Eva Hudecova

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

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

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

Publications

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Publications

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

Activities

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Activities

Research

• 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..
• 　　　　Ostalgie’s Journey Eastward: Finding Nostalgia in Eastern Europe

Courses Taught

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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