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TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK short CV with selected publications for complete CV with lists of publications and academic activities link to <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv(complete).html> Addresses: Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, 101 Lake Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 021151, USA <s.totosydezepetnek@neu.edu> Prof.Dr., Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Mansfelder Str. 56, D-06108 Halle, Germany <steven.totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de> Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture & Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 USA <clcweb@purdue.edu> & Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies, Shaker Publisher, D-52018 Aachen, Germany Residence: 8 Sunset Road, Winchester, Massachusetts 01890 USA 1-781-729-1680 <steven.totosy@comcast.net> |
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1. Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Theory of Culture and Literature, Film and Literature, and Canadian Literatures), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1984-1989
B.Ed. in History and English as a Second Language, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1980-1984
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1980-1983
B.A. in History and German, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 1976-1980
2. University employment history
2007-, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2002-, Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
2000-2001, Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1994-2000, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1989-1997, Associate Director, Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1984-1994, Lecturer, departments of Comparative Literature, English, German, and Continuing Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Visiting professorships 1995 to present in Spain, Taiwan, Austria, Germany, PR of China, Hungary
3. Selected publications
Single-authored books
1993-
Comparative Cultural Studies. West Lafayette: Purdue UP,
2008. Forthcoming.
Comparative
Literature:
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). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i. Beijing: Peking UP,
1997.
The Social
Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of
4. Work in editing and publishing
2007-. Series Editor, Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies, Shaker Publisher (ISBN 978-3-8322-) <http://www.shaker.eu/catalogue/booklist.asp?Reihe=451>
2001-. Series Editor, Books in Comparative Cultural Studies,
Purdue University Press (ISBN 1-55753-) <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp>
& <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html>.
1999-. Editor (founding), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature
and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374), 1999-2000: Faculty of Arts,
University of Alberta at <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/>, 2000-:
Purdue University Press and Purdue University Libraries at <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> & <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/journals.htm>
1989-97. Associate editor (1994-97),
Assistant Editor (1989-94), and Desktop Publisher (1989-97), Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue
Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (ISSN 0319-051X), Canadian
Comparative Literature Association and Research Institute for Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta
1989-99. Series Editor and desktop publisher, Publishing
Program of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of
Alberta (ISBN 0-921490-) <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
5. Teaching
Areas in teaching include communication studies, media studies, intercultural communication, conflict resolution and mediation, the history of the book and
media, audience
studies, new media culture, (comparative) cultural studies, editing, and desk-top and new media publishing, comparative literature. Current graduate supervision (selected): José Pascal da Rocha, doctoral dissertation: Conflict Mediation, Communication, and Interculturalities;
Agata A. Lisiak, doctoral dissertation: Transformations of the (Post)Colonial in
Central Europe after 1989; Magdalena Marsovszky, doctoral dissertation: Die Rolle der Kultur und der Medien in der gesellschaftlichen Integration Ungarns. Komparativer Blick auf das Nachkriegsdeutschland.
6. Selected projects funding 1997-
Grant (pending), research project, with Dámaso López García (Complutense University Madrid, Spain) and Asunción López-Varela
Azcárate (Complutense University Madrid, Spain): The Politics of Culture:
Nationhood, Interculturalism and Citizenship in the New Europe <http://www.ucm.es/info/comparativeculturalstudies.org>,
a multi-university research project for submission for funding by the European
Union's FP7 2007-2013 research program, 2008-2013 (projected budget of grant approx. Euros 1,5 million).
Grant, research project CECMS: Comparative Central
and East European Culture and Media Studies <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/cecms.html>,
University of Halle-Wittenberg and Purdue University: multi-institutional, international,
and interdisciplinary team research projects including conferences and publications
on contemporary culture and media in the regions of the European Union of
its eastward expansion starting with 2004, 2002- (Euros 30,000).
Fellowship for Senior Scholars, Domus Hungarica Scientiarum
et Artium, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 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).
Grant for invited lecture tour and research, 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
(Can$ 5,000.00).
Grant, with Earle H. Waugh (Chair, Department of Modern
Languages and Comparative Studies, University of Alberta), for a professorship
in Chinese and Western Comparative Literature and Culture at the University
of Alberta from the Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly
Exchange, 1996-1997 (US$ 100,000.00) and 2000-2003 (US$ 150,00.99).
Funding, with Yiu-nam Leung, for the organization of the 1997 Taiwan International Conference on Canadian Studies in Taipei
and Hsinchu, April 1997, from the Canadian Trade Office, Taipei (US$ 20,000.00),
from the International Council for Canadian Studies (Can& 5,000.00), from
the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Canada (Can§ 8,000.00), and
from the Taiwan Ministry of Education (Us$ 17,000.00), as well as private
donations and sponsorship (US$ 2,000.00).