Dr. Szilagyi received his B.A. in English and History from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, and his Ph.D. and M.A. in English from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  He joined the UAH Department of English in 1988.  His areas of specialization are in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, and he regularly teaches courses in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, Later Eighteenth-Century Literature, the Early English Novel, and Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Special Topics courses consider Alexander Pope and Classical Satire.  His Aphra Behn course is in the core curriculum of the UAH Women's Studies Program.  Dr. Szilagyi also regularly conducts World Literature seminars for the UAH Honors Program.

 

At present, he is the Senior Faculty Advisor for the UAH Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta, National Honorary for First-Year Students.  He also serves on the National Council of Alpha Lambda Delta as Member-at-Large.  In addition, Dr. Szilagyi is a Past President of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) and now serves as the Society's Archivist/Historian and as a member of the SEASECS Executive Board.  He remains an active member in the national  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

 

Dr. Szilagyi has published on Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Andrew Marvell, and Colley Cibber.  Current research projects focus on Alexander Pope's influences (or will to power), Aphra Behn's Rover Part 2 and its Pyrrhonistic connection to Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, and John Dryden's paratextual intentions in the 1690s.