Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism

I graduated from the University of Pécs with a degree in Italian Language and Literature and History. Between 1995 and 2024, I taught Italian language, presentation skills and career planning at the Department of Professional Languages at the BGE. Since 2024, I have been a member of the Pedagogy Department, teaching courses in Learning and Research Methodology, Career Socialization and Career Planning. My research interests include educational methodology, literature, visual arts and movement arts. My work as a translator includes the translation of novels, short stories and poetry from Italian. At BGE KVIK, I taught Italian language for tourism, presentation skills and career planning between 1995 and 2024. As head of the Italian department, I headed the Neolatin department for three years. I have been involved in the BGE Language Examination Centre as a task setter and examiner, as well as a language coordinator. I conducted methodological research on the effectiveness of the presentation skills training course on communication skills. I was the initiator and coordinator of the Methodology Workshop in the department. I have participated in Erasmus study trips and training courses in Norway, Iceland and Italy. In my teaching activities, I regularly follow research areas related to methodology, motivation, autonomous and cooperative learning, and since 2019 I have been working on the Corall (Coaching-oriented Online Resources for the Autonomous Learning of LSP) project (2019-2021), which was awarded to the Department of Business Languages as an Erasmus+ Higher Education Strategic Partnership grant. From September 2024, I am a member of the Pedagogy Department, teaching Research Methodology, Learning Methodology, Career Socialization and Planning, and Career Planning. In 2004, I obtained my qualification as a psychodrama leader in the 7-year training of the Hungarian Psychodrama Association. I was the reading editor of the association's journal for 6 years. I continued my doctoral studies on my psychodrama experiences and the impact of drama, and defended my dissertation at the Faculty of Humanities of ELTE in 2013. In my PhD thesis I analysed the phenomenon of theatre in prisons, a specific field of contemporary Italian theatre, through the work of the Compagnia della Fortezza company in Volterra. I received my mediation qualification at the Partners Hungary Foundation training in 2017. I was the editor of the Italian-Hungarian and Hungarian-Italian dictionaries republished in 2000 by Akadémiai Publishers. My work as a translator includes short stories, essays and poems. I regularly write book reviews for the weekly magazine Élet és Irodalom. For many years, I have been helping the Hungarian Translation House Foundation and some foreign translators who translate Hungarian works of fiction into their own languages I am a member of the Society of Writers of Fiction. I do voluntary work in the cultural and social spheres.