Dávid Levente Palatinus, Ph.D.

I am Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies. Since September 2020, I divide my time between the English Department of the Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic), and the Catholic University of Ruzomberok (Slovakia). From 2018 to 2021, 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 board of Americana – E-Journal of American Studies (Hungary) and Rewind: British and American Studies Series of Aras Edizioni (Fano, Italy). 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). My book Human / Non / Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2022.

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

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

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

1. Palatinus, David 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)

• Machotková Eliška | bakalářská práce | 6.12.2023
  Social Polarization in the Post-apocalyptic Worlds of The Road and I am Legend
• Kamešová Zuzana | bakalářská práce | 14.7.2023
  The Roaring Twenties - a decade of change and its portrayal in the selected novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• Mágr Daniel | bakalářská práce | 26.4.2023
  Post-apocalyptic fiction and its use in video-game worlds: A Comparative Analysis of Metro, Left 4 Dead and Dead Space
• Tomášková Eva | bakalářská práce | 25.4.2023
  In Pursuit of the American Dream
• Smrž Štěpán | bakalářská práce | 25.4.2023
  Representing PTSD on the Big Screen: Characters from a combat environment in American Sniper a The Hurt Locker.
• Strádal Jan | diplomová práce | 7.12.2022
  Narrative Complexity, Realism and Immersive Gaming in Cyberpunk 2077
• Vaisarová Petra | bakalářská práce | 6.12.2022
  Representing Norse Mythology in Video Games
• Landovská Adéla | bakalářská práce | 13.7.2022
  A comparative analysis of the ways Divergent and The Hunger Games handle the coming-of-age narrative (Tris and Katniss)
• Novotná Kateřina | bakalářská práce | 7.7.2022
  Crime and violence in working class England represented in Peaky Blinders and Ripper Street