Back
Mária Heller has a university degree in English, French and general and applied linguistics from the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University. She obtained her doctorate in 1999; the title of her thesis is “Contributions to the sociology of public communications”. Heller used to teach in Debrecen where she had a scholarship, and was researcher at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1978 she is a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University. She made a detour at the Research Institute for Linguistics in Pécs, then as a guest professor at the Infomedia Department of the University of Bergen in Norway.
Since 2003 she has been the director and an associate professor of the Institute of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, responsible for the specialization in communication and media sociology. Besides editing Hungarian language professional journals, Heller has been a correspondent expert of various foreign professional publications, such as Sociétés et représentations or the book series Media Studies. From the mid-1970s, she has continuously participated in research enterprises, sometimes in several projects at the same time. Heller is a constant participant and speaker of international conferences.
(written by András Páldi university student)
To read the interview (available in Hungarian), please request your registration on http://voices.osaarchivum.org/. When registered, you will find all professional history interviews under the menu title “Interview collection in the history of sociology”.