Mgr. Zénó Vernyik, Ph.D.

Education

2012: Ph.D. in Philology: Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University

2005: Mgr. university degree nostrified by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

2005: English Philology and Teaching English at High Schools, Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged

Research Stays

October 2018 – November 2019, Department of German Studies, University of Vienna, funded by the research project OP VVV CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008493 (MOTUL)

September 2018, Arthur Koestler Collection, Center for Research Collections, University Library, University of Edinburgh, funded by ESSE Bursary Type B and the TUL Mobility Fund

July 2015, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Kassel, funded by the TUL Mobility Fund

August 2014, Arthur Koestler Collection, Center for Research Collections, University Library, University of Edinburgh, funded by the TUL Mobility Fund

September 2012, Arthur Koestler Collection, Center for Research Collections, University Library, University of Edinburgh, funded by the TUL Mobility Fund

July – August 2009, E. E. Cummings Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, funded by ESSE Bursary Type A and TUL Internal Grant

1. Vernyik, Zénó, Sandor Klapcsik, Irene Alcubilla Troughton, Ana Belén Martínez García, et al., 2025. Brutal Aspects of Migratory Esthetics: Migration and Violence in Modern and Contemporary Culture. 1^st edition. Hannover: ibidem Verlag.
2. Weber, Tilo, Hynek Böhm, Zénó Vernyik, Artur Boháč, et al., 2022. Wissenskommunikation unter Bedingungen von Mehrsprachigkeit. 1^st edition. Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag.
3. 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.
4. Vernyik, Zénó, Martina Vránová, Levente Palatinus, Markéta Gregorová, et al., 2019. Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture. Szeged: Americana eBooks.
5. 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.
6. 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. 2023. “Not Only by Accident. Arthur Koestler‘s Reception in Post-war Hungary, 1945-1948.” Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica. 15(1), 126-149.
2. 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 and Sandor Klapcsik, 2025. “Terrorism as Communication in Arthur Koestler‘s Thieves in the Night.” In Brutal Aspects of Migratory Esthetics: Migration and Violence in Modern and Contemporary Culture. [online]. 1^st edition. Hannover: ibidem Verlag. 231-267.
2. Klapcsik, Sandor and Zénó Vernyik, 2025. “Turkish for Advanced: Domestic and Ethnically Motivated Violence in Turkish-German Cinema.” In Brutal Aspects of Migratory Esthetics: Migration and Violence in Modern and Contemporary Culture. [online]. 1^st edition. Hannover: ibidem Verlag. 155-179.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Vernyik, Zénó, 2019. “‘Through a Glass, Darkly’: The (Im)possibility of Detection in The Black Mirror.” In Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture. [online]. 1^st edition. Szeged: Americana eBooks. 108-121.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.

• Svobodová Klára | bakalářská práce | 1.7.2024
  Slavic mythology in the book American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Dohnalová Kateřina | bakalářská práce | 24.4.2024
  A Comparative Analysis of Love Triangles in Selected Novels of the Twilight Saga and The Vampire Diaries Series
• Sieberová Kateřina | bakalářská práce | 16.4.2024
  Hunger Games: The traumas and coping mechanism of the main character
• Kirillova Elizabetta | bakalářská práce | 16.10.2023
  Representation of the roads to female independence in the novels Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Krejcárková Eva | bakalářská práce | 7.12.2022
  Representation of female social status in the United States of America in the 1960s through the movie Hidden Figures
• Černotová Aneta | bakalářská práce | 31.7.2020
  Women and Their Ability to Influence Romantic Relationships in the Big Bang Theory Series
• Fulková Adéla | bakalářská práce | 15.7.2020
  Common Features of the Illusion of a Companion in Single-player Video Games: The Last Guardian and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
• Knotek Elliott | bakalářská práce | 19.7.2019
  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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