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Mihaela Precup
Education
- Ph.D. in English Philology (expected 2010), University of Bucharest, Romania
Dissertation topic: Strategies of Visual Representation in Post-1970s American Autobiographical Fictions. The Graphic Narrative Case
- MA in American Studies, University of Bucharest, 2002
MA dissertation: Origins, Representations and Perceptions of Contemporary America as a Surveillance Society
- BA in English (Romanian minor), University of Bucharest, 2000
BA dissertation: The Continuous Quest in Saul Bellow’s Fiction
Fellowships and Grants
September 2006 – June 2007: Fulbright Fellow, Yale University
Work Experience
- January 2007 – present: editor, Zeta Books Series on Literature and Visual Culture, Bucharest, Romania
- February 2003 – present: teaching assistant, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
- Seminars: 19th and 20th century American literature, American civilization, 18th, 19th and 20th century British literature, intermediate and advanced English language classes
- Courses: A Survey of American Visual Arts from the 17th Century to the Present (2003-2004), Spaces of Memory in Contemporary American Visual Culture (2004-2005), The Visual Construction of American National Rhetoric from the Colonial Period to the Present (2005-2006)
Books
Precup, Mihaela (ed.). American Visual Memoirs after the 1970s. Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Visibility in the Post-Civil Rights Age. Bucharest: Zeta Books, to be published in 2008
Articles
- ‘The American Tyray of Symbology’ in The University of Bucharest Review, June 2003
- ‘The Eye versus the I in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction’ in The Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Brno, 2004
- ‘Exploding Patrimony and the Revival of Authentic Memory in Paul Auster’s Leviathan’ in The University of Bucharest Review, June 2004
- ‘From the Amateur Gentleman to the Gibson Girl: Best-Selling in 19th Century New England’ in Our America, People, Places, Times, January 2004, Bucharest
- ‘The Nostalgic Turn. Rewriting History in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor’ in the proceedings of the Conference of the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Brasov, May 2005
- ‘Exposing Secrecy and Defacing Propaganda: the Kienholz Case’ in The University of Bucharest Review: The Secret and the Known, June, 2005, University of Bucharest
- ‘America’s Shameful Archives. Social Involvement as Re-membering in Edward Kienholz’s Assemblages’, to be published in the proceedings of the 5th East-West American Studies Conference Artists and the Challenge of Political Committment, Joha Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, June 2004
- ‘Romanian and English, a Mediated Partnership’ in MED Magazine, the monthly webzine of the Macmillan English Dictionaries, Issue 29, April 2005, at http://www.macmillandictionary.com/MED-Magazine/april2005/29-In-this-Issue.htm
- 'Nibbling at Culture: Social Activism and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Recipes', The University of Bucharest Review, May 2006
- 'Postmemory and Doublespeak in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake’ to be published in the proceedings of the 3rd Fulbright-RAAS Interanational Conference, May 2007
Translations
- The Inflatable Apocalypse, Uniter Play of the Year 2000 by Saviana Stanescu, in the anthology Black Milk, Museum of Romanian Literature, 2001
- Relatiile dintre ortodocsi si romano-catolici de la cruciada a IV-a pana la controversa isihasta (with Raluca Popescu) by Archbishop Chrysostomos, Vremea Publishers, 2001
- Radu Ioanid, Paul Goma – între Belleville si Bucuresti (with Ilinca Anghelescu) in Observatorul Cultural, 2003
Administration and Service
- Member of RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies)
- Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)
- Member of CEACS (Central European Association for Canadian Studies)
- 2003: organizer, Sites of Memory, an Aual International Conference of the English Department at the University of Bucharest
- 2004-2005: student advisor for 1st year, American Studies Major students
- 2004: organizer, The Secret and the Known, an Aual International Conference of the English Department at the University of Bucharest
- 2005: editor of the aual RAAS Newsletter
- 2005: organizer, A Matter of Taste, an Aual International Conference of the English Department at the University of Bucharest
- 2006: organizer, America in/from Romania, a RAAS/Fulbright International Conference, Bucharest
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