Welcome

My name is David Levente Palatinus. I am currently Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Department of English at the University of Trnava. I also have a secondment as Assistant Professor at the English Department of Technical University of Liberec.

In 2017 I set up the Anthropocene Media Lab which now functions as an inter-institutional hub for collaborations and work in the fields of media and Anthropocene studies.

My research moves between and across digital media and cultural theory. I have worked and written on violence in serial culture, medicine and autopsy, autoimmunity and war, and digital subjectivity in the Anthropocene. I am co-editor of the ECREA section of CSTOnline (the online arm of Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies), and sit on the editorial board of Americana – E-Journal of American Studies (Hungary) and Rewind: British and American Studies Series of Aras Edizioni (Fano, Italy). I am editor of the volumes J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe

Context, Directions, and the Legacy (with Janka Kascakova, Routledge, 2023), Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media (Peter Lang, 2020), and Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture (Americana Ebooks, 2018). I also co-edited (with Stefania Achella) a special issue of Itinerari. Annuario di Ricerche Filosofiche [Itinerari LIX - Perspectives in the Anthropocene: Beyond Nature and Culture?, 2020]. 

You can read more about my research over here.