Anna Fenyvesi
Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged
Anna Fenyvesi is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. She lived in Pittsburgh from 1991 to 1996, working towards her PhD in linguistics at Pitt (which she received in 1998).
She is a sociolinguist with an interest in the Hungarian language use of American Hungarians, language contact, bilingualism, and digital language use. She is co-author of Hungarian in the Routledge Descriptive Grammars series (1998), and editor of Hungarian Outside Hungary: Studies in Hungarian as a Minority Language (Benjamins, 2005).
She is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of History, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, doing research into the linguistic heritage of American Hungarians in Appalachia as part of the Appalachia Hungarian Heritage Project. She is also a self-taught genealogist with over five years of experience in family history research in Hungary and in the US, currently co-editing Hungarian Roots and American Dreams: Tracing Personal History (forthcoming, Americana eBooks).
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