She is a professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest.
[5][6] She is best known for her work on information structure and discourse configurationality, in Hungarian and other languages.
Kiss has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Europe Prize, Princeton (1994),[8] a Mellon Fellowship (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992–1993).
[10] She also serves on the editorial board of prestigious linguistics journals, such as: Katalin É.
Kiss also features twice as an example of orthography in the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (2010) which uses her name as an example of a Hungarian surname beginning with an initial "É.