Ábel Tamás

Ábel Tamás is Senior Lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. His main field of research is Latin literature from Catullus, Vergil, and Horace to Ovid and Pliny the Younger, and beyond. He is currently working on an English-language monograph entitled Scenes of Curiosity in Latin Literature (contracted with Bloomsbury). He also publishes on poetic wordplay, especially on the role of acrostics and telestichs and their broader poetic and cultural contexts.

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Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Pliny the Younger, Horace

literary studies

Ábel Tamás is Senior Lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and a member of the Research Group for General Literary Studies. His work engages with hermeneutics, reception studies, media theory, and cultural studies. He was one of the editors of the Handbook of Media and Cultural Studies (Ráció, 2018), a pioneering volume in the Hungarian context that provides a comprehensive introduction to the key paradigms, concepts, and authors of the field. His academic interests focus on the interplay of literature, culture, and media, as well as on the modern reception of classical antiquity.

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hermeneutics, reception history, media theory, Cultural Studies