MMag. Dr. Rita Perintfalvi

The Catholic theologian has a doctorate in Old Testament studies and is religious education teacher, cultural manager, social manager specializing in psychosocial prevention, publicist, blogger and currently works as a post-doctoral university assistant at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Graz as part of the faculty's research focus on gender studies.

Her current research project "(Re)learning to be human: Anti-Gender Attacks in the Horizon of Religious Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Populism" integrates interdisciplinary research findings from gender studies, political science, sociology, political philosophy, feminist ethics and, in particular, biblical studies.

From January 2019: habilitation thesis at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the University of Graz
February 2017 to January 2019: Research Fellow status at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the University of Vienna
2014: completion of doctorate with dissertation "Das Te Deum des Alten Testaments. Psalm 103 in synchronic intertextual analysis".

2009 to 2015: Member of the international board of the ESWTR (European Society of Women in Theological Research) as Vice Treasurer
since 2007: President of the Ecumenical Association of Women Theologians of Hungary
since 2015: member of the board of the Christian-Jewish Society in Hungary.

Networking:
Member of the ESWTR since 2005, member of the society's board between 2009-2015. Active contacts with ET (European Society for Catholic Theology), INSecT (International Network of Societies for Catholic Theologies), ICCJ (International Council of Christians and Jews), ArgeAss, Platform for Contextual Liberating Theologies, RaT (Research Center Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society).