Adamikné Jászó, Anna (born 1942):
linguist, reading and rhetoric researcher; promoter of modern Hungarian rhetoric education. Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Modern Hungarian Language at ELTE. Her scientific work is mainly concerned with mother tongue education, especially reading education, methods and history of reading education, rhetoric, but she also participated in the work on the volume The Historical Grammar of the Hungarian Language. Main works: 1991. A magyar nyelv könyve. Budapest: Trezor Kiadó; 2003. Az olvasás múltja és jelene. Budapest: Trezor Kiadó; 2004. Retorika. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó; 2006. Csak az ember olvas. Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó; 2013. Klasszikus magyar retorika. Argumentáció és stílus. Budapest: Holnap Kiadó; 2016. Jókai és a retorika. Budapest: Trezor Kiadó; 2019. Stilisztikai kisszótár. Budapest: IKU-TÁR; 2021. Humor és retorika az irodalomtanításban. Budapest: IKU-TÁR.).
Antal, Zsolt (born 1972):
Hungarian social researcher. Associate professor and head of the Antal Németh Institute for Drama Theory, the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Founder and editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Uránia. His research interests include public service and the public good, community-centred media and communication, media reception studies, competence development, and talent management. Main works: 2011. Közszolgálati média Európában: Az állami feladatvállalás koncepciói a tájékoztatásban. Szeged: Gerhardus Kiadó; 2015. Médiabefolyásolás. Az új kislexikon. Budapest: Századvég Kiadó; 2017. Közszolgálati kommunikáció, közbizalom és médiaszabályozás. Budapest: In Medias Res; 2017. A közintézmények közérthetősége: Az állampolgári bizalom és az intézményi kommunikáció összefüggései. Győr: Jog Állam Politika; 2019. Factors Affecting the Implementation and Performance of Public Service Communication. Tirgu Mures: Curentul Juridic.
Balázs, Géza (born 1959):
He is a Hungarian linguist, ethnologist and university professor, teaching at the Department of Modern Hungarian Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, in addition to the Partium Christian University of Nagyvárad (now Oradea in Romania) and the University of Theatre and Film Arts. His areas of research are the Hungarian language, folklore, political language, rhetoric, language education, anthropological linguistics, textology, pragmatics, internet language, network research and the cultural history of Hungarian fruit brandy (pálinka). His main works: 1993. A kapcsolatra utaló nyelvi elemek a magyarban. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; 1998. A magyar pálinka. Monograph. Budapest: Aula Kiadó; 2001. Magyar nyelvstratégia. Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia [Hungarian Academy of Sciences]; 2017. Az álom nyelve. Álomesemény, álomemlék, álomelbeszélés, álomértelmezés. Budapest: Inter Nonprofit Ltd; 2021. A művészet és a nyelv születése. Budapest: IKU-Monographs.
Fazekas, István (born 1967):
A poet, playwright and literary translator, he is an associate professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts’ Németh Antal Institute of Drama Theory, an adjunct professor at János Selye University’s Reformed Theological Faculty, and an instructor for Adventist Theology Secondary School. His areas of research are questions of psalm translation and the poetry of Greek tragedy. His main works: 2011. Antigoné, avagy a vér parancsa. Budapest: Napút Kiadó; 2012. Angyali üdvözlet az Ószövetségben. Budapest: Teológiai Fórum; 2016. Amicus caesaris: Jézus perének zsidó és római jogi jellemzői. Budapest: Napkút Kiadó; 2020. Adalékok Izrael történetéhez: Ünnepi kötet Karasszon István 65. születésnapja alkalmából: A hettita Úriás. Komárom: János Selye University; 2020. Nyelvészeti és poétikai kérdések a 27. zsoltár fordításakor. Budapest: Teológiai Fórum.
Gough, Richard (born 1956):
a Professor of Music & Performance at the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of South Wales (USW) in Cardiff and Emeritus Professor of Theatre & Performance at Aberystwyth University. He actively participates as a member of the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). His research interests revolve around the connection between performance and various other artistic and social domains. Currently, his research areas encompass the intersections of performance with photography, tourism, and the role of performance in health and medicine. Additionally, he explores the significance of performance in everyday life, with a particular emphasis on the field of cooking. Main works: “Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past” (Edited by Judie Christie, Richard Gough, Daniel Watt) Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York in 2006. ISBN: 0-415-37358-5 “A Performance Cosmology” (co-authored with Judie Christie) Published in London by Routledge in 2006.
Kisházy, Gergely (born 1969):
speech therapist, forensic occupational and organisational psychologist, political expert, associate professor. He specialises in individual and group leadership development, effectiveness analysis of media and public appearances, business presentations, speech-based selection, speech performance evaluation and development. Main works: 2002. Az alkalmazott lélektani hatásmechanizmusok változása Orbán Viktor politikai kommunikációjában (Köz-Politika, 8. 5-20.); 2010. Hangmás. Az atipikus emberi hangok prezentációs helyzetekben utolérhető kommunikációs üzenetei. Szónoklatok nagykönyve. Budapest: Raabe Klett Könyvkiadó; 2021. A szereplésszorongás csökkentésének szuggesztív kommunikációs technikái. Beszédek könyve polgármestereknek. Budapest: Raabe Klett Könyvkiadó; 2021. A szervezeti működés modellkoncepciója (Új Munkaügyi Szemle, 2021/3. 12-33.); 2022. Mérgező pozitivitás, toxikus hurráoptimizmus: a pozitív gondolkodás csapdái. Beszédek könyve polgármestereknek. Budapest: Raabe Klett Könyvkiadó.
Kozma, Gábor Viktor (born 1990):
theatre maker, actor trainer, adjunct professor at the BBU Cluj, artistic director of the association A Vadász Esélye. His research interests include actor training, including the methodology of companies that regularly train actors. He graduated from the University of Arts in Târgu Mures. He is a member of the International Suzuki Company of Toga since 2016. He is a scholarship holder of the Hungarian Academy of Arts from 2018 to 2022. He received his PhD with Summa Cum Laude at the University of Arts in Târgu Mures in 2022. In 2022, he was awarded the Excellentia Prize for outstanding teaching.
Lukácsy, György (born 1981):
He is a film critic, an art teacher for the University of Theatre and Film Arts’ Németh Antal Institute of Drama Theory, and a literary associate for the National Theatre. His main works: 2020. Az ellentmondás jelei – Vidnyánszky Attila Csíksomlyói passió című színházi rendezéséről. (Elő)ítélőerőnk kritikája. Budapest: Magyar Művészet; 2018. Csíksomlyói passió – Egy színházi előadás zarándokútja. (editor and co-author) Budapest: MMA Kiadó; 2013. A mi utcánk – Mit jelent ma Szőts István filmművészete? In Ember a havason – Szőts István 100. Budapest: MMA Kiadó; 2014. Oldás és kötés – Jancsó Miklós emlékére. Budapest: Magyar Művészet; 2013. A nyughatatlan – Krzysztof Zanussi lengyel filmrendező arcvonásai. Budapest: Magyar Művészet; 2012. Kémeink jelentik – John le Carré – egy gentleman ha írni kezd. Budapest: Magyar Művészet.
Pataki, András (born 1971):
Jászai Mari Award-winning director, cultural manager, film producer, currently Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation. Founder of the Forrás Theatre, which is noted as the theatre of the countryside, an expert representative of Hungarian poetry recitation, and vice-president of the National Poetry Recitation Association. He also works as an artistic advisor to several theatres and as a teacher at the University of Theatre and Film Arts. As a theatre director, he led the Petőfi Theatre in Sopron for ten years, where he considered the development of a system of theatre education a priority. During his creative career he has directed hundreds of plays in a variety of genres.
Pölcz, Ádám (born 1989):
linguist, assistant professor, chief organiser of the Kossuth Rhetoric Contest since 2016. He is the acting head of the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature of the Faculty of Teacher Education and Early Childhood Education at Eötvös Loránd University, and a member of the Senate of ELTE. His research interests include the interaction between rhetoric and linguistics (language teaching, stylistics, grammar) and the semiotics of everyday life. Main works: 2015. Az emberközpontú nyelvművelés és az antik retorikai hagyomány (Magyar Nyelvőr); 2019. A klasszikus retorika mint a nyelvművelés alapja. Filologia.hu; 2020. Nyelvi tehetség: anyanyelv, beszédtudomány, idegen nyelv. 2021. A nyelvművelés retorikai gyökerei. Monográfia. MNYKNT – Interkulturális Kutatások Kft., Budapest. 2021. Hallgatólagos tudás az anyanyelvi nevelésben. A gyermekirodalom szerepe a nyelvi tudatosság kialakításában (Gyermeknevelés Tudományos Folyóirat).
Schreiber, András (born 1976):
As a film critic, he leads the film column for the Origo online portal. He is also co-editor and author for the Film Anatomy series. Formerly, among other posts, he was editor of Filmvilág [Film World] and film.hu, as well as leader of the prae.hu film column. His areas of research are film history, modern film, and the relationship between the Christian concept and moving picture art. His main works: 2017. Az akciófilm. Budapest: Filmanatómia sorozat; 2016. A sci-fi. Budapest: Filmanatómia sorozat; 2015. A horrorfilm. Budapest: Filmanatómia sorozat; 2014. George A. Romero, a zombikirály – Csonka portré. In A horror mesterei – Lucio Fulci & George A. Romero. Dániel Orosdy and András Schreiber, eds. Budapest: Metropolitan Journal.
Sepsi, Enikő (born 1969):
Writer on film theory and literature, and historian of the theatre. University professor and head of the Institute of Art Studies, the Department of Art Studies and Media Pedagogy of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University. Founding Director of the Benda Kálmán College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and series editor of Károli Books. Her research areas include the anthropology of the theatre, artistic reception studies, modern and contemporary French and Hungarian poetry, contemporary French, American and Hungarian theatre, and the philosophy of religion and mysticism. Main works: 2019. Művészeti befogadás pszichofiziológiai vizsgálata Noldus Facereader segítségével Budapest: KRE–L’Harmattan Könyvkiadó; 2019. A művészeti befogadás pszichofiziológiai vizsgálatának lehetőségei (irodalom, színház, film) Budapest: KRE–L’Harmattan Könyvkiadó; 2022. Poetic Images, Presence, and the Theater of Kenotic Rituals, London-New York: Routledge.
Szabó, Attila (born 1983):
Hungarian theatre historian. Lecturer at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, and the University of Theatre and Film Arts. Deputy director and museologist of the National Museum and the Institute of Theatre History. His research areas include the history and theory of theatre in Hungary and abroad, contemporary theatre and drama in Central Europe, the sociology of the theatre and audience studies, and processing the theatrical past and preserving theatrical memory. He has been a member of the STEP international theatre sociology research group since 2006. Main works: 2019. Az emlékezet színpadai, Pécs: Kronosz Kiadó; 2019. A valós színterei, Budapest: Prae Kiadó.
Szitás, Péter (born 1984):
Adjunct Professor at the Németh Antal Institute of Drama Theory, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, and Research Fellow at the Danube Institute. His research field in literary studies focuses on the theory of absurd drama. Main works: 2014. Samuel Beckett – Színház a drámában. Komárom: Selye János Egyetem; 2014. Végjáték az élet paradigmájában. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó; 2015. Színházi végjáték drámára vetítve. Komárom: Selye János Egyetem; 2015. Zenei motívumok Samuel Beckett A játszma vége című drámájában; 2016. Recitáló halál – A játszma vége értelmezése modern pásztoridillként. Pécs: EMMI – Balassi Intézet.
Veress, Ferenc (born 1981):
As an art historian, he works as an adjunct professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts’ Németh Antal Institute of Drama Theory, an instructor for University of Szeged’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and an employee at the Museum of Sopron and the Diocese Collection in Szombathely. His areas of research are Renaissance and Baroque Art and contemporary art’s dialogue with earlier periods of cultural history. His main works: 2021. The Dominicans and the Holy Blood: From Late Medieval Devotion to Baroque Piety. Cases in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Vienna: Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Kunst und Denkmalpflege; 2021. Román Viktor. A szoborba gyúrt lélek. (editor) Târgu Mureş, Romania: Mentor Kiadó; 2020. Egy dunántúli barokk művészpálya: az építész és festő Lucas de Schram. Sopron: Soproni Szemle; 2020. Az eucharisztia tiszteletének szimbolikus építészeti formái: Oltárarchitektúrák a Nyugat-Dunántúlról a 17. századból. Budapest: Építés-Építészettudomány; 2017. Michelangelo és a vatikáni Pieta: Hatások és követők. Budapest: Typotex Kiadó.