Kérchy, Anna

Anna Kérchy is a Senior Assistant Professor at the English Department of the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Szeged, a DEA in Semiology from Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, and a post-grad degree in English/Hungarian translation and interpretation. Her research interests include intermedial cultural representations, the post-semiotics of the embodied subject, interfacings of Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, gender and body studies, women’s art, and children’s literature. She is the author of Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View (2008), editor of Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales, co-editor of What Constitutes the Fantastic?, the Iconology of Law and Order, and Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows. Her current book project focuses on postmodern configurations of Victorian fantasy: the iconotextual poetics of imagetext relations in Lewis Carroll’s Alice-tales and their transmediatizations in contemporary adaptations.