User:Steven Totosy

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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv(complete).html areas of scholarship are in comparative cultural studies incl. comparative media and communication studies, comparative literature, postcolonial and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, audience studies, English, French, German, Central European, US-American, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media and knowledge management, and editing. Tötösy received his B.A. in history and German from the University of Western Ontario (1980), an M.A. in comparative literature from Carleton University (1983), a B.Ed. in history and English as a second language from the University of Ottawa (1984), and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Alberta (1989). Tötösy taught as lecturer and later as professor at the University of Alberta Department of Comparative Literature 1984-2000 where he also served as associate director of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, as associate editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, and as editor of the University of Alberta Research Institute for Comparative Literature monograph series of comparative literature. Residing in Boston since 2000, Tötösy lectured in communication and media studies at Northeastern University and since 2002 is professor of media and culture studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, Boston, USA 2007-. Author of numerous papers and books, Tötösy's recent solo book publications include Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application (1998) and Comparative Cultural Studies (forthcoming), and his recent collected volumes include The New Central and East European Culture (2006), Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing (2005), Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature (2005), Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies (2003), Comparative Central European Culture (2002). Tötösy is editor (founding) of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu (ISSN 1481-4373) and series editor of the Shaker Publisher Series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media,and Communication Studies http://www.shaker.eu/catalogue/booklist.asp?Reihe=451 and of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp & http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html . Tötösy is fluent in written and oral English, German, French, and Hungarian, has reading knowledge of Latin, limited Spanish and Russian, and studied Serbo-Croatian.

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