Edit Zsadányi is associate professor at the Cultural Studies Department of Eötvös Loránd  University of Budapest. She was senior lecturer at the Finno-Ugric Department of the University of Groningen from 2009 till 2014. Her fields of research are women writers in the 20th century, modern and postmodern Hungarian and American literature, with particular emphasis on Cultural Theory, Narrative Theories and Gender Studies.

She is the author of five books, one published in English and four in Hungarian:

„Basil, Reseda and Touch-me-not Plant: Cultural Otherness in Feminist Critical Perspective; Gendered Narrative Subjectivity: Some Hungarian and American Women Writers. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Frankfurt am Main, 2015.;  A másik nő: A női szubjektivitás narratív alakzatai [The Other Woman: The Narrative Figures of Female Subjectivity], Budapest: Ráció, 2006;  A csend retorikája: Kihagyásalakzatok vizsgálata huszadik századi regényekben [The Rhetorics of Silence: The Figures of Omission in Modernist Prose Fiction] Bratislava: Kalligram, 2001; Krasznahorkai László, [László Krasznahorkai] Bratislava: Kalligram, 1999.

She also co-edited the collections of essays: Gender Perspectives on Hungarian and Finnish Culture, Maastricht, 2011.