Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven (Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv
1) Biographical data: Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek was born in Budapest, Hungary, 22 November 1950. Following emigration from Hungary in 1964 received Geneva Convention political refugee status in Austria 1965. Residence in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 1964-1975, Canada 1975-2000, and U.S.A. 2000-current. Citizenship: Hungarian and Canadian (& U.S. permanent legal resident). Married since 1976 to Joanne E. Tötösy de Zepetnek (Ph.D. Pharmacology), born Toms 1955 Montréal, Canada. Children: Chantal P. Tötösy de Zepetnek (born 1982 Ottawa, Canada) and Julia O. Tötösy de Zepetnek (born 1984 Ottawa, Canada).

2) Education & professional career (teaching and editing) & fields of research

  • Education: secondary education in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 1964-1972; university education: B.A. history and German studies (The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 1980), M.A. comparative literature (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1983), B.Ed. history and English as a second language (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1984), Ph.D. comparative literature (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1989).
  • Teaching: comparative literature, German studies, and English literature University of Alberta 1984-2000; media and communication studies Northeastern University 2000-2001 & 2007-2008; literature National Sun Yat-sen University 2008-2010; media and communication studies University of Halle-Wittenberg 2002-2011; & (distinguished) visiting professorships in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
  • Editing and publishing: series editor, Purdue University Press (U.S.A.) print monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 2001-current http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/comparative_cultural_studies; Shaker Press (Aachen, Germany) print monograph series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies 2005-current http://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/index.asp?lang=de&ID=6&category=451; editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Purdue University Press (U.S.A.) 1999-current http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb; editor, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Ontario, Canada) Research Institute for Comparative Literature Book Publishing Programme 1990-2000; Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association) 1989-1997; & special issues of learned journals.
  • Fields of research: (comparative) cultural studies; media studies (intermediality); communication studies; (comparative) literature (English-, French-, German-, and Hungarian-language literatures and cultures, US-American, English-, Québécois-, and ethnic-Canadian literatures); culture and literature as system; the sociology of cultural production and participation (audience and readership studies); history and practice of (new) media; culture policy; higher education and the humanities; literary and critical theory; rhetoric; discourse studies; translation studies (theory, translation German-English and Hungarian-English); English as a second language (language acquisition and pedagogy); diaspora and ethnic minority cultures and literatures; comparative Central and East European studies; Holocaust studies; the modern novel; themes and motifs in world literature; film and literature; postcolonial studies; feminist theory and criticism; pedagogy; intercultural communication (conflict resolution and mediation); history; historical genealogy.

3) Single-authored books published by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

  • 3.6 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Cultural Studies. ca. 300 pages, bibliography, index. Forthcoming.
  • 3.5 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 299 pages, bibliography, index. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/comparativeliterature1998 . West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 3.4 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (斯蒂文·托托西演). 文学研究的合法化: 一种新实用主义 · 整体化和经主义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing the Study of Literature: A New Pragmatism and the Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i (马瑞琪翻). Beijing: Peking University Press, 1997. ISBN 7-301-03482-2 217 pages. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/legitimizingstudyofliterature. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011.
  • 3.3 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher (Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn), 1993. ISBN 3-528-07335-7 188 pages, bibliography, index. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosystudyofpreface. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 3.2 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára/Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family. Szeged: Attila József University, 1993. ISBN 963-481-914-1 280 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2010): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosyrecords. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010.
  • 3.1 Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Prefaces to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Novels: Their Function as Genre and Element of the Literary System. Ph.D. Dissertation. Edmonton: Department of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1989. ISBN 0-315-556-307. Dissertation Abstracts International 1990 May v50.11, p3596A-3597A.

4) Books & special issues of learned journals edited

  • 4.2.33 2013. The Other City and Emergent Urban Cultures. Ed. Agata Anna Lisiak, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Tutun Mukherjee, Christopher Larkosh, and Asunción López-Varela Azcárate. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. Forthcoming.
  • 4.2.32 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Forthcoming.
  • 4.2.31 2011. New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Haun Saussy, and Jan Mieszkowski. Thematic Issue CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press ISSN 1481-4374) 13.3 (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss3/.
  • 4.2.30 2011. Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011. ISBN 10:1557535930 ISBN 13:9781557535931 376 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.29 2010. Mapping the World, Culture, and Border-crossing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and I-Chun Wang. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-986-02-5386-3 162 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.28 2010. Perspectives on Identity, Migration, and Displacement. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, I-Chun Wang, and Hsiao-Yu Sun. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-986-02-3541-8 209 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.27 2010. nobilitashungariae: List of Historical Surnames of the Hungarian Nobility / nobilitashungariae. A magyar történelmi nemesség családneveinek listája. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/nobilitashungariae. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010. ISSN 1923-9580 241 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.26 2009. Cultural Discourse in Taiwan. Ed. Chin-Chuan Cheng, I-Chun Wang, and Steven Tötösy de Zepet-nek. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-986-01-9506-4 239 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.25 2009. New Work in Holocaust Studies. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Issue CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press ISSN 1481-4374) 11.1 (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol11/iss1/.
  • 4.2.24 2009. Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-55753-526-9 211 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.23 2006. The New Central and East European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andraş, and Magdalena Marsovszky. Aachen: Shaker Press, 2006. ISBN 3-8322-5143-X 386 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.22 2005. Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55753-378-4 147 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.21 2005. Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-55753-396-8 336 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.20 2004. Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Issue CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press ISSN 1481-4374) 6.3 (2004): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol6/iss3/.
  • 4.2.19 2003. Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2003. ISBN 1-55753-290-7 365 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.18 2002. Comparative Central European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2002. ISBN 1-55753-240-0 217 pages, bibliography, index.
  • 4.2.17 2000. Histories and Concepts of Comparative Literature. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Issue CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Purdue University Press ISSN 1481-4374) 2.4 (2000): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol2/iss4/.
  • 4.2.16 1999. Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Milan V. Dimić, and Irene Sywenky. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999. ISBN 2-85203-605-3 930 pages, bibliography.
  • 4.2.15 1998. Canadian Culture and Literatures, and a Taiwan Perspective. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. ISBN 0-921490-10-0 320 pages, bibliography. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/canadianculture. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 4.2.14 1997. The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Siegen: Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, Siegen University, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-08-9 605 pages, bibliography, index. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/empiricalstudyofliterature. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 4.2.13 1997. East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-09-7 383 pages, bibliography.
  • 4.2.12 1996. International Perspectives on Reading. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Special Issue Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Michigan Technological University ISSN 0742-9681) 35-36 (1996): 1-120.
  • 4.2.11 1996. Comparative Literature: History and Contemporaneity / Littérature Comparée. Histoire et contemporanéité. Ed. Milan V. Dimić and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association ISSN 0319-051X) 23.1 (1996): 1-268.
  • 4.2.10 1996. History of the Book and the Study of Literature. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association ISSN 0319-051X) 23.1 (1996): 207-58.
  • 4.2.9 1996. The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature: Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Ed. Margarida L. Losa, Isménia de Sousa, and Gonçalo Vilas-Boas. Porto: Afrontamento, 1996. ISBN 972-36-0420-5 273-375 pages, bibliography.
  • 4.2.8 1995. Postcolonial Literatures: Theory and Practice / Les Littératures post-coloniales. Théories et réalisations. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew. Thematic Issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association ISSN 0319-051X) 22.3-4 (1995): 399-932.
  • 4.2.7 1994-97. IGELnews: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature ISSN 1203-2220). Ed. and comp. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. 2 (1994): 1-55; 3 (1995): 1-27; 4 (1996): 1-14; 5 (1997): 1-14.
  • 4.2.6 1993. (Re)Vision(s) of Canadian Literature(s) / (Ré)vision(s) de(s)[la] littérature(s) canadienne(s). Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Milan V. Dimić. Thematic Cluster Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association ISSN 0319-051X) 20.3-4 (1993): 435-89.
  • 4.2.5 1992. IGEL Newsletter: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature. Ed. and comp. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Art Graesser (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature ISSN 1203-2220) 1 (1992): 1-24.
  • 4.2.4 1992. Women's Writing and the Literary Institution / L'Écriture au féminin et l'institution littéraire. Ed. Claudine Potvin, Janice Williamson, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1992. ISBN 0-921490-07-0 236 pages, bibliography. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2009): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/womenswriting. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 4.2.3 1990. Prefaces and Manifestos / Préfaces et manifestes littéraires. Ed. E.D. Blodgett, A.G. Purdy, and S. Tötösy de Zepetnek. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1990. ISBN 0-921490-03-8 208 pages, bibliography. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/prefaces. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 4.2.2 1990. Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les Littératures de moindre diffusion. Ed. Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimić. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1990. ISBN 0-921490-05-4 320 pages, bibliography. & digitally in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library):
  • http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/literatureslesserdiffusion. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009.
  • 4.2.1 1989. Literatures of Lesser Diffusion / Les Littératures de moindre diffusion. Ed. Joseph Pivato, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Milan V. Dimić. Thematic Issue Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (Canadian Comparative Literature Association ISSN 0319-051X) 16.3-4 (1989): 555-884.