Mária Kurdi
MÁRIA KURDI (Mezőcsát, 1947) is professor at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Her main research areas are modern Irish literature, English-speaking drama, and comparative literary studies. Her books include Representations of Gender and Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Drama by Women (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) and the edited volume Literary and Cultural Relations: Ireland, Hungary, and Central and Eastern Europe (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009). She has also published a book in Hungarian about the representation of Hungarian and East European immigrants in Irish literature (Lucidus, 2011). Currently she is co-editing with Irish scholar Miriam Haughton the collection Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland to be published with Carysfort Press, and the 2014 issue of Irish Theatre International titled “Perform, or Else!”