Erzsébet Barát is Associate Professor in the Department of English, at the University of Szeged and since 2000 Recurring Visiting Professor at CEU. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Social Sciences Faculty, Lancaster University, UK. Her research interests include feminist critical theory, relational models of identity, and the relationship between language, power and ideology. She is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian journal, TNTeF: Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of Gender Studies (https://ojs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/tntef/index). She launched and has organized the annual gender studies conference in Szeged since 2005. She has been invited to run courses in MA and PhD programs, most recently at the University of Sundsvall, Sweden. She is currently working in the research project “Bodies in Transit: Genders, Mobilities, and Interdependencies” (https://bodiesintransitproject.com/) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity. She is a regular contributor to edited volumes and journals in English and Hungarian. Her publications are available at https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10022254.