Carol Avins,

Associate Professor
avins@rci.rutgers.edu

Marat Akopian,

Part-time Lecturer

marat@rci.rutgers.edu

B.A., Tbilisi State University

M.A., Central European University

M.A., Tbilisi State Institute of Foreign Languages

Svetlana Bogomolny,

Part-time Lecturer

Svetlana.Bogomolny@obps.org

Emily Diehl,

Part-Time Lecturer
diehl@rci.rutgers.edu

Katarzyna Janicka,

Part-time Lecturer

kjanicka@rci.rutgers.edu

Natalia Medvedeva,

Part-time Lecturer

Erzsébet Csereklye

Dr. Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim

Dr. Attila Melegh

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Ms. Csereklye holds an M.A. from the University of Miskolc, Hungary and has also studied English Language and Literature at ELTE in Budapest. In addition, she has also studied the Finnish language at the University of Tampere, Finland, and Modern Estonian Literature at Tartu University in Estonia. There she completed diploma work on modern Estonian prose, especially on the works of Viivi Luik.

She has completed 2 years of studies toward the PhD at the University of Miskolc in the Program of Historical and Theoretical Models of Contemporary Hungarian Literature, with a focus on Szabó Lorinc and his circle .

Her most recent scholarly interests concern narrative techniques in modern prose.

She has taught at the University of Miskolc, and at the Summer University in Debrecen.

Ms. Csereklye will be teaching courses in Hungarian Language, Culture and Literature.

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Dr. Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim is a guest teaching fellow thanks to a generous grant of the Kościuszko Foundation in New York and funding from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. ludmila@hektor.umcs.lublin.pl

Dr. Gruszewska-Blaim holds a Doctoral Degree in English Philology from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Her dissertation dealt with the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Her Master's Degree, which she also completed at UMCS was in English philology. Her thesis dealt with spatial form theory and the semiotics of represented space.

She is presently an adjunct professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.

Dr. Gruszewska Blaim is a recipient of numerous awards and has authored of three books:

Chaos and Cosmos in `The Waste Land' by T.S.Eliot, Wydawnictwo Gdańskie, 1994;

T.S.Eliot: `Murder in the Cathedral', Wydawnictwo Gdańskie, 1995, [co-author];

Wizje i re-wizje w poezji Thomasa S. Eliota, Annales UMCS, 1996;

She has also published many articles on such writers as T. S. Eliot, Jerzy Kosinski, Derek Mahon and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on numerous articles on literary theory.

Dr. Gruszewska-Blaim will teach an advanced course on Contemporary Polish literature.

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Attila Melegh is visiting Rutgers University for the second time as a Fulbright Scholar. In 1996/97 he taught a course at the History Department on Central European social history. amelegh@mail.datanet.hu

Attila Melegh holds an M.A. in Sociology and Economics from the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration in Hungary. He also holds a Doctoral Degree in History from Debrecen University in Hungary. His dissertation dealt with the population history of agrarian towns in Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries. He also studied Social History at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He was also awarded several scholarships for shorter visits to Cambridge University, Max Planck Institut in Germany and to the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

He is presently a lecturer at the International Studies Center at Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration and he is senior researcher at the Demographic Research Institute at the Hungarian Statistical Office

He is the author of two books:

East in the East. Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discourses on Eastern Europe. Complete manuscript being submitted to CEU Press, 2003.

The Population History of Kiskunhalas from the 17th century till the early 20th century. Budapest, KSH NKI Kutatási Jelentés 65. 2000

He has also published many articles on East/West discourses and international order, international migration, demographic discourses and historical demography.

Dr. Melegh will teach a couurse entitled "International Politics and the Changes in East/West Discourses."

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