(Class of 2001; Honours Drama/Minor German Studies/Minor Italian Studies)

After the completion of my B.A. degree at Bishop's University, I was accepted to the University of Toronto to the Graduate Drama Department to pursue a Master's degree in Dramatic Theory. Upon successful completion of this one year program, I was immediately accepted into the Doctor of Philosophy program at the same department. At the moment, I am in the sixth year of my Ph.D. studies, hoping to defend my thesis in 

September 2008. Having had a great freedom and opportunity to work on my area of interest at Bishop's University, I continued to research the German playwright Heiner Müller in my post-graduate studies, where I finally developed my thesis topic on contemporary German Drama and liminal performances under the thematic of man and machine. It is mostly due to my degree in German that I am now able to conduct research in Germany and Austria in different archives and art institutions. Besides my interest in the performing arts, I was always involved in learning new languages. It was mostly due to my multi-national background and also a constant need for migration, that I was geared towards learning four languages beside my mother tongue (Hungarian). The ability to speak several languages is a great advantage in all areas of life. It is a primary asset to better comprehend the world around us. Especially when one decides to pursue further studies on a post-graduate level, the knowledge of a FEW foreign languages is a  prerequisite. A degree in Modern Languages is not solely a “language degree”, it is a multi-disciplinary endeavour that merges Philosophy, Anthropology, Social Studies, History etc., just to mention a few. In our post-industrial society, communication and the free flow of information has become the only viable reality – it is still all based in logos. Thus the ability to transfer, comprehend and interpret various sources of data enables one to choose among the wide variety of fields available on today’s job market.