Anna Kérchy

(University of Szeged, Hungary)

Anna Kérchy is an Associate Professor in Literature at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her areas of expertise include gender studies, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, intermedial cultural representations, Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, fairy tales, and children’s/YA literature. She authored three monographs: Alice in Transmedia Wonderland (2016), Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View (2008), and Essays on Feminist Aesthetics, Narratology, and Body Studies (in Hungarian, 2018). She (co)edited several essay collections including Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales (2011), The Fairy-Tale Vanguard (with Stijn Praet, 2019),and the forthcoming Transmediating and Translating Children’s Literature (with Björn Sundmark).