Géza Kállay (b. 1959, Budapest, Hungary) earned MA degrees in Hungarian Literature and Linguistics, English Literature and Linguistics, with teaching degrees, and MA in General and Applied Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary in 1984. He got his Ph.D. at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1996. He went through the “habilitation” process in 2003 and became full professor in 2007. He has been teaching at the School of English and American Studies (SEAS) of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest since 1985, giving lectures and seminars on Early Modern English (“Renaissance”) English drama and cultural history, literary theory and the relationship between literature and philosophy. Between 2002-2004 and 2005-2006, as well as for one semester in 2010, he served as the director of SEAS. Currently he is the program director of the BA and MA programs in English Studies, head of the PhD Program in Renaissance Studies, and head of the of the Doctoral School in Literature at Eötvös University. He is also visiting professor at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria, teaching philosophy (The Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein) and East- and Central European Culture. He pursued doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University under the tutoring of Prof. Stanley Cavell, with a Fulbright research grant, in 1995, and taught courses in philosophy and in literature, again with a Fulbright grant, at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004-05. He kept returning to Santa Cruz to teach in the Summer Sessions (2006-2009). Current research areas include the relationship between literature (especially Early Modern English Literature) and philosophy (especially aesthetics, (post)analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein, Cavell). Géza Kállay is married with three daughters; his wife, Dr. Katalin G. Kállay teaches American Literature at Károli G áspár University, Budapest.