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 Steven TÖTÖSY de ZEPETNEK 
    short CV with selected publications
   
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Addresses
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    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>
 

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: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.
   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 Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Braunschweig: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993.

Selected edited volumes 2002-
    Discourses of the Holocaust. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2008. Forthcoming.
    Hungarian Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. Aachen: Shaker Publisher, 2008. Forthcoming.
    The New Central and East European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andras, and Magdalena Marsovszky. Aachen: Shaker Publisher, 2006.
    Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005.
    Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005.
    Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2003.
    Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles 1998-
   "New Media, Publishing in the Humanities, and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4373 <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu>." Formamente: Rivista Internazionale di Ricerca sul Futuro Digitale 2.1-2 (2007): forthcoming.
   "The New Humanities: The Intercultural, the Comparative, and the Interdisciplinary." Globalization and the Futures of Comparative Literature. Ed. Jan M. Ziolkowski and Alfred J. Lopez. Special issue of The Global South 1.2 (2007): forthcoming.
   "Aspects of Scholarship and Publishing in the Age of New Media Technology." From Text to Hypertext. Ed. Dolores Romero López and Amelia Sanz Cabrerizo. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Forthcoming.
   "Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize, Public Discourse, and the Media." Medien-Macht-Wahrnehmung. Mediale Dispositive des Sehens und Hörens. Ed. Kathrin Fahlenbrach. Thematic issue of SPIEL: Siegener Periodicum zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft 22.1 (2003): 183-94.
    with 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)." IGEL 2002 Proceedings (2002): <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/IGEL2002/Proceedings.htm>.
    "The Study of Literature and Culture Online: Theory and Application." English 475: Literature and Hypertext. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Athabasca: Athabasca U, 2002.
   "The New Knowledge Management: Online Research and Publishing in the Humanities." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 3.1 (2001): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-1/totosy01.html>.
   "Toward a Framework of Audience Studies." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/audiencestudies.html>.
   "Definitions for the Study of Communication and Culture." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2000): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/definitions(communicationstudies1).html>.
   "Audience Studies," "Comparative Cultural Studies," and "Systemic and Empirical Approach." Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Comp. Robert Drislane and Gary Parkinson. Edmonton: Athabasca U and ICAAP: International Consortium of Advancement of Academic Publication, 2001. <http://bitbucket.icaap.org/>.
   "Comparative Cultural Studies and Constructivism." Frame: Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 15.1 (2001): 38-60.
   "English-language Memoir Literature by Central European Jewish Women." Mnemosyne: ZEIT-Schrift für jüdische Kultur 26 (2000): 97-108.
   "An Application of the Systemic and Empirical Framework in Diaspora and Ethnic Studies." Siegfried J. Schmidt Festschrift. Ed. Achim Barsch, Gebhard Rusch, and Reinhold Viehoff. Halle: U of Halle-Wittenberg (1999-): <http://www.sjschmidt.net/konzepte/texte/totosy1.htm>.
   "Literary and Filmic Representations of the Titanic Disaster." Poseidon and the Muses: Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts, Literature and the Ocean. Ed. Ling Chung, Chen-wan Ting, Chung-wen Kung, I-chun Wang, Hsiao-yu Sun, and Yen Chen. Thematic issue of the Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities. Kaohsiung: College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 1999. 117-24.
   "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: Rodopi, 1998. 231-40.
   "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, U of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. 57-69.

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).


CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal ISSN 1481-4374

CLCWeb Library of Research and Information ... Steven Totosy CV (short)
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html> © Purdue University Press