About the Author

David Mandler earned his Bachelor’s degree in English and French from Brooklyn College (1996) and subsequently completed the M.A./Ph.D. program in English and American Literature at New York University (2005). He has since authored a number of scholarly articles as well as a critically acclaimed book entitled Arminius Vambéry and the British Empire: Between East and West (2016), which also appeared in Hungarian translation in 2014. His other published writings include articles in “The Budapest Times,” book reviews in “Hungarian Cultural Studies” and a short story called “The Loft” available on amazon.com. For a decade, Dr. Mandler taught English literature and writing courses at Touro College. He taught at The Baccalaureate School for Global Education for three years before joining Stuyvesant High School in 2010 where he teaches English literature.

Scholarly Book

Arminius Vambéry and the British Empire: Between East and West (Lexington Books, 2016)

Kelet és nyugat mezsgyéjén. Vámbéry Ármin és a Brit Birodalom (Múlt és Jövő, 2014) [Hungarian translation of the book above]

Ph.D. Dissertation “Arminius Vambéry, the Eastern (br)other in Victorian Politics and Culture: Hungarian (Jewish) Orientalism and the Invention of Identities” (New York University, 2005)

Books

The College Essay Guidebook: Writing a Powerful Story about Yourself (Ergo Sum Press, 2017)

Scholarly Articles

Introduction to Vambéry” in Shofar: Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (2007)

Translation work. Vambéry’s views on the aristocracy as couched in the the narrative by a Tartar (2007)

Vambéry, Victorian Culture and Stoker’s Dracula” in Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies (2011)

Book Reviews

Ágai, Adolf: “Az örök zsidó. Régi naplók, életképek (1862-1906)” [The Eternal Jew: Old Diaries and Life Sketches (1862-1906)] Hungarian Cultural Studies (2011)

Nopcsa, Baron Franz. 2014. Traveler, Scholar, Politician, Adventurer – A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence (ed. and trans. from German Robert Elsie). Budapest: Central European University Press. 227 pp. Hungarian Cultural Studies (2014)

Turán, Tamás and Carsten Wilke, eds. 2016. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary – the “Science of Judaism” Between East and West. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 414 pages. Hungarian Cultural Studies (2016)

Articles in the Popular Press

Severe Opinion Demands Severe Action The Budapest Times (January 11-17, 2013)

Csanád Szegedi revisited: the hatred continues  The Budapest Times (January 14, 2014)

A Step Beyond the Boycott The Budapest Times (March 28, 2014)

Sensible Empathy: Keeping the US Safe (and Great) The Budapest Times (Feb. 24, 2017)

Magyarul megjelent írások (Works in Hungarian):

Kelet és Nyugat találkozása Vámbéry Ármin sorsában és személyiségében. A pályakezdés Múlt és Jövő 3/2013

Vámbéry Rusztem és Faludy György kapcsolata Szombat (május 17, 2015)

 

Recenziók

Szalai, Anna. “Mandler, David. 2014. Kelet és nyugat mezsgyéjén – Vámbéry Ármin és a Brit Birodalom (‘On the Border between East and West – Arminius Vámbéry and the British Empire’). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő Kiadó. 223 pp.” Hungarian Cultural Studies. e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Volume 8 (2015)

Sárközy Miklós. SZEMLE Könyvek MANDLER DÁVID: KELET ÉS NYUGAT MEZSGYÉJÉN. VÁMBÉRY ÉS A BRIT BIRODALOM Múlt és Jövő Kiadó, Budapest, 2014, 224 oldal. Keletkutatás (2016) Keletkutatas_2016-oszMandler

Work of Fiction

 

“The Loft” (available on amazon.com)

More in the works…Stay tuned.