Helga Lenart-Cheng  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Harvard University, November 2007

Award:

• I. H. Levin Scholarship Award - Harvard University (1999)

Fellowships:

• Harvard University Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Harvard University (2006)
• Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Junior Fellowship - (2005)

Professional Licenses & Certifications:

• Teacher's Diploma - ELTE, Hungary (1996)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• The Correspondence of Alexander Lenard. Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  AHEA, Rutgers
  (May 2013)
• “My Life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933”: Documenting German National Socialism Through a Collection of Witness Stories. Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  NEMLA, Boston
  (March 23, 2013)
• Collections of Life Stories and the Utopia of Simultaneity. Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  HIC on Arts and Humanities
  (January 12, 2012)
• One Day a Year: Documenting One�s Own Life as a Form of Communal Utopia. Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies
  (October 2011)
• Using Life Stories for the Purpose of Social and Political Activism. Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  IABA, Brighton, England
  Presented article co-authored with Darija Walker, an undergraduate students at SMC
  (June 28, 2010)
• Sandor Lenard: Self-Portrait in Three Languages (Part 3). Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  RMMLA 2009
  (October 2009)
• Alexander Lenard: Self-Portrait in Three Languages (Part 2). Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  AHEA, Berkeley
  (May 19, 2009)
• Sandor Lenard: Self-Portrait in Three Languages (Part 1). Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  RMMLA 2008
  (October 2008)
• "The Autobiographer As a Symbol: Symbolic Views On Autobiographical Representativity.". Lenart-Cheng, Helga (paper)
  Spirit of the Age, Kingston U. London
  (2007)

Publications:

• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. March 2013. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Autobiographical Essays and the Problem of Over-Identification, St. Johns Humanities Review, issue Perceptions of the Self and Society
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. December 2011. Once Upon a Time in the West, Encyclopedia of the Sixties. A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. , ABC - Clio
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. "The Producers."Encyclopedia of the Sixties. A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. .. Vol. 1.. ABC- CLIO, 2011.
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. December 2011. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Encyclopedia of the Sixties. A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. , ABC - Clio
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga and Walker, Darija. "Recent Trends in Using Life Stories for Social and Political Activism." Biography 34 .1 (2011): 141-179
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. "Jonathan Krell's "The Ogre's Progress"." The Rocky Mountain Review Spring 2010 (2010)
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. "Gao Xingjian's "The Case for Literature"." The Rocky Mountain Review Spring 2009 (2009)
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. "Tony Davies' "Humanism"." The Rocky Mountain Review Spring 2009 (2009)
• Lenart-Cheng, Helga. 2003. "Autobiography As Advertisement: Why Do Gertrude Stein's Sentences Get Under Our Skin?", New Literary History, vol. 1, issue 34, Winter