THOMAS COOPER is a professor of American literature and translation studies at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. After completing his doctorate in comparative literature, he taught and pursued research as a fellow at the University of North Carolina, Columbia University, the University of Vienna, and the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Studies. A member of the executive board of the International Association for Hungarian Studies, he has published extensively on Hungarian literature and literary history, and his translations of Hungarian prose and poetry have also appeared in the two Hungarian Review anthologies, Down  Fell the Statue of Goliath – Hungarian Poets and Writers on the Revolution of 1956 (2016 and 2019) and A Nation Dismembered – The 1920 Treaty of Trianon in Hungarian Poetry (2019).