Prof. Dr. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
Media and Communication Studies
University of Halle-Wittenberg
Mansfelder Str. 56
D-06108 Halle/Saale, Germany
Residence:
8 Sunset Road, Winchester
Massachusetts 01890 USA
Tel.: 001-781-729-1680
steven.totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de
Teaching, Research, and Supervision
- Supervision of Doctoral Candidates: José Pascal da Rocha, Conflict Mediation, Communication, and Interculturalities; Agata A. Lisiak, Transformations of the (Post)Colonial in Central Europe after 1989; Magdalena Marsovszky, Die Rolle der Kultur und der Medien in der gesellschaftlichen Integration Ungarns; Terri Ochiaga, Images and Reflections of European Others in African Chronicles; Katja Bonsch, Schach als Multimediales Werbemotiv; Cornelia Rosche, Frauenbilder in der Fernsehwerbung; Corinna Paschold, Elements of Fantasy and the Development in British and American Literature in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth Centuries.
- Areas of Teaching and Research include (comparative) cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, and (comparative) literature: culture and literature as system; the sociology of cultural production and participation (incl. audience and readership studies); the history of the book and (new) media; culture policy; higher education and the humanities; literary and critical theory; rhetoric; discourse studies; English-, French-, German-, and Hungarian-language literatures and cultures; language acquisition and pedagogy: German and Hungarian (incl. translation); English as a second language; US-American, English- and Québécois-Canadian literatures; diaspora and ethnic minority cultures and literatures; (2004-); comparative Central and East European studies; Holocaust studies, the modern novel; themes and motifs in world literature; film and literature; postcolonial studies; feminist theory and criticism; translation studies; pedagogy; intercultural communication; conflict resolution and mediation; editing and publishing; history; historical genealogy and heraldry; ●Lists of Publications: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv
- Current Research Projects include "Audience in New Media Culture" (2008-); "Transformations of Urbanities in Post-1989 Central Europe" (2008); "The Politics of Culture: Nationhood, Interculturalism, and Citizenship in the New Europe" http://www.ucm.es/info/comparativeculturalstudies.org (2004-); Holocaust studies (2002-); "Comparative Central and EastEuropean Culture and Media Studies" (2002-); The Hybridist (autobiographical fiction, 1994-)
Bioprofile
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's areas of scholarship and teaching are in comparative cultural studies incl. comparative media and communication studies, (comparative) literature, postcolonial and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, audience studies, European, US-American, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media and knowledge management, and editing. He is professor of media and culture studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, and concurrently professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Author and editor of numerous books and articles, he is editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4373) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ and series editor of the Shaker Publisher monograph series Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies http://www.shaker.eu/catalogue/booklist.asp?Reihe=451 and of the Purdue University Press monograph series Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp . Born 1950 in Budapest, Tötösy is fluent in English, German, French, and Hungarian, has reading knowledge of Latin, limited Spanish and Russian, and studied Serbo-Croatian. Citizenship: Canadian, Hungarian, and permanent legal USA resident; marital status: 1976 to Joanne E. Toms (born Montréal 1955; Ph.D. pharmacology and neuroscience, associate director of regulatory affairs, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts); children: Chantal P. Tötösy de Zepetnek (born Ottawa 1982) and Julia O. Tötösy de Zepetnek (born Ottawa 1984).
Education
●Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1984-1989. Concentrations in culture and literary theory and film and literature. Dissertation: Prefaces to Nineteenth-century Canadian Novels; ●B.Ed. and Permanent Ontario Post-Secondary Teacher`s Certificate for history and English as a second language, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1983-1984; ●M.A., Comparative Literature, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1980-1983. Concentrations in the sociology of literature and the modern short story; ●B.A., history and German, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1976-1980; ●Secondary education: Kastl über Amberg (1964-1965), Salzburg (1965-1967), Horn (1968-1972), Basel (1972-1974, high school diploma)
Academic Appointments and Functions
Publications: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv/
- Professor, Communication Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachuetts, USA 2007-
- Professor, Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, 2002-
- Series Editor, monograph series, Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies, Shaker Verlag http://www.shaker.eu/catalogue/booklist.asp?Reihe=451 2006-
- Series Editor, monograph series, Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp 2001-
- Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University 2000-2001
- Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4373) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/ , Purdue University Press, 1998-.
- Editor, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Associate Editor 1994-1997, Assistant Editor 1989-1994)
- Editor, monograph series, Books in Comparative Literature, Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta 1989-1999.
- Associate Director (1994-1999), Assistant Director (1990-1992), Research Associate (1989-1990), Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta
- Professor (1992-2000), Lecturer (1984-1992), Research Associate (1989-1992), Research Assistant (1986-1989), Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, Department of English, and Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta
- High School Teacher, History, English, und English as a Second Language (Ottawa 1983-1984, Edmonton 1984-1987)