Docteur ès-lettres (Szeged and ENS Lyon) 2008 with La Critique du voyage dans la pensée de Diderot. De la fiction au discours philosophique et politique [‘The critique of the voyage in Diderot’s thought : from fiction to philosophical and political discourse’] (Paris, Champion, 2015), post-doc at Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest), lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (ELTE), Eszter Kovács conducts research on the work of Diderot and more recently of Montesquieu. She is also a translator of philocophical texts and works on the methodology of philosophical translation.