ERZSÉBET BARÁT

Visiting Associate Professor

Contact:

Email: Visbarat(at)ceu.hu
Office: Zrinyi 14. room 508/A
Phone: (36-1) 327-3000 ext. 2527
Fax: (36-1) 327-3296

Education:

Ph.D. Social Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK, 2000

MA. Applied Linguistics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1993

MA. English and Hungarian Literature and Language, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1982

Research Areas:

language and sexuality critical discourse analysis language, ideology and power in the media women’s life narratives and research ethics

Selected Publications:

Barát, Erzsébet & Sándor, Bea Jelents testek; (translation of Judith Butler: Bodies That Matter. Routledge, 1993), Budapest: Új Mandátum Kiadó, 2005.

Spaces in Transition: On the Occasion of Sarolta Marinovich’s Birthday, JATE Press, Szeged PEAS Vol. 12 (Papers in English and American Studies Series) 2005.

“Variations to Co-optations: The Uses and Abuses of ‘Feminism’” In Eva Blimlinger and Therese Garstenauer (Hrsg.). Women/Gender Studies: Against All Odds. Dokumentation der 7. Österreichischen Wissenschafterinnentagung. Innsbruck, Wein, Bozen: StudienVerlag, 2005, pp. 21-29.

“The ‘Terrorist Feminist’: Strategies of Gate-Keeping in the Hungarian Printed Media” In Michelle M. Lazar (ed.) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 205-228.

“Gy*lölködni szabad?” (Is it allowed to hate?), MÉDIAKUTATÓ, 2004 Spring, 41-59.

“Discourses of Racialised Discrimination in Hungarian Party Politics”, In Martin Reisigl & Ruth Wodak (eds.). The Semiotics of Racism: Approaches in Critical Discourse Analysis. Vienna: Passagen, 2000, pp. 237-268.

“The Discourse of Selfhood: Oral Auto/biographies as Narrative Sites for Constructions of Identity” In Alison Donell & Pauline Polkey (eds.). Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography. London: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 165-173.

Current Research Projects:

My current research project is concerned with regulating speech ‘behavior’ from the perspective of the gender/sexuality intersection. I intend to explore the gate-keeping strategies of the straight domain of the Hungarian print media in the 2000s. This is a comparative study that takes into account the major source of reference in the Hungarian debates, namely the case of the US hate speech debate a decade before. The immediate aim of the project is not to propose some speech code of my own but to explore the diverse logics in the discursive site of this exclusionary politics of naming. Through that particular example I hope to expose the central place homophobia plays in the reinforcement of the hegemonic status quo. The core of this homophobia is concerned with the employment of the double standards of silencing: the unwillingness to regulate hate speech on the one hand and the diverse ways of sanctioning coming out in the public on the other.

Awards and Honors:

PhD off-campus scholarship, British Council, Budapest, 1996 -1999.

Research Support Scheme, Soros Foundation, Central Europe, Prague, 1996 – 1998

Recent Course Offerings:

The Sexuality/Gender Intersection – 2 credits

Feminist Media Research – 2 credits

Feminism and Masculinity – 2 credits

Favorite Pastime in Budapest:

Spa bathing in a Turkish bath house; strolling around Margaret Island; going to a late night movie; indulging in cakes in a traditional coffee house; shopping in an outdoor market.