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Maria Ana Tupan

Contact: e-mail: m_tupan@yahoo.com

Description

Born in 1949 to an orthodox priest's family.

Graduated at the top of the batch from Bucharest University (Languages Department - English and German Division) in 1972. Benefited from a scholarship to England (London and Manchester), granted by the Ministry of Education jointly with the Education Council in England, as a fourth-year student, in 1971. Dictator Ceausescu's political turn of the same year blocked her projects for an academic career. From 1972 to 1989 she worked as English editor of an obscure book magazine, "Romanian Books", brought out by the Publishing Centre of the Ministry of Culture.

1990: Embarked on a doctoral degree course at the University of Bucharest with Prof. Leon Levitchi. Transfer to the Romanian Academy for the public defence of her doctoral dissertation after Prof. Levitchi’s untimely death.

Starts working as editor of the criticism division of Viata Româneasca, a literary magazine brought out by the Writers’ Union.

1991: doctoral degree from The Institute of South-European Studies of the Romanian Academy.

In February starts work at the University of Bucharest, English Department, from the lowest position, as a professor’s assistant, being successively promoted to the present position, that of full professor. Currently teaching a “British Literature and Culture” course to B English freshers and A English 3rd Year students, as well as two optional courses for A English senior students: one in applied literary theory and the other in modernism and postmodernism as an oppositional picture.

She spent the 1994-5 academic year at Pe State University as a Senior Fulbright Scholar, and participated as a speaker in academic reunions at Pe State University (Comparative Literature and Russian Departments), at the University of Athens in 2004, the University of Manchester in June 2007, and at the University Complutense in Madrid later that year.

Awards from the Romanian Writers' Union for translations and world literature (1996) and other literary distinctions from literary magazines: "Covorbiri Literare"(2000) and "Viata Romaneasca" (2006).

Member of the Romanian Writers Union (Criticism Division) and Fulbright alumna (www.fulbrightalumni.ro)

Works

She has published dozens of studies, essays and reviews in Romanian literary periodicals.

The list of books in the fields of literary history and theorised criticism includes the following:

• Scenarii si limbaje poetice (Bucharest: Minerva, 1989)
• Marin Sorescu si deconstructivismul (Craiova: "Scrisul românesc", 1995)
• Scriitori români in paradigme universale (Bucuresti: Editura Fundatiei Culturale Române, 1998)
• A Discourse Analyst's Charles Dickens, (Bucuresti: Editura Semne '94, 1999)
• Discursul modernist (Bucuresti: Editura Cartea Româneasca, 2000)
• Discursul postmodern (Bucuresti: Editura Cartea Româneasca, 2002)
• Sensul sincronismului (Bucuresti: Editura Cartea Româneasca, 2004)
• British Literature. An Overview (Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2005)
• The New Literary History (Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2006)
• Romanian-English Conversation Guide-Book, Meteora Press, 2001
• English-Romanian Conversation Guide-Book (including a concise Romanian-English contrastive grammar), Meteor Press, 2007

CNCSIS Grant

"Shakespeare and the Revolution" in Monica Matei-Chesnoiu (Editor), Shakespeare in Ninettenth-Century Romania. Editura Humanitas: 2006.

"Shakespeare: the Modernist Hypotext" in Monica Matei-Chesnoiu (Editor), Shakespeare in Romania. 1900-1950. Editura Humanitas, 2007.

Papers read to international conferences:

• "Humanism in Action". Fulbright International Interdisciplinary Conference. Atena, octombrie 8-10, 2004.
• "Retorica - o ipoteza istorista". Conferinta Facultatii de Limbi Straine a Universitatii din Bucuresti. Aprilie 2005.
• "De-colonisation, or, Go Down, Socrates !". Conferinta Facultatii de Limbi Straine a Universitatii din Bucuresti. Iunie 2006. Text aparut în volumul Modele si metamorfoze inter- sI intraculturale, EUB: 2006).
• "The Dark Side of Modernity: The Critique of Rationality." Conferinta Catedrei de Engleza a FLB a UB. Iunie, 2006.
• "Medical Discourses and Pathological Subjects in Novels by Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf". "Men and Madness: Representing Male Psychopathology and Mental Disorder in Modern and Contemporary Culture." Manchester 28-30 iunie, 2007.
• "Cognitive Spaces, Textual Maps". Conferinta Catedrei de Engleza a FLB a UB. Mai, 2007.
• "The Shape of the Sword. A Study in the Poetics of Space." Congresso Internacional de Literature de Viajes. Universidad Complutense. Madrid, 19-21 septembrie, 2007.
• "Wieland: a Political Allegory ?" Comunicare prezentata la Conferinta "Empire, Revolution, and New Identities: Geoculture and Geopolitics in Brown and his Contemporaries". 6th Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society.Technische Universität. Dresden, Germany. October 9-11, 2008. Link: Charles Brockden Brown Society.

Reference (selectively):

• M. Zaciu, M. Paphagi, A. Sasu, Dictionarul scriitorilor români, Editura Fundatiei Culturale Române, Vol. IV, pp. 609-610
• Marian Popa, Istoria literaturii române, Fundatia Luceafarul, 2001, Vol. II, p. 1127.
• Who’s Who in Romania, Pegasus Press, 2002, pp. 678-9.
• Constantin Cublesan, Eminescu în orizontul criticii, Editura Paralela 45, Seria „Universitas”, 2000, pp. 126-9.
• Geo Vasile, Pluralul românesc, Editura „Viata medicala româneasca”, 2001, pp. 195-7 and 227-231.
• Radu Voinescu, Printre primejdiile criticii, Fundatia Cultuala Paradigma, Pontica, 2004, pp. 139-44.
• Cristian Livescu, Magistri & hermeneuti, Editura Timpul, 2007, pp. 333-36.
• Ion Pop, „Scenarii si limbaje poetice”, Steaua, 5 / 1990
• Ion Simut, „Izvoare presocratice”, România literara, 27 sept./ 1990
• Dan Stanca, „Scriitori români în paradigme universale”, România libera, 10/1998
• Mihai Cimpoi, „Marin Sorescu în (de)constructia criticii”, Luceafarul, 37/ 1999
• Constantin Cublesan, „Eminescu în noi comentairi critice”, Steaua, 1/ 1999
• Monica Spiridon, „TexTUl si contextul: scriitori români în rame comparatiste”, Ramuri, 2/ 1999.
• Maria Irod, „O noua lectura a lui Dickens”, Luceafarul, 3/ 2000
• Veronica Chinde, „Discursul epic la Charles Dickens, Steaua, 5-6/2000.
• Cornel Moraru, „Stadiul exegezei eminesciene astazi”, Vatra, 1/2001.
• Teodor Vârgolici, „Studii despre modernismul românesc”, Adevarul literar si artistic”, 557/2001.
• Luminita Elena Turca, „Un studiu remarcabil”, Convorbiri literare, 6/ 2001.
• Gheorghe Grigurcu, „O epura a modernismului”, România literara, 35 /2001.
• Ion Rosioru, „Discursul modernist”, Tomis, 7/ 2001.
• Geo Vasile, „Modernismul în instanta comparatista”, Contemporanul. Ideea europeana, 42/ 2001
• Gheorghe Grigurcu, „Postmodernismul între Est si Vest”, România literara, 35 /2001.
• Ion Cretu, „Discursul postmodern în varianta critica”, Luceafarul, 1/ 2003.
• Dan Persa, „Discursul postmodern”, Tomis, 4/ 2003.
• Gheorghe Grigurcu, „Pornind de la sincronism”, România literara, 4 /2005
• Constantin M. Popa, „Sensurile sincronismului”, Ramuri, 7-8/ 2005.
• Anca Muntean, „Sincronismul ca manifestare a existentei unui spirit al timpului”, Steaua, 7-8/ 2005.
• Sorin Cazacu, „Despre înnoirea istoriei literare”, Ramuri, 3/ 200
• "Malcolm Bradbury: The Quest for the Perilous East" in When the World Turned Upside Down (Edited by Kathleen Starck), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

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Please click here to download a chapter from Professor Tupan's forthcoming book, Genre and Postmodernism.

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