Dávid Levente Palatinus, Ph.D.

I am Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies. Prior to my move to Liberec in 2020, I was Head of Department of English and American Studies in Ruzomberok. Before that, Between 2012-2013, and 2018-2020 I was also a embedded with the University of Pannonia, Veszprem, Hungary, where I taught Critical and Cultural theory. In 2014 I was an Early Stage Research Fellow in the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna. In the past I studied and held fellowships at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the University of Oslo, and Newcastle University. 

In 2017 I set up the Anthropocene Media Lab which now functions as an inter-institutional hub for collaborations and work in the fields of media and Anthropocene studies.

I was awarded my Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies in 2009, and subsequently moved into media studies (with emphases on television and digital media). My current research moves between and across television studies, digital media, and cultural theory. I have worked and written on serial culture, medicine and autopsy, autoimmunity and war, and digital subjectivity in the Anthropocene. I am co-editor (with Elke Weissmann, Edge Hill University, UK) of the ECREA section of CSTOnline, and sit on the editorial boards of Americana – E-Journal of American Studies (Hungary), of the book series Rewind: British and American Studies of Aras Edizioni (Fano, Italy), and of Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures. 

I am co-editor of a special issue of Itinerari LIX - Perspectives in the Anthropocene: Beyond Nature and Culture? (2020), and of the volumes Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media (Peter Lang, 2020), and  Crime and Detection in the Age of Electronic Reproduction (Americana Ebooks, 2018).

I am co-editor of the volume J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions and the Legacy. London and New York: Routledge, 2023.

My book Human / Non / Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2024.

For more details about my teaching and research, and for a full list of publications, visit my website.

1. Palatinus, Levente, 2023. J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy. 1^st edition. New York: Routledge.
2. Palatinus, Levente, Stefania Achella, Maurizio Ferraris, Carla Bendetti, et al., 2020. Perspectives in the Anthropocene: Beyond Nature and Culture. 1^st edition. Milano-Udine: Mimesis Edizioni.
3. Vernyik, Zénó, Martina Vránová, Levente Palatinus, Markéta Gregorová, et al., 2019. Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture. Szeged: Americana eBooks.

1. Palatinus, Levente. 2023. “Technics, Perception, Différance: Narrating the Seeing-Machine?.” JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL EDUCATION. 11(1), 114-125.

1. Palatinus, Levente. 2020. “Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital.” Acta Philologica. 56(1), 85-98. ISSN 0065-1524

Thesis topics:

I am happy to hear from students seeking supervision on topics in digital media, cultural studies, 20th and 21st century British and American film and television, Anthropocene studies, posthumanism, and the war on terror.

Particular topics may include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Television and New Media (histories of British and American television; streaming services as distribution models, etc. You can also choose to offer a textual analysis of a particular series or format, or do audience research)
• Children's Television
• Cross-Platform Story Telling (adaptations, etc).
• Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (and Film)
• Sci-fi and fantasy (on paper and on the screen)
• Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Film
• Narratives of the Posthuman (examples might include but are not restricted to: Westworld, The Matrix franchise, Ex Machina, Blade Runner, etc)
• Narrative Complexity and Immersive Universes in Open World Videogames
• Gaming as Cultural Practice and Video Games as Cultural Form (industry perspectives, technologies, audiences)
• Gamer Communities 
• Mediating Animals: Animals in / as Media
• Medicine and Media (medical dramas; medical / health narratives on paper and on the screen)
• Digital Media, Digital Identities 
• Digital / Social Media and Children
• Climate, Conflict, Migration (in literature and film)

• Endeová Simona | bakalářská práce | 23.4.2026
  Epic Odyssey: Unravelling the World of Assassin's Creed
• Kobrová Kateřina | bakalářská práce | 21.4.2026
  Taylor Swift: Celebrity, Impact, and the Poetics of Songwriting
• Ďurajková Simona | bakalářská práce | 21.4.2026
  Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in the American Sitcom Modern Family
• Zbořilová Aneta | bakalářská práce | 21.4.2026
  Navigating Hollywood Realities: Biopics, Mockumentary and Tarantino's Auteur Cinema
• Mráziková Lucie | bakalářská práce | 20.4.2026
  Thematic resonance of Williams Blake's poems in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man
• Lorenc Ondřej | bakalářská práce | 19.4.2026
  The Utilization of Fallen Civilizations in the Context of Contemporary Media Worldbuilding
• Koucká Anežka | diplomová práce | 18.4.2026
  Trauma, Horror, and Liminal Spaces: A Comparative Study of Coraline and Omori Through Visual Aesthetics and Audience Impact
• Beránková Lucie | bakalářská práce | 1.7.2025
  Development of the Nintendo consoles, games and game characters
• Řehořová Hana | bakalářská práce | 30.6.2025
  The Role of Moral Dilemmas as Plot Devices in Fantasy World-building in Six of Crows
• Strnad Miroslav | bakalářská práce | 21.4.2025
  Analysis of the differences between gacha games and standard types of games
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