Education
MA in Teaching English and Hungarian as a Foreign Language, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
MPhil in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics New York University, New York, USA, 2005
MA in Linguistics and Sociolinguistics New York University, New York, USA, 2003
MA in English Studies & Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 1996
BA in English and Russian Studies & Teaching English/Russian as a Foreign Language, Eszterházy Károly College of Education, Eger, Hungary 1991

Employment
Adjunct Faculty member of the Pre-Medical Track at McDaniel College Budapest - since 2020

Before joining McDaniel College Budapest, Erika had worked in various positions. She worked as an instructor of Hungarian as a Foreign Language in the University of California Education Abroad Program (EAP) at ELTE University (2004-2010) and at the International Studies Program (ISP) of Corvinus University of Budapest (2010-2012). She was Director of American Corner (AC) Budapest, Budapest, Hungary (2009 – 2017). She acted as the Senior Program Manager at Romani Studies Program (RSP), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2017-2019).
Erika is also a co-author with Carol H. Rounds of the best-selling Hungarian textbook in Routledge`s well-known language series Colloquial Hungarian.

AWARDS
Fulbright-Hays Fieldwork Research Abroad Fellowship 2003
NYU Linguistics Department Max Talmey Prize 2002

Courses taught
HUN 1101 Elementary Hungarian I.
HUN 1102 Elementary Hungarian II.