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Educational Background |
2014 Ph.D., English Literature, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA 2004 M.A., Sociolinguistics, University of Pittsburgh, USA 2002 M.A., English Literature, Auburn University, USA 1999 B.A., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania, English Literature - Hungarian Literature |
Prior Employment |
2021-2023 Associate Professor of English, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2014-2021 Assistant Professor of English, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2011-2014 Assistant Professor of English, American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Profile |
Szidonia Haragos specializes in contemporary multicultural American Literature and the global Anglophone literary production. She focuses on autobiography and life writing as testimony and as the writing of collective and personal trauma and, lately, on digital life writing and its critical potential. She is particularly interested in the intersections between autobiographic writing, trauma, and gender in the memoirs of (im)migrant women writers in the United States and in their self-constructions amidst the material conditions of migration, diaspora, and precarity. She has also published on gendered cinematic representations in the films of Hungarian directors Istvan Szabo and Laszlo Nemes. She is currently preparing her monograph, Realignments of the Self: Transnational Life Writing by Women, for publication. |
Publications |
Haragos, S. (forthcoming) “Centering Women in Jokha Alharthi’s Sayyidat al Qamar (Celestial Bodies, 2019).” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Haragos, S. (forthcoming). “Instrumentalizing Digital Life Writing in Rajaa Alsanea’s Banat al-Riyadh (Girls of Riyadh, 2007).” Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction (edited collection). University of Manchester Press Haragos, S. (2022).“Women’s Affective Transactions and the Memory of Hungarian (Historical) Affairs: Istvan Szabo’s The Door (2012).” Studies in European Cinema, DOI: 10.1080/17411548.2022.2064156 Haragos, S. (2021).“Daughter of Saul, or Saul Leanya: The Gendered Place of Atrocity in Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul.” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 107, vol. 36 (2). https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9052816 Haragos, S. (2021).“Transgenerational Memories of the Lager in Herta Muller’s Autofiktion.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 44 (4). https://doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0051 Haragos, S. (2020). “Biography of a Nation: The Year in the United Arab Emirates.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 43 (1), 165-170. 10.1353/bio.2020.0025 Haragos, S. (2020). “Escape Words: From Solitary Confinement to Female Solidarity in Lena Constante’s Memoirs.” Discourses on Nations and Identities, 581-590. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi.org/10.1515/9783110642018-045 Haragos, S. (2019). “Selves and Identities in the Arabian Gulf: The Year in the GCC.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 42 (1), 55-61. DOI: 10.1353/bio.2019.0009 Haragos, S. (2019).“‘Mother Weight Carried across Borders’: Migrant Materiality and the Maternal in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines: A Memoir (2003).” Life Writing 16 (3), 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1641880 Haragos, S. (2016). “‘It Isn't Their Language in Which I Speak Their Stories’: The Language of Memory and Unforgetting in Susan Rubin Suleiman's Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996) and Anca Vlasopolos' No Return Address (2000).” A/b: Auto/Biography Studies 31 (2), 309-332. DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2016.1138356 |