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MIHAELA LIDIA IRIMIA

Personal Data:

Name: Mihaela Lidia IRIMIA (n. Anghelescu)

Birth: 15 January 1951, Bucharest

Citizenship: Romanian

Address:

Home:

Str. Logofăt Udrişte, no.1, et.I, ap.2, sect. III, 030655

Bucharest

Romania

Office:

Faculty of Foreign Languages & Literatures:

English Department

British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC)

Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (CESIC)

Literary-Cultural Studies Doctoral School (SDSLC)

Str. Pitar Moş, no. 7-11, sect. I

Bucharest

Romania

New Europe College

Str. Plantelor, no. 21, sector III

Bucharest

Romania

Phone: 004021-327-6080 (h)

0040-742-096020 (mobile)

004021-318-1580 / ext. 114 (BCSC)

004021-327-0035 (New Europe College)

Fax: 004021-327-0774 (New Europe College)

E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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Title: Professor, Ph.D, English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania

Position: Director of Studies, British Cultural Studies Centre

Director, Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity

(University of Bucharest, Romania)

Director, Literary-Cultural Studies Doctoral School

(University of Bucharest, Romania)

Education:

Degrees: BA in English (1973)

Ph.D. in Philology (1983): Tradition and Experiment in Modern American

Poetry – A Study in Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry

Literature & Arts Translator Certificate (1978)

Translator-Interpreter Certificate (1979)

British Council Seminar Graduate (1983)

UNESCO Expert (1986)

Languages (spoken & written):

English – excellent

French – excellent

Italian – excellent

Portuguese – excellent

Scholarships, Fellowships & Visiting Professorships:

Summer School (Oslo University, Norway, 1975)

British Council Summer Course in English Literature (Cambridge, UK, 1983)

Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Scholarship (Harvard University, USA, 1993-4)

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NEC Relink Fellowship (Bucharest, Romania, 1997-2000)

Bolsa de Estudo ‘Fernando Pessoa’, Instituto Camões (Lisbon, July-August 2002)

Research Fellowship (St. John’s College, Oxford, October 2002)

Research Fellowship (Lewis-Walpole Library, Yale University, February 2003)

Research Fellowship (Armstrong-Browning Library, Baylor University, January-

February, 2006)

Research Scholarship, Bodleian Library, Oxford (July-August 2006)

Visiting Professorship (Central European University, Budapest, June 2007)

Visiting Professor (Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Université

d’Orléans, 5 June - 4 July 2008)

Areas of Specialization:

Philology: English 18th

-Century & Romantic Literature

Literary-Cultural Theory

Comparative Literature

Cultural Studies: British Cultural Studies

Cultural Identity

History of Ideas

Cultural History

Memory Studies

Current Research Interests:

Cultural Identity & Comparative Studies

18th

-Century British Culture

Revisitations and Revisions of the Enlightenment Paradigm

Memory and/in Literature

The ‘Long Modernity’

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Teaching Experience:

Junior Lecturer – Eng. Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania (1973-91)

Senior Lecturer – Eng. Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania (1991-6)

Reader – Eng. Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania (1996-2000)

Professor – Eng. Dept., University of Bucharest, Romania (2000-present day)

Director of Studies – British Cultural Studies Centre – University of Bucharest (1996-

present day)

Professor, Director – Literary-Cultural Studies Doctoral School (2005; 2011 – present

day)

Research Experience:

Literary History (1973 – present day)

English Literary History (1973 – present day)

Literary Theory (1973 – present day)

18th

-Century & Romantic Literature (1973 – present day)

English Poetry & Poetics (1976 – 1986)

American Poetry (1978 – 1985)

Renaissance Poetics (1985 – 1986)

Cultural Identity & Comparative Studies (1993 – present day)

British Cultural Identity (1996 – present day)

Irish Cultural Identity (1994 – present day)

The Canon and Canonicity (1997 – present day)

Postmodern Thinking (1993 – present day)

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Figura & Figurality (2000 – present day)

The ‘Long Modernity’ (2002 – present day)

Memory and/in Literature (2007 – present day)

Additional Professional Activities:

Current Graduation Paper supervision (1973 – present day)

Teaching Italian and Portuguese at the Open University, Bucharest (1974 – 1984)

Director of the Cultural Identity Debate Society – Faculty of Foreign Languages and

Literatures, Bucharest (1999 – present

day)

Guiding English Students’ Debating Society – Faculty of Foreign Languages and

Literatures, Bucharest (1976 – 1993,

1993 – present day)

English Languages Course on Romanian TV (1991 – 1993, 1994 – 1996)

Presenting British & American literature and culture in the Romanian media (1983 –

present day)

Joint Romanian-British cultural programmes, activities, events (1996 – present day)

Joint NEC-British Cultural Studies seminars (1997 – present day)

CESIC International Conferences (2007 – present day)

Joint CESIC – New Europe College (NEC) – Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR)

International Conferences (2004 – present day)

Professional Membership:

Founding member of the “Dante” Society of Romania (since 1969)

Member of the Romanian Society for Philological Studies (SSFR) (since 1977)

Member of the Romanian Association for English & American Studies (ARSSA) (since

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1990)

Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) (since 1991)

Member of the German Society for English Romanticism (Gesellschaft für Englische

Romantik) (since 1992)

Member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) (since 1994)

Member of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) (since

1994)

Member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) (since 2004)

Member of the Romanian Fulbright Association (since 1994)

New Europe College Fellow (1997 –2000)

New Europe College Alumna (since 2000)

Member of the Romanian Comparative Literature Association (since 1999)

EES Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford (2002)

Research Fellow, Yale University (2003)

Research Fellow, Baylor University, Texas (2006)

Research Scholar, Bodleian Library, Oxford (2006)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Individual Volumes and Volumes in Co-Authorship

1. Tradition and Experiment in Modern American Poetry, Bucharest: Bucharest

University Press, 1984 (256 pp.)

2. Arte poetice – Renaşterea: Arte poetice şi retorice ale Renaşterii în Anglia

(Renaissance Poetic Arts: Poetic and Rhetoric Arts in England), Bucharest: ‘Univers’

Publishers, 1986 (pp. 439-530)

3. ‘Oscar Wilde - A Case Study of the Personality Cult in Romanian Criticism (1900-

1918)’, in Peter Dávidhazy (ed.), Literature and Its Cults, An Anthropological Approach,

Budapest: Argumentum, 1994 (12 pp.)

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4. The Stimulating Difference: Avatars of a Concept, Bucharest: Bucharest University

Press, 1995 (358 pp.)

5. William Butler Yeats: Poezii (Verse), edited, preface, chronology, and notes,

Bucharest: ‘Univers - Orfeu’ Publishers, 1996 (224 pp.)

6. Irlanda (Ireland), edited, translations, presentations, ‘Secolul 20’ Magazine, Bucharest:

Romanian Writers’ Union & The 21st-Century Cultural Foundation Publishers, No. 373-

375, 4-6/1996, (320 pp.)

7. Dicţionarul universului britanic (A Dictionary of Britishness), Bucharest: ‘Humanitas’

Publishers, 1999 (316 pp.)

8. Dialoguri postmoderne (Postmodern Dialogues), Bucharest: ‘Romanian Cultural

Foundation’ Publishers, 1999 (356 pp.)

9. The Rise of Modern Evaluation, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 1999 (288 pp.)

10. Postmodern Revaluations, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 1999 (172 pp.)

11. ‘From Finite to Infinite London: London and the Long Eighteenth Century’, in

Adriana Neagu & Eric Gilder (eds), Infinite Londons, London & Sibiu: The British

Council & ‘Lucian Blaga’ University, 2001 (16 pp.)

12. ‘Imagined Landscapes’, in Mariaconcetta Costantini & John Woolford (eds),

Victorian Landscapes, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002 (18 pp.)

13. Dicţionarul universului britanic (A Dictionary of Britishness), Bucharest:

‘Humanitas’ Publishers, second impression, 2002 (318 p.)

14. ‘What’s in a Word?’, in Matthews, Sean, Aura Taras Sibişan, Peter Barry, Mihaela

Anghelescu Irimia, Adriana Neagu (eds), Theories: A Reader, Piteşti – Bucureşti: Editura

Paralela 45, 2003 (8 pp.)

15. ‘Ideas Have a History’, in Vlad, Eduard (ed.), -ISMs and –NESSes, Constanţa:

Ovidius University Press, 2004 (14 p.)

16. ‘The Byron Phenomenon in Romanian Culture’, in Richard Cardwell (ed.), The

Reception of Byron in Europe, London & New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004 (11

pp.)

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17. ‘”Glocalization”, or Liminal Cultural Identity: Occident vs. Orient, Europe vs.

Byzantium’, Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles, La

globalisation et ses défis culturels, No. 1, Institutul Cultural Român, Bucharest, 2004: 45-

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18. The Stimulating Difference: Avatars of a Concept, Bucharest: Bucharest University

Press, Second Impression, revised and updated, 2005 (350 pp.)

19. Mutual Understanding: 125 Years of Anglo-Romanian Diplomatic Relations (ed.

Mihaela Irimia), Bucharest: ‘Humanitas’ Publishers, 2005 (72 p.)

20. ‘English Studies at the University of Bucharest since the Foundation of the English

Department’, Irimia, Mihaela (ed.), Mutual Understanding: 125 Years of Anglo-

Romanian Diplomatic Relation, Bucharest: ‘Humanitas’ Publishers, 2005 (72 p.)

21. ‘Landscape Gardening: A (Sub)Liminal Poetics’, in Dolores Toma (ed.), Paysages

d’ici et d’auilleurs, Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2005 (10 pp.)

22. ‘Balkan as Metaphor’, Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles:

(Post)communisme et (post)colonialisme, No. 1, Institutul Cultural Român, Bucharest,

2005: 147-148

23. ‘English Studies at Bucharest University’, in Dennis Deletant (ed.), In and Out of

Focus, Bucharest: Cavallioti, 2005 (6 pp.)

24. ‘Shakespeare and the ‘Long Modernity’’, in Shakespeareana 2004 (ed. Ţuchel,

Daniela), Galaţi: Editura Europlus, 2005, 5-16.

25. ‘English Studies at the University of Bucharest Since the Foundation of the English

Department in 1936’, in Deletant, Dennis & Anca Oroveanu (eds), Romania and Britain:

Relations and Perspectives from 1930 to the Present, The British Council, Romania, New

Europe College, Bucharest: Cavallioti, 2005 (7 pp.)

26. Balkan Cultural Identities: Second Balkan Conference, ‘Ovidius’ University,

Constanţa, 14-16 October, 2004 (eds Ciugureanu, Adina, Mihaela Irimia, Eduard Vlad),

Constanţa: ‘Ovidius’ University Press, 2006 (363 pp.)

27. ‘It’s a Long Way to Cathay, where the Emperor is the “Sun of the Sky”’, Ciugureanu,

Adina, Mihaela Irimia, Eduard Vlad (eds), Balkan Cultural Identities: Second Balkan

Conference, ‘Ovidius’ University, Constanţa, 14-16 October, 2004 Constanţa: ‘Ovidius’


28. Modele şi metamorfoze inter- şi intra-culturale / Inter- and Intra-Cultural Models

and Metamorphoses (eds Irimia, Mihaela, Mihaela Voicu, Luminiţa Diaconu, Dragoş

Ivana), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2006 (390 pp.)

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29. ‘Formarea canonului iluminist – model al modernităţii clasice’, Mihaela Irimia,

Mihaela Voicu, Luminiţa Diaconu, Dragoş Ivana (eds), Modele şi metamorfoze inter- şi

intra-culturale / Inter- and Intra-Cultural Models and Metamorphoses, Bucureşti:

Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2006, 192-201.

30. ‘Mémoire et récupération’, in Liens de mémoire – Genres, repères, imaginaires (ed.

Laure Lévêque), Paris: l’Harmattan, 2006, (304 pp.), 291-301.

31. ‘Chronotopes of Post-Communist Times’, in Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, Carmen

Andras & Magdalena Marsovszky (eds), The New Central and East European Culture,

Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2006 (385 pp.), 197-208.

32. ‘Shakespeare from Stage to Page’, in Shakespeareana 2006 (ed. Ţuchel, Daniela),

Galaţi: Editura Fundaţiei Universitare ‘Dunărea de Jos’, 2006, 7-17.

33. ‘The Grand Grand Tour’, in Travel (of) Writing (eds Ciugureanu, Adina & Eduard

Vlad), Constanţa: ‘Ovidius’ University Press, 2007 (359 pp.), 25-36.

34. ‘The Preposterous Head Dress: An Aesthetics of Prosthesis’, Du Corps (ed.

Gheorghe Crăciun), Bucharest: Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et

culturelles, No. 3-4, 2007, 327-337

35. ‘Some Chronotopes of Modernity: Romanian Romanticism and the Invention of the

National Spirit’, in British and European Romanticisms, Selected Papers from the

Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism (eds Christoph Bode

& Sebastian Domsch), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007 (283 pp.), 99-105.

36. ‘Colonial London in the Eighteenth Century’, in Urbs et Orbis: Métropoles et villes

provinciales dans le monde Anglophone (ed. Hanquart-Turner ; Évelyne), Paris &

Ivry/Seine: Éditions A3, 2007, 11-19.

37. Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres et ruses de la modernité, International

Colloquium / Colloque international, New Europe College, 28-29 Nov., 2005 (ed.

Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român, 2007 (211 pp.).

38. ‘Introduction’, Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres et ruses de la modernité,

International Colloquium / Colloque international, New Europe College, 28-29 Nov.,

2005 (ed. Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român, 2007, 7-9.

39. ‘The Collapse of the Isomorphic Model’, in Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres

et ruses de la modernité, International Colloquium / Colloque international, New Europe

College, 28-29 Nov., 2005 (ed. Irimia, Mihaela), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român,

2007, 30-39.

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40. ‘A Walpolian Anecdote: The Garden of Alcinous’, in Anglo-American Perceptions of

Hellenism (ed. Rapatzikou, Tatiani G.), Newcastle: Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars

Publishing, 2007 (323 pp.), 2-14.

41. ‘Venetian and Turkish Anecdotes, or to Be or not to Be a Moor in Venice’, Tolerance

and Intolerance on the Triplex Confinium. Approaching the “Other” on the Borderlands.

Eastern Adriatic and Beyond, 1500-1800 (eds Egidio Ivetic & Drago Roksandić),

Padova: CLEUP (Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Storia), 2007, 81-96.

42. ‘Presentism: What Is It?’, Mapping the Future (ed. Odette Kaufmann), Iaşi: Editura

Universitas XXI, 2007 ( 354 pp.), 5-19.

43. ‘The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking’, in Michael Rossington & Susanne

Schmid (eds), The Reception of Shelley in Europe, London & New York:Continuum

International Publishing Group, 2008 (391 pp.), 127-145.

44. ‘Ubi Amor, ibi Roma’, in Adina Ciugureanu, Ludmila Martanovschi & Nicoleta

Stanca (eds), (Ex)Patriation, Constanţa: ‘Ovidius’ University Press, 2008 (368 pp.), 235-

240.

45. ‘The Age of Shakespeare in the Age of Johnson: the Growth of a Shakespeare

Vulgata’, in Gabriela Iuliana Colipca & Ligia Pirvu (eds), Shakespeareana 2008, Galaţi:

Galaţi University Press, 2008, 41-55.

46. ‘The Enlightenment Canon and/as the Model of Classic Modernity and Its

Aftermath’, in Alexandra Cornilescu, Coman Lupu, Andreea Vlădescu (eds), Études sur

le XVIIIe siècle, Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2008.

47. ODISEI I: Trasee conceptuale, Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre of Excellence for

the Study of Cultural Identity, 14-15 Dec., 2007, (ed. Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti: Editura

Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2008 (253 pp.)

48. ‘Introduction’, ODISEI I: Trasee conceptuale, Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre

of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, 14-15 Dec., 2007, (ed. Mihaela Irimia),

Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2008 (253), 7-16.

49. ‘A Late Modern View of Revolutionary Romanticisms’, Romanticism Today,

Selected Papers from the Tübingen Conference of the German Society for English

Romanticism (eds Lars Eckstein & Christoph Reinfandt), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher

Verlag Trier, 2009 (226 pp.), 33-40.

50. ODISEI II: O cartografie identitară: studii de caz, International Interdisciplinary

Conference, Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, 9-10 May, 2008, (ed.

Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2009 (504 pp.)

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51. ‘Introduction’, ODISEI II: O cartografie identitară: studii de caz, International

Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, 9-

10 May, 2008, (ed. Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2009

(504 pp.), 9-24.

52. ‘The Merchant Tourist: Defoe and the Case of London’, ODISEI II: O cartografie

identitară: studii de caz, International Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre of Excellence

for the Study of Cultural Identity, 9-10 May, 2008, (ed. Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti:

Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2009, 172-179.

53. Centralitate şi marginalitate, Conferinţa Facultăţii de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine,

2007, (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din

Bucureşti, 2009 (225 pp.).

54. ‘Introduction’, Centralitate şi marginalitate, Conferinţa Facultăţii de Limbi şi

Literaturi Străine, 2007, (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), ), Bucureşti: Editura

Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2009 (225 pp.), 7-9.

55. ‘From the Sublime to the Comic: The Call of the Modern’, in Irimia, Mihaela şi

Dragoş Ivana (eds), Centralitate şi marginalitate, Sesiunea Ştiinţifică a Facultăţii de

Limbi şi Literaturi Străine, ‘Literatură şi Studii Culturale’, 9-21, Bucureşti: Editura

Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2009 (225 pp.), 9-21.

56. ‘Quijote en Inglaterra, o el saludo de la modernidad’, in Mianda Cioba & Anca Crivăţ

(editores), Estudios hispánicos II Literatura (pp. 76-82), Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii

din Bucureşti, 2008 /179 pp.), 76-84.

57. Literary into Cultural History / De l’histoire littéraire à l’histoire culturelle,

International Conference / Conférence Internationale, New Europe College, 25-26 May,

2007 (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român, 2009

(262 pp.).

58. ‘Introduction’, Literary into Cultural History / De l’histoire littéraire à l’histoire

culturelle, International Conference / Conférence Internationale, New Europe College,

25-26 May, 2007 (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural

Român, 2009, 9-10.

59. ‘English Studies in Romanian Higher Education: A Diachronic View’, in Gupta,

Suman & Milena Katsarska (eds), English Studies on This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings,

Plovdiv University Press, 2009 (328 pp.), 61-74.

60. ‘Romanian Romanticism’, in Stephen Prickett (ed), European Romanticism: A

Reader, London & New York: Continuum, 2010, pp. 50-53, 226-251, 388-393, 530-534,

634-637, 728-729, 852-855, 922-925 www.continuumbooks.com

61. ‘From London into the Wide World and Back: Guineaing It in Eighteenth-Century

http://www.continuumbooks.com/

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England’, Leonor Santa Bárbara (ed.), Identitdade e cidadania: Da antiguidade aos

nossos dias, Porto: Papira Editora, 2010, pp.219-232,

http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarchive/archport/msg00168.html

62. ‘Traveling and the Grand Tour’, Carmen Andras (ed.), New Directions in Travel

Writing and Travel Studies, Aachen; Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 17-27.

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-

bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=H&Word=comparative

63. ‘Classic Modernity and the Shakespeare Vulgata: A Case in Cultural Translation’,

Madalina Nicolaescu & Sorana Corneanu (eds), (In)Hospitable Translations: Fidelities,

Betrayals, Rewritings, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2010, pp. 203-220,

http://editura.unibuc.ro/

64. ODISEI III: Întoarcerea acasă, Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre of Excellence

for the Study of Cultural Identity, 16-19 Oct., 2008 (ed. Mihaela Irimia), Bucureşti:

Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2010 (380 pp.),

65. Imitatio – Inventio: The Rise of ‘Literature’ from Early to Classic Modernity,

International Interdisciplinary Conference, New Europe College, Bucharest, 13-14

November, 2009, (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural

Român, 2010, 423 pp.

66. ‘Some Literature of Alchemy and Some Alchemy of Literature: Gold and the First

Golden Age of the English Novel’, in Imitatio – Inventio: The Rise of ‘Literature’ from

Early to Classic Modernity, International Interdisciplinary Conference, New Europe

College, Bucharest, 13-14 November, 2009, (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana),

Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român, 2010, pp. 260-274.

67. ‘The Classic Modern Canon and the Disciplinary Separation’, in Papadima, Liviu,

David Damrosch and Theo D’haen (eds), The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing

Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, Amsterdam: Rodopi; /New York, NY:

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

149, 2011, pp. 205-210.

68. ‘Spaţio-timpul romanesc şi victoria modernităţii’, in Brînzeu, Pia (ed.), Spaţiul în

romanul anglo-saxon contemporan – Heterocosmosuri / heterotopii, Bucureşti: Editura

Art, 2011, pp. 52-70.

69. ‘Are these the Alps which I see before me, or are they but some mountains of the

mind?’, in Romantic Explorations, Selected Papers from the Kobleny Conference of the

German Society for English Romanticism, (ed. Michael Meyer), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher

Verlag Trier, 2011 (266 pp.), pp. 23-37.

70. Formal to Figural Shakespeare (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press)

(forthcoming)

http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarchive/archport/msg00168.html

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=H&Word=comparative

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=H&Word=comparative

http://editura.unibuc.ro/

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71. Despre canon (The Canon and Canonicity), Bucharest: ‘Humanitas’ Publishers (250

pp.) (work in progress)

2. Anthologies, Selected Texts and Studies

1. An Anthology of English Literature: The Age of Sentiment and Sensibility, Bucharest:

Bucharest University Press, 1987 (678 pp.)

2. An Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age, Bucharest: Bucharest


3. Cultural Identity between Anchorage and Embeddedness, Bucharest: British Cultural

Studies Centre, Editura Premier, 2003 (146 pp.)

4. Cultural Identity and Modernity’s (Dis)Contents, Bucharest: British Cultural Studies

Centre, Editura Premier, 2003 (163 pp.)

5. Texte fundamentale al gândirii postmoderne (Basic Texts of Postmodern Thinking),

Bucharest: ‘Humanitas’ Publishers, (work in progress)

3. Courses of Lectures, Textbooks, Manuals

1. A Collection of Version Texts, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 1976 (200 pp.)

2. English - Exercises for Entrance to Higher Education, Bucharest: Pedagogical


3. American Literature (chapters on Theodore Roethke, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth

Bishop, Charles Olson), Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, (115 pp.)

4. Translations, Introductory Studies, Prefaces, Afterwords

1. Sociolingvistica (Sociolinguistics), translations and notes, Bucharest: Pedagogical


2. Abdur Rahman, Anatomia ştiinţei (Anatomy of Science), Bucharest: Political


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3. Fernando Pessoa, poetry, essays, theoretical prose - translations, notes, commentaries,

Bucharest: ‘Secolul 20’ (‘The 20th Century’), No. 334-336, 10-12/1988, (30 pp.)

4. Charles Morgan, Sparkenbroke, preface, Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 1989 (21

pp.)

5. Lewis Carroll, parodies and letters - translations, notes, commentaries, Bucharest:

‘Secolul 20’ (‘The 20th Century’), No. 352-354, 7-12/1991, (22 pp.)

6. Daniel Defoe, Călătorie în întreaga Insulă a Marii Britanii (A Tour through the

Whole Island of Great Britan), translation, notes, afterword, Bucharest: Editis Publishers,

1992 (206 pp.)

7. Dan Verona, The Herald’s Ballad, translation, Falls Church, VA, USA: Visions

International, No. 46, Black Buzzard Press, Visions International Arts Synergy, 1993

8. John Fowles, Mantissa, afterword, Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 1995 (11 pp.)

9. William Shakespeare, sonnets translated into Romanian, in William Shakespeare:

Opere (The Works of William Shakespeare), vol. IX, Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers,

1995 (30 pp.)

10. Seamus Heaney, poems, in Chimerical Flames: An Anthology of Contemporary Irish

Poetry, Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 1996 (12 pp.)

11. Michael Longley, poems, in Chimerical Flames: An Anthology of Contemporary

Irish Poetry, Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 1996 (10 pp.)

12. John Lucas, ‘Seamus Heaney and the Possibilities of Poetry’, Bucharest: ‘Secolul 20’

(‘The 20th

Century’), No. 373-375, 4-6/1996, (4 pp.)

13. Andrew Sanders, Scurtă istorie Oxford a literaturii engleze (A Short Oxford History

of English Literature), Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 1997 (662 pp.)

14. Harold Bloom, Canonul occidental (The Western Canon), Bucharest: ‘Univers’

Publishers, 1998, afterword (24 pp.)

15. Sir Walter Scott, Temniţa din Edinburgh (The Heart of Midlothian), Bucharest:

‘Minerva’ Publishers, 1999, preface and chronology (24 pp.)

16. ‘Against Hermeneutics, for an Erotic of Art ’, afterword to Susan Sontag, Împotriva

interpretării (Against Interpretation), Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, 2000 (20 pp.)

17. ‘The Cool Tender Night’, afterword to Scott Fitzgerald, Blândeţea nopţii (Tender Is

the Night), Iaşi: ‘Polirom’ Publishers, 2001 (16 pp.)

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18. ‘London again, Dickens again’, afterword to Peter Ackroyd, Documentele Platon

(The Plato Papers), Iaşi: ‘Polirom’ Publishers, 2002 (18 pp.)

19. ‘The Aristocratic Fire’, afterword to John Fowles, Aristos (The Aristos), Bucharest:

Editura Univers, 2002 (17 pp.)

20. ‘The Praise of Imbecility’, preface to Olavo de Carvalho, Imbecilul colectiv (The

Collective Imbecile), Bucharest: ‘Cultural Romanian Institute’ Publishers, (12 pp.)

(forthcoming)

21. ‘The Change of the Forsytes’, afterword to John Galsworthy, Proprietarul (The Man

of Property), Bucharest: ‘Univers’ Publishers, (18 pp.) (forthcoming)

5. Articles, Studies, Reviews Published in Specialized Publications

1. ‘Value and Significance in Wallace Stevens’ Peter Quince at the Clavier’, Buletinul

Ştiinţific al Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1973 (10 pp.)

2. ‘A Petrarchan-Shelleyan Analysis against the Background of Traditional Imagery’,

Bucharest University Annals, XXII, Bucharest, Romania, 1973 (8 pp.)

3. ‘Some Considerations on Shakespeare’s Hamlet’, Buletinul şiinţific al Universităţii

Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1974 (7 pp.)

4. ‘Some Remarks of Jeppe of the Hill by Ludvig Holberg’, Oslo University Quarterly,

No.3, Oslo, Norway, 1976 (20 pp.)

5. ‘An Analysis of Structure in Hamsun’s Hunger’, Oslo University Quarterly, No.4,

Oslo, Norway, 1976 (30 pp.)

6. ‘Ivor Armstrong Richards - A Method of Poetic Text Analysis’, Bucharest University

Annals, XXVI, Bucharest, Romania, 1977 (10 pp.)

7. ‘Contemporary American Poetry - A Question of Identity’, Bucharest University

Annals, XXVIII, No.1, Bucharest, Romania, 1979 (5 pp.)

8. ‘Oh, Brave New World of Mental Territory - American Beat Poetry in the 50’s’,

Bucharest University Annals, XXX, No.1, Bucharest, Romania, 1981 (6 pp.)

9. ‘Elizabeth Bishop - A Picaresque Poet in the American Tradition’, Bucharest

University Annals, XXXI, Bucharest, Romania, 1982 (4 pp.)

10. ‘King Lear and A King Lear of the Steppe by Turgenyeff’, Romanoslavica, XXIV,

Bucharest, Romania, 1986 (8 pp.)

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11. ‘Johnson-Coleridge Symposium’ - review, Bucharest University Annals, XXXIV,

Bucharest, Romania, 1985 (1 p.)

12. ‘Sterne-Diderot: the Fatalistic Narrator’, Synthesis, Romanian Academy Publishers,

XIII, Bucharest, Romania, 1986 (3 pp.)

13. ‘Further Studies in English Language and Literature’ - review, Bucharest University

Annals, XXXVI, Bucharest, Romania, 1987 (1 p.)

14. ‘Boris Godunov - A Shakespearean Reading’, Romanoslavica, XXVI, Bucharest,

Romania, 1988 (10 pp.)

15. ‘Arnold-Eliot Symposium’, Bucharest University Annals, XXXVIII, Bucharest,

Romania, 1989 (1 p.)

16. ‘Painted Head - A Reading in Ransom’s Organicist Anatomy’, Limbile moderne în

Şcoală, Bucharest, Romania, 1990 (10 pp.)

17. ‘Blake and (the French) Revolution’, Bucharest University Annals, XXXIX,


18. ‘Fernando Pessoa’s Exemplary Anglo-Lusitania’, Studies in English Language and

Literature, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Romania, 1990 (10 pp.)

19. ‘Translation - Cultural Dialogue’, Forum, No. 6, Bucharest, Romania, 1991 ( 5 pp.)

20. ‘Swift - Caragiale -Ionesco: An Absurdist Triad’, Synthesis, XIX, Romanian

Academy Publishers, Bucharest, Romania, 1992 (20 pp.)

21. ‘ England, England…’, Vieaţa Nouă, 1, No. 4, Editura “Grai şi Suflet - Cultura

Naţională”, Bucharest, Romania, 1992 (8 pp.)

22. ‘Naming and Being in the Dark Lady Sonnets’, Bucharest University Annals, XLI,


23. ‘London and the Romanian Identity’ - interview taken by Manuela Lechonova,

‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, II, No. 43, 1992 (3 pp.)

24. ‘The Rivals by Sheridan’ - production book, Bucharest National Theatre, Romania,

1993 (8 pp.)

25. ‘Three Sisters and a Myth’ - chronicle of ‘Withering Looks’ production by Lip

Service, England, at the Bucharest National Theatre, ‘România literară’, No. 15,


26. ‘Thessaloniki - Logomachia’, ‘România literară’, No. 17, Bucharest, Romania, 1993

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(2 pp.)

27. ‘Doctor Criminale’, ‘România literară’, No. 26, Bucharest, Romania, 1993 (8 pp.)

28. ‘English Novels on Stage’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, III, No. 27 Bucharest,


29. ‘Harvard, Cambridge…’, ‘România literară’, No. 50, Bucharest, Romania, 1993 (2

pp.)

30. ‘The “Lights”, Reason, and Sex’, Vieaţa Nouă, II, No.7, Editura “Grai şi Suflet -

Cultura Naţională”, Bucharest, Romania, 1993 (8 pp.)

31. ‘Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamps’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 7,


32. ‘Insights on Romania’, La Mecha Weekly, Las Vegas, NM, USA, Vol. 70, No. 19,

1994 (4 pp.)

33. ‘A Short History of English Literature’ - Interview with Dr. Andrew Sanders,

Birkbeck College, University of London, ‘România literară’, No. 12, Bucharest,


34. ‘Brancusi’s Hand’, ‘România literară’, No. 13, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (4 pp.)

35. ‘April in the New World’, ‘România literară’, No. 19, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (3

pp.)

36. ‘An American Myth’, ‘România literară’, No. 21, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (3 pp.)

37. ‘Ionesco and the English language’, ‘România literară’, No. 22, Bucharest, Romania,

1994 (4 pp.)

38. ‘Political Correctness and ‘Outmoded’ Ideologies’ - Interview with Prof. Kevin Cope,

Louisiana State University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 23, Bucharest,


39. ‘The New Historicism - the Centre-Margin Relationship’ - Interview with Prof.

Stephen Greenblatt, Berkeley University, ‘România literară’, No. 26, Bucharest,


40. ‘The Fate of Shelley in Romania’ - Romantic Discourses, Studien zur englische

Romantik, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen, Germany, 1994 (9 pp.)

41. ‘Oscar Wilde - A Case Study of the Personality Cult in Romanian Criticism (1900-

1918)’, Literature and Its Cults, An Anthropological Approach, Argumentum, Budapest,

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Hungary, 1994 (12 pp.)

42. ‘From Zeno to Stuart Mill’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), II, No. 85, Bucharest,


43. ‘The Witch-Hunt’, Dilema’ (The Dilemma), II, No. 87, Bucharest, Romania , 1994 (7

pp.)

44. ‘Coherent Miseries’ - Interview with Seamus Heaney, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte,

Idei’, IV, No. 35, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (9 pp.)

45. ‘Dante at Cambridge’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 35, Bucharest,


46. ‘’The Oldness of the New World or noblesse oblige’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’,

IV, No. 35, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (4 pp.)

47. ‘Et in A(r)cadia Ego…’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 35, Bucharest,


48. ‘Tradition, Innovation, and School’ - Interview with Prof. James Engell, Harvard

University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 36, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (9 pp.)

49. ‘Americans, Hispanics, Indians’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 36,


50. ‘America - A Prophecy?’, Bucharest University Annals, XLII-XLIII, Bucharest,

Romania, 1993-1994 (5 pp.)

51. ‘Post-Industrial Halloween’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), II, No. 95, Bucharest,


52. ‘The English Romantics on the European Continent, via Heidelberg’, ‘Cotidianul -

Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 43, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (7 pp.)

53. ‘Deconstruction, Whereto?’ - Interview with Prof. Barbara Johnson, Harvard

University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 45, Bucharest, Romania, 1994 (11

pp.)

54. ‘The Art of Losing’, ‘Critical Survey’, Volume 6, Number 3, London, UK, 1994 (6

pp.)

55. ‘Romanian Anglistics up to the Mark’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, IV, No. 48,


56. ‘Much Ado about Nothing?’, Logomachia - Forms of Opposition in English

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Language/ Literature, Inaugural Conference Proceedings of the Hellenic Association for

the Study of English, ed. E. Douka-Kabitoglou, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994 (10 pp.)

57. ‘The British Council: Tradition and Initiative’ - Interview with Claus Henning,

Director of the British Council in Romania, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 48,


58. ‘Cheek by Jowl’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 48, Bucharest, Romania,

1995 (14 pp.)

59. ‘Coffee-House, Coffee-Shop, Coffee-bar, Coffee…’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III,

No. 106, Bucharest, Romania, 1995 (10 pp.)

60. ‘Nietzsche, a Typical and Topical Character’ - Interview with Prof. Graham Parkes,

University of Hawaii, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 50, Bucharest, Romania,

1995 (14 pp.)

61. ‘Romanian Studies in London’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 5 (188),


62. ‘Race, Races, Racism’ - Interview with Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard

University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 9 (192), Bucharest, Romania, 1995

(18 pp.)

63. ‘Salon Stupidity’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 115, Bucharest, Romania, 1995

(7 pp.)

64. ‘Traps of Political Correctness’ - Interview with Prof. Richard Pells, University of

Texas at Austin, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 11 (194), Bucharest, Romania,

1995 (12 pp.)

65. ‘A New History of English Literature’ - Interview with Dr. Andrew Sanders,

Birkbeck College, University of London, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 13

(196), Bucharest, Romania, 1995 (15 pp.)

66. ‘Mode, That Is, Fashion’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 121, Bucharest,


67. ‘Literature Is Not a Moral Teacher’ - Interview with Prof. Helen Vendler, Harvard

University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 18 (201), Bucharest, Romania, 1995

(12 pp.)

68. ‘Cultural Studies - from Text to Context’ - Interview with Dr. Eve Patten, Director of

British Cultural Studies Centre at the University of Bucharest, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte,

Idei’, V, No. 19 (202), Bucharest, Romania, 1995 (10 pp.)

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69. ‘Tocqueville and the Romanians’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 21 (204),


70. ‘Masque & Masquerade’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 127, Bucharest,


71. ‘Busy, Business, etc.’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 137, Bucharest, Romania,

1995 (8 pp.)

72. ‘The Nation, National Identity, Nationalism’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No.

34 (215), Bucharest, Romania, 1995 (14 pp.)

73. ‘Byzantium at the British Museum’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 39 (220),


74. ‘Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize Winner’, ‘Cotidianul’, V, No. 234 (1279), Oct. 6,

1995, Bucharest, Romania, (1 p.)

75. ‘Seamus Heaney - Poet and Professor’, ‘Nine O’Clock Weekend Supplement’, No. 4.

Nov.3, 1995 (5 pp.)

76. ‘The Amazoniad’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 150, Bucharest, Romania, 1995

(3 pp.)

77. ‘Long Night’s Journey into Day’ (1), ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 45


78. ‘Long Night’s Journey into Day’ (2), ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, V, No. 46


79. ‘Cheers!’. ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), III, No. 152, Bucharest, Romania, 1995 (4 pp.)

80. ‘Some Instances of the ‘Turkish Joke’ in Romanian Culture, ‘Gramma’ Journal of

Theory and Criticism, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, V, Greece, 1995 (14 pp.)

81. ‘Art and Power’, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 8 (237), Bucharest,


82. ‘Declining Deconstruction, Decaying Marxism’ (1) - Interview with Prof. Ştefan

Stoenescu, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 12 (241), Bucharest, Romania, 1996

(12 pp.)

83. ‘Declining Deconstruction, Decaying Marxism’ (2) - Interview with Prof. Ştefan

Stoenescu, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 13 (242), Bucharest, Romania, 1996

(12 pp.)

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84. ‘The Word Ideology Has a Thousand Meanings…’ - Interview with Prof. Terry

Eagleton, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 14


85. ‘Felix Solution’, ‘România literară’, No. 14 (XXIX), Bucharest, Romania, 1996 (7

pp.)

86. ‘The Study of Literature Has Changed Essentially’ - Interview with Dr. Thomas

Healy, Birkbeck College, University of London, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No.


87. ‘Romania and the Fulbright Program’ - Interview with Mrs Maria Berzea, Executive

Director of the Romanian Fulbright Commission, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No.


88. ‘The library and English language teaching are our basic activities’ - Interview with

Mr Roy Cross, Deputy Director of the British Council in Romania, ‘22’, No. 29,


89. ‘Ceausescu’s Bucharest had something of a Ionesco play about it’ - Interview with

British Novelist Paul Bailey, ‘22’, No. 29, Bucharest, Romania, 1996 (7 pp.)

90. ‘If literature fails to count for you, the critic, you had better do something else’ -

Interview with Prof. Valentine Cunningham, Oxford University, ‘22’, No. 29, Bucharest,


91. ‘What we need is attitude’ - Interview with Prof. Sorin Alexandrescu, Amsterdam

University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 27 (256), Bucharest, Romania, 1996

(16 pp.)

92. ‘Byron and the Beginnings of Modern Romanian Literature’, in The Literary

Reception of British Romanticism on the European Continent, papers delivered at the 6th

International Symposium of the Gesellschaft für englische Romantik Ruprecht-Karls-

Universität, Heidelberg, October, 1994, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen, Germany, 1996 (9

pp.)

93. ‘Students and Intellectual Capital’ - Interview with Prof. Helmut Bonheim, Cologne

University, President of the European Society for the Study of English, ‘Cotidianul -

Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 36 (265), Bucharest, Romania, 1996 (18 pp.)

94. ‘Dieu e(s)t mon droit’, in Culture, History, Heritage: Theoretical Readings in the

British Past (eds. Vlad Nistor & Eve Patten), The British Council, Centre for British

Cultural Studies, Bucharest University, 1996 (12 pp.)

95. ‘Bad, Good, and Ugly: Deconstructing British Pantomime’, in Cultural Perspectives:

Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania (eds. Doina Cmeciu & Eve

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Patten), The British Council, No. 1, 1996 (30 pp.)

96. ‘Maintaining Ignorance Is, in Fact, a Relation of Power and Control’ - Interview with

Prof, Irina Grigorescu Pan(, Monash University, Melbourne, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte,

Idei’, VI, No. 37 (266), Bucharest, Romania, 1996 (16 pp.)

97. ‘With Harold, up the Rhine’, ‘România literară’, No. 39 (XXIX), Bucharest,

Romania, 2-8 Oct., 1996 (2 pp.)

98. ‘Literature has never been something isolated’ - Interview with Prof. Andrew

Sanders, Durham University, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 39 (268),


99. ‘Cocoa and/or Cola’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), IV. No. 196, Bucharest, Romania,

1996 (4 pp.)

100. ‘It was not too much of an honour to be related to James Joyce’ - Interview with Mr

Kenneth Monaghan, James Joyce’s nephew, ‘Cotidianul - Litere, Arte, Idei’, VI, No. 41


101. ‘The Event of the Day’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), IV. No. 198, Bucharest, Romania,

1996 (6 pp.)

102. ‘Defoe and Cantemir - 18th-Century Travellers, West and East’, in Kevin L. Cope

(ed.), 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. III,

1996, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA (12 pp.)

103. ‘London as Rome’, ‘Secolul 20’ (The 20th Century), No. 370-372, 1-3/1996,

Bucharest, Romania (5 pp.)

104. ‘Ireland, Dublin, Ulster - Names?’, ‘Secolul 20’ (The 20th Century), No. 373-375,

4-6/1996, Bucharest, Romania (7 pp.)

105. ‘D.H. Lawrence’s Last Poems’, Bucharest University Press, Bucharest, Romania,

1996 (12 pp.)

106. ‘Exile through Language, Exile at Home’, ‘Secolul 20’ (The 20th Century), No.

391-396, 10-12/1997, 1-3/1998, Bucharest, Romania (12 pp.)

107. ‘Transported’, ‘România literară’, (Literary Romania) XXX, no. 18, Bucharest,

1997 (4 pp.)

108. ‘Olavo de Carvalho: Brazilian Culture in the Tribunal of History’, ‘Secolul 20’ (The

20th Century), No. 401-403, 8-9-10/1998, Bucharest, Romania (2 pp.)

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109. ‘Instances of Male/Female Identity in the English Eighteenth-Century’, ‘Analele

Universităţii Bucureşti’, Anul XLVII, 1998 (6 pp.)

110. ‘Out in the Wide World, ‘Secolul 20’ (The 20th Century), No. 406-4083, 1-2-3 /

1999, Bucharest, Romania (7 pp.)

111. ‘Villa Adriana’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), Anul VII, no. 344, 10-16 sept. 1999,

‘Vineri’ (Friday) Supplement, III, no. 23, September 1999 (1 p.)

112. ‘The Birth of Liberal Humanism’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 10 (1413), October 1999,

Timişoara (4 pp.)

113. ‘EUR’, ‘Ramuri’ (Branches), no. 10 (1000), October 1999, Craiova (5 pp.)

114. ‘A Possible Miracle’, ‘Ramuri’ (Branches), no. 11 (1001), November 1999, Craiova

(5 pp.)

115. ‘Echoing’, ‘România literară’ (Literary Romania), no. 46 (XXXIV), 17-23

November 1999 (5 pp.)

116. ‘Sources of the Self’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 11 (1414), November 1999, (5 pp.)

117. ‘CULTURE, culture, cultures’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 357 (VII), 10-16

December, 1999 (4 pp.)

118. ‘The Nostalgia for Harmony’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 12 (1415), December 1999,

Timişoara (5 pp.)

119. ‘The Dystopian Island, or the Ascent of Eutopia to Utopia Can be Stopped’ in

Lucian Boia, Anca Oroveanu, Simona Corlan-Ioan (eds),Insula – Despre izolare şi limite

în spaţiul imaginar (The Island – Of Isolation and Limits in the Imaginary Space),

Interdisciplinary Colloquim, New Europe College, Bucharest, 1999 (13 pp.), 229-242.

120. ‘The Echo Effect’, ‘University English – Bulletin of the English Departments in

Romania’, Published by RSEAS and co-funded by British Council Romania, 8/99 (3 p.)

121. ‘Re-Writing the Enlightenment’, ‘University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of

Literary and Cultural Studies’ –, Volume I, Number 2, 1999 (15 pp.)

122. ‘The Wild Man Within’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 1 (1416), January 2000, Timişoara

(5 pp.)

123. ‘Always the Family?’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 363 (VIII) 28 January - 3

February 2000 (4 pp.)

124. ‘A City with Inns and Flowers’, ‘Ramuri’ (Branches), no. 2 (1004), February 2000,

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Craiova (6 pp.)

125. ‘The Anatomy of Melanchoy’, ‘, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 365 (VIII), 11-17

February 2000 (7 pp.)

126. ‘A Contrary History of Ideas’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no.2 (1417), 17 February 2000,

Timişoara (6 pp.)

127. ‘The Black Bile’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 366 (VIII) 18-24 February 2000 (7

pp.)

128. ‘Postmodern Culture’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer). no.1 (I), 29

February - 6 March 2000 (5 pp.)

129. ‘The Politics of Postmodernism’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer), no. 3 (I),

14-20 March 2000 (5 pp.)

130. ‘From Polemos to Polemic’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 369 (VIII), 17-23 March

2000 (4 pp.)

131. ‘An Enlightenment Monograph’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 3 (1418), Timişoara,

March 2000 (5 pp.)

132. ‘An Inquisitive Travel’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 371 (VIII), 31 March – 6

April 2000 (4 pp.)

133. ‘Postmodern Seminar’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer), no. 5 (I), 28 March

- 3 April 2000 (7 pp.)

134. ‘Tropics of Discourse (I)’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 4 (1419), Timişoara, April 2000

(5 pp.)

135. ‘‘Tropics of Discourse (II)’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 5 (1420), Timişoara, May 2000

(5 pp.)

136. ‘‘Tropics of Discourse (III)’, ‘Orizont’ (Horizon), no. 6 (1421), Timişoara, June

2000, (5 pp.)

137. ‘Scripta manent’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 385 (VIII), 30 June – 6 July 2000 (4

pp.)

138. ‘The Seven Oxen from the South, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 388 (VIII), 21 – 27

July 2000 (4 pp.)

139. ‘Luxury at Hand’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 394 (VIII), 1 – 7 September 2000

(4 pp.)

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140. ‘Dieu e(s)t mon droit’, ‘Merope’, Anno XII, no. 31, Settembre 2000, (24 pp.)

141. ‘An “Aesthetic” Skill’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 404 (VIII), 10 – 16 November

2000 (3 pp.)

142. ‘The Heroism of Heroine’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 410 (VIII), 22 - 28

December 2000 (3 pp.)

143. ‘Novel Translation’, University of Bucharest Review – A Journal of Literary and

Cultural Studies, Volume II, No. 7: Translation as Quest, Department of English,

University of Bucharest, 2000 (7 pp.)

144. ‘The Beginning of the End, the End of the Beginning’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no.

421 (IX), 23 - 29 March 2001 (4 pp.)

145. ‘McEscu’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 433 (IX), 15 - 21 June 2001 (4 pp.)

146. ‘…89’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), no. 439 (IX), 27 July - 2 August 2001 (3 pp.)

147. ‘Theme with Variations’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer), no. 77 (II), 14 -

20 August 2001, (10 pp.)

148. ‘Variations without a Theme’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer), no. 78 (II),

21 - 27 August 2001 (9 pp.)

149. ‘Adopting / Adapting’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), IX, no. 456, 23 - 29 November,

2001 (4 pp.)

150. ‘Elizabeth Bishop in a New Context’, ‘Revista Româno-Americană’ (Romanian-

American Review), New Series, December 2001, Number IV (5 pp.)

151. ‘Human, too Human’, ‘Secolul 21’ (The 21st Century), No. 1-6, 2001, Bucharest (9

pp.)

152. ‘Postmodern Marotes’, Time and the Times (II), Cavalliotti Publishers, Bucharest,

2001 (13 pp.)

153. ‘All You Prefiguring – Shakespeare and the Canon’, A Journal of Literary and

Cultural Studies, Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures,

University of Bucharest, Volume III, Number 12/2001 (17 pp.)

154. ‘The Elizabeth Cult in Renaissance England’, ‘Merope’, XIII – N. 30 – Setttembre

2001, Rivista quadrimetrale del Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie

dell’Università di Chieti-Pescara (14 pp.)

155. ‘Non-Aesthetic’, ‘Dilema’ (The Dilemma), X, no. 488, 19-25 July, 2002 (3 pp.)

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156. ‘The Englishman’’, ‘Dilema’, X, no. 467, 22 - 28 February, 2002 (4 pp.)

157. ‘Because I’m worth it’, ‘Dilema’, X, no. 468, 1 - 7 March, 2002 (3 pp.)

158. ‘The Comfortable Burden of Tradition’, Shakespeareana 2001, Editura Fundaţiei

Universitare “Dunărea de Jos”, Galaţi, 2002 (15 pp.)

159. ‘White Figure in Black Ink, or Black Figure in White Ink: Shakespeare’s Sonnet

CVIII’, The European English Messenger, Volume XI/1, Spring 2002, 33-37.

160. ‘British Cultural Studies Centre, Bucharest’, The European English Messenger,

Volume XI/1, Spring 2002: 69

161. ‘The Comfortable Burden of Tradition’, Omagiu – Profesorul Dan Grigorescu la 70

de ani, Ex Ponto, Constanţa, 2002 (15 pp.)

162. ‘A Monument More Enduring than Copper’, Nietzsche, New Europe College, 2002

(12 pp.)

163. ‘Byron and the Beginnings of Modern Romanian Literature’, Analele Universităţii

Bucureşti, Anul LI – 2002 (6 pp.)

164. ‘Et in Illyria ego’, University of Bucharest Review: Orientalism and Occidentalism,

Department of English, University of Bucharest, 2002 (15 pp.)

165. ‘Mentalities, Anglistics, the New Europe’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer),

no. 149-150 (II), 1-13 ian. 2002 (12 pp.)

166. ‘Perfidious Albion…’, ‘Secolul 21’ (The 21st Century), No. 8-12, 2002, Bucharest

(12 pp.)

167. ‘The Archi-Tecture/Texture of Memory’, University of Bucharest Review – A

Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume V, No.3: Sites of Memory, Department

of English, University of Bucharest, 2002 (20 pp.)

168. ‘History as Memory’, ‘Tomis’ Magazine, no. 2, February 2003, Constanţa (4 pp.)

169. ‘The City as World’, ‘Tomis’ Magazine, no. 5, May 2003, Constanţa (3 pp.)

170. ‘From Bohemia to “Bohemia”’, ‘Dilema’, XI, no. 535, 4-10 July, 2003 (4 pp.)

171. ‘Chronotopes of Post-Communist Times’‚ Purdue series of Books in Comparative

Cultural Studies,

<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeconference(2003).html>.

http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library/centraleuropeconference(2003).html

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172. Farmington, Walpole, Lewis, o colecţie sui generis, ‘Dilema’,

XI, no. 524, 11-16 apr. 2003, (6 pp.)

173. ‘Shakespeare and the Long Modernity’, www.cloudsmagazine.com, No. 15, Fall

2003

174. ‘English Studies and Multiple Identities’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer),

no. 248 (II), 23-29 nov. 2004 (12 pp.)

175. ‘“Glocalization”, or Liminal Cultural Identity: Occident vs. Orient, Europe vs.

Byzantium’, Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles, La

globalisation et ses défits culturels, No. 1, Institutul Cultural Român, Bucharest, 2004:

45-52

176. ‘Of Typewriters, Types and Writers: Elizabeth Bishop in a New Context - A

Transatlantic Visitor's View’, American, British and Canadian Studies, vol. 5, Lucian

Blaga University Press, Sibiu, December 2004 (7 pp.)

177. ‘Eugène Ionesco and the English Language’, Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études

littéraires et culturelles: ‘Eugène Ionesco vu de la Roumanie’, No. 2, Institutul Cultural

Român, Bucharest, 2004: 65-69 ISSN 1223-1193

178. ‘Balkan as Postcolonial’, Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et

culturelles, (Post)communisme et (post)costcolonialisme, No. 1, Institutul Cultural

Român, Bucharest, 2005: 147-148 invited editor

179. ‘An Eighteenth-Century Trope: Taste’, University of Bucharest Review – A Journal

of Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume VII, No. 3: ‘A Matter of Taste’, Department of

English, University of Bucharest, 2005 (10 pp.)

180. ‘Avant-Garde or Postmodern?’, Caietele/Cahiers Tristan Tzara Note Books: Revue

internationale pour l’étude des avant-gardes, Vols. 3-4, No. 5-12, Moineşti, 2005 (4 pp).

181. ‘Some Thoughts on the Avant-Garde Today’, Caietele/Cahiers Tristan Tzara Note

Books: Revue internationale pour l’étude des avant-gardes, Vols. 5-6, No. 13-20,

Moineşti, 2006 (1 p.)

182. ‘Laudatio Domini Stephen Greenblatt’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer),

no. 69 (326), 22-28 June, 2006 (6 pp.)

183. ‘It’s a Long Way to Cathay, Where the Emperor is the “Sun of the Sky”’,

Philologica Jassyensia, II, no. 2/2006 (pp. 199-212), Iaşi: Editura Alfa, 2006.

http://www.cloudsmagazine.com/

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184. ‘We Order to Dissect: Kant’s Platypus, Mr. Shandy’s White Bear, and the Farmer

King’s Collection of Natural History’, University of Bucharest Review – A Journal of

Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume VIII, No. 3 ‘Modernity: The Crisis of Value and

Judgement’ (pp. 34-41), Department of English, University of Bucharest, 2006.

185. ‘Strik(ing) the race in their fancy, ear and the heart’: Poetic Geographies of

Otherness or the Cure for Sameness, in University of Bucharest Review – A Journal of

Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume IX, No. 1 ‘Alterity and Identity: Geographies of

the Mind’ (pp. 30-36), Department of English, University of Bucharest, 2007.

186. ‘The Protracted Portrait of a Lady’, University of Bucharest Review – A Journal of

Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume IX, No. 3 ‘Writing the Self: Modes of Self-

Portrayal in the Cultural Text’, Department of English, University of Bucharest, 2008

(pp. 99-108).

187. ‘There Is no Conceiving of a Translator without a Solid Cultural Background’,

‘Cultura’, 12, March 26, 2009.

188. ‘From History to Literary History: An Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon and Its

Aftermath’, American, British and Canadian Studies, Volume Twelve, 14-25, Sibiu:

‘Lucian Blaga’ University Press, June 2009.

189. ‘Laudatio Domini Carlo Ginzburg’, Observator Cultural (Cultural Observer), no.

506 (675), 24 Dec., 2009 (7 pp.)

190. ‘English Studies in Romanian Higher Education: A Diachronic View’, in Gupta,

Suman & Milena Katsarska (eds), English Studies on This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings,

Plovdiv University Press, 2009.

191. ‘Balkanism and/as Postcolonialism, or How not to Forget Aristotle, the Balkan

Thinker’, Interaction among the Balkan Nations, Sancaktar, Caner (ed.), Istanbul: Tasam

Yaynlari: Creatica, 2009 (553 pp.), 51-57.

192. ‘Of Angels, Novels and Historicity’, University of Bucharest Review, ISBN 1454-

9328, Vol. 12, No. 1, Bucharest, 2010, pp. 5-18, http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/

193. ‘“… purchase the commodity you want”, or Quixote goes English in the Public

Sphere: A Case in Canonical Revalorization’, in The European English Messenger, Vol.

19.2 Autumn 2010, pp. 39-48.

http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/

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194. ‘The Agonistics of the Canon – an Eighteenth-Century Identitary Feat’, Buletinul

Universităţii Petrol – Gaze din Ploieşti, Vol. LXII, No. 1/2010, 179-183.

195. ‘English Studies in Romanian Higher Education: A Brief Diachronic View’, in

Gupta, Suman and Ana-Karina Schneider (eds), American, British and Canadian Studies.

Volume Fourteen: English Studies in Romania. Sibiu: Lucian Blaga UP, June 2010, pp.

26-38.

196. ‘The Long Modernity: The Valorization of Time and Memory from Early to Late

Modernity’, Buletinul Universităţii Petrol – Gaze din Ploieşti, Philology Series, Vol.

LXII, No. 4/2010, 9-14.

197. ‘In Search of “what’s in a name”: The English Pessoa as Poet as SHAKESPEARE,

and the Case of SuperCamões’, Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and

Linguistics, Vol. I, No. 1/2022, 73-83.

The following are refereed publications:

Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti (Bucharest University Annals), Bucharest, Romania

Buletinul şiinţific al Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai (Babeş-Bolyai University Scientific

Bulletin) Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Oslo University Quarterly, Oslo, Norway

Romanoslavica, Bucharest, Romania

Synthesis, Romanian Academy Publishers, Bucharest, Romania

România literară, Uniunea Scriitorilor din România, Bucharest, Romania

Studien zur englische Romantik, Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen, Germany

Critical Survey, London, UK

Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Baton Rouge, USA

The European English Messenger, ESSE: Coimbra, Assafarge, Portugal - Bergamo, Italia

University of Bucharest Review, English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania

American, British and Canadian Studies, Lucian Blaga University Press, Sibiu, Romania

Euresis, Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles, Bucharest, Romania

Buletinul Universităţii Petrol – Gaze din Ploieşti, Ploieşti, Romania

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American, British and Canadian Studies, Lucian Blaga UP, Sibiu, Romania

Philologica Jassyensia, Iaşi, Romania

Participation in International Conferences, Symposiums, Seminars:

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference (1991 – present day)

Literature and Its Cults (Hungarian Academy of Science Literature Institute, Budapest,

Hungary, 1991)

International Swift Conference (Celbridge Abbey, Ireland, 1991)

Cultural Identity Seminar (University of London, UK, 1992)

Cultural Identity Conference (University of London, UK, 1992)

Romanian Studies Conference (University of London, UK, 1992)

Symposium on the Bicentenary of the Birth of P.B. Shelley (Rostock University,

Ahrenshoop, Germany, 1992)

International ‘Old Worlds, New Worlds’ Conference (Eng. Dept., University of

Bucharest, Romania, 1992)

‘Logomachia’ - International Conference on Forms of Opposition in English

Language/Literature, ‘Aristotole’ University, Salonika, Greece, 1993)

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (London, 3-5

January, 1993)

Sixth International Symposium on the Reception of British Romanticism on the

Continent (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 1994)

International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress (1994)

27th

Annual Comparative Literature Symposium ‘Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and

the Other’ (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA, 1994)


January, 1994)

Limits of Democracy Seminar (Las Vegas Highlands University, NM, USA, 1994)

Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies

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(University of Miami, FA, USA, 1994)

Lectures in European Postmodernization (University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA,

USA, 1994)

Intercultural Seminar (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, 1994)

Civic Debates Seminar (University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 1994)


January, 1995)

Interdisciplinary Reflection Group International Seminar (Bucharest Conservatoire,

Romania, 1995)

International Sociolinguistic Seminar on Power and Solidarity in Language

(Craiova University, Romania, 1995)

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St John’s

College, Oxford, 3-5 January, 1996)

International Conference on British, Irish and American Studies (Timisoara University,

Romania, 1997)





Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory Seminar (University of Wales, Cardiff, UK,

1998)

International Conference on Culture and Power: Cultural Confrontations

(University of Zaragoza, Spain, 1998)



Tercera Jornada de Estudios Cervantinos (Centro de Estudios Iberamericanos &

Instituto Cervantes, Bucharest, Romania, 1999)

Romanian Comparative Studies Society International Symposium on Comparative

Studies at the End of the Millenium (New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania,

1999)

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Annual International Conference: Rewriting the Past (Eng. Dept., University of


Culture in Context (I) (Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy, 1999)

Cultural Identity Encounters: Cultural Rituals (Università ‘Gabriele D’Annunzio’,

Pescara, Italy, 2000)

Culture in Context (II) (Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy, 2000)

Escritores portugeses, escritores romenos (Fundatia Culturala Romana & Instituto

Camões, Bucharest, Romania, 2000)

Annual International Conference: Translation as Quest (Eng. Dept., University of


Fifth European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 5) Conference (Helsinki, Finland,

2000)

Seminario Internazionale e Interdisciplinare ‘Giordano Bruno e il Rinascimento quale

prospettiva verso una cultura europea senza frontiere’ (University of Bucharest and New

Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, 2000)


College, Oxford, UK, 3-5 January, 2001)

22nd

All-Turkey English Literature Conference: ‘Re-Writing in/and English Literature’,

(Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey, 25-27 April, 2001)

11th

International Conference on British and American Studies (University of the West,

Timişoara, Romania, 17 - 19 May, 2001)

‘Infinite Londons’ Meta-Conference (The British Council and the ‘Lucian Blaga’

University, Sibiu, Romania, 18 - 20 September, 2001)

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Queens

College, Cambridge, UK, 4 - 6 January, 2002)

International Conference: ‘Constructions of Identity’ (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-

Napoca, Romania, 14-16 March, 2002)

‘Trans-Missions: Theory, Research and Teaching in British Literary and Cultural Studies

in Europe’ (The British Council, Budapesta, 9-12 May, 2002)

International Conference: ‘British and American Studies’ (University of the West,

Timişoara, Romania, 17-19 May, 2002)

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The First Balkan Conference (Boğazici Universitesi, Istanbul, 23-24 May, Turkey, 2002)

International Conference: ‘Orientalism & Occidentalism’ (Faculty of Foreign Languages

& Literatures, Bucharest University, Romania, 6-8 June, 2002)

International Conference: ‘Romanian Cultural Identity’ (‘Ovidius’ University, Constanţa,

Romania, 11-13 July, 2002)

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 6) Conferince (Université Marc Bloch,

Strasbourg, France, 30 Aug. – 4 Sept. 2002)

Ecole d’été internationale en philosophie et histoire des idées: “Enseigner l’histoire des

idées comme pratique de la liberté” (Macea Castle, “Vasile

Goldiş” University, Arad, Romania, September 2002)

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Hugh’s


International Conference: ‘Tradition, Modernity, Postmodernity’ (“Alexandru Ioan-

Cuza”, University, Iaşi, Romania, 26-29 March, 2003)

International Congress on the Enlightenment (Los Angeles, 3-10 August, 2003)

International Colloquim on Cultures of Post-89 Central and Eastern Europe (Târgu Mureş

University, 21-23 August, Romania, 2003)

International Conference: ‘-ISMs & -NESSes’ (“Ovidius” University, Constanţa, 18-21

September, 2003)

Colloque International: ‘Paysages d’ici et d’ailleurs’ (Agence Universitaire de la

Francophonie, École doctorale francophone en Sciences

Sociales, Département d’études françaises – Université de

Bucarest, 26-27 September, 2003)

International Conference: ‘The Unifying Aspects of Cultures’, (Research Institute for

Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies,

Vienna, Austria, 7-9 November, 2003)

Colloque international ‘Mémoires: écriture, genres, histoire’ (Université de Franche-

Comté, Faculté des Lettres, Besançon, France, 2-3 December, 2003)

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St. Hugh’s


International Conference: ‘Our America: People, Places, Times’ (RAAS – Fulbright

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Association, Bucharest, Romania, 5-6 February, 2004)

Triplex Confinium Conference (University of Padua 25-26 March, 2004)

International Conference: ‘The Secret and the Known’ (English Department, University

of Bucharest, Romania, 3-5 June, 2004)

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 7th

Conference (Universidad

Zaragoza, Spain, 8-12 September, 2004)

XIX Congresso Internacional ‘Os Jesuitas – 1540 a 1773’ (Sociedade Portuguesa de

Estudos do Século XVIII, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-26 Sptember, 2004)

Les modernités de Michel Foucault – Colloque international (Institut Français, Bucarest,

10 décembre 2004)

The 34th

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St.

Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6-8 January, 2005)

‘Presentism: What Is It? (‘Mapping the Future: Permanence and Change’ (‘Alexandru

Ioan Cuza’ University, Jassy, 23-26 March, 2005)

‘English Studies at the University of Bucharest since the Foundation of the English

Department in 1936’ (British-Romanian Symposium, New

Europe College, Bucharest, 4-5 Apr., 2005)

‘Colonial London in the Eighteenth Century’ (‘The Colonial and Postcolonial City’

Conference, Université Paris XII, Val de Marne, IMAGER –

CEREC, Centre multidisciplinaire de Créteil 20 May, 2005)

‘A Matter of Taste’, International Conference (English Department, University of

Bucharest, 3-4 June, 2005)

‘A Walpolian Anecdote: The Garden of Alcinous’ (5th

Symbiosis Biennial Conference

‘Anglo-American Literary Relations/ Anglo- American

Hellenisms’, Aristotle Unviersity, Thessaloniki, 30 June

-3 July, 2005)

‘De la context la text’ (‘Literatură şi interdisciplinaritate’, Colocviul Asociaţiei de

Literatură generală şi Comparată din România, Braşov, 15-16

iulie 2005)

‘Eighteenth-Century Religious Identity in Europe’ International Interdisciplinary

Conference (Interdisciplinary Centre for European

Enlightenment Studies, Halle, 21-25 September, 2005)

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‘Some Chronotopes of Modernity: Romanian Romanticism and the Invention of the

National Spirit’ British and European Romanticisms’

(The 11th International Conference of the Gesellschaft für

Englische Romantik, Munich, 6-9 October, 2005)

‘Mutual Understanding’, 125 Years of Anglo-American Diplomatic Relations

(British Library, London, 12 October, 2005)

‘The Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres et ruses de la modernité’ International

Interdisciplinary Conference (Centre of Excellence for the

Study of Cultural Identity & New Europe College, Bucharest,

28-29 November, 2005)

‘Modern Identity’ Workshop, Mihaela Irimia, Stan Smith, Giacomo Marramao,

Carlos Leone (Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural

Identity, Bucharest, 30 November, 2005)

IRICS ‘Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies’ International

Interdisciplinary Conference, Vienna, 9-11 December, 2005

(Convenor of and participant in Section ‘Spreading the Word:

Texts and the Text’ with a paper entitled Our Demotic

Augustinianism, a Pattern Launched by the 18th

-Century Novel)

The 34th

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (St.

Hugh’s College, Oxford, 6-8 January, 2006)

Oxford Romanian Society Lectures, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 10 January, 2006

(Debate on British Culture between Theory and Practice)

Victorian Debating Society, Baylor University (Paper on Shakespeare for Pip and Pit:

Spectral or Spectacular Hamlet?, 17 February, 2006)

‘Shakespeare from Stage to Page’ (Keynote Address at the Twelfth National Shakespeare

Symposium, ‘Dunărea de Jos’ University, 28-30 April, 2006)

‘Orientalism / Occcidentalism’ (Keynote Address at the Third Conference on

‘Reinventions of Identity in the Balkans’, Department of English

Language and Literature, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-12

May, 2006)

‘The Grand Grand Tour’ (Keynote Address at the International Conference: ‘Travel (of)

Writing’, ‘Ovidius’ University, Constanţa, Romania, 29-30 May, 2006)

International Conference: ‘Modernity: The Crisis of Value and Judgment’ (English

Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of

Bucharest, Romania, 2-3 June, 2006)

36

‘The Relevance of the Real: Contemporary Reflections’ (European Society for the Study

of English (ESSE) 8th

Conference (University of London, UK,

29 August – 2 September, 2006)

‘From London into the Wide World and Back: Guineaing It in Eighteenth-Century

England (Congresso Internacional de Estudos Clássicos

‘Identidade e cidadania, da Antiguidade aos nossos dias’, Lisboa,

18-21 Oct., 2006)

‘Legitimating Cultures, Cultures of Legitimacy’ International Conference (Theory of

Literature Dept., University of Bucharest & Critical Theory Dept.,

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Bucharest, 23-25

November, 2006)

The 36th

Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St.

Hughes’ College, Oxford, 3-5 January, 2007

‘Between Orientalism and Occidentalism’ (Lecture delivered at the Romanian Cultural

Institute, Tel Aviv, 10 Apr., 2007)

‘Between Orientalism and Occidentalism’ (Lecture delivered at the Hebrew University,

Jerusalem, 15 Apr., 2007)

‘Los estudios hispánicos en Rumanía: 50 años de vida universitaria’ (Spanish

Department, University of Bucharest, Instituto Cervantes & the

Spanish Embassy, Bucharest, 26-28 April, 2007)

‘Strik(ing) the race in their fancy, ear and the heart’: Poetic Geographies of Otherness or

the Cure for Sameness’ (Keynote Address a the 9th

Conference of

the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and

Literatures, Bucharest, 31 May-2 June, 2007)

‘Cantemir – Polyhistor, Polymath, or Political Mind?’ (12th

International Congress of the

Enlightenment / XIIe

Congrès International des Lumières,

Montpellier, 8-15 July, 2007)

‘Ubi Amor, ibi Roma’ (‘(Ex)Patriation’ International Conference of the Centre of Cross-

Cultural Studies, ‘Ovidius’ University, Constanţa, 20-22 Sept.,

2007)

‘Some Instances of the “Turkish Joke” in Popular Romanian Culture’ (Central European

University “European Culture and the Understanding of Otherness:

16th

-19th

Centuries” Conference, Budapest, 28-29 September,

2007)

37

‘Some Avatars of Revolutionary Romanticism: A Late Modern View from the Romanian

Perspective’ (12th

International Symposium of the German Society

for English Romanticism, University of Tübingen, 4-7 October,

2007)

‘From the Sublime to the Comic: The Call of the Modern’ (Keynote Address to the

Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign languages and

Literatures, University of Bucharest, 26-27 October, 2007)

‘The Idea of Presentism’ (The IV International Conference of the “Tudor Vianu”

Interdisciplinary Centre for European and Romanian Cultural

Studies on ‘The Idea of Presence’, Bucharest, 30 Nov.-1 Dec.

2007)

‘The Anatomy Lesson and the Order of the Cosmos in Early Modern Europe’

(‘Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies’

International Interdisciplinary Conference, INST, Vienna, 6-9

Dec., 2007)

‘An Omnibus Called Metaphor, or How Figures Act as Means of Transport’ (Conferinţă

internaţională ‘De la trasee conceptuale la o cartografie identitară’,

Centrul de Excelenţă pentru Studierea Identităţii Culturale,

Universitatea din Bucureşti, 14-15 dec., 2007)

The 37th



‘Questions of the History of Literary History’ Invited Lecture at the International

Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) (Justus Liebig-

Universität Gießen, 6 Feb., 2008)

‘Translation – Adapting/Adopting’ (‘Translation, Adaptation, Re-Writing’ Workshop,

Centrul de Excelenţă pentru Studierea Identităţii Culturale (CESIC),

Universitatea din Bucureşti, 11 aprilie 2008)

‘The Age of Shakespeare in the Age of Johnson: The Growth of a Shakespeare Vulgata’

(The Fourteenth Students’ National Symposium, Galaţi, 18-20

Apr., 2008)

‘Balkanism and/as Postcolonialism or How not to Forget Aristotle, the Balkan Thinker’

(Lecture delivered at the ‘Interaction among the Balkan Nations’

International Balkan Congress, Turkish Asian Center for Strategic

Studies, Tekirdağ, 24-26 Apr., 2008)

‘The Merchant Tourist: Defoe and the Case of London’ (‘An Identitary Cartography

between Self and Other’ International Conference, Centre of

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Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, University of

Bucharest, 9-10 May, 2008)

‘English Studies at the University of Bucharest’ (‘Higher Education ‘English Studies’ in

Post-Accession Bulgaria & Romania (a focus-project for the series

of projects on Higher Education ‘English Studies’ in Non-

Anglophone Contexts, under the aegis of the British Academy),

Veliko Turnovo University, 17-18 May, 2008)

‘An American Dish to the Feast of Cultural Identity: The History of Ideas’ (‘The Sense of

America: Histories into Text’ International Conference of the

Romanian Association for American Studies, Bucharest, 22-24

May, 2008)

‘Mr. Spectator to be “frequently seen in Publick Places”’ (‘The Individual and the Mass’

7th

Hellenic Association for the Study of English Conference,

Thessaloniki, 30 May-1 June, 2008)

‘The Protracted Portrait of a Lady’ (‘Writing the Self: Modes of Self-Portrayal in the

Cultural Text’ Annual Conference of the English Department,

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bucharest, 5-7 June,

2008)

‘English Studies at the University of Bucharest’, Sixth Interdepartmental Conference,

University of Veliko Turnovo, 17-18 June, 2008

Visiting Professorship, Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Université

d’Orléans, 7 June – 6 July, 2008

‘Our Demotic Augustinianism, a Pattern Launched by the 18th

-Century Novel’

(‘Crossroads in the Ancient Novel: Spaces, Frontiers, Intersections’

4th

International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN), Lisbon;

21 – 26 July 2008)

‘… purchase the commodity you want’, or Quixote goes English in the Public Sphere’,

Nominated Keynote Lecture, European Society for the Study of

English (ESSE) 9th

Conference (Aarhus University, Denmark, 22-

26 August, 2008)

ISECS EC Meeting and Conference, Dublin 27-30 Aug., 2008 (representing the

Romanian Society for 18th

-Century Studies)

‘Homer, Medieval or Modern?: The Battle for the Literary Canon’ (‘Ancients and

Moderns in the Eighteenth Century/Ancients et modernes au 18e

siècle’ Conference arranged by the Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Society, Newman House, Dublin, 29 Aug., 2008)

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‘Classic Modernity and the Shakespeare Vulgata – A Case in Cultural Translation,

(International Micro-Conference on ‘Translation: Betrayal or

Creative Statement?’, Centre of Excellence for the Study of

Cultural Identity, University of Bucharest, 12 Sept., 2008)

‘‘The British Cultural Canon and the English Curriculum in Romanian Higher

Education’’ (Bulgarian-Romanian-British Conference on ‘English

in the New Europe’, Plovdiv University, 11-13 Oct., 2008)

‘Homecoming between nostos and algos: the Pharmakon of the Long Modernity’

(Conferinţă internaţională Homecoming, în cadrul proiectului

CNCSIS tip A, no. 1621 intitulat Omogenitate, diversitate,

identitate – Spaţiu European şi integrare (ODISEI), Centrul de

Cercetări al Universităţii din Bucureşti, Sinaia, 17-18 octombrie

2008)

‘The Classic Modern Canon and the Disciplinary Separation’ (International Conference

on ‘National Literatures in the Age of Globalization. The Issue of

the Canon’, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, 31 Oct. – 1

Nov., 2008)

‘The Agonistics of the Canon: An Eighteenth-Century Identitary Feat’ (Sesiunea

ştiinţifică anuală a Facultăţii de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine,

Bucureşti, 7-8 nov. 2008)

Masă rotundă ‘Omogenitate, diversitate, identitate: spaţiu european şi integrare’

(ODISEI) (Sesiunea ştiinţifică anuală a Facultăţii de Limbi şi

Literaturi Străine, Bucureşti, 7-8 nov. 2008)

‘Critica della ragione: coiffure e digintà femminile nel Settecento inglese’ (Convegno

internazionale ‘Critica e ragione / Critique er raison’, Unviersità

degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Université de Bourgogne,

Dijon, 14-15 Nov., 2008)

‘Canonul si măsura antropomorfă’ (International Conference on ‘Canon(s)et Valeur(s)’,

‘Tudor Vianu’ Centre of European and Romanian Cultural Studies,

Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, 21-22 Nov. 2008)

The 38th



‘Cultural Identity and Alternative Histories’ (Centre of Excellence for the Study of

Cultural Identity Invited Lecture, 30 March, 2009)

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‘English Studies in Romania: between Tradition and Change’ (Bulgarian-Romanian-

British Conference on ‘English in the New Europe’, Babeş-Bolyai

University, Cluj-Napoca, 23-24 Apr., 2009)

‘Topoi of Memory’ (Conferinţa internaţională a Şcolii Doctorale a Facultăţii de Limbi şi

Literaturi Străine, Universitatea din Bucureşti, cu titlul Despre

uitare: Forme ale rememorării / Of Oblivion: Plays of Anamnesis /

De l’oubli: jeux de l’anamnesis, Facultatea de Limbi şi Literaturi

Străine, 15-16 mai 2009)

‘Re-Minding People, Re-Membering Things’ (‘Facing the Past, Facing the Future:

History, Memory, Literature’ International Conference, Bahçeşehir

University, 6 – 9 May 2009)

‘Byron and Literary Modernity in Romanian Culture’ (The 17th

Annual Conference of the

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), on

‘Romanticism and Modernity’, Duke University, North Carolina,

21-24 May, 2009)

‘Istoria literară şi istoria’ (Conferinţa Anuală a Asociaţiei Române de Literatură Generală

şi Comparată, Alba Iulia, 11-12 iulie 2009)

‘From English to English Studies in Romania’ (Bulgarian-Romanian-British Conference

on ‘English in the New Europe’, Roehampton University, London,

8-9 Aug., 2009)

‘Bound East for Exile: The Case of Claude-Alexandre Bonneval Alias Ahmet Pacha’

(‘Ovid, Myth, and (Literary) Exile’ International Conference,

‘Ovidius’ University, Constanţa, 10-12 Sept., 2009)

‘Orientalism and Occidentalism in the Eighteenth Century’ (Conferênica Internacional

‘L’Europe et le monde colonial au XVIII-ème siècle’, Sociedade

Portuguesa de Estudos do Século XVIII, Lisboa – Sintra,

20-26 sept. 2009)

‘Are these the Alps which I see before me, or are they but some mountains of the

mind?’ (13th International ‘Romantic Explorations’ Conference of

the Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik, Koblenz-Landau

Universität, 8-11 Oct., 2009)

‘Some Literature of Alchemy and Some Alchemy of Literature: Gold and the First

Golden Age of the English Novel’ (‘IMITATIO – INVENTIO: The

Rise of ‘Literature’ from Early to Classic Modernity’ International

Interdisciplinary Conference, Centre of Excellence for the Study of

Cultural Identity (CESIC), New Europe College (NEC) and the

Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR), 13-14 Nov., 2009)

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‘Literature (H)as (a) History’ (‘The Knowledge of History and the Knowledge of

Literature’ International Conference, Università degli Studi di

Bergamo, 17-18 Nov., 2009)

‘L’obscur siècle des Lumières’ (Colloque International ‘L’être et l’apparence’,

Université de Bourgogne, Dijon – Università degli Studi

‘L’Orientale’, Napoli, Dijon, 27-28 Nov. 2009)

The 39th



‘The true idea of a Literary Journal is to give the history of the republic of letters’:

Some Topoi of Classic Modernity’, International Conference

‘Representations of the Republic’, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,

22-24 April, 2010

‘Of Angels, Novels and Historicity’, keynote to the Annual Conference of the English

Department, University of Bucharest, 4-6 June, 2010

‘How to Be Yourself as (An)Other’ Keynote address to the Romanian-Bulgarian

Comparisons, Interactions, and Contestations within/across

Cultures International Conference, Bucharest-Russe-Veliko

Tarnovo, 17-20 June, 2010 http://www.unibuc.ro/

http://www.uni-vt.bg/1/

‘Romanticism and Nationalism’, European Romanticism International Conference,

University of Kent in Paris, 25-26 June, 2010

http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/where/paris/campus.html

‘How to Do Things with Books: An Exercise in Bibliophile Alchemy’, Material Cultures

International Conference of the University of Edinburgh Centre for

the History of the Book, Edinburgh, 16-18 July, 2010

http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/

‘Anglocentrism: For and Against’, English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts Round

Table 09, ESSE 10 Conference, Torino, 24-28 August, 2010

Co-Convenor of Reading Beyond the Gaze: Travel and Intercultural Negotiations

Seminar 46, ESSE 10 Conference, Torino, 24-28 August, 2010

‘Looking in(to) the Book of Man’ paper, Reading Beyond the Gaze: Travel and

Intercultural Negotiations Seminar 46, ESSE 10 Conference,

Torino, 24-28 August, 2010

‘Giardinaggio e acconciature del Grand Tour – Narrazioni topografiche del Settecento

femminile’, II Convegno Internazionale Letteratura adriatica. Le

donne e la scrittura di viaggio, Capitolo (Monopoli, Puglia), 28-29

Sept., 2010

http://www.unibuc.ro/

http://www.uni-vt.bg/1/

http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/where/paris/campus.html

http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/

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HTTP://WWW.UNIBA.IT/SECONDO-CONVEGNO-

INTERNAZIONALE-LETTERATURA-ADRIATICA.-LE-DONNE-E-LA-SCRITTURA-DI-VIAGGIO

‘Anglomania, francomania, italomania: decadenza e conservazione nel Grand Tour’,

Convegno internazionale Conservazione e decadenza /

Conservation et décadence, Unviersità degli Studi di Napoli

‘L’Orientale’, Université de Bourgogne, Napoli, 19-20 Nov., 2010

http://magazine.unior.it/ita/content/conservazione-e-decadenza

‘Cultural Deixis and European Romanticism(s): The Case of a “small culture”’, Literary

Studies Facing European Literature Conference, Faculty of

Letters, University of Bucharest, 15-16 April, 2011

http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Literary-Studies-facing-

European-Literature*id_2915-news_details.html

‘Some Instances of the “Turkish Joke” in Romanian Culture’, Cultural Diplomacy

TASAM 4th International Balkans Forum, Edirne (Turkey), 28-30

April, 2011

http://www.tasam.org/download/program/4th-international-balkan-forum-en.pdf

Bucharest

14 May, 2011

http://www.uniba.it/secondo-convegno-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20internazionale-letteratura-adriatica.-le-donne-e-la-scrittura-di-viaggio

http://www.uniba.it/secondo-convegno-%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20internazionale-letteratura-adriatica.-le-donne-e-la-scrittura-di-viaggio

http://magazine.unior.it/ita/content/conservazione-e-decadenza

http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Literary-Studies-facing-European-Literature*id_2915-news_details.html

http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Literary-Studies-facing-European-Literature*id_2915-news_details.html

http://www.tasam.org/download/program/4th-international-balkan-forum-en.pdf

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