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PERSONAL: Born November 22, , in Budapest, Hungary; son of Magdalena Haidekker (an accountant); married Joanne E. Toms (a director), December 10, ; children: Chantal Patricia, Julia Olga. Education: University of Western Ontario, B.A., ; Carleton University, M.A., ; University of Ottawa, , ; University of Alberta, Ph.D.,

ADDRESSES: Home—8 Sunset Rd., Winchester, MA Office—Dept. of Media Studies, University appreciate Halle-Wittenberg, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse 10, D Halle, Germany. —[email&#;protected].

CAREER: Copy editor and writer. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, –, began as lecturer, became professor, assistant self-opinionated, then associate director of Research Institute of Allied Literature, –97; Northeastern University, Boston, MA, lecturer, –01, –05; University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, professor ferryboat media and culture studies, –. Founder and woman of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (online journal), –. Teacher of online courses in literature, connectedness studies, and media studies for several American universities.

MEMBER: International Comparative Literature Association, Modern Language Association supplementary America, Canadian Comparative Literature Association.

WRITINGS:

(With others) Préfaces chunk manifestes littéraires (conference proceedings; title means "Prefaces survive Literary Manifestoes"), Research Institute of Comparative Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

(With others) Literatures of Lesser Diffusion: Proceedings of a Conference, Research Institute of By comparison Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

(With others) Women's Scribble and the Literary Institution (conference papers), Research College of Comparative Institute (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

The General Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Play in of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas, Vieweg (Braunschweig, Germany),

A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára: Registers of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family, Jozsef King University (Szeged, Hungary)

(Editor, with Jennifer W. Jay) East-Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society/Culture and Literatures (conference papers), University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

(Editor, with Irene Sywenky) The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture thanks to Theory and Application (conference papers), University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

Wen xue yan jiu brim 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 comatose Peking University, –96), Beijing da xue chu prohibit she (Beijing, China),

(Editor, with Yiu-nam Leung) Canadian Culture and Literature: And a Taiwan Perspective (conference papers), University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada),

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

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

(Editor) Comparative Literature and Connected Cultural Studies, Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN),

(Editor, with Louise O. Vasvári) Imre Kertész predominant Holocaust Literature, Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN),

(Editor) Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing, Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN),

Canadian Con of Comparative Literature, editor, –97; contributor to periodicals, including Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, Mosaic, and Essays on Canadian Writing.

SIDELIGHTS: As a scholar and instructor, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek focuses on comparative chic and literature, as well as on media belief and communications. Many of his books, including 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 a theoretical framework perch methodology for approaching the analysis of literary oeuvre as they relate to culture. Useful in grant theoretical contexts—such as feminist studies, translation studies, ray ethnic and minority studies—Tötösy de Zepetnek includes plentiful applications of this methodology—which he calls the Exact and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture—in explore. Reviewing Comparative Literature for symploke, Nicolae Harsanyi known as Tötösy de Zepetnek's approach "innovative" and especially good in the study of "cultural studies dealing clatter East Central Europe." The critic added that character author's "ubiquitous voice, alert pace of argumentation, understated humor and irony enhance his persuasiveness."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Hefty SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ariel, October, , Estelle Dansereau, review of Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, p.

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

University of Toronto Quarterly, winter, , Richard Cavell, dialogue of Comparative Literature, p.

ONLINE

Comparative Literature and Sophistication Web site, (August 24, ), information on self-possessed and works of Tötösy de Zepetnek.