Márton Szentpéteri

(Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest)

Márton Szentpéteri, intellectual historian and design critic, PhD in Literary Studies (2005). Between 1993 and 2002, he studied literary studies, linguistics, aesthetics, philosophy and history at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Istituto Universitario Orientale (Naples) and the Central European University (Budapest). He was a Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005-2009), a Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2007) and a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Oxford (2010-2011). Dr Szentpéteri has been a tenured associate professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest since 2008. His main interests lie in early modern intellectual and cultural history, and modern design culture. He is an author of the monograph ʽJohann Heinrich Alsted and the Herborn Legacy in Transylvaniaʾ (in Hungarian, 2008), 'Design and Culture. Inclusive Design Culture' (in Hungarian, 2010).