Dr Ágota Márton

Position

Stipendiary Lecturer in English

Qualifications

BA, MA (Cluj), DPhil (Oxon)

Academic Background and Previous Positions

I studied English and Hungarian literature at Cluj (Romania) and Odense (Denmark), before coming to Oxford for a DPhil in English at St Hugh’s College (2018), funded by the AHRC and the Scatcherd European Scholarship. Prior to joining Brasenose, I taught at the English Faculty, and held a lectureship at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

My recent work explores geometries of attention in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction. I am particularly interested in the ways in which novelists’ modelling of different forms of attention redraws the ethical and epistemic contours of the novel. My doctoral thesis (Modernism, Empathy, and the Contemporary Novel), which I am currently preparing for publication, argued for a revivification of modernist forms of aesthetic attention in twenty-first-century British and Irish novels preoccupied with the problem of empathy.

My next project theorizes the notion of the ‘new impersonal’ in the work of writers such as Rachel Cusk, Anna Burns, J. M. Coetzee, and others.

Broad research interests include visual culture, novel theory, attention studies, comparative literature, and literature and science.

Email

agota.marton@ell.ox.ac.uk