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Veronika Schandl
Veronika Schandl graduated from Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 1999, where she has been teaching ever since. She obtained her Ph.D. at ELTE, in 2006. Her dissertation dealt with Socialist productions of Shakespeare’s problem comedies. In 2007 she received a research grant from Notre Dame University, Indiana and was the Fulbright visiting professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her recent book entitled Shakespeare’s Plays on the Stages of Late Kádárist Hungary – Shakespeare Behind the Iron Curtain (Lewinston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008) was published in 2009. She is a member of most European Shakespeare research organisations and is on the editorial board of the Brno Studies in English. Currently she is working on two projects: on a Hungarian volume discussing the Kádár-regime reception of Shakespeare in Hungary and on literary censorship in Hungary of the 1980s.