Thomka Beáta

The portrait photo was taken by Dániel Végel.

He began his schooling in Torontálvásárhely, and obtained his high school diploma in Novi Sad in 1968. He completed his university studies at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the University of Novi Sad in 1972. From 1968 to 1983, he was an associate of Új Symposion. He also worked as a proofreader and secretary for the journal. Between 1975 and 1992, he was an assistant lecturer, then associate professor, and later extraordinary professor at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature in Novi Sad. From 1985, he held a doctorate in literary studies (DSc). In 1992, he was a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and from 1992 to 1997, he was a lecturer and research fellow at ELTE Budapest. At the University of Pécs, he worked as an associate professor from 1991, then as a professor until 2018, and was also the founder of the PTE Literary Studies Doctoral Program and the head of the Doctoral School of Literary Studies. In 1993, he became a Candidate of Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1995, he earned his Dr. habil. degree at the University of Szeged. In 1999, he became a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.