Anna Menyhért

Anna Menyhért is a Professor of Trauma Studies at the Budapest University of Jewish Studies. Between 2016–2018 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. Previously she led the Trauma and Gender in Literature and Culture Research Group at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. She was the Vice President of the European Writers’ Council. She is the author of the monograph ‘Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Women Writers’ (Brill, 2020), and of the bestselling fictional biography of the early 20th century woman writer Renée Erdős, ‘A Free Woman’ (2016). She is currently working on a book project entitled ‘Trauma in the Digital Age: Trauma-Related Communication on Social Media in the Context of Contemporary Hungary’. From September 2020 she will be a Research Fellow at the Wiesenthal Institute in Vienna.