(En)Gendered Lives

(En)Gendered Lives is the fruit of a year’s process that required commitment, faith and hard work from the English and American Studies Group of the Hatvani István Extramural College and also from our teachers, supervisors and mentors, to whom we are all extremely grateful. It all began last year, when we dared to dream big and decided to put together a volume of essays in which we can show the voice of our own. In order to reach our newly set goal, we outlined an agenda. In December 2015 we gathered for a workshop where we first introduced our topics, ideas, doubts, and received a lot of helpful feedback, pieces of advice, and illuminating questions from our audience. Then, in March 2016 we organised our student conference at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, where we presented the revised, improved, and more-or-less final versions of our essays, which are published in full length on these pages with the financial support of Hatvani István Extramural College.