Veronika Hermann
Veronika Hermann
Assistant Professor
Contact details
Address
1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 6–8
Room
41
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  • 5. Social sciences
    • 5.8 Media and communications
      • Media and socio-cultural communication
  • 6. Humanities
    • 6.2 Languages and Literature
      • Literary theory
intersections between literary hisotry and media history

My researches are focused on identity theories, popular culture, individual and collective memory and on appearances and diffusion of identity structures that evolved in Western European modernity. The impact and significance of modernist tendencies seem to be bigger than we usually think. By reading literary and mediated texts, various cultural products, archives and material elements of everyday life upon each other and treat them as sources of literary and social history, we can understand complexities of these cultural systems. 

Cold War popular culture
Liminal whiteness, Eastern European whiteness, nationalism

One of the most developing areas of interdisciplinary media and cultural studies is research on Eastern European whiteness, racism towards Eastern Europeans and racism in the region, and peripheral or secondary whiteness. By examining historical and contemporary political, public, cultural, and media representations, this field seeks to answer questions such as what theories of centre-periphery and precarity have to do with media representation, or white supremacy with political trends in the region.