Curriculum Vitae

Szabolcs Parragh

Personal:

• Date of birth: May 14. 1975.
• E-mail: parragh[_at_]ipo[_dot_]hu
• Web: parszab.hu

Formal education:

• MA: Hungarian Literature and Linguistics; History - Károli Gáspár University
• Philosophy - Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest

Current position and teaching experience in the humanities:

• 2001-2004: guest lecturer: Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest - Department of Comparative Literature
• 2003-2008: lecturer at the Balassi Bálint Institute - Department of Hungarian Studies
• 2005-2006: guest lecturer: Eötvös Collegium Budapest - Philosophy Workshop
• 2005 autumn: head of the Department of Hungarian Studies at the Balassi Bálint Institute

Research interest:

• the metaphisical basics of literary theory
• new aspects of historical writing in the 20th century
• philosphical utopism
• the open-source movement as a model of new collectivism (philosophical perspectives)

Area of competence:

• literary and critical theory
• epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of history
• history of Hungarian literature, history of Hungarian ideas (Hungarian Geistesgeschichte)

Other employments:

• 1993-1994: assistant librarian at the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library
• 1993-1997: travel agent (organized trips mainly to Prague, Krakow, Florence, Amsterdam)
• 2000-2001: director of the Christian College Association
• 2002-: NiR Ltd., sales és marketing manager, the NiR Ltd. offers business solutions (ERP and CRM) mainly developed in Java, EJB, JBOSS etc.
• 2005-: free-lance projekt manager, e.g. at Port Computer Rt, Erba Kft.
• 2006-: CEO of NiR Ltd.

Programming experience:

• Java
  • Technologies: J2SE 1.5, J2EE, EJB 3.0, Swing, Java Persistence API
  • OFBiz
  • eszközök: JBoss, Eclipse, JasperReports, JFreeCharts, Ant
• DBMS
  • PostgreSQL
  • HSQLDB, H2
• Ruby
  • everyday scripting
  • Rails a bit

Recent papers and publications:

Book:

• Betűkbe zárt világ (World Enclosed in Letters), Bíbor, 2003, Miskolc

Articles:

• Beátrix tükre (The Mirror of Beatrix, the Queen Consort of Hungary) in: Mozgó világ. Tanulmányok a hatvanéves Kulin Ferenc tiszteletére, Ráció Kiadó, 2003.
• Nem voltak fogyatékosok a történelemben (The Handicapped in Historical Writing) -- with Miklós Kőszeghy in: Tágabb értelemben vett gyógypedagógia, ELTE GYFK, 2004.
• A dekonstrukció mint ismeretelméleti relativizmus (An Analytical Reading of Deconstruction) in: Lóránd Zsófia, Scheibner Tamás, Vaderna Gábor (ed.): A nem-professzionális olvasás értelmezési lehetőségei, L'Harmattan Kiadó, 2006.