Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism

I graduated in History, English studies and then Art History from Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences and Humanities, Budapest (ELTE) before I completed a PhD course in Romanticism and Modernism at the Department of English Studies at ELTE. Besides my majors listed above I studied Egyptology as a minor.
Studies in Organizational and Social Psychology at Pécs University of Sciences followed my graduation in Psychology from Károli Gáspár University Budapet.
With a British Council study grant at the University of Sussex I worked out a curriculum in orientalism and postcolonial theory to teach at the dept. of English Studies, ELTE to complete my history, poetry, and literary theory courses I had been teaching up till then.
Parallel to my ELTE profile I have been working for Tourism and Hotel Management Course Budapest Business School from its start. My subjects I have had during more than 25 years have been: Basics in Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural Tourism and Sociology. Lately I have had the opportunity to introduce Heritage Interpretation and Tourism Anthropology as well. In 2019 I joined the Department of Pedagogy where I teach psychology and sociology. I also worked as a dyslexia trainer in English for Diszpont centre, BGE for several years.
Based on my widening terrains in cultural studies and in psychology have made my scholarly and my educational focuses increasingly interdisciplinary leading from orientalism and postcolonial theory up to communication studies and ICC on the one hand and from my religious studies up to postmodern cults in non-religious contexts on the other. In my approaches I always touch crossroads of textual and visual heritage in synchronic and diachronic perspectives.
In the past few years my overlapping fields of interest have led me up to visitor studies research, where social psychological aspects are to be handled together with multidimensional realms of meaning in culture.
I participated in a 1,5 year-long Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)-Hungarian Association of Heritage Managers (KÖME)-Kon-Tiki Büro, Germany-BGE visitor study project that finished with the first Hungarian visitor study conference at BGE, 2019.
I have published numerous studies in the fields of iconography-iconology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, literature studies, film studies, gender studies and religious studies and I regularly participate in and have lectures at international conferences of these fields.
.In the past 2 years I participated in the organization of various conferences: “Learning difficulties and disabilities” workshop at BGE,2017, Interpret Europe “Heritage and Identity” conference Kőszeg, Hungary,2018, “Value the Visitor” visitor study conference at BGE, 2019.
Beyond all my study fields and researches my biggest mission is education. I have always loved teaching with all its changing challenges.