habil. Hajnal KIRÁLY, PhD

Education Doctoral studies Doctoral schools Doctoral School of Film and Intermedial Studies Doctoral supervisors habil. Hajnal KIRÁLY, PhD

Associate Professor

Hajnal Király is Associate Professor at the Film, Photography and Media Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, with habilitation in the field of Film and Media Studies. She earned her BA degree in philology (specializing in Hungarian and Finnish) at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, followed by a PhD in philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Between 2012 and 2014, she conducted postdoctoral research on film intermediality at the Center for Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Lisbon. Her current research focuses on the cinema of Manoel de Oliveira, intermediality in Eastern European films, comparative cultural interpretations of contemporary Hungarian and Romanian films, the relationship between film and psychology, and the possibilities of applied film studies. She is the author of the books: Könyv és film között. A hűségelven innen és túl (Between Book and Film. Beyond the Principle of Fidelity, Koinónia, 2010), The Cinema of Manoel de Oliveira. Modernity, Intermediality and the Uncanny (2022), Film a határon (Film at the Border, 2022). She has also co-edited the volumes: Tér-Elmélet-Kultúra (Space-Theory-Culture, 2019), Postsocialist Mobilities (2021) and Intermedial Encounters. Studies in Honor of Ágnes Pethő (2022). She has published numerous articles and book chapters in Hungarian and international journals and edited volumes on intermediality and contemporary Hungarian and Romanian film. She is also assistant editor of the scholarly journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, published by Springer Nature.