Vera Benczik
Vera Benczik
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director of Institute
Contact details
Address
1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 5.
Room
III. em. 348
Phone/Extension
4204
Links
  • 6. Humanities
    • 6.2 Languages and Literature
      • Literary theory
    • 6.4 Arts, history of arts, performing arts, music
      • Studies on Film, Radio and Television
literary studies

My research within literary studies goes in two main directions: one of them concerns Canadian literature, specifically the prose of Margaret Atwood. The other research area is the fantastic in literature, along the following lines: the works of Ursula K. Le Guin, post-apocalyptic science fiction literature, gender and the fantastic.

cultural studies

My research in cultural studies lies mainly within popular culture, especially genres connected to the fantastic, and includes, among others, the following topics: the trope of the voyage in science fiction, the apocalypse and the post-apocalypse in American culture, the spatial rhetorics and the material environment of post-apocalyptic narratives, posthuman utopias and dystopias, the anthropocene and the post-anthropocene in science fiction and fantasy, gender and the fantastic, and masculinities in action films.