Eszter Barbaczy has been a lecturer at MOME since 2005. She used to teach media history subjects and recent history, and she also led project work courses with a focus on research and creation. Now a habilitated associate professor, she mainly teaches philosophy. Alongside her educational duties, she is the head of the MOME trade union.
Biography
Historian of ideas, writer, critic. She has degrees in art history, philosophy, history, and communications from Eötvös Loránd University (BA), New York University (MA), and the University of Pécs (PhD). She has been publishing essays, critiques, and studies since 1989. She edited the periodicals Nappali Ház (Daytime House), Beszélő (Speaker), Magyar Narancs (Hungarian Orange), JAK-füzetek (JAK Notebooks, a series on poet Attila József), and the Szemeszter (Semester) series of Osiris Publishing (Hungary). Her first book, entitled A ház, a kert, az utca (The House, the Garden, the Street) was published in 1996. She has been publishing literary works since 2005. Her first volume of short stories, A mérgezett nő (The Poisoned Woman), was awarded a Déry Prize and a Margó Special Prize in 2020. Her latest volume, Néhány szabály a boldogsághoz (A Few Rules for Happiness) was published by Jelenkor Publishers (Hungary) in 2023.
