Mgr. Zénó Vernyik, Ph.D.

1. Weber, Tilo, Hynek Böhm, Zénó Vernyik, Artur Boháč, et al., 2022. Wissenskommunikation unter Bedingungen von Mehrsprachigkeit. 1^st edition. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag.
2. Vernyik, Zénó, Matthias Wessel, Henry Innes MacAdam, Stephen Ingle, et al., 2021. Arthur Koestler‘s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond. 1^st edition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
3. Vernyik, Zénó, Martina Vránová, Dávid Levente Palatinus, Markéta Gregorová, et al., 2019. Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture. Szeged: Americana eBooks.
4. Vernyik, Zénó, 2015. Cities of Saviors: Urban Space in E. E. Cummings‘ Complete Poems, 1904-1962 and Peter Ackroyd‘s Hawksmoor. 1^st edition. Szeged: Americana eBooks.
5. Vernyik, Zénó, Jiří Flajšar, Richard Bradford, Gillian Huang-Tiller, et al., 2007. Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings‘ Art Across Borders. 1^st edition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

1. Vernyik, Zénó. 2022. “‘One of Koestler‘s Best’: An Analysis of the Immediate Critical Reception of Arrival and Departure.” Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 14(1), 5-21.
2. Vernyik, Zénó. 2016. “‘He Is Not English, He Is Not a Novelist; And How Far Is He Even Likeable?’ On the Critical Reception of Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night.” Atlantis. 38(1), 71-88.
3. Vernyik, Zénó. 2016. “‘Straight out of the button-molder's own ladle’: On the complexity of characters in Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night.” International Journal of English Studies. 16(2), 25-43.
4. Vernyik, Zénó. 2013. “The Sensitive Bachelor and the Triangle of Incest: Gouvernail in Kate Chopin‘s ‘Athénaïse‘ and The Awakening.” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philologia. 58(3), 99-112.
5. Vernyik, Zénó. 2011. “Un célibataire aux sensibilités différentes: Une re-lecture queer de Gouvernail dans ‘A Respectable Woman‘ par Kate Chopin.” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philologia. 56(4), 157-172.

1. Vernyik, Zénó. 2018. “‘We Are Trained to Be Cynical’: Arthur Koestler's The Call-Girls as a Campus Novel.” Brno Studies in English. 44(2), 157-175.

1. Vernyik, Zénó. 2021. “Arthur Koestler‘s America, Part I: Experiencing the Country and Its Inhabitants.” Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. 17(1), ISSN 1787-4637
2. Vernyik, Zénó. 2019. “‘Exceptionally Feeble’? The Role of Circumcision in Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night.” Ostrava Journal of English Philology. 11(2), 25-41. ISSN 1803-8174
3. Vernyik, Zénó. 2010. “Maeterlinck, créateur de mythes? Sur la relation de L’Oiseau bleu à d’autres versions du motif.” Linguistic and Literary Broad Research and Innovation. 1(2), 72-85. ISSN 2068-0627
4. Vernyik, Zénó. 2008. “‘fourdimensional ideas into a twodimensional stage’: E.E. Cummings‘ and László Moholy-Nagy‘s Aesthetics of Drama and Theater.” Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. Řada anglistická. 34(1), 139-149. ISSN 1211-1791
5. Vernyik, Zénó. 2007. “The Ins and Outs of Teaching Cultural Studies.” ATE Newsletter: Journal of English Language Teaching. 18(2), 55-61. ISSN 1210-0196

1. Vernyik, Zénó, 2022. “Arthur Koestler‘s Multilingualism: Biography and Authorship.” In Wissenskommunikation unter Bedinungen von Mehrsprachigkeit. [online]. 1^st edition. Berlin: Peter Lang. 297-324.
2. Vernyik, Zénó, 2021. “Can There Be Multiple Keys? The Age of Longing and the Genre of the Roman-à-clef.” In Arthur Koestler‘s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond. 1^st edition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 33-57.
3. Vernyik, Zénó, 2021. “From Reviving the Dinosaur to Reconnecting with the Visionary: An Introduction to the Volume and an Overview of the State of Koestler Studies.” In Arthur Koestler‘s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel: Rubashov and Beyond. 1^st edition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. xv-xxxix.
4. Vernyik, Zénó, 2019. “‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: The (Im)possibility of Detection in The Black Mirror.” In Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture. [online]. Szeged: Americana eBooks. 108-121.
5. Vernyik, Zénó, 2012. “Átaludt avantgarde: E. E. Cummings színházi munkássága a kortárs amerikai dráma kontextusában.” In A fattyú művészet nyomában: Írások amerikai drámáról és színházról. [online]. 1^st edition. Szeged: University of Szeged.
6. Vernyik, Zénó, 2007. “Charting a Dream: The Spatial and Textual Structure of E. E. Cummings‘ Him.” In Dream, Imagination and Reality in Literature. [online]. 1^st edition. České Budějovice: Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích. 140-146.
7. Vernyik, Zénó, 2007. “Sacred-Evil New York: Urban Spatiality in Tulips & Chimneys.” In Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings‘ Art Across Borders. [online]. 1^st edition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 126-153.

1. Vernyik, Zénó and Michaela Raimová, 2010. Transformations of the City-Goddess: Towards a Model of E. E. Cummings‘ City-Space. Opava: Silesian Univ Opava, Inst Foreign Languages. ISBN 978-80-7248-622-9.

1. Vernyik, Zénó, 2005. „decomposing in the mouth of New York”: Spatial New York City in E. E. Cummings‘ Tulips & Chimneys. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. ISBN 978-80-210-3836-3.

Supervised Topics (both BA and MA):

• Central European Expatriate and Emigrant Art in Britain and the United States (Arthur Koestler, George Mikes)
• The City in Literature and Film in the English Speaking Countries (New York, London)
• Modern American Poetry (E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound)
• Women Writers (Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• Film-adaptations of Novels and Plays Written in English
• Australian Cinema (Rolf de Heer, Baz Luhrmann)
• Modern Playwrights in America (E. E. Cummings, Tennessee Williams)
• Modern and Contemporary American and British Fiction
• Popular Music
• Computer Games

The names listed in parentheses are only recommendations, I am willing to supervise theses on other authors, as well. Come and see me if you have anyone else in mind.

Likewise, these topics are not the only ones I am willing to take: they serve to illustrate what kinds of issues I am interested in. It is perfectly possible that a different, but intriguing topic might be favorably received. Do not be afraid to ask.

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  Gender Equality: Progressive Change in The Sims Game Series
• Šťastný Michal | bakalářská práce | 15.7.2019
  The Commercialization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in Its Film Adaptations
• Hromádková Lucie | diplomová práce | 30.5.2019
  The Depiction of Victorian Vanity in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
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  Interpersonal Relationships and Socialization in the American Television Series The Big Bang Theory
• Ševitová Markéta | diplomová práce | 28.7.2016
  Cruelty and Sexuality in Disney's Adaptations of Grimms' Fairy Tales
• Burešová Milada | bakalářská práce | 18.7.2016
  The Representation of Love and Drugs in Janis Joplin's Songs
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  The Influence of Sex Pistols on the Style of Green Day's Performances
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  From an Alien to an Alienated Alien: An Analysis of the Transformation of Doctor Who's Character over His Tenth and Eleventh Incarnation
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