald in Canadian Literature (U of British Columbia) 148 (1996): 164-65; James Steele in ESC: English Studies in Canada (Carleton U) 22.1 (1996): 117-19; and Carolyn Perkes in CRCL/RCLC: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (U of Alberta) 23.2 (1996): 613-20.

BOOKS EDITED  (also Learned Journals, special Journal issues, thematic clusters,
    and Newsletters)

   1999. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimic, with Irene Sywenky, eds., Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Bibliothèque de Littérature Comparée 23. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. 930 pages, bibliography. ISBN 2-85203-605-3 / ISSN 1262-2850.
    1998-. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (University of Alberta at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/). ISSN 1481-4374.
    1998. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung, eds., Canadian Culture and Literatures. And a Taiwan Perspective. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. 320 pages, bibliography. ISBN 0-921490-10-0.
    1989-97. Assistant Editor (1989-94) and Associate Editor (1994-97) and desk-top publisher of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta). ISSN 0319-051X.
    1997. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky, eds., The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997 and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-08-9. 605 pages, bibliography, and index.
    1997. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay, eds., East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-09-7. 383 pages, bibliography.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., International Perspectives on Reading Special issue Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological U) 35-36 (1996): 1-120. ISSN 0742-9681.
    1996. Milan V. Dimic and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, eds., Comparative Literature: History and Contemporaneity / Littérature Comparée: histoire et contemporanéité Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 23.1 (1996): 1-268. ISSN 0319-051X.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., History of the Book and the Study of Literature Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée(University of Alberta) 23.1 (1996): 207-58. ISSN 0319-051X.
    1996. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed., The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature: Theory and Application IN: Margarida L. Losa, Isménia de Sousa, Gonçalo Vilas-Boas, eds. Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada / Afrontamento, 1996. ISBN 972-36-0420-5. Pages 273-375.
    1995. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew, eds., Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations Special issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 22.3-4 (1995): 399-932, bibliography, and index. ISSN 0319-051X.
    1994-97. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, ed. and comp., IGELnews: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta) 2 (1994): 1-55; 3 (1995): 1-27; 4 (1996): 1-14; 5 (1997): 1-14. ISSN 1203-2220.
    1993. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimic, eds., (Re)Vision(s) of Canadian Literature(s) / (Ré)vision(s) de(s)[la] littérature(s) canadienne(s) Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (U of Alberta) 20.3-4 (1993): 435-89. ISSN 0319-051X.
    1992. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Art Graesser, eds. and comps., IGEL Newsletter: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta) 1 (1992):
1-24.
    1992. Claudine Potvin, Janice Williamson, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, eds., Women's Writing and the Literary Institution / L'Écriture au féminin et l'institution littéraire. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Vol. 6, 1992. ISBN 0-921490-07-0. 236 pages.
    1990. E.D. Blodgett, A.G. Purdy, and S. Tötösy de Zepetnek, eds., Prefaces and Manifestoes / Préfaces et manifestes littéraires. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Vol. 3, 1990. ISBN 0-921490-03-8. 208 pages.
    1989. Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimic, eds., Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les Littératures de moindre diffusion.  Special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 16.3-4 (1989): 555-884. Rpt. Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les Littératures de moindre diffusion. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Vol. 4, 1990. ISBN 0921490-05-4. 320 pages.


SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

    1999. "Central European Cultural Identity, Diasporas, and Jewish-Hungarian Women's Writing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (University of Alberta) 1.4 (1999): Forthcoming.
    1999. "Verso una storia degli approcci sistemici ed empirici nello studio della letteratura e della cultura."  L'esperienza del testo. Ed. Aldo Nemesio. Trans. Sonia Di Loreto. Roma: Meltemi, 1999. 21-40.
    1999. "Configurations of Postcoloniality and National Identity: Inbetween Peripherality and Narratives of Change." The Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association (Virginia Commonwealth University) 23 (1999): 89-110.
    1999. "An Introduction to Comparative Literature Now, à l'heure actuelle." Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Milan V. Dimic, and Irene Sywenky. Bibliothèque de Littérature Comparée 23. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. 13-18.
    1998. "Social Discourse and the Problematics of Theory, Culture, Media, and Audience." Language and Beyond: Actuality and Virtuality in the Relations between Word, Image and Sound. Ed. Paul Joret and Aline Remael. Amsterdam-Atlanta,GA: Rodopi, 1998. 231-40.
    1998. "La literatura comparada y la aproximación sistémica a la literatura y la cultura." Literatura Comparada. Principios y métodos. Ed. María José Vega and Neus Carbonell. Madrid: Gredos, 1998. 215-29.
    1998. "Ethnizität und Zentrum/Peripherie. Kulturelle Identität in Deutschland und östliches Mitteleuropa und das kanadische Modell." Kultur -- Identität -- Europa.  Ed. Reinhold Viehoff and Rien T. Segers. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1998. 235-45.
    1998. "Social Discourse and Cultural Participation in a Multicultural Society."  Canadian Culture and Literatures. And a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, 1998. 57-69.
    1998. "John Adam Rittinger." Dictionary of Canadian Biography 1911-1920 (Toronto: U of Toronto P) XIV (1998): 875-76.
    1998. "Estudios postcoloniales: el `Otro', el sistema, y una perspectiva personal, o esto (también) es literatura comparada." Orientaciones em literatura comparada. Trans. and Ed. Dolores Romero López. Madrid: Arco, 1998. 199-204.
    1998. "Fan Yi Yan Jiu he zheng Ti Hua Fang Fa de Li Lun Yu Shi Jian" ("Translation Studies and the Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture").  Trans. Geng Liqin. Waiyu Yu Fanyi (Foreign Languages and Translation) (Changsha Railway University) 1 (1998): 15-19.
    1997. "Mi opinión acerca del estado actual de la literatura comparada." Literaturas comparadas. Volumen a cargo de Daniel Link. Ed. María Iribarren. Special issue Filología (Universidad de Buenos Aires) 30.1-2 (1997): 59-61.
    1997. "Bi Chiao wen Hsue Hsian Chuang Chi Wo Chian (Bi Jiao Wen Xue Xian Zhuang Zhi Wo Jian)" ("My Opinion on the Current Situation of Comparative Literature"). Chong Wai Wen Hua Yu Wen Lun (Chinese-Foreign Cultures & Literary Theories) (Sechuan University Press) 3 (1997): 23-26.
    1997. "Mimetics and Narration in Berlin Alexanderplatz (Döblin and Faßbinder)." Parodia, pastiche, mimetismo. Ed. Paola Mildonian. Roma: Bulzoni, 1997. 317-29.
    1997. "The Importance of Cultural Dialogue: A Case Study of Ethnic Minority Writing and Cultural Participation in Canada." Cultural Dialogue and Misreading. Ed. Mabel Lee and Meng Hua. University of Sidney World Literature Series Vol. 1. Sydney: Wild Peony, 1997. 367-76.
    1997. "Reading Pornographic Literature: The Author and Gender Appropriation." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. 515-25.
    1997. "New Developments in Neuroscience and Brain Research with Reference to Language Acquisition and the Teaching of Foreign Languages."  Selected Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on English Teaching. Ed. Johanna Katchen and Yiu-nam Leung. Taipei: Crane, 1997. 283-89.
    1997. "Comparative Literature in 1997: Principles and Obstacles." Neohelicon: Acta comparationis litterarum universarum (John Benjamins) 24.2 (1997): 79-83.
    1997. "Sexuality and Eroticism in Musil's Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika." Colloquia Germanica: Internationale Zeitschrift für Germanistik (University of Kentucky) 30.2 (1997): 131-47.
    1997. "Introduction: Text in Context alias The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. 1-5.
    1997. "The Study of Literature in China and Taiwan Today: Impressions of a Visitor." East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures.  Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. 341-50.
    1996. "Literary Theory, Ethnic Minority Writing, and the Systemic Approach." Ethnic Minority Writing and Literary Theory. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Special issue Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada (University of Calgary) 28.3 (1996): 100-06.
    1996. "Introduction: Reading and Readership from an International Perspective." International Perspectives on Reading. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Special issue Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological University) 35-36 (1996): 9-11.
    1996. "Readership Research, Cultural Studies, and Canadian Scholarship." International Perspectives on Reading. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Special issue Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological University) 35-36 (1996): 108-20.
    1996. "The Institution of English: System, Cultural Diversity, and Pedagogy in Canada." Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on English Teaching. Ed. David Dai and Peng-hsiang Chen. Taipei: Crane, 1996. 511-24.
    1996. "The Impact of the Electronic Revolution on Literary Research: A Socio-Semiotic Point of View." Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (Universidad de Lisboa) 6 (1996): 199-205.
    1996. "Ethnicity and Centre/Periphery: Cultural Identity in Germany and East Central Europe." Culture, Identity, Europe. Ed. Rien T. Segers. Special issue SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft (Bern: Peter Lang) 14 (1996): 38-49.
    1996. "The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Interdisciplinarity: Some Pragmatic Aspects." Language and Literature Today (FILLM 1993). Ed. Neide de Faria. Brasília: Universidad de Brasília, 1996. Vol. 2, 873-79.
    1996. "Factors in a Theory of Cumulative Canon Formation: Contemporary Hungarian and English-Canadian Literature." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature: Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic section in  Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Ed. Margarida L. Losa, Isménia de Sousa, and Gonçalo Vilas-Boas. Porto: Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada / Afrontamento, 1996. 369-75. Rpt. in Tötösy and Sywenky 330-40.
    1996. "The Life Writing of the German-Canadian Pioneer Else Seel (1894-1974)." Melus: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (University of Massachusetts) 21.3 (1996): 25-34.
    1996. "Margit Kaffka and Dorothy Richardson: A Comparison." Hungarian Studies (Budapest) 11.1 (1996): 77-95.
    1996. "Some Examples of Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature: Systemic Considerations." The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary Studies in a Changing World. In Honor of Douwe Fokkema. Ed. Harald Hendrix, Joost Kloek, Sophie Levie, and Will van Peer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996. 250-55.
    1996. "Urbanity and Postmodern Sensuality: The `Post-Magyar' Endre Kukorelly." World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma) 70.2 (1996): 289-94.
    1996. "Concensus ex machina. Teoria dei sistemi e studio della letteratura." Trans. Isabella Cartasso. I Quaderni di Gaia: almanacco di letteratura comparata (Roma: Lithos) 7.10 (1996): 111-18.
    1996. "Wen Xue Ti Xi Hua Yan Jiu Fang Fa Jiang Jie: Wen Xue yu Wen Hua Yan Jiu de Yi Zhong Jian Gou Yu Fang Fa Lun" ("An Introduction to Systemic Approaches to Literature: Toward a Framework and Methodology for the Study of Literature and Culture"). Trans. Ma RuiQi. Guowai wenxüe (Foreign Literatures) (Peking University) 4 (1996): 3-9.
    1996. "Módszer és Komparatisztika. Avagy újabb fejlemények az irodalomelméletben" ("Methodology and Comparative Literature: Recent Developments in Literary Theory"). Alföld. Irodalmi, mvészeti és kritikai folyóirat (Debrecen, Hungary) 47.7 (1996): 62-73.
    1996. "Perspectives of Comparative Literature Today." Comparative Literature: History and Contemporaneity / Littérature Comparée: histoire et contemporanéité. Ed. Milan V. Dimic and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 23.1 (1996): 6-14.
    1996. "Hogyan tanulmányozza a magyar tudósvilág az irodalmat? Egy külföldi benyomásai, (talán) kellemetlen bírálatokkal egybekötve" ("How Do Scholars Study Literature in Hungary? Impressions of a Foreigner with Critical Observations"). Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) (Budapest) 40.15 (April 12, 1996): 5. Rpt. in Új Toborzó: Az Edmontoni Magyar Kultúrkör Lapja 4 (1996): 10-11.
    1995. "The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature, the Polysystem Theory, and Translation Theory: The Importance of Methodology." Studies in the Humanities (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) 22.1-2 (1995): 12-20.
    1995. "Towards a Taxonomy for the Study of Translation." Meta: Journal des traducteurs / Translators' Journal (PU de Montréal) 40.3 (1995): 421-44.
    1995. "Systems Thinking in North American Literary Studies."  Empirical Approaches to Literature. Ed. Gebhard Rusch. Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1995. Vol. 6, 133-37.
    1995. "Early German-Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada (University of Calgary) 27.1 (1995): 99-122.
    1995. "Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing: A Case Study." Comparatistica: Annuario Italiano (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki) 7 (1995): 105-15.
    1995. "Die Literatur deutschsprachiger Kanadier. Liturgische Texte, Romane, Kurzgeschichten." Auf der Reservebank? Die Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Kanada. Ed. Hartmut Fröschle and Susanne Sporrer. Special issue ZfK: Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch (Stuttgart) 45.2 (1995): 295-98.
    1995. "Consensus ex machina: Théorie des systèmes et étude de la littérature." Littérature et informatique. La littérature générée par ordinateur. Ed. Alain Vuillemin and Michel Lenoble. Arras: Artois PU, 1995. 77-86.
    1995. "Post-Colonialities: The "Other," the System, and a Personal Perspective, or, This (Too) Is Comparative Literature." Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew, eds. Special issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 22.3-4 (1995): 399-407.
    1995. "A Report on Comparative Literature in Beijing, October 1995 / Rapport sur la littérature comparée à Beijing, Octobre 1995." Comparative Literature in Canada / Bulletin / La Littérature Comparée au Canada (Université de Montréal) 26.2 (1995): 10-16.
    1995. "President's Foreword: IGEL's Aims and Objectives for 1994-96." Empirical Approaches to Literature. Ed. Gebhard Rusch. Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1995. Vol. 6, 16-20.
    1994. "Comparative Literature and Systemic/Institutional Approaches to Literature: New Developments."Systems Research: The Official Journal of the International Federation for Systems Research (Technical University Delft) 11.2 (1994): 43-57.
    1994. "Toward a Theory of Cumulative Canon Formation: Readership in English Canada." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (University of Manitoba) 27.3 (1994): 107-19.
    1994. "Comparative Literature and Applied Cultural Studies, Or, a Report About the XIVth Triennial Congress of the ICLA/AILC (University of Alberta, August 1994)." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 21.3 (1994): 469-90.
    1994. "Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: `Truth is Stranger Than Fiction'." Michael Ondaatje Issue. Ed. Karen Smythe. Special issue ECW: Essays on Canadian Writing (Toronto: ECW Press) 53 (1994): 141-53.
    1993. "The Empirical Science of Literature / Constructivist Theory of Literature." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Ed. Irene R. Makaryk. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 36-39.
    1993. "Selected Aspects of Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian and French-Canadian Novel Prefaces." Reading and Writing Literary Histories. Ed. W.F. Garrett-Petts and Henry Hubert. Special issue Textual Studies in Canada / Études Textuelles au Canada (University College of the Cariboo) 3 (1993): 111-37.
    1993. "Hesse's `Das erste Abenteuer': A Socio-literary Analysis." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (University of Victoria) 29.3 (1993): 253-60.
    1993. "Kaffka Margit prózája. Az irodalmi feminizmus kezdete Magyarországon" ("The Prose of Margit Kaffka: The Dawn of Feminism in Hungarian Literature"). Régi és új peregrináció: magyarok külföldön, külföldiek Magyarországon (Pregrinations Old and New: Hungarians Abroad and Foreigners in Hungary). Ed. Imre Békési, József Jankovics, László Kósa,  and Judit Nyerges. Budapest-Vienna: International Association for Hungarian Studies, 1993. Vol. 2, 1185-94.
    1993. and Milan V. Dimic, "(Re)Vision(s) of Canadian Literature(s)." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 20.3-4 (1993): 485-87.
    1993. and Milan V. Dimic, "Brief Report on the Status of the Organization of the XIVth Triannual Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (University of Alberta, Edmonton, August 15-20, 1994)." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 20.3-4 (1993): 648.
    1992. and Philip Kreisel, "Urban English-Speaking Canadian Literary Readership: the Results of a Pilot Study." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media and the Arts (Elsevier Science Publishers) 21.3 (1992): 211-38.
    1992. "Systemic Approaches to Literature -- An Introduction with Selected Bibliographies." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 19.1-2 (1992): 21-93.
    1992. "Kosztolányi's Édes Anna: A Socio-Literary Analysis with Medical Evidence." Neohelicon: Acta comparationis litterarum universarum (John Benjamins) 19.2 (1992): 69-85.
    1991. "Das Bild der Gesellschaft bei Theodor Fontane und Lajos Tolnai. Einige literatursoziologische Bemerkungen." Die ungarische Sprache und Kultur im Donauraum. Ed. Moritz Csáky, Horst Haselsteiner, Tibor Klaniczay, and Károly Rédei. Budapest: International Association for Hungarian Studies, 1991. Vol. 2, 825-33.
    1991. "In 1991: A Manifesto of Gender Responsibility." Men's Studies Review: A Quarterly Publication of the Men's Studies Association (Harriman, TN) 8.3 (1991): 16-18.
    1990. "The Empirical Science of Literature and the Preface in the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel: A Theoretical Framework Applied." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 17.1-2 (1990): 68-84.
    1990. "The Empirical Science of Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Preface: The Application of a Literary Theory." SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft (Bern: Peter Lang) 9.2 (1990): 343-60.
    1990. "Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novel Prefaces: Corpus and Literary System." Prefaces and Manifestoes / Préfaces et manifestes littéraires. Ed. E.D. Blodgett, A.G. Purdy, and S. Tötösy de Zepetnek. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1990. 43-55.
    1988. "Canonization and Translation in Canada: A Case Study." Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction: Traduction et Culture(s) (Concordia University) 1.1 (1988): 93-102.


BIBLIOGRAPHIES

    1999. "A Bibliography of the Theories, Methods, and Histories of Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Milan V. Dimic, and Irene Sywenky. Bibliothèque de Littérature Comparée. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. 863-921.
    1998. "Selected Bibliography of Studies about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." Canadian Culture and Literatures. And a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, 1998. 289-304.
    1997. "A Selected Bibliography of Works in the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Vol. 7, 1997 and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, Vol. 8, 1997. 575-90.
    1996. "A Selected Bibliography of Theoretical and Critical Texts about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." Literary Theory and Ethnic Minority Writing. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Special issue Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada (University of Calgary) 28.3 (1996): 210-23.
    1995. "Toward a Working and Cumulative Bibliography of Studies in the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature -- No. 2." IGELnews 3 (1995): 10-26.
    1995. and Sneja Gunew, "Postcolonial Literatures: A Selected Bibliography of Theory and Criticism." Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew. Special issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 22.3-4 (1995): 893-915.
    1994. "Toward a Working and Cumulative Bibliography of Studies in the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature" IGEL Newsletter 2 (1994): 10-55.
    1993. and Yan Qigang, comps., "Cumulative Index: 1.1 (Winter 1974) to 20.3-4 (1993) Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 20.3-4 (1993): 583-646.
    1992. "Systemic Approaches to Literature -- An Introduction with Selected Bibliographies." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 19.1-2 (1992): 21-93.
    1990. "Literary Works by German-Speaking Canadians and Their Critical Appraisal: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography with an Introduction." Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les littératures de moindre. Ed. Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimic. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Vol. 4, 1990. 115-32.
    1989. "Literary Works by German-Speaking Canadians and Their Critical Appraisal: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography with an Introduction." Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les littératures de moindre diffusion. Ed.  Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimic. Special issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (University of Alberta) 16.3-4 (1989): 669-86.


PUBLICATIONS on the WORLD WIDE WEB (a selection)

    1998-. Papers on the application of systems theory for the study of literature as methodology (introductions and articles). World Wide Web: http://www.isss.org/primer/4domains.htm
    1998- (1995-).  A Bibliography of Theories, Methods, and Histories of Comparative Literature; A Selected Bibliography of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, A Selected Bibliography of Theoretical Works about Postcolonial Literature; A Selected Bibliography of Works about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing; A Selected Bibliography of Systemic, Empirical, and Institutional Approaches to Literature and Culture,  A Selected Bibliography of Studies in the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture; International Directory of Comparatists
    1996. "Consensus ex machina: théorie des systèmes et étude de la littérature," World Wide Web: http://www.refer.fr/multi_ct/littinfo/1_totosy.htm
    1996. "Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: `Truth is Stranger Than Fiction'," World Wide Web: http://binoche.com/Movies/Patient/Comments/TruthFiction/index.html
    1995-98. Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Site for Research and Information at http://www.ualberta.ca/ARTS/ricl.html (dormant)
    1995-98 and 1998-. Design, creation, and maintenance of WWWeb sites http://www.ualberta.ca/ARTS/ricl.html
(1995-., dormant) and  http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/ (1998-.)
    1995. "President's Foreword: IGEL's Aims and Objectives for 1994-96," World Wide Web:
http://avmz.uni-siegen.de/ugh-si/d/cntr/lumis/igel/aims.htm


BOOK REVIEWS

    1998. "Susan Rubin Suleiman. Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997. 232 pp. and Richard Teleky. Hungarian Rhapsodies: Essays on Ethnicity, Identity and Culture. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1997. 217 pp." IN: MfS: Modern fiction Studies 44.2 (1998): 455-59. New version in Book Reviews, 1.1 (1999), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal
    1988. "Wolf Schmid (Ed.). Mythos in der slawischen Moderne. (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 20.) Wien: Gesellschaft zur Förderung slawistischer Studien, 1987. 421 pp." IN: Canadian Slavonic Papers 30.3 (1988): 379-80.

PUBLICATIONS in HISTORY

BOOK
    1993. A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára / Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Preface by Ferenc Makk. A compilation of Latin, Hungarian, and German archival and other documents 1587 to present, with selected English translations; including genealogies and secondary literature sources of German, Hungarian, Scottish-Canadian, and English-Canadian families. Szeged: József Attila University, 1993. ISBN 963-481-914-1. Reviewed by Szabolcs Vajay in Turul: A Magyar Történelmi Társulat, a Magyar Országos Levéltár és a Magyar Heraldikai és Geneológiai Társaság Közlönye (Hungarian National Archives) 67.1-2 (1994): 56-57.

SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES
    1998. "Pál Oszkár Esterházy." Dictionary of Canadian Biography 1911-1920 (Toronto: U of Toronto P) XIV (1998): 344-46.
    1993. "A History of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Edmonton, 1946-1986." Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada 25.2 (1993): 100-17. Rpt. in the Home Page of the Edmonton Hungarian Cultural Society, at Our History: "A History of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Edmonton, 1946-1986" (1999).
    1992. "Alberta-i magyarság" ("Hungarian Albertans") pp. 35-36; "Edmonton-i magyar egyesületek és egyházak" ("Hungarian Organizations and Churches in Edmonton") (16 entries) pp. 448-49; "Edmonton-i magyarok" ("Hungarians in Edmonton") p. 450. Encyclopaedia Hungarica. László Bagossy, ed. (Altona: D.W. Friesen, 1992-1996). Volume 1, A-H.


CONFERENCE PAPERS, PUBLIC LECTURES, and INVITED GUEST LECTURES

    1999. "Toward a Comparative Cultural Studies" and "LiteraturEN in Kanada. Ein Überblick,"  invited lecture tour, universities of Innsbruck, Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt, and Department of Social Sciences (III/A/3), Ministry for Science and Transportation (Vienna), Austria, June 1999.
    1999. "Central European Cultural Identity, Diasporas, and Jewish-Hungarian Women's Writing," Panel Comparative Culture and Hungarian Studies (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Chair), 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educator's Association, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA, April 1999.
    1998. "Literary and Filmic Representations of the Titanic Disaster," Poseidon and the Muses: Arts, Literature, and the Ocean: An International Conference, College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung and "The Discipline of Comparative Literature: Toward and Intellectual and Institutional History," invited lectures, Department of English, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 1998.
    1998. "The Discipline of Comparative Literature: Toward an Intellectual and Institutional History" and "Comparative Literature in Canada: Toward an Intellectual and Institutional History," invited guest lectures, Department of English and Institute for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, December 1998.
    1998. "Die ungarische Revolution in 1956 und ihre Spiegelung in Exilliteratur," invited guest lecture, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig, Germany, June 1998.
    1998. "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Literature: Aspects of Exile, Memory, and Shifting Perspectives," Panel War and Memory: Historical Transmission and Cultural Representation (Susan Rubin Suleiman and Marianne Hirsch, Chair), Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, March 1998.
    1998. "The Necessity of Method in the Study and Teaching of Literature," Symposium Method and the the Study and Teaching of Literature (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Aldo Nemesio, Chair), XVth Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, September 1998.
    1997. "How is Comparative Literature?" invited guest lecture, Departments of Modern Languages and English, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, December 1997.
    1997. "A Theory of Inbetween Peripherality and Its Application to Diasporic Literatures," Workshop Post- Modernities and Ethnic Minority Writing: Theory and Application / Post-modernités et la littérature minoritaire ethnique. Théories et réalisations (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Chair), XVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, August 1997.
    1997. "The English Patient Reconsidered: Aspects of Media and Public Discourse," Workshop Theoretical and Methodological Innovation in the Study of Literature: The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Chair), XVth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, August 1997.
    1997. "Toward a History of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 1974-96" Panel Empirical Research on Literature (Aldo Nemesio, Chair), Second Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, September 1997.
    1997. "Social Discourse and Cultural Participation in a Multicultural Society," Panel at the 1997 International Conference on Canadian Studies (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Chair), National Tsing Hua University at Taipei and Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 1997.
    1996. "New Developments in Neuroscience and Brain Research with Reference to Language Acquisition and the Teaching of Foreign Languages," invited lecture at the 5th International Conference of the English Teachers' Association of the Republic of China, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1996.
    1996. "The Translation of Literature: Theory and Application" and Workshop on Translation Theory, Graduate School for Translation and Interpreting, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1996.
    1996. "Reader-Response to Authorial Gender Specificity in the Narrative of Pornographic Literature," at the Vth Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, University of Alberta at the Nakoda Lodge Centre for Conferences, Alberta, Canada, August 1996.
    1996. "Recent Impressions of the Intellectual and Institutional Situation of the Study of Literature and Literary Theory in China and Taiwan," Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, June 1996.
    1996. "Philosophy and Literature: The Former East Germany and Hungary Today," Panel Agonistic Imagination: Literature and Philosophy in the Postcommunist Restructuring of Eastern Europe (Christian Moraru, Chair), 20th Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA, May 1996.
    1996. "Legitimizing the Study of Literature" (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu), "Systemic Approaches to Literature and Culture" (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu), "Legitimizing the Study of Literature" (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu), "The Problematics of Cultural Identity and/in Literature" (Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuong), invited lecture tour, Taiwan, April 1996.
    1996. "Postcolonial Literature and Ethnic Minority Writing," "Comparative Literature: New Trends in Theory and Method," "Applications in a New Comparative Literature," and "A Description of Comparative Literature and the Study of Literature in Canada Today: Intellectual and Institutional Positions," invited public lectures, Department of English and Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, Beijing, China, April 1996.
    1996. "Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: A World View for the Study of Literature and Culture," invited guest lecture, Department of Chinese, Beijing Normal University, China, April 1996.
    1995. "The Narrative of Change in East Central Europe: A New Marginality?" Panel Postmodern Thought and Prepostmodern Cultures" (Marcel Cornis-Pope, Chair), Modern Language Association of America Convention, Chicago, USA, December 1995.
    1995. "The Institution of English: System, Cultural Diversity, and Pedagogy," at the Fourth International Symposium of the English Teachers' Association of the Republic of China, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung,  Taiwan, November 1995.
    1995. "Literature and Translation: The Importance of Methodology," invited public lecture, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chung Cheng University, Min-Hsiung, Taiwan, November 1995.
    1995. "Cultural Identity and Economic Performance in Central Europe: Austria and Hungary," Conference on European Cultural Identity, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, November 1995.
    1995. "The Importance of Cultural Dialogue: A Case Study of Ethnic Minority Writing and Cultural Participation in Canada," invited lecture, International Conference on Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Misreading, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 1995.
    1995. "Translation Theories Applied: The Nitra School, the Polysystem Theory, and the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature," invited guest lecture, Department of English, Peking University, Beijing, China, October 1995.
    1995. "The Lifewriting of the German-Canadian Pioneer Else Seel (1894-1974)," VIIth International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 1995.
    1995. "Factors in a Theory of Cumulative Canon Formation: Contemporary Hungarian and English-Canadian Literature," invited guest lecture, Simpósio da Associação Internacional para o Estudo Empírico da Literatura, Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, University of Porto, Portugal, May 1995.
    1995. "Multikulturalismus, ethnische Literaturen und kanadische Identität," invited guest lecture, Department of Media Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany March 1995.
    1995. "The Canadian Literatures" (Gáspár Károli University, Budapest), "Literary Theory and the Information Revolution" and "The Canadian Cultural Industry and Literary Reading" (József Attila University, Szeged), and "The Politics of Education and the Modern University" (Janus Pannonius University, Pécs), invited public lectures, Hungary,  March-April 1995.
    1994. "Extra Hungariam (non)est vita: Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature," Modern Language Association of America Convention, San Diego, USA, December 1994.
    1994. "Systems Thinking in North American Literary Studies," 4th Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, August 1994.
    1994. "Readership Research in Canada: Results and Problems," Round Table 3 (Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Chair), XIVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, August 1994.
    1994. "The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature, the Polysystem Theory, and Translation Theory: The Importance of Methodology," Canadian Association for Translation Studies / Association Canadienne de traductologie, Canadian Learned Societies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, June 1994.
    1994. "The Impact of the Electronic Revolution on Literary Research: A Socio-Semiotic Point of View," Canadian Semiotics Association / Association canadienne de sémiotique, Canadian Learned Societies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, June 1994.
    1994. "Radical Constructivism and the Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature," Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 1994.
    1994. "The Study of Literature, consensus ex machina, and Systems Theory" at the International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing & Association for Computing in the Humanities, Sorbonne, Paris, April 1994.
    1993. "German-Speaking Canadians and Acculturation," invited public lecture, Faculty of Arts, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada, December 1993.
    1993. "Perceptions of Realism in Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and Faßbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz,"   International Conference, Parodie, pastiche, mimétisme, Università degli studi di Venezia, Venice, Italy, October 1993.
    1993. "Ondaatje's The English Patient: Historicity and the Other," invited public lecture, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 1993.
    1993. "Erziehung, Erziehungswissenschaft und Multikulturalität in Kanada," invited public lecture, Pedagogische Hochschule der Erzdiözese Linz, Linz, Austria, October 1993.
    1993. "The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Interdisciplinarity: Theory and Application," XIXth Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Languages and Littératures Modernes (FILLM), University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, August 1993.
    1993. "Systemic Approaches to Literature and Comparative Literature: New Developments," International Society for the Systems Sciences - 3rd Canadian Conference, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada, June 1993.
    1993. "Comparative Literature and Its Present Situation," invited public lecture, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, May 1993.
    1993. "What Do We Read?: The `Canon' and English-Canadian Readership," 14th Annual Conference of Canadian Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 1993.
    1992. "English-Canadian Readers' Perception of `Truth' and `Fact' in Fiction: Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Examples," 3rd Biannual Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Memphis State University and Rhodes College, Memphis, USA, May 1992.
    1991. "Urban English-Canadian Readership: Selected Results of a Pilot Project," invited public lecture, Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, Siegen, Germany, August 1991.
    1991. "A feminizmus kezdete a modern magyar irodalomban: Kaffka Margit prózája" ("The Origin of Feminist Writing in Modern Hungarian Literature: The Prose of Margit Kaffka"),  IIIrd World Congress of Hungarian Studies, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, August 1991.
    1991. "Aspects of Literature Drawn from a Readership Survey Conducted in an Urban Environment," Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Canadian Learned Societies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, May 1991.
    1991. "Selected Prose by Margit Kaffka and Dorothy Richardson: An Analysis from a Feminist Point of View," Hungarian Studies Association, Canadian Learned Societies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, May 1991.
    1987. "Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prefaces: A Comparative Approach," 3rd conference for "The History of the Literary Institution in Canada, University of Alberta, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, Edmonton, Canada, November 1987.
    1987. "Canonization and Translation in Canada: A Case Study" for German-Canadian Studies, Canadian Learned Societies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, May 1987.
    1987. "Towards a History of German-Canadian Literature," Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, March 1987.
    1986. "Das Bild der Gesellschaft bei Theodor Fontane und Lajos Tolnai," IInd World Congress of Hungarian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, September 1986.
    1986. "History as Allusion: Eötvös' Magyarország 1514-ben," Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators' Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 1986.
    1986. "The Polysystem Theory of Literature and the Translation of German-Canadian Ethnic Literature," Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Canadian Learned Societies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, May 1986.
    1986. "Edmonton's Hungarian Community," Hungarian Studies Association, Canadian Learned Societies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, May 1986.
    1986. "The Polysystem Theory of Literature and the Question of German-Canadian `Ethnic' Literature," Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, January 1986.
    1985. "An Introduction to Modern Hungarian Literature," Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 1985.
    1985. "Fiction and Society in the Novels of Lajos Tolnai," Hungarian Studies Association, Canadian Learned Societies, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, June 1985.

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