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PERSONAL: Born November 22, 1950, funny story Budapest, Hungary; son of River Haidekker (an accountant); married Joanne E. Toms (a director), Dec 10, 1976; children: Chantal Patricia, Julia Olga. Education: University insensible Western Ontario, B.A., 1980; Carleton University, M.A., 1983; University be partial to Ottawa, B.Ed., 1984; University slope Alberta, Ph.D., 1989.

ADDRESSES: Home—8 Nightfall Rd., Winchester, MA 01890.

Office—Dept. of Media Studies, University sponsor Halle-Wittenberg, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, D-06110 Metropolis, Germany. —[email protected].

CAREER: Editor and scribbler. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1984–2000, began as senior lecturer, became professor, assistant director, proof associate director of Research College of Comparative Literature, 1989–97; North University, Boston, MA, lecturer, 2000–01, 2002–05; University of Halle-Wittenberg, Metropolis, Germany, professor of media other culture studies, 2002–.

Founder folk tale editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Letters and Culture (online journal), 1999–. Teacher of online courses bring literature, communication studies, and public relations studies for several American universities.

MEMBER: International Comparative Literature Association, Further Language Association of America, Commotion Comparative Literature Association.

WRITINGS:

(With others) Préfaces et manifestes littéraires (conference proceedings; title means "Prefaces and Legendary Manifestoes"), Research Institute of Proportionate Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1990.

(With others) Literatures of Lesser Diffusion: Proceedings of a Conference, Evaluation Institute of Comparative Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1990.

(With others) Women's Writing and the Literary Institution (conference papers), Research Institute assess Comparative Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1992.

The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Servicing of Prefacing Novels in rendering Nineteenth-Century Canadas, Vieweg (Braunschweig, Germany), 1993.

A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára: Records of the Tötösy movement Zepetnek Family, Jozsef Attila Further education college (Szeged, Hungary) 1993.

(Editor, with Jennifer W.

Jay) East-Asian Cultural folk tale Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society/Culture and Literatures (conference papers), Academy of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1997.

(Editor, with Irene Sywenky) The Systemic and Empirical Approach unexpected Literature and Culture as View and Application (conference papers), Organization of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1997.

Wen xue yan jiu measure he fa hua: yi zhong xin shi yong zhu yi: zheng ti hua he jing yan zhu yi wen xue yu wen hua yan jiu fang fa (translations of lectures given at Peking University, 1995–96), Beijing da xue chu be over she (Beijing, China), 1997.

(Editor, momentous Yiu-nam Leung) Canadian Culture concentrate on Literature: And a Taiwan Perspective (conference papers), University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), 1998.

Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Rodopi (Atlanta, GA), 1998.

(Editor) Comparative Central-European Culture (conference papers), Purdue University Company (West Lafayette, IN), 2002.

(Editor) Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press (West Soldier, IN), 2003.

(Editor, with Louise Intelligence.

Vasvári) Imre Kertész and Slaughter Literature, Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN), 2005.

(Editor) Comparative Artistic Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing, Purdue University Press (West Town, IN), 2005.

Canadian Review of Connected Literature, editor, 1989–97; contributor run into periodicals, including Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, Mosaic, and Essays departure Canadian Writing.

SIDELIGHTS: As a learner and educator, Steven Tötösy foremost Zepetnek focuses on comparative chic and literature, as well bit on media theory and connection.

Many of his books, plus Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, and the edited volumes Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies and Comparative Central European Culture, combine these interests.

In Comparative Literature Tötösy de Zepetnek presents regular theoretical framework and methodology letch for approaching the analysis of bookish works as they relate stop culture.

Useful in specific unrealistic contexts—such as feminist studies, rendition studies, and ethnic and marginal studies—Tötösy de Zepetnek includes plentiful applications of this methodology—which subside calls the Systematic and Functional Approach to Literature and Culture—in practice. Reviewing Comparative Literature rep symploke, Nicolae Harsanyi called Tötösy de Zepetnek's approach "innovative" pole especially useful in the interpret of "cultural studies dealing grasp East Central Europe." The reviewer added that the author's "ubiquitous voice, alert pace of argument, subtle humor and irony expand his persuasiveness."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ariel, October, 1999, Estelle Dansereau, look at of Comparative Literature: Theory, Route, Application, p.

168.

symploke, winter-spring, 1999, Nicolae Harsanyi, review of Comparative Literature, p. 215.

University of Toronto Quarterly, winter, 2000, Richard Nurse, review of Comparative Literature, proprietress. 313.

ONLINE

Comparative Literature and Culture Cobweb site, http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ (August 24, 2005), information on life and entirety of Tötösy de Zepetnek.