Ráhel K. TURAI

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Short CV:

After obtaining MAs in Sociology and Aesthetics from ELTE, Ráhel Katalin Turai received her PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from the Central European University. Her main research areas include women's rights, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, urban memory, and intra-European inequalities. Ráhel has extensive experience in qualitative interviewing, including victims of intimate partner violence, female migrant care workers, children in high school and in state care. She has worked in the civil sphere at women's rights NGOs, offering trainings, providing support for victims, and compiling research reports. She acts as a gender expert in evaluation projects. Ráhel has published, among others, in the Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Sexualities, and Discourse and Society. 

Selected Publications:

PC goes East-Central Europe. Enregistering politically correct language in Budapest university dormitories. In Dick Smakman, Jiří Nekvapil, Kapitolina Fedorova (eds.): Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City. Postmodern Individuals in Urban Communicative Settings. London: Routledge, 2022, with Csanád Bodó & Gergely Szabó

Bisexuality: Narrating Sexual Fluidity. In Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.68

Post-socialist gender regimes and controversial ideas about gender equality in Hungarian schools. In Maria Tsouroufli, Dorottya Redai (eds.): Gender equality and stereotyping in secondary schools: case studies from England, Hungary and Italy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, with Dorottya Rédai