Kornélia Deres is a theatre and performance studies scholar and an associate professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She has been researching the interconnection of wonder and science in popular performances as well as performative knowledge circulation in the nineteenth century. She was recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cologne, the Junior Core Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study of Central European University, and the Bolyai Research Fellowship by the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences.
-Deres, Kornélia, ‘Popular Entertainment and New Images in Nineteenth-century Theatre’, in New results in the research of theatre and drama (17th−19th century), ed. by Anett Farkas and Gabriella Körömi (EKKE, 2022), pp. 197-206.
-Deres, Kornélia, ‘Átváltozó képek és utazó technológiák’ [Transformative Images and Travelling Technologies], Irodalomtörténet, 105 (2024), pp. 3-23.
-Deres, Kornélia, ‘A Central European Magic Professor: Dissolving Views, Stage Magic, and other Lantern Practices by Ludwig Döbler’, in The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular Culture, ed. by Kurt Vanhoutte and Leen Engelen. (Brepols, forthcoming)