Main research areas of the department:
- Research of the different periods of Hungarian literary history
- Hungarian literature in Transylvania
- Contemporary Hungarian literature
- Literature and cultural memory
- Canon theory and literary cults
- Women’s literature
- Hungarian intellectual history
- History of literature and drama (18th-19th century)
- German and Hungarian cultural relations
- English and Hungarian cultural relations
- Autobiography studies, network theories, theories of narrative
- History of the Hungarian language
- Applied linguistics
- Hungarian as a foreign language
- Psycholinguistics
- Cultural linguistics
- Anthropological linguistics
- Intercultural education
- Improving oral and written communicative skills