Curriculum Vitae and Long List of Publications of Steven Totosy de Zepetnek Prof.Dr., Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, D-06110 Halle, Germany. <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> 49-345-55-23632, Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture and Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press, 1207 SCCE-E, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA. <clcweb@purdue.edu>, home address 8 Sunset Road, Winchester, Massachusetts 01890 USA. <steven.totosy@attbi.com> 1-781-729-1680

Biographical abstract: Steven Totosy works in the humanities and social sciences in comparative culture and media studies, communication studies, diaspora, exile, postcolonial, and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, English, French, German, Central European, US, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media scholarship and knowledge management, and editing. At the University of Alberta 1984-2000, since 2000 he resides in Boston where he lectured in communication and media studies at Northeastern University, and at present he is professor of media and communication studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He is author, editor, or co-editor of some twenty books and author of over 150 articles, book chapters, bibliographies, and encyclopedia entries. Works also published in French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Polish, and Spanish translation. Recent books include Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (Rodopi, 1998), edited volumes include Comparative Central European Culture (Purdue UP, 2002) and Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies (Purdue UP, 2002). Founding editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (1999-) <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> and series editor of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies (2001-) <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>, both with Purdue UP. His book Comparative Culture and Media Studies is forthcoming in 2004 with Purdue UP.

Functions and degrees: Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 2002-, lecturer, associate director, and professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta 1984-2000, associate editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (1989-1997), editor of monograph series, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purde.edu/library/books.html> (1989-1997), editor (founding) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/> (1999-) Purdue UP and editor of monograph series, Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> (2001-), visiting and guest professorships and lectures at universities in Europe, North America, and Asia, advisory board member of scholarly journals, president, vice-president, board member, and executive committee member of national and international scholarly associations, team and individual research grants and awards, organization of national and international conferences. Ph.D. in comparative literature (University of Alberta 1989, dissertation Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System), B.Ed. in history and English (University of Ottawa 1984), M.A. in comparative literature (Carleton University 1983), B.A. in history and German (University of Western Ontario 1980). Secondary school education in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Fluent written and oral English, German, French, and Hungarian, reading knowledge of Latin, limited Spanish, and Russian.

Personal data: Born 22 November 1950 Budapest, Hungary. Citizenship: Canadian. Married to Joanne E. Totosy de Zepetnek née Toms (Ph.D. pharmacology & neuroscience, University of Alberta), associate director of project management, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002-), Children: Chantal Patricia born in Ottawa 1982 and Julia Olga born in Ottawa 1984.

Fields of research: Interests and expertise in research include (comparative) culture, literature, and media studies (theories and application), (comparative) communication studies, audience studies and the sociology of cultural participation and production, film and literature, scholarly editing incl. new media, new technology, media and scholarship in the humanities, modern and contemporary US and Canadian (incl. Québécois- and Ethnic-Canadian) and European (Austrian, German, French, English, and Central European) cultures and literatures, feminist theory and criticism, diaspora and ethnic cultures and literatures, translation studies, pedagogy, and history.

• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: seminars and lectures in Comparative Media and Culture Studies / Vergleichende Medienwissenschaft, 2002-. see at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/research&coursematerial1.html>
• Northeastern University: courses in communication and media studies, 2000-01. see at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/research&coursematerial1.html>
• University of Alberta: courses and seminars in literary and critical theory, cultural studies, comparative literature, English- and German-language literatures, language courses of German (incl. translation), English, American, and Canadian literatures (modern and contemporary incl. Québécois- and Ethnic-Canadian and American ethnic and minority literatures and cultures), editing and desk-top publishing, the modern novel, themes and motifs in world literature, the system of literature and culture, the sociology of cultural participation and audience studies, the history of the book and media, supervision of graduate students in editing and publishing, 1984-2000.
• Peking University: lectures in cultural studies and comparative literature, 1995, 1996.
• József Attila University: seminars in comparative literature and literary theory, 1995.

LIST of PUBLICATIONS

Books (single authored)

    1998. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Preface by F. Elizabeth Dahab. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 18. Amsterdam: Rodopi <http://www.rodopi.nl>, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 (pbk), 299 pages, bibliography, and index. Abstract, Preface, Chapter One, and Works Cited is available online at <http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/books/totosy98/>. Presentation of a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of culture and literature with examples of the application of the framework in audience studies, film and literature, literature and science, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities, and analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, English-Canadian, and Canadian ethnic minority modern and contemporary texts. Book reviews: Dick Schram (Vrije U and Utrecht U) in Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap (Utrecht U) 15.1 (2001): 77-80; Frans-Willem Korsten (Leiden U) in Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap (Utrecht U) 14.2-3 (2000): 28-42; Nicolae Harsanyi (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical scholarship (U of Nebraska P) 7.1-2 (2000): 215; F. Elizabeth Dahab (California State U Long Beach) in Journal of Caribbean Studies (Association of Caribbean Studies) 15.1-2 (2000): 299-302; Dolores Romero López (ISLTYNT, Madrid and U of Nottingham) in Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española Semiótica (National U of Distance Education, Madrid) 9 (2000): 659-63; Jean-Marc Moura (U Charles de Gaulle Lille 3) in Revue de Littérature Comparée (U de Paris Sorbonne) 1 (2002): 97-98; Richard Cavell (U of British Columbia) in University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of Humanities 70.1 (2000-01): 313; Priscilla Archibald (Northwestern U) in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association) 27.1-2 (2000): 311-13; Camilla Miglio (U of Pisa) in Observatorio critico della germanistica 3.7 (2000): 18; Theodore Ziolkowski (Yale U) in World Literature Today (U of Oklahoma) 73.3 (1999): 606; Estelle Dansereau (U of Calgary) in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (U of Calgary) 30.4 (1999): 168-71; Thomas Wägenbaur (U of Tübingen) in arcadia: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (U of Tübingen) 37.2 (1999): 98-105; Joseph Pivato (Athabasca U) in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Purdue UP) 1.4 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-4/books99-4.html>; Franca Sinopoli (U of Rome) in Introduzione alla letteratura comparata (Ed. Armando Gnisci. Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 1999) 341-48; Ernst Grabovszki (U of Vienna) in Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Heidelberg: Synchron) (1999-2000): 168-73; Ernst Grabovszki (U of Vienna) in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Purdue UP) 1.3 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-3/books99-3.html>; Ernst Grabovszki (U of Vienna) in Wiener Zeitung (Vienna, Austria) (30-31 July 1999): 8, 13.

    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 (pbk), 217 pages. Texts of public lectures on radical constructivism, culture and literary theory and methodology, women's writing, film and literature, and Canadian and Hungarian modern and contemporary prose delivered at Peking University, Beijing, China, 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: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 (hard cover), 188 pages, index, and bibliography. Data and analyses of nineteenth-century English- and French-Canadian prefaces to novels with theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of rhetoric, the sociology of literature, audience research, and genre studies. Book reviews: James Steele in (Carleton U) ESC: English Studies in Canada (Carleton U) 22.1 (1996): 117-19; Mary Lu MacDonald (Halifax) in Canadian Literature (U of British Columbia) 148 (1996): 164-65; Carolyn Perkes (U de Québec à Montréal) in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association) 23.2 (1996): 613-20; Vivienne J. Rundle (U of Calgary) in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (U of Calgary) 26.3 (1995): 167-73; Robin Howells (Birckbeck College) in British Journal of Canadian Studies (U of Edinburgh) 9.2 (1994): 437-38; Manuel Ribeiro (Catholic U of Leuven) in Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (U of Lisbon) 3-4 (1993-94): 298-300.

    1993. A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára / Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Preface by Ferenc Makk. Compilation of Latin, Hungarian, and German archival, previously published, and family documents (with selected English translations) and genealogies 1587 to present on/of German, Austrian, Hungarian, Scottish-Canadian, English-Canadian, and American families and collateral families. Szeged: Attila József University, 1993. ISBN 963-481-914-1 (pbk), 280 pages, 91 illustrations, bibliography, index. Book review by Szabolcs de 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. 2000-. Updated online version Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family / A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára at <http://www.totosy.com>.

    1989. Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System. Ph.D. Dissertation. Edmonton: University of Alberta, 1989. ISBN 0-315-556-307. Dissertation Abstracts International 1990 May v50.11, p3596A-3597A). Data and analysis of nineteenth-century English- and French-Canadian prefaces to novels with theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of rhetoric, the sociology of literature, audience research, and genre studies.

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    2002. "Selected and Annotated Bibliography of German-Canadian Literature and Criticism." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/germancanadianliterature(bibliography).html>.
    2002. "Selected Bibliography for the Study of Central European Culture." Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002. 189-206. Online version at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeanculture(bibliography).html>.
    2001. with Steven Aoun and Wendy C. Nielsen, "Bibliography for Work in Comparative Cultural Studies (History, Theory, Method)." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2001-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/comparativeculturalstudies(biblio).html>.
    1999-. "A Selected Shortlist of Comparative Literature (Text)Books in English, French, and German (1965-1999)." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1999-. "Selected Bibliography of Studies on the Theories, Methods, and History of Comparative Literature." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1999. "A Selected Shortlist of Comparative Literature (Text)Books in English, French, and German (1965-1999)." Primerjalna knjizevnost (Comparative Literature) 22.2 (1999): 119-21.
    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 5. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. 863-921.
    1998. "Selected Bibliography of Theoretical and Critical Works about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    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, U of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua U, 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, U of Alberta, Vol. 7, 1997 and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen U, Vol. 8, 1997. 575-90.
    1997. "A Selected Bibliography of Work in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1997. "A Selected Bibliography of Works in the Systemic and Empirical, Instititution, and Field Approaches to Literature and Culture (to 1997)." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture:A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1996. "A Selected Bibliography of Work in Systemic and Empirical Approaches to Literature, 1970-1995." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    1996. "Selected Bibliography of Works about Postcolonial Writing (to 1995)." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (1998-): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html>.
    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 of Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études ethniques au Canada 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: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature 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 of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 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: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature2 (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 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 Comparée19.1-2 (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 diffusion. Ed. Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimic. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, U 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. Thematic Issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 16.3-4 (1989): 669-86.

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    2002-03. History of the Newspaper(University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002-03): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/newspaperhistory03.html>.
    2002-03. Media Studies in the U.S.A, the U.K., Australia, and Canada,CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002-03): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/cultureandmedia03.html>.
    2002-03. Publishing and New Media Publishing (University of Halle-Wittenberg),CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002-03): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/publishingandnewmedia03.html>.
    2002-03. History of the Book, Publishing, and Reading (University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002-03): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/historyofbookandpublishing03.html>.
    2002-03. Communication and Conflict Management (University of Halle-Wittenberg),CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002-03): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/conflictmanagement03.html>.
    2002. Mass Communikation und Media Politics in the USA and Canada (University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/mediapolitics02.html>.
    2002. Mass Communication and Ethnic Minorities in the USA and Canada (University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/ethnicityinmedia02.html>.
    2002. Mass Media, Gender, and the World Wide Web (University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002):<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/genderinmedia02.html>.
    2002. Audience Studies (University of Halle-Wittenberg), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2002): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/audiencestudies02.html>.
    2000-01. "The Study of Literature and Culture Online: Theory and Application" (Athabasca University), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/culturestudyonline.html>.
    2000-01. Mass Communication and Audience (Northeastern University), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2000-01): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/communication&audience.html>.
    2000-01. Communication and New Media (Northeastern University), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2000-01): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/communication&newmedia.html>
    2000-01. Introduction to Mass Communication (Northeastern University), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2000-01): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/masscommunication.html>.
    2000-01. Communication and Gender (Northeastern University), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Library) (2000-01): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/communication&gender.html>.

    1999. "Memories of Hungary: A Review Article of New Books by Suleiman and Teleky." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 1.1 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-1/books99-1.html>.
    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." MfS: Modern Fiction Studies 44.2 (1998): 455-59.
    1988. "Wolf Schmid (Ed.). Mythos in der slawischen Moderne. (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 20.) Wien: Gesellschaft zur Förderung slawistischer Studien, 1987. 421 pp." Canadian Slavonic Papers 30.3 (1988): 379-80.

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    2001-. Series Editor, Books inComparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>.
    1999-. Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (ISSN 1481-4374), 1999-2000: Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta at <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/>, 2000-: Purdue University Press <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/journals.htm> at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu>.
    1989-97. Associate editor (1994-97), Desktop Publisher (1989-97), Assistant Editor (1989-94), CRCL/RCLC: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (ISSN 0319-051X), Canadian Comparative Literature Association.
    1989-99. In-house editor and desktop publisher of the Publishing Program of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta. ISBN 0-921490- (see <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/books.html>).
    1981-82. Editorial assistant, Les Littératures de langues européennes au tournant du siècle: Lectures d'aujourd'hui (ISBN 0-7709-0107-7), School of Comparative Literature, Carleton University (Ottawa).

Selected publications about Steven Tötösy's work

    Dick Schram (Vrije and Utrecht Universities, Netherlands). "ESL ter discussie." Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 15.1 (2001): 77-80.
    Constantin Severin (University "Stefan Cel Mare," Romania). "Interview with Professor Steven Totosy de Zepetnek." Noul Continent 1.1-4 (2000): 101-06.
    Dolores Romero López (ISLTYNT, Madrid and University of Nottingham). "Aproximación al problema de la formación del canon en literatura comparada." Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española Semiótica 9 (2000): 567-79.
    Clemens Seyfried (College of Pedagogy, Linz, Austria). "Annäherungen an Kreativität. Kreativität im Schnittpunkt persönlicher Erfahrung und professioneller Arbeit." Pädaktuell. Fachzeitschrift der Pädagogischen Akademie der Diözese Linz 2 (2000): 11-12.
    Frans-Willem Korsten (Utrecht University, Netherlands). "SASOTRT(L)T: How the Empirical Study of Literature Started With the Wrong Name and How It Did Not Truly Substantiate What It Promised." Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 14.2-3 (2000): 28-42.
    "Tötösy István Ernö; Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven." A magyar emigráns irodalom lexikona (Encyclopedia of Hungarian Emigré Literature). Ed. Csaba Nagy. Budapest: Argumentum, 2000. 979-80.
    Montserrat Iglesias Santos (University of Carlos III de Madrid, Spain). "Introducción." Teoría de los polisistemas. Ed. Montserrat Iglesias Santos. Madrid: Arco, 1999. 9-20.
    Yiu-nam Leung (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), "An Interview with Professor Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek." Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of Comparative Studies between Chinese and Foreign Literatures 29.3 (1999): 139-52.
    Jola Skulj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), "Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWW Journal." Primerjalna knjizevnost 22.2 (1999): 103-07.
    Franca Sinopoli (University of Rome, Italy), "Gli strumenti do lavoro del comparatista." Introduzione alla letteratura comparata. Ed. Armando Gnisci. Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 1999. 341-48.
    Ernst Grabovszki (University of Vienna, Austria), "Ein Gespräch mit dem kanadischen Literaturwissenschaftler Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek: Geisteswissenschaft als Berufung." Wiener Zeitung (30-31 July 1999): 8, 13.

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Conference papers, public lectures, and invited guest lectures    

   2003. "Einführung in die Queer Theory," invited public lecture, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, January 2003.
   2002. "Imre Kertesz and the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature in the German and Hungarian Media." Invited research paper, 28th Annual Conference of the AHEA: American Hungarian Educators, Columbia University, New York, April 2002.
    2002. "Minor Cultures, National Culture, and the Administration of Culture," Workshop and Panel Interculturality, Multiculturality, and Comparative Cultural Studies (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair), international conference convened by the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies <http://www.inst.at>, Vienna, Austria, December 2002.
    2002. "A View at Media Consumption of University Students in the USA and Germany Today" and "Comparative Humanities in the Twenty-First Century and the Study of Literature and Culture," invited lectures, Department of General and Comparative Literary Theory, Ghent University, Belgium, November 200
    2002. and Reinhold Viehoff, Clemens Seyfried, and Konstanze Wunneburg. "A Comparative Analysis of Media Consumption and Cultural Participation in the US and Germany Today (work-in-progress)," Panel Comparative Cultural Studies (Steven Tötösy and Reinhold Viehoff, Organizers), 8th biannual conference of IGEL: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/>, Janus Pannonius University at Pécs, Hungary, August 2002.
    2002. "Buntes Kanada. Ethnisches Mosaik," invited lecture, German-Canadian Association Halle, June 2002.
    2002. "New Media Technology and the Humanities," invited public lecture, Department of Linguistics and Literature and Department of English, Florida Atlantic University, February 2002.
    2000. "Comparative Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture," Panel Comparative Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture, Hungarian Discussion Group (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair) <http://www.cultureonline.org/library/mla2000.html>, annual convention of the Modern Language Association of America, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
    2000. "Comparative Literature Today, Comparative Cultural Studies Tomorrow, and New Media Scholarship," invited public lecture, Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut, October 2000.
    2000. "New Media Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences," Comparative Cultural Studies: New Work in Psychology and Literature, New Media Scholarship, and the Appreciation of Art (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair) <http://www.cultureonline.org/library/iaea2000.html>, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., August 2000.
    2000. "Central European Life Writing in the United States and Canada," invited speaker at Forum and Workshop European Integration and the Changes in European Boundary Constructions: Collective Identities, Citizenship, and Europeanness in Western and Eastern Europe, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy, April 2000.
    2000. "New Media Scholarship and the Humanities," invited speaker at Linguaggi e siti: la storia on line <http://www.iue.it/LIB/SISSCO/attivita/cv-sem-apr-2000.html>, Department of History and Civilization, University of Firenze and European University Institute, Firenze, Italy, April 2000.
    1999. "A Taxonomy of Central European Culture," Central European Culture Today, Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta and Banff, Alberta, September 1999.
    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, Ministry for Science and Transportation, Wien, Austria, June 1999.
    1999. "Central European Cultural Identity, Diasporas, and Jewish-Hungarian Women's Writing," Comparative Culture and Hungarian Studies (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair), 24th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators' 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," War and Memory: Historical Transmission and Cultural Representation (Susan Rubin Suleiman and Marianne Hirsch, organizers), American Comparative Literature Association, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, March 1998.
    1998. "The Necessity of Method in the Study and Teaching of Literature," Method and the the Study and Teaching of Literature (Steven Tötösy and Aldo Nemesio, organizers), 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," Post- Modernities and Ethnic Minority Writing: Theory and Application / Post-modernités et la littérature minoritaire ethnique. Théories et réalisations (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair), 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," Theoretical and Methodological Innovation in the Study of Literature: The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture (Steven Tötösy, Organizer and Chair), 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," Empirical Research on Literature (Aldo Nemesio, Chair), International Association of Literary Semantics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, September 1997.
    1997. "Social Discourse and Cultural Participation in a Multicultural Society" (Steven Tötösy, Chair), 1997 International Conference on Canadian Studies, 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," 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," 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?" 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, Martin Luther University 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," annual convention of the 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, 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, 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"), 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," 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," 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," World Congress of Hungarian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, September 1986.
    1986. "History as Allusion: Eötvös' Magyarország 1514-ben," 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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Organization of conferences, panels, and workshops

    Comparative Media and Culture Studies 1: Gender and Media and Comparative Media and Culture Studies 2: Culture Policy and the Administration of Culture, workshop panels at the international conference, The Unifying Aspect of Cultures, Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies <http://www.inst.at>, Vienna, Austria, November 2003.
    The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe, with Carmen Andras (Georghe Sincai Institute of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Romanian Academy of Sciences) and Magdalena Marsovszky (München and Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder), international conference, Georghe Sincai Institute and Petru Maior University, Târgu-Mures/Marosvásárhely, Romania, August 2003
    Comparative Cultural Studies 1: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Media, Comparative Cultural Studies 2: Culture and Otherness,Comparative Cultural Studies 3: Culture, Autobiography, and Translation, and Comparative Cultural Studies 4: Aspects of Literature and Perspectives of Culture, workshop panels at the international conference, The Contemporaneousness of the Non-Contemporaneous, Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies <http://www.inst.at>, Vienna, Austria, December 2002.
    Comparative Cultural Studies, with Reinhold Viehoff (U Halle-Wittenberg), panel, 8th biannual conference of IGEL: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/>, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary, August 2002.
   Comparative Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture <http://www.cultureonline.org/library/mla2000.html>, Hungarian Discussion Group, Annual Convention, MLA: Modern Language Association of America, Washington, D.C., USA, December 2000.
   Comparative Cultural Studies: New Work in Psychology and Literature, New Media Scholarship, and the Appreciation of Art <http://www.cultureonline.org/library/iaea2000.html>, panel, 16th congress of the IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics <http://www.ume.maine.edu/~iaea/>, New School University, New York, USA, August 2000.
   Central European Culture Today: An Invitational International Conference, Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta and Banff, Canada, September 1999.
   Comparative Culture and Hungarian Studies, 24th annual conference, American Hungarian Educators' Association, John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA, April 1999.
    Methodology and the Study of Literature and Culture, panel, with Aldo Nemesio (U of Torino), 15th biannual congress of the IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, September 1998.
    Theoretical and Methodological Innovation in the Study of Literature: The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture, panel, 15th triennial congress of the ICLA/AILC: International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, August 1997.
    1997 International Conference on Canadian Studies, with Yiu-nam Leung (National Tsing Hua University), National Tsing Hua University at Taipei and Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 1997.
    Teaching Literature on the Internet, panel, 5th international symposium and book fair of the English Teachers' Association, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1996.
    5th Biannual Conference of IGEL: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, University of Alberta at the Nakoda Lodge Conference Centre, Banff, Canada, August 1996.
    Reading and Readership: Theories, Application, Practice / Lecture et lecteurs: théories, application, pratique, 14th triennial congress of the ICLA/AILC: International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, August 1994.
    14th Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association / Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, with Milan V. Dimic, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, August 1994.
    Early Twentieth-Century Hungarian Feminist Literature, panel, 3rd World Congress of Hungarian Studies, Attila József University, Szeged, Hungary, August 1991.
    Conference on Language, Culture, and Literary Identity in Canada, with Michael Gnarowski, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 1984.

Awards and Grants

    Fellowship for Senior Scholars, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Program "Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et Artium") for Project Central European Culture in Austrian and Hungarian Social Discourse, Summer 2000.
    Funding for the organization of Central European Culture Today: An Invitational International 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.
    Invited Lecture Tour, funded by the Canadian Studies Program of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, and the universities of Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt, and Ministry of Science and Education (Austria), June 1999.
    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 2000-03).
    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 (Can$ 1,000.00), the University of Alberta Conference Fund (Can$ 2,000.00), and the Siegen University Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research (US$ 2,000.00), August 1996.
    Funding for a lecture tour at four universities in Taiwan, by the Taiwan National Science Council (Can$ 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 (Can$ 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 (Can$ 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 Can$ 2,500.00/each); 1991 (Can$ 2,600.00); 1995 (Can$ 2,770.00).
    Grants for International Representation and conference participation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 1993 (Can$ 3,100.00); 1994 (Can$ 3,100.00); Central Research Funding, University of Alberta, 1992 (Can$ 1,500.00); 1993 (Can$ 2,200.00); 1994 (Can$ 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" (Can$ 20,000.00); Department of Heritage Canada ($ 7,500); International Association of Canadian Studies (Can$ 5,000.00); Department of External Affairs Canada ($ 5,000.00); University of Alberta Conference Fund (Can$ 3,000.00); Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal) (Can$ 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 (Can$ 12,400.00/year); 1996-99 (Can$11,400.00/year).
    Group Research Grant, with M.V. Dimic, R. Dionne, L. Lequin, E. Padolsky, and J. Pivato, from the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State Canada, "Problems in/of Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing," 1990-92 (Can$ 88,000.00).
    Research Grant, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, "Readership Survey," 1989 (Can$ 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 (Can$ 7,500.00).
    Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta: 1988 (Can$ 12,000.00); 1989 (Can$ 12,000.00).
    The University of Alberta Hungarian Studies Scholarship, 1986 (Can$ 500.00).
    The University of Alberta Henry Kreisel Scholarship in Canadian Literature, 1985 (Can$ 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 (Can$ 2,000.00).
    Funding for the research of "A History of German-Canadian Literature" from the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State Canada, 1983-84 (Can$ 9,500.00).
    The University of Western Ontario Dean's Honours List, 1979.

Current Membership in Learned Associations

    ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
    <http://www.acla.org>
    CCLA: Canadian Comparative Literature Association (life member)
    <http://quarles.unbc.ca/ccla/list.html>
    IAEA: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
    <http://www.ume.maine.edu/~iaea/members.html>
    ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association (life member)
    <ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association>
    MLA: Modern Language Association of America
    <http://www.mla.org>

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