Mónika Dánél is Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University and was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo (2018-2021). Her research interests lie in contemporary Eastern European Studies (especially Hungarian and Romanian Literature and Film), theory of intermediality, multilingualism, space and body theory, memory and gender studies connected to post-socialist societies. She led the international project Space-ing Otherness. Cultural Images of Space, Contact Zones in Contemporary Hungarian and Romanian Film and Literature. She co-edited two scholarly volumes Event-Trauma-Publicity (2012), Space – Theory – Culture. An Interdisciplinary Handbook of the Space (2019) and published two monographs in Hungarian: Transparent Frames: The Intimacy of Reading (2013) and Language-Carnival: The Poetics of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde Artworks (2016).