Kata Gyuris

Kata Gyuris is an Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Department of English Studies, specializing in African literature, gender studies, and trauma theory. She holds a PhD in comparative African literature with a focus on violence in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone fiction, currently adapting her dissertation into a book.

• Visiting scholar at University of Kwazulu-Natal’s School of Oriental and African Studies
• Co-organized 2019 conference on Performativity in Contemporary Culture
• Co-authored Turning the Page: Gendered Identities in Contemporary Literary and Visual Cultures (2018)

Her research intersects African literature with gender studies, trauma analysis, and postcolonial discourse, examining how violence and identity are represented in works by authors like Coetzee, Adichie, and Le Clézio. Her recent articles explore feminist narrative structures in African coming-of-age stories and ethics of reconciliation in apartheid literature. While no explicit scientific awards are documented, her scholarly output spans critical essays on postcolonial allegory, queer theory, and intertextuality across Hungarian, English, and French contexts.