Louise O. Vasvari


Professor of Comparative Literature
e-mail: LVasvari@ccmail.sunysb.edu / LVasvari@usa.pipeline.com

Awards, Grants, Honors

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Hungary), l995
John K. Walsh Prize for Best Article, M.L.A., l994.
N.E.H. Senior Fellowship, l988-89
N.E.H. Summer Grant, l985
S.U.N.Y., Chancellor's Statewide Award for Excellence in Teaching, l976
S.U.N.Y., Faculty Research Fellow, l976
National Defense Education Act Fellow, l966-67

Recent Professional Service

Member, Executive Committee, Div. Anthropological Approaches to Literature, M.L.A., 1991-96
Member, M.L.A. Organizing Committee, 1990-93; Chair, l992-3.
External Evaluator, Queens College, Fall 1992
Member, M.L.A. Ad Hoc Ethics Committee, l991-92.
Member, M.L.A. Delegate Assembly, l987-93.

Books Published

Tratado sobre el título de duque. London: Tamesis. l976

El laberinto de Fortuna: edición crítica. Madrid: Alhambra. l976, second ed., l982.

The Heterotextual Body of "la morilla d'un bel catar." London: Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, University of London, 1998

Professor Vasvari has also published extensively in professional journals.


Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Linguistic Society of America
Boccaccio Society
International Linguistics Association
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval
Medieval Academy
Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de America Latina
Hungarian-American Educators Association