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Eszter Ureczky
Bipolitics, disability studies and the medical humanities in 20th-century and contemporary Western and Eastern European literature and film

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: University of Debrecen
literature
Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies

Thesis supervisor: Eszter Ureczky
Location of studies (in Hungarian): University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1. Main Building (University Square Campus), Ground floor, Room 15 (Tudományos Igazgatóság)
Abbreviation of location of studies: DEBTK


Description of the research topic:

The research topic includes the analysis of Western and Eastern European (or possibly North American) literary and cinematic texts from the 20th and 2lst centuries with a theoretical background in biopolitical philosophy, disability studies and the medical humanities: the representations of care, precarity, welfare, health, illness/disease, ageing, death, euthanasia, pregnancy, abortion or any other dilemmas concerning the experience of embodiment.

Required language skills: English
Number of students who can be accepted: 1

Deadline for application: 2024-05-15

 
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