Projekty

TEACHING INTERESTS

• 20th-century American Literature and Culture

• Theories of Television and Film

• Fantasy and Science Fiction on paper and on the screen 

• Technics, Phenomenology, and the Body

• Society and Digital Media

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Cultures of Television

• Climate, Conflict and Migration in the Anthropocene

•  Anthropocene studies

• Human-nonhuman-posthuman

• Digital technology, media and subjectivity

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

2020-2023         VEGA: J.R.R. Tolkien a žáner fantasy v strednej Európe, r.č. 1/0005/18 [vice-investigator]

"Crime, Media, and the New Bestialization of the Human" (ISA, University of Bologna, 2014)

VEGA: 1/0021/13 Pseudonymy a masky v literature (Pseudonym and Mask in Literature); co-investigator, Constantine Philosopher University, Nitra (2013-2015) 

INVITED LECTURES

“Anthropocene / Media: (Post-)Human Imaginaries and the Television of Crisis” University of Szeged, Doctoral Program. 2020 March

“Medicine and Media through Time”. University of Szeged, American Studies BA Program. 2020 March

"War on Terror across Media: The New Bestialization of Human" (compressed course), ERASMUS teaching exchange, University of Szeged, Literary and Cultural Studies Doctoral Program. 2018 March

"Secrets of the Bicameral Mind: Post-human Anxieties and the (Nondescript) Sexuality of Androids". University of Urbino, Italy. 2017 November

“Anthropocene Noir: Androids, Crime, and the Future of (Post-)Human Agency in Blade Runner 2049” University of Bologna. 2017 November

"Forgiveness and the Working of Mourning in Atonement." University of Padova, 28 January 2015.

"Pharmakon. A Hauntology of Dark Medicine." URBINOIR 2014. Chlorophyl Killers. University of Urbino, Italy, 27 November 2014.

“The Hauntology of Forgiveness: Writing as Therapy in McEwans Atonement.” Dottorato di Ricerca in Letterature Classiche, Moderne, Comparate, e Postcoloniali. University of Bologna, 13 May 2014.

“Serializing the Past: Stylistic Excess in Historical Television Drama.” Dottorato di Ricerca in Letterature Classiche, Moderne, Comparate, e Postcoloniali. University of Bologna, 26 May 2014.

“(De-)Constructing War: Bestialization and Autoimmunity in War-on-Terror Films.”  Dottorato di Ricerca in Letterature Classiche, Moderne, Comparate, e Postcoloniali. University of Bologna, 27 May 2014.

“Enyeszet es idegenseg – a test hauntologiaja” [Decay and (un)familiarity: the hauntology of the body] Test-konceptusok es test-reprezentaciok az irodalomban es a kulturaban konferencia [Concepts and Representations of the body in literary and cultural discourses conference], Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, 18 April 2013.

“(Un)Cultured spaces and the Visual Aesthetics of Film Noir” Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Bologna, 17 December 2012.

“From the Scalpel to the Screen: Forensic Crime Fiction as Cultural Pathology?” Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Bologna, 19 December 2012.

“The Visual Aesthetics of Death: Forensic Crime Fiction as a Cultural Paradigm” Dept. of English, University of Liberec, Czech Republic, 3 May 2012.

“Autopsy as Spectacle: Forensic Crime Television and the TV Screen” Dept. of English, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, 16 March 2012.

SELECTED CONFERENCES

‘Fantasy and Media: Convergence, Audiences and Streaming in Central Europe.’ On and Beyond J.RR. Tolkien and the Fantasy Genre in Post-

Socialist Central Europe. Workshop. Catholic University in Ruzomberok. (Online) December 2021.

‘Alien Otherness, Deterritorialized Futures, and Television during the Pandemic (The Case of The Expanse)’. Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI. University of Lisbon (Online). November 2021

‘Streaming Trends and Platform Wars: Quality, Participation and the Case of The Expanse’. Media Mutations. University of Bologna (Online). October 2021.

‘Streaming Trends and Platform Wars: Shifting Trends and the Case of The Expanse’. Critical Studies in Television 2021 Slow Conference. Edge Hill University (Online). July, 2021.

‘Anthropocene/Media: Television and the Politics of Crisis’. Imag(in)ing the Anthropocene. University of Bristol, UK. June, 2021.

“This Is Not A.I. Technology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Post-Photography” (with Zoltan Dragon), Hungarian Association of American Studies, Debrecen May, 2019.

“What Does Television Want? On Affect and Participation”. 14^th Biennial HUSSE Conference, University of Pannonia, Hungary. January, 2019.

‘Television of the Anthropocene: Serial Narratives and the Politics of Crisis’. Critical Studies in Television: State of Play. International Conference, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK. September, 2018.

‘Narratives of the Anthropocene in a Time of Converging Media’: Narratives: International Conference. Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest. April, 2018.

‘Histories of Futures Past? Gothic Nostalgias and the Screen of the Anthropocene.’ The Gothic Galaxy: Intersections and metamorphoses. International Conference. University of Bologna. September, 2016.

‘Digital Capitalism and Its Critiques?’ (with Zoltan Dragon) 11th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 11):The Americas: Global Challenges and Responsibilities. University of Pecs, Hungary. May, 2016.

“Subjectivity after the Algorithmic Turn: The Electric Sheep of the Anthropocene?’. UrbiNoir 2015. Il Lato Oscuro di Internet / The Dark Side of the Internet. International Conference. University of Urbino. Italy. November, 2015. 

"The End of an Era? 15 Years of CSI and Forensic Television" International Conference. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. 16-17 October 2015. (Co-organizer)

“Technics, Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital.” 10th International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 5-7 February 2015.

“Generation Digital: Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Archive.” Conference of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association, 2015 "Generations." Northumbria University. 7-9 January 2015.
"Primum Non Nocere Bad Medicine and the Anatomy Act of 1832." Experience and Reality. CEE Philosophy Conference. Ruzomberok, Slovakia, June 2014.

“Sights/Sites of Autopsy: Anatomy, Theatre, CSI.” Crime and Detection in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. University of Liberec, Czech Republic, Nov 2013

“The Spectres of Crime: Haunting Narratives on/of the Screen.” Re-told, Re-solg, Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Modern Era. University of Leeds, UK, Sept 2013

“Enyeszet es idegenseg – a test hauntologiaja” [Decay and (un)familiarity – the hauntology of the body] keynote Test-konceptusok es test-reprezentaciok az irodalomban es a kulturaban konferencia [Concepts and Representations of the body in literary and cultural discourses conference], Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, April 2013

“Pathology Un-Sexed: CSI and the Gender-Rhetoric of Science.” Ecritures et Dramaturgies du Corps: Violence, Discordances, Reconfigurations. University of Lille, France, March 2013

“Writing as Therapy and the Politics of Forgiveness in Derrida and in McEwan,” 3rd International Derrida Today Conference, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, July 2012

“Prosthesis as a (not-so-) Dangerous Supplement,” Absence and Presence 2nd International Conference, Department of English Language and Literature, the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia, Aug 2011

“Bodyscape – the Body as Text in Memento,” 8th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association of American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Nov 2010

“Writing as Therapy,” Playfulness and Painfulness: 2010 SEAC Conference, University of Nice, France, Nov 2010

“Technics and Crime: CSI and the Pathology of the Screen,” Emotion, Media and Crime, University of Aarhus, Denmark, Sept 2010

“Technics, Perception, Différance (Derrida and the Seeing-Machine)” 2nd International Derrida Today Conference, London, UK, Jul 2010

“(Popular) Medicine and the Techno-Aesthetics of the Screen,” Contemporary Serial Culture: Quality TV Series in a New Media Environment, Potsdam – Babelsberg, Germany, Jan 2010

“Film Noir and the Aesthetics of Violence,” Dark Corners and Narrow Lanes, University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia, Nov 2009

“Forensics, Sciences, Spectacles,” Dissemination Seminar of Peter Pazmany Catholic University, the Norwegian Fund, and the Tempus Foundation, Budapest, Hungary, Oct 2009

“Who Shot Sherlock? Forensic Detection and the Deconstruction of Sherlock Holmes in CSI,” Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: Their Cultural Afterlives, University of Hull, UK, July 2009

“The Aesthetics of Violence: Crime as Urban Spectacle in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” 8th Global Conference on Violence and the Contexts of Hostility, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009

“A (félre)olvasás mint az autopoézis lehetősége,” [“(Mis)reading Autopoesis”] Ez a sok szépség mind mire való? Esti kérdés-konferencia, Esztergom, Hungary, Apr 2009

“The difference is spreading...: Metadiscourse and the Aesthetic of Visual Abstraction in Gertrude Steins Tender Buttons,” 9th Conference of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English, University of Pécs, Hungary, Jan 2009

"Staging Différance: Ekphrasis and Popular Culture,” ILOS Annual Conference for Doctoral Students, University of Oslo, Norway, Oct 2008

"Ekphrasis as the Staging of Différance: A “Derridan Perspective” in CSI,” Derrida Today International Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, July 2008

“Post-modern or Post-mortem?” Murder as a Self-Consuming Artifact,” The Literary Art of Murder, Newcastle University, UK, Apr 2008

“Bodyscape“ or the Representations of the Body in CSI,” The Scene of the Crime: Setting in Modern Crime Fiction, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 2007

“Confessions of A (Relatively) Dangerous Mind: Sylvia Plath and the Voice turning into a Face,” Varieties of Voice: 3rd International Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Dec 2006

“Egy költői szöveg ontologikus olvasásának lehetőségei: Babits Mihály: Esti megérkezés,” [The Ontology of the Lyric: Mihály Babits: Evening Arrival] Találkozások: József Attila és a 20. sz-i magyar istenkereső költészet”, Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary, Sept 2005

“Nyelv után a vízözön: egy történet demitologizálása: Mészöly Miklós: Családáradás,” [Flooding Language: demythologizing Miklós Mészölys Family-Flood] Bálint Balassi Institute of Hungarian Culture Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 2005

Publikácie

Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture

Autor/Kolektív:	Mgr. Levente David Palatinus, PhD.
Ďalší autori:	Martina Vranova and Zeno Vernyik
Rok vydania:	2018
ISBN:	978-6155423512

Perspectives in the anthropocene: Beyond nature and culture?

Autor/Kolektív:	Mgr. Levente David Palatinus, PhD.
Ďalší autori:	Stefania Achella
Vydavateľstvo:	Itinerari LIX
Rok vydania:	2020
ISBN:	https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/97888575

Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media

Autor/Kolektív:	Mgr. Levente David Palatinus, PhD.
Ďalší autori:	Maurizio Ascari, Serena Baiesi
Vydavateľstvo:	Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056501
Rok vydania:	2019
ISBN:	9783034332286

J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy

Autor/Kolektív:	doc. Mgr. Janka Kaščáková, PhD., Mgr. Levente David Palatinus, PhD.
Vydavateľstvo:	Routledge
Rok vydania:	2023
ISBN:	9781032525563

Journal Articles

1. “The Anthropocene, War and the New Bestialization of the Human. A Popular Visual Media Perspective” In: Itinerari LIX (Thematic Issue): Perspectives in the Anthropocene: Beyond Nature and Culture. Stefania Achella and David L. Palatinus. Mim Edizioni. 2020, 101-116. ISSN 2036-9484.
2. “Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital” Acta Philologica. Vol. 56. 2020.
3. *“Humans, Machines and the Screen of the Anthropocene.” Thematic Issue. Americana E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary. Eds: Anna Kerchy. Vol. XIII. No. 2. (2017 Summer).
4. “Haunting Legacies and the Tragic Sense of Central-European Noir”. Americana E-Journal XII. No. 1. (2016 Spring)
5. *“Autopsy and / as Différance: CSI’s Ekphrastic Bodies” Americana E-Journal IX. No. 2. (2013 Fall)
6. “Tecnica e crimine: CSI e la patologia dello schermo.” [Technics and Crime: CSI and the Pathology of the Screen]. Trans. Maurizio Ascari. Fictions, 2011.
7. “From the Pictorial Turn to the Embodiment of Vision.” American and British Studies Annual 3. 2010.
8. ‘’Keretezés és színrevitel: a paródia olvasatai Parti Nagy Lajosnál” [Framing and Staging: Reading Parody in Lajos Parti Nagy]. Kalligram 2007/12 (December).
9. “Paródia és irónia Parti Nagy Lajos Ibusár című színművében.” [Reading Parody and Irony in Lajos Parti Nagy’s Ibusár]. Eruditio-Educatio. 3 (2007).
10. ‘’Filip Tamás.” Szépirodalmi Figyelő 2006/6 (December).
11. “Schein Gábor.” Szépirodalmi Figyelő 2005/6 (December).
12. “Parti Nagy Lajos.” Szépirodalmi Figyelő 2005/2 (April).
13. “Hattyúdal, avagy az írás apológiája: Esterházy Péter: Tizenhét hattyúk” [The Swan’s Song or An Apology for Writing: Péter Esterházy: ‘Seventeen Swans’] Iskolakultúra 2004/4.

Edited Collections

15. Itinerari 2 (Thematic Issue): Perspectives in the Anthropocene: Beyond Nature and Culture. Stefania Achella and David L. Palatinus. 2020.
16. Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media. Eds. Maurizio Ascari, Serena Baesi, David Levente Palatinus. Peter Lang, 2020.
17. Crime and Detection in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Eds. David Levente Palatinus, Martina Vranova, Zeno Vernyik. Szeged: Americana E-Books, 2018.
18. Aspects of Culture: New Perspectives in Cultural Studies in Central Europe and in Scandinavia. Eds. Marton Beke and David Levente Palatinus. Peter Pazmany Catholic Univesity, 2009.

Chapters in Books

19. *“Humans and Machines: Gothic Legacy and the Screen of the Anthropocene” in Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media. Eds. Maurizio Ascari, Serena Baesi, David Levente Palatinus. Peter Lang, 2020, 215-231.
20. *“Mediating the Corpse: CSI and the Affective Screen” in Crime and Detection in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Eds. David Levente Palatinus, Martina Vranova, Zeno Vernyik. Szeged: Americana E-Books, 2018, 92-108.
21. “Monsters, Others, Symmetries: Blake’s ‘Wholistic’ Art and the Phenomenology of Perception.” Szolito Szavak / The Power of Words. (Papers in Honor of Tibor Fabiny’s Sixtieth Birthday). Eds. Sara Toth, Viktor Kokai Nagy, Eva Marjai, Judit Mudriczki, Zita Turi, Judit Arday-Janka. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2015, 371-383.
22. *”Primum Non Nocere – Autopsy, Bad Medicine, and the Body in the 18^th and 19^th Centuries” in From the Sublime to City Crime. Stephen Knight and Maurizio Ascari. Montecarlo: Liberfaber, 2014.
23. “Haunting Legacies and the Tragic Sense of Eastern European Noir” (in Italian: Retaggi Inquietati: Il Senso Tragico del Noir Centroeuropeo.” Trans. Luca Sartori] Arcobaleno noir. Genesi e spin-off di uno dei generi più fortunati della letteratura e del cinema. Alessandra Calanchi. Galaad Edizioni, 2014, 277-310.
24. “Anthropomorphism and Spectrality in Plath” Az ideal mindazonaltal megozrodik [The ideal shall be cherished, nevertheless] eds. Sarolta Osztroluczky and Kornelia Horvath, Budapest: Gondolat, 2013.
25. ’‘Before mine eyes all real…’ Body, Language and the Phenomenology of Sensation.” Milton in the 20^th Century. Ed. Tibor Fabiny and Miklós Péti. Budapest: L’Harmattan Publishing, 2012.
26. “Post-modern or Post-mortem? Murder as a Self-Consuming Artifact in Red Dragon.” The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010. Malcah Effron. McFarland Press, 2012.
27. “’Rettentő (a)szimmetria: a vizuális írhatósága William Blake A Tigris c. versében.” [Fearful (A)symmetry: Writing the Visual in William Blake’s The Tyger] Retorika, Literatúra, Poétika. Ed. Anikó Radvánszky. Budapest: Universitas, 2010.
28. “The Sense of Tragedy and the (Noir) Aesthetics of Violence.” Aspects of Culture: New Perspectives in Cultural Studies in Central Europe and in Scandinavia. Eds. Marton Beke and David Levente Palatinus. Peter Pazmany Catholic Univesity, 2009.
29. “A (félre-)olvasás mint az autopoézis lehetősége.” Esti Kérdés (A tizenkét legszebb Magyar vers 4.) [(Mis-)Reading as Auto-Poiesis. An Evening Question]. Ed. Balázs Fű Szombathely: Savaria University Press, 2009. 144-168.
30. ’’Filip Tamás” Íróportrék [Portraits of Writers II]. ed. by Attila Thimár. Budapest: Edition of Szépirodalmi Figyelő, 2008. 60-69. (Reprint)
31. ’’Schein Gábor.” Íróportrék II. [Portraits of Writers II]. ed. by Attila Thimár. Budapest: Edition of Szépirodalmi Figyelő, 2008. 144-153. (Reprint)
32. ‘’Egy költői szöveg ontologikus olvasásának lehetőségei: Babits Mihály: Esti megérkezés,” Véges végtelen, Isten-élmény és Isten-hiány a 20. századi Magyar költészetben [An Ontological Reading of a Lyric Text: Mihály Babits: An Evening Arrival, in ‘Finite Infinitude, The Experience and Lack of God in 20^th century Hungarian Poetry], eds Lajos Sipos – Gábor Finta. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006. 248-256.
33. “Az (ön)-újraolvasás retorikája (Az Esti Kérdés alakzatai).” Vers-hangzás-metafora, elemzések a 20. századi magyar líra köréből [The Rhetoric of (Re-)Reading: Tropes in Mihály Babits’s ‘An Evening Question’. Lyric-Rhythm-Metaphor, A Selection of Critical Writings on 20^th Century Hungarian Lyric], eds Katalin Szitár Ph.D. and Kornélia Horváth Ph.D., Budapest: Kijárat, 2006. 209-235.
34. “Nyelv után a vízözön – egy történet demitologizálása (Mészöly Miklós: Családáradás).” Közös tükrünk I: Az elbeszélés könnyed lebegése. Kortárs magyar regények elemzése [The Flood of Language – demitologizing Miklós Mészöly’s ‘Family-Flood’. The Common Mirror I: a critical anthology on 20^th century Hungarian prose fiction], ed. Attila Thimár. Budapest: Ráció, 2006. 148-170.
35. ’’Parti Nagy Lajos.” Íróportrék I. [Portraits of Writers I]. ed. by Attila Thimár. Budapest: Edition of Szépirodalmi Figyelő, 2006. 136-145. (Reprint)

Book Review

37. ’’Szávai Dorottya: Bűn és imádság. A Pilinszky-líra camus-i és kafkai szöveghagyományáról.” Magyar Tudomány (2007): 541-543.

Online Publications

38. *“Television of the Anthropocene (Part II): Posthuman Sensibilities and Political TV” [republished]: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene. 5 December, 2019. https://iiraorg.com/2019/12/05/television-of-the-anthropocene-posthuman-sensibilities-and-political-tv/ REPUBLISHED
39. *“Television of the Anthropocene (Part II): Posthuman Sensibilities and Political TV” (November) https://cstonline.net/television-of-the-anthropocene-part-ii-posthuman-sensibilities-and-political-tv-by-david-levente-palatinus/
40. *“Television of the Anthropocene (Part 1)” (November) http://cstonline.net/television-of-the-anthropocene-part-i-by-david-levente-palatinus/
41. *“What Does Television Want? On Affect and Participation: (October) http://cstonline.net/what-does-television-want-on-affect-and-participation-by-david-levente-palatinus/. 2017.
42. *‘”The Return of the Surgeon: Medical Nostalgia and Social Pathology in The Knick”. Critical Studies in Television Online (November): <http://cstonline.tv/the-return-of-the-surgeon> 2015.
43. *“Being Critical about 'Critical' - TV that just didn't get it right...” Critical Studies in Television Online (April): <http://cstonline.tv/being-critical-about-critical> 2015.
44. *“CSI Goes Cyber - Or Does It?” Critical Studies in Television Online (February): <http://cstonline.tv/csi-goes-cyber-or-does-it> 2015.
45. *“Bad Medicine: On Why Medical TV Does (Not) Matter.” Critical Studies in

Television Online (October): <http://cstonline.tv/bad-medicine-on-why-medical-tv-does-not-matter> 2014.

46. *“The Spectres of Crime: Haunting Iconographies on/of the Screen.” Critical Studies in Television Online (June): <http://cstonline.tv/the-spectres-of-crime-haunting-iconographies> 2014.
47. *“’The King is Dead; Long Live the – Celebrity?’ Television, Discourse, Participation.” Critical Studies in Television Online (May): <http://cstonline.tv/the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-celebrity-television-discourse-participation> 2014.
48. “Dying is an Art – They Do It Exceptionally Well: Stylistic Excess and the Aesthetics of Violence in ” Critical Studies in Television Online (March): http://cstonline.tv/dying-is-an-art-they-do-it-exceptionally-well> 2014.
49. “Anthropomorphism and Spectrality in Plath” in Modern American Poetry Site. Ed. Bartholomew Brinkman. University of Illinois, 2014,

<http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/criticism/david-palatinus-anthropomorphism-and-spectrality-plath>. [re-published online]

50. “Technics and Crime: CSI and the Pathology of the Screen.” aau.dk: Crime Fiction and Criminal Journalism in Scandinavia. 2010.

<http://www.krimiforsk.aau.dk/papersn/david_palatinus.pdf>

51. “The Aesthetics of Violence: Crime as Urban Spectacle in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Violence and the Contexts of Hostility.

<http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/palatinus-paper.pdf> 2009.