Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter, PhD

Associate Professor of French

Expertise: All levels of French Language, Culture, Civilization & Literature; 17th Century French Literature; French & International Cinema; Business French; Comedy, the Comic

Biography

Dr. Pereszlényi-Pintér teaches French language at all levels, and her areas of special interest include French literature of the pre-modern period (Medieval, Renaissance, & 17th century), French Civilization, French Film, and French for Business & the Professions. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences, and her current research interest is “The Cat in French Literature and Culture.”

Before coming to John Carroll, she was a faculty member at several other institutions, including Denison University, The Ohio State University, Slippery Rock University, and the College of Wooster. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and her M.A. in French at the Ohio State University, and her B.A. in French & Pedagogy from Cleveland State University. She also studied at the Institut de Touraine (Tours) and with the Bryn Mawr Program (Avignon) in France. She was born in Austria and emigrated to the USA with her Hungarian parents.

Honors & Awards:

• Bryn Mawr Scholarship, Graduate Studies, Avignon, France
• University Fellowship for Graduate Studies, The Ohio State University
• NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities), Member of Group Grant, The Ohio State University, 1983 & 1985
• National Security Agency, Member of Group Grant, The Ohio State University, 1987 & 1988
• Fulbright Grant to Hungary, 1990
• John Carroll University Faculty Summer Research Grant, 1994
• George E. Grauel Faculty Fellowship, John Carroll University, Spring Semester, 2000

Community Service / Organizations
Civic, Cultural, Ethnic Organization Affiliation or Membership:

• Secretary and Board Member, Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Fulbright Association
• Hungarian Heritage Museum, Cleveland, Ohio

Recent Publications

• Review of The Memory Book – One Woman’s Self-Discovery in the Mist of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, by Linda Fischer (2014) New York: Minted Prose. 326 pp., in Hungarian Cultural Studies. Peer reviewed e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA), Volume 10 (2017) http://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/view/307
• Review of Who Let the Bats Out? Twisted Tales from Transylvania by Peter Hargitai, Bloomington: iUniverse. 170 pp., illus. Dianne Marlene Hargitai (2013) in Hungarian Cultural Studies. e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Volume 7 (2014). This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Chapter Four: “Balkány: A Glimpse of Hungarian Village Life in the Eighteenth Century.” Zoltán Molnár. Translated by Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér pp. 69-91, in Hungary through the centuries: studies in honor of professors Steven Béla Várdy and Ágnes Huszár Várdy. Boulder: Columbia University Press /East European Monographs; New York, 2012.