Zsuzsanna Varga

Zsuzsanna Varga studied English, Hungarian and Portuguese studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and took her PhD in English literature at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2008, she has taught Central European history and cultural studies at the University of Glasgow. She also works as the curator of the Hungarian collection at the Taylorian Library, Oxford. Her research interests include Central European publishing history and travel writing studies. Her recent work has included Worlds of Hungarian Writing (2017), Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe (2017) and Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays of Antal Szerb (2017). She has also published and lectured on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning author László Krasznahorkai (2025). In 2026, she acted as Visiting Professor at Sapienza University, Rome.