PÁL HEGYI (Sömmerda, 1970) teaches as Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Both in his scholarly work and as a literary translator, his main interest lies in the intersection of Hungarian and American art and literature. His book delineating the uncanny nature of absence in Paul Auster’s early work was published in 2016 (AMERICANA eBooks).