Zsanett Milojev-Ferkó

Assistant professor

Zsanett Milojev-Ferkó (1986) studied Hungarian Language and Literature (MA) and Liberal Arts (BA, specialising in Film Theory and Film History) at the University of Pécs, followed by an MA in Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). She spent six months conducting research at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. In 2026, she was awarded her PhD summa cum laude by the Doctoral Programme in Film, Media and Cultural Theory, within the Doctoral School of Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. Her doctoral dissertation focused on coming-of-age narratives prevalent in the Hungarian New Wave.

She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.

Her main research interests include Hungarian cinema during the state-socialist period, constructions of youth, modernism, women filmmakers, and the representation of women in cinema.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

      • She is an editor of Metropolis, a journal dedicated to film theory and film history, as well as Metropolis online magazine.

Areas of Teaching / Courses Taught

      • French new wave

      • American teen film

      • Film and society

      • Coming of age narrative in Hungarian Cinema

      • Modernism

      • Women in Hungarian Cinema

Areas of Supervision

      • Representation of youth in film history

      • Hungarian cinema in the 1960s

      • Auteur filmmakers in the films of the kádár era

      • Coming-of-age films

Contact Details

Institute for the Theory of Art and Media Studies
Department of Film Studies
Eötvös Loránd University

Mail: Múzeum krt. 6-8.,
1088 Budapest, Hungary
Room -134, basement

E-mail: milojev.zsanett@btk.elte.hu

Selected Publications