Name: Novák, György

Office: University of Szeged (SzTE), Institute of English and American Studies, Department of American Studies, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2. H-6722, Hungary

PhD: American Literature, JATE, 1998. Doctoral dissertation on Ezra Pound's "John Adams Cantos", defended Autumn 1987, JATE.

Posts: At the Department of American Studies, in Institute of English-American Studies, JATE (SzTE since 01.01.2000) since July 1997. At Department of English, JATE from September 1979 to June 1997; substitute teacher for one term (1979) in elementary school, at Bátmonostor; teaching English for special English secondary school classes (1972-78), III. Béla Gimnázium, Baja.

Teacher's degrees in English (1972), History (1972) and Hungarian (1979) from Attila József University, Szeged; graduated from secondary school in a special English class, Nagy Lajos Gimnázium, Pécs, in 1967.

At secondary school taught English as a foreign language; at JATE teaching British & American history, translation, popular culture and literature.

Professional fields of interest includes: the life, works, and opinions of Ezra Pound; John Adams and the American Revolution; popular literature, particularly detective, spy, adventure, police fiction; practical and literary translation.

Positions:

Languages: Hungarian (native), English (fluent), Latin, Russian (working)

Memberships:

• European Association of American Studies (1982--)
• Modern Philological Society (founding member, 1983)
• International Ezra Pound Society
• Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE; founding member, 1993)
• Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS)
• European Network for British Area Studies (founding member, 1996)

• Symposium on Translator Training, Technical Assistance Information Exchange (TAIEX) Office of the European Commission, Brussels, 26 March, 1999.
• 1997 USIA-Lafayette College Academic Institute on American Federal Democracy: Classic Works and Scholarly Approaches (USIA), Steamboat Springs, CO, Denver, CO, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Easton, PA, Washington D.C., 27 June-9 August 1997.
• Warwick Seminar on Literary Translation (British Council), The University of Warwick, Coventry, 8-14 December 1996
• one month at the Department of European Studies, University of Hull, England (TEMPUS), May-June 1995.
• two fortnights at the Salzburg Seminar, Austria, July 1993 (Session 306) and April 1982 (Session 212);
• two months as Gastdozent at the English Department of Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany (TEMPUS), May-June 1993;
• 10 months as ACLS Fellow at Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 1989/90;
• private Ezra Pound Centennial Tour (Paris, Rapallo, Merano, Venice), July 1985;
• 4 & 3 weeks in Britain on British Council language courses (1970 & 1976).

1. "'… a sasok is vedlenek' -- Bemutatjuk Donald S. Lutz amerikai politológust". In: Aetas (Szeged) 1998/4, 119-123.
2. "'Némelyikük kétségkívül józan politikai elveken alapul, s mindegyiküket rendkívül(i) lelemé(nnyel)nyesen és pontos(sággal)an fogalmazták' -- Új magyar szövegek az amerikai forradalomról". In: Aetas (Szeged) 1998/4, 151-158.
3. "`Things have ends and beginnings...' On the End of Pound's Cantos". In: Mária Kurdi and József Horváth (eds): HUSSE Papers 1997 Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference, (JPTE, Pécs, 1997), 25-33.
4. "'Hanging our old huntsman friend to his chandelier: Ezra Pound in Hungary". In: English Studies and the Curriculum. Proceedings of the Second TEMPUS-JEN Mini Conference. (Debrecen: Kossuth University, 1997), 139-160.
5. "On the Interpretation of the Bayeux Tapestry". In: English Studies and the Curriculum. Proceedings of the First TEMPUS-JEN Mini Conference. (Debrecen: Kossuth University, 1996), 129-135.
6. "Ezra Pound and the Hungarians". In: Péter Szaffkó and Miriam Conlon (eds): HUSSE Papers 1993. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English Debrecen, 27-29 January, 1993 in two volumes. Volume One Literature and Culture. (Debrecen: Institute of English and American Studies, Lajos Kossuth University, 1995), 70-79.
7. "The First History of the Hungarians in the Lone Star State. (Review of James P. McGuire, The Hungarian Texans, San Antonio, 1993)". In: Vasváry Collection Newsletter 1994/2 (12), (Szeged: Somogyi-könyvtár), 3-6.
8. "American Dream and Hungarian Reality". In: Forms of Identity: Definitions & Changes (Szeged: JATE, 1994), 157-168.
9. "Jegyzetek". In: Ezra Pound Versei. (Budapest: Európa, 1991), pp. 175-251.
10. "A Note on 'Siria' in C74/432." In: Paideuma. 17/1 (1988), 109.
11. "'Before November One': Ezra Pound and Tibor Serly." In: Papers in English and American Studies Vol. II. (Szeged: JATE, 1982), 195-225.

• Peter Nazareth: A fény felé. Tanulmányok az afrikai irodalomról. [A book of essays] Budapest: Európa, 1984.
• HUSSE Papers 1995. A Selection from the Papers Read at the Second Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English Szeged, 26-28 January, 1995. (Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József Nominatae, Papers in English and American Studies Volume VI). Szeged: Department of English and American Studies, "József Attila" University, 1995.

• Gore Vidal: Írók, gengszterek, professzorok. [Essays] (Budapest: Európa, 1984), pp. 7-18, 28-238.
• Ezra Pound: 'Addendum a C. Cantóhoz'; 'Jegyzetek a CXVII-hez.' In: Nagyvilág, Budapest, 1985/12, 1813-1815.
• A. Alvarez: Házasság után [Life After Marriage]. Budapest: Európa, 1987. 331p.
• Ezra Pound: XIV, LXII, LXX cantók, Addenda, A CXII-ból, Jegyzetek a CXVII-hez et seq. In: Ezra Pound Versei (Budapest: Európa, 1991), pp. 73-75, 119-134, 168-169, 172, 173.
• Josh McDowell és Dick Day: Miért várj? Érdemes várni a szexszel a házasságig? Jelentés a tizenévesek szexuális válságáról [Why Wait?]. Budapest: Timóteus Társaság, 1995. 438p.
• Gerald Jacobs: Szentjátékok [Sacred Games]. Budapest: Bastei Kiadó, 2002. 263p.