Eva R Hudecova

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2009.
• BA: Humanities, Waldorf College, Forest City, IA, 1999.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Central and Eastern Europe
• Testimonial Writing
• psychoanalysis
• Memory studies
• Media and Cultural Studies
• Translation (theory and practice)
• Germany, GDR
• German re-unification
• 20th- & 21st-century German & Austrian literature & poetry

Courses Taught

• CSCL 3179 Reading Literary Movements
• CSCL 5010 Origins of Cultural Studies
• CSCL 3321W Theories of Culture
• CSCL 3173W The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
• CSCL 3174 Poetry as Cultural Critique

Research & Professional Activities

Research

• 　　　　Ostalgie’s Journey Eastward: Finding Nostalgia in Eastern Europe:
• Danube In America Translation: I am the translator and editor of a critical edition of Danube in America, a novel by well known Slovak author, Michal Hvorecky. The edition is under consideration at numerous presses.

Publications

• Capitalism as Trauma: The Birth of the Early Eastern European Entrepreneur in Peter Pistanek’s Rivers of Babylon. Hudecova, Eva, David Gallagher, Academica Press, Author, 2012.