Introduction by Gabriella Varró and Zoltán Simon

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Gabriella Varró
Zoltán Simon

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Varró, Gabriella, and Zoltán Simon. 2011. “Introduction by Gabriella Varró and Zoltán Simon”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 7 (2). https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45253.
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011): Fall
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Guest Editors' Introduction
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Gabriella Varró

Gabriella Varró is currently Associate Professor at the North American Department of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She teaches courses in American drama history, comparative drama studies, American popular culture, and American literary history. Her research pertains to contemporary American drama with a special emphasis on the relevance of Sam Shepard for American drama and theater history, and is currently working on a monograph related to the field. She has published widely on American blackface minstrelsy, and on modern American drama from a comparative perspective. She is author or co-author of two monographs: Signifying in Blackface: The Pursuit of the Minstrel Sign in American Literature (2008), and Jim Crow örökösei: Mítosz és sztereotípia az amerikai társadalmi tudatban és kultúrában [The Heirs of Jim Crow: Myth and Stereotype in American Social Consciousness and Culture] (2002). Email: gabriella.varro@gmail.com

Zoltán Simon

Zoltán Simon received his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University in 2001. After spending a semester teaching as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University in 2010, he returned to work as an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Debrecen. Areas of his academic interests include (North) American literature and civilization, the relationship between technology and culture, English for special purposes, as well as translation and interpreting studies. He is the author of several articles, as well as a book, The Double-Edged Sword: The Technological Sublime in American Novels between 1900 and 1940 (2004). Email: simon.zoltan@arts.unideb.hu