Anna Fenyvesi

Anna Fenyvesi is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. She lived in Pittsburgh from 1991 to 1996, working towards her PhD in linguistics at Pitt (which she received in 1998). She is a sociolinguist with an interest in the Hungarian language use of American Hungarians, bilingualism, and digital language use. She is co-author of Hungarian (Descriptive Grammars series, Routledge, 1998), editor of Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a Minority Language (Benjamins, 2005), and co-editor of Hungarian Roots and American Dreams: Tracing Personal History (Americana eBooks, 2024). She has recently completed a 5-month stint as a Fulbright Scholar at the Department of History, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, doing research into the linguistic heritage of American Hungarians in Appalachia. As of January 1, 2025, she has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of “Hungarian Cultural Studies”, the e-journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association.