Krisztina Lajosi
Curriculum Vitae
dr. Krisztina Lajosi (1977) is lecturer (Universitair Docent) in Modern European Literature and Culture at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
She is the research coordinator of the Royal Netherlands' Academy of Sciences project "National Music and Cultural Transfer in Europe".
Prior to her current position, she was lecturer in comparative literature at the Utrecht University and lecturer in nineteenth and twentieth century English literature at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She holds a BA and MA degree in English and American Literature and Linguistics and Comparative Literature. She was awarded a PhD degree in cultural history for her dissertation on the role of operas in nineteenth-century national movements (University of Amsterdam, 2008).
Her research focuses on the interactions between the aesthetic and political discourses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has widely published on the representations of politics and history in nineteenth-century operas and on the operatic re-mediations of literary works.
She is currently working on two projects: one aims to study the cultural and political implications of Wagnerianism and the other one, The Visibility of the Poet, focuses on the poet as public figure in nineteenth-century Europe.
Teaching
Courses taught:
- Culturele Vormgeving van Europa (Cultural Shaping of Europe)
- Europese Literatuurgeschiedenis (History of European Literature)
- Romanticism
- Nationalism
- Europe in (post)colonial discourse
- Opera and Politics
- Gothic Traditions and Cultural Critique
- Imagination, dream, experiment
- Introduction to World Literature
- Drama
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Activities
- member of the Educational Committee (Opleidingscommissie)
- research coordinator for the RoyalNetherlands' Academy of Arts and Sciences (onderzoeksleider KNAW)
- coordinator of Culturele Vormgeving van Europa
- Ladies' Program GARS - leader for European Studies
Reviews of the doctoral dissertation:
NRC Handelsblad-Paul Schnabel
De Pers - Marcel Hulspas
Stads FM- Culturele Programma "Radio Pingpong"- Eva Krammer
Science Guide
Historisch Nieuwsblad
UvA Nieuwsbrief
Selected Publications
Monographs:
Opera and Nineteenth-Century Nation-Building, Brill, 2011 (Forthcoming)
Articles:
“Textual and Musical Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere”, In. Free Access to the Past, (Eds. Marita Mathijsen – Joep Leerssen), Leiden: Brill, 2010.
“National Palimpsests”, In. Folklore and Nationalism in Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century, (Ed. Timothy Baycroft), Leiden: Brill, 2010. (forthcoming) “Translator as Critic – Critic as Artist – Translator as Artist”, In. The Importance of Reinventing Oscar. Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years, eds. BÖKER, Uwe, Richard CORBALLIS and Julie, HIBBARD, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, 257-267. “Why did Faust go to Hungary? National Ideology and Hungarian Music” In. Cultural Studies Now - Conference Journal, 2007. The article is also available online at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow/documents/LajosiWhyDidFaustGoToHungary.pdf “The love of power and the power of love. A cultural-poetical approach to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen”, In. QUEST, Issue 4, 2007, Special Edition, Proceedings of the Conference “Perspectives on Power”. The article is available online at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/QUEST/JournalIssues/Issue4ProceedingsoftheQuestConference “Music in Nineteenth-Century European Imagination”, In. Donau 2007/3, 36-46. “Music asa Marker of National Identity”, In. Kommunikáció, Média, Gazdaság – Special Issue for the Proceedings of the Conference on National Stereotypes – 2007/2, 67-91. “National Opera and Nineteenth-Century Nation Building in East-Central Europe”, In. Neohelicon XXXII/1, 2005, 51-69. “Historical Memory as Rhetorical Trope: A Reading of Paul de Man’s Aesthetic Ideologies” (“Felejtésés emlékezés alakzatai a Paul de Man-i életműben: a retorikai olvasás mint a történelem (el/le)leplezésére tett kísérlet”), In.Literatura2005/3. Perfectie zoeken in stilte , In. Ablak 2004/6, 12, 24-25.
“Queritur: Opera as Ideology in the Oeuvre of Richard Wagner” (“Queritur: A tizedik múzsa nyomában. Az opera ideológiája Richard Wagnernél”), In. (Tév)eszmék bűvöletében, (eds.) : Éva Jeney – Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2005, 105-130. “Music as Cultural Practice in Nineteenth Century Europe” (“A zenemint kulturális gyakorlat a 19. században. Mátray Gábor zenetörténetétõl a Zenészeti lapokig”), In. A kultúra átváltozásai. Kép, zene, szöveg, (eds.) Éva Jeney – Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, Budapest, Balassi Kiadó,2006, 70-97.
Book Review Essays: “ ‘1956, Hungary’, GATI, Charles: Failed Illusions. Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt”, In. European Review of History: Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 2008/1, 78-80. “History and Representation on the Russian Opera Stage” (“Történelem és reprezentáció az orosz színpadon”), In. Budapest Review of Books, 2008/1, 62-65.
Translations:
Wolfgang Iser: The Range of Interpretations, Budapest: Gondolat, 2004.