Péter Dávidházi is Head of the Department of 19th-century Literature at the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Schiences, and Professor of English Literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His books include The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective (Macmillan, 1998). Delegated to the European Science Foundation (2003-2009), he initiated international workshops to explore changing publication cultures.