Balázs Varga

Dr. Balázs Varga - Hungarian Visiting Professor, Department of English and Film Studies

 

Balázs Varga is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies. His research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary Central-European cinema, European cinema, production studies, popular cinema, and documentaries. Varga is a founding editor of Metropolis, a scholarly journal on film theory and history based in Budapest. He has published numerous articles and essays in English, Italian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian books and journals. His book Filmrendszerváltások: A magyar játékfilm intézményeinek átalakulása 1990–2010 [Film Regime Changes: Transformations in the Hungarian Film Industry, 1990–2010] was published by L’Harmattan in Budapest. His current project focuses on popular Hungarian and East European screen cultures during and after socialism. In October 2023, he was the inaugural participant of the ELTE Faculty Exchange.

Email: balazs1@ualberta.ca

Website: https://film.elte.hu/en/about-us/faculty/dr-balazs-varga/