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Monica Bottez
PhD from the University of Bucharest (1983)
Contact: e-mail: mbottez_at_yahoo.com
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Description
A grantee of the British Council ,the Fulbright Commission, the Free University, Berlin and the ICCS (International Council for Canadian Studies) for research stages , Monica Bottez teaches English literature at the University of Bucharest. She gives B.A. courses in British Victorian and 20th century literature and the contemporary American novel. She has also initiated the study of English Canadian literature which she teaches to the M.A. students in Canadian Studies, British Cultural Studies and American Studies programmes. Her interests also include cultural studies, narratology, and translation studies (she holds translation workshops with the M.A. students on The Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text programme).
She gave lecturing tours in the U.S.A.(1992), South Africa(1993) and Germany(2001) on Romanian culture, American and Canadian themes.
She has published a large number of articles on English, American , Canadian and Romanian authors and has participated in numerous national and international conferences such as Brno-1998, Szeregyles-1999, Viena-2000, Bucuresti-2001, Debrecen-2002, Belgrad-2003, Cracovia-2004, Nis-2005, Cluj-2006, Debrecen-2006, Bucharest -2007, her papers being published in the volumes of the respective conferences.
Her published books include: Recurrent Images in Dickens’s Work (T.U.B.,1985), Motley Landscapes: Studies in Postwar American Fiction (E.U.B., 1997), Infinite Horizons: Canadian Fiction in English (E.U.B., 2004), the translation of M. Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (second edition Corint, 2006) ), Analysing Narrative Fiction: Reading Strategies (E.U.B., 2007).
Professor Bottez is a founding member of the Romanian Society for British and American Studies and of the Central European Association of Canadian Studies (after having been Romania’s representative on the Central European Network of Canadian Studies between 1998-2004). She organized the Second International Conference of Central European Canadianists , Bucharest 2001.
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