Louise O. Vásvari Professor Emerita Department of CLCS louise.vasvari@sunysb.edu

Louise O. Vásvari’s interests include medieval literature, socio-linguistics, folklore, translation theory, Hungarian, and Holocaust studies (all informed by gender theory). She has published widely in these areas, ranging from medieval Spanish, Italian, and English to queer theory, the latter in particular in relation to emerging queer discourses in Hungarian. Related to the Spanish Romancero she has published The Heterotextual Body of the “Mora Morilla” (1999). More recently she has published, with Louise Haywood, A Companion to the “Libro de Buen Amor” (2004), and, with Steven Tötösy, Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature (2005), with whom she also has in press Discourses of the Holocaust. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis, at the Oetvos Lorand University and the Central European University (Budapest), as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (2006),  Universite' de Jules Verne, Amiens (2007), and, most recently, Distinguished Scholar at Cambridge University (2008). She also regularly teaches language and gender at New York University.