Péter Hajdu (1966, Budapest, Hungary) studied Literature, Greek and Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and wrote his dissertation on late Roman epic poetry. He is editor-in-chief of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. Member of advisory boards of five international journals on literary studies (Proudy, Czech Republic; Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Germany; Recherche Litteraire/Literary Research, Belgium, Primerjalna književnost, Slovenia, Clotho, Slovenia). He did extensive research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, narratology, and classical philology. From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association's (ICLA) Research Committee for East- and South-East Europe, 2008-2014 he was member of the standing research committee for literary theory, and 2010-16 member of the ICLA Executive Council. 2002-2012 secretary, since 2016 president of Hungarian Comparative Literature Association. He lectured at various universities in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, PR China, and Japan. He has published 6 books and more than 130 papers, and presented his research achievements in more than 70 international academic conferences. He discussed the writing of Kálmán Mikszáth, a major Hungarian prose writer in three monographs. He edited or co-edited 10 collections of articles on topics of literary theory, translation studies, nineteenth-century European literature, generic traditions, and Horace’ poetry. He is distinguished professor at Shenzhen University.
Some recent publications:
1. “The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of theoretical Discourse.” In Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Eds.), Policing Literary Theory. Leiden: Brill, 2018, 135-145.
2.“The Hungarian Spectrum of Petronius’s Satyricon.” In Matthew Reynolds (Ed.) Prismatic Translation. Cambridge: Legenda, 2020, 305-323.
3.“The Many Sources of Meaning.” Philosophy and Literature 44, 2020, 124-139.
4.“Fictionality in Historical Television Series.” Primerjalna književnost 43(1), 2020, 97-113.
5.“Terry Pratchett’s thought experiments about the body.” Neohelicon 47, 2020, 75-87.