Maria Heller

Dr Maria Heller, PhD, habil. associate professor, sociologist, linguist. After graduation, she worked in the Linguistic Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and later at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She was  the  director of the Institute of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University from 2003  to 2016. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the sociology of the public sphere and the topic of her habilitation focused on the periods of communication history and the sociology of games. Research fields: theory of the public sphere, theory of communications, media sociology, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, discursive strategies in public and non-public communications. She has published in various Hungarian and international journals and books in Hingarian, English and French.  She has participated in several big international research projects, being the leader in some of them. In 1999 she earned the distinction ‘Lecturer of the year” elected by students. In 2006-2007 she was the Freedom of Speech guest professor at Bergen University (Norway). She teaches at the doctoral summer university of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) and is a member of various Hungarian, European and international scholarly associations and commissions,

Publications: Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára