Tamás Scheibner

I study the history of literary studies in international contexts from the fin-de-siècle to the 1990s, the history of translations and cultural transfers. This research angle is complemented by my work on issues of censorship, authoritarianism, and memory.

Keywords

censorship, socialist realism, international migration, emigration, memory studies, Holocaust, historical anthropology, gothic, history of literary theory, samizdat, institutional history, digital humanities, translation, intercultural transfers

Area Studies

I am interested in Central European literatures and cultures in the 20th century, with a particular focus on anthropological ideas, migration, emigration, and how politics comes into play with fiction.

Keywords

Central European literatures and cultures, East Central Europe, Cold War, international migration, emigration

Contemporary History

My research has focused on the Cultural Cold War with a specific focus on US, Soviet and Hungarian cultural diplomacy. I have been also working on the post-1956 refugees and their global impact and its legacies, and the cultural history of dissent in state socialist East Central Europe.

Keywords

Cold War, cultural diplomacy, migration, diaspora, refugees, state socialism, Communism, digital humanities, Intellectual history, cultural history, dissent

Highlighted publications

2014 – Scheibner, Tamás – A magyar irodalomtudomány szovjetizálása – mtmt.hu
2018 – Scheibner, Tamas – Introducing Socialist Realism in Hungary, 1945–1951 – mtmt.hu
2022 – Laczó, Ferenc; Scheibner, Tamás – Beyond Anti-Fascist Heroism: Representations of Buchenwald in Hungarian Literature – mtmt.hu
2022 – Anastasiya, Astapova; Onoriu, Colăcel; Corneliu, Pintilescu; Tamás, Scheibner – Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends – mtmt.hu
2025 – Kecskés, Gusztáv D.; Scheibner, Tamás – A Handbook on Post-1956 Hungarian Refugee Relief: From Local Crisis to Global Impact – mtmt.hu