Mihaela lidia irimia

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: [phone] (h)

0040-742-096020 (mobile)

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

004021-327-0035 (New Europe College)

Fax: [phone] (New Europe College)
E-mail: [e-mail] [e-mail]

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)

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 18^th-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

18^th-Century British Culture

Revisitations and Revisions of the Enlightenment Paradigm

Memory and/in Literature
The ‘Long Modernity’

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)
18^th-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)
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

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)