About

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Marguerite DeHuszar Allen earned her MA and PhD in Comparative Studies in Literature from the University of Chicago where she held a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship. She received a BA Honors degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and studied at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has held positions at Princeton University and Loyola University of Chicago. A portion of her book The Faust Legend: Popular Formula and Modern Novel has recently been expanded and updated as a chapter in the book The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus (Camden House 2013). In 2008, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Hungary, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University. Her most recent article, “Making Relations, Breaking Relations: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations between France and Hungary 1905–1910 and the Revue de Hongrie,” appears in the current issue of East Central Europe (41, 2-3): 297-329.  “Review Article: The Saddest History Ever Written: On Randolph L. Braham’s The Geographical History of the Holocaust in Hungary (2013) appeared in Hungarian Cultural Studies, e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association 7 (2014): 1-10.