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Sorana Corneanu

Contact: 021 312 27 19 // e-mail: soranacorneanu@yahoo.com

Lecturer in English

MA in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest (1998), Doctoral Candidate in Humanities, ABD, University of Bucharest (2008)

Teaching

• General course (English Minor, 2nd year): Eighteenth Century and Romanticism
• Elective courses (English Major and Minor, 3rd and 4th year): Cultural histories of reading (2007) and of the passions (2008) with focus on the early modern age
• MA courses (MA Programme in British Cultural Studies): Fundamentals of Modern Thought, jointly with Dr. Dana Jalobeanu, University “Vasile Goldis” of Arad (2007 and 2008)

Research interests

The intellectual and cultural history of early modern England; relationships between literature, philosophy, and theology; the history of moral thought, of approaches to knowledge and mind; the identity of cultural actors; Francis Bacon; John Locke; Daniel Defoe

Publications

Articles on early modern literature and philosophy, e.g. on Shakespeare, Defoe, Locke and Lord Chesterfield (in the Reviews of the Universities of Bucharest and Timisoara); forthcoming 2008 are: “Locke on the Study of Nature”, in Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, ed. Vlad Alexandrescu, Bucharest: Zeta Books; “Passions, Providence, and the Cure of the Mind: Robinson Crusoe Meets the Christian Virtuoso”, in Actes du Séminaire des Jeunes Chercheurs Dix-huitièmistes, Montpellier 2007, eds. Sabine Arnaud et Helge Jordheim, Paris: Champion; “’To Clear the Mind of All Perturbation’: The Discipline of Judgment in the Seventeenth Century”, in The NEC Yearbook 2006-2007, Bucharest: New Europe College

Grants and Scholarships

Recipient of two doctoral research scholarships: OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship, University of Oxford, UK (2005-2006) and NEC Scholarship, New Europe College, Bucharest (2006-2007).

Member of grants: CNCSIS research grant ODISEI (director Prof. Mihaela Irimia), 2007-2009; UB research grant Traduceri (ne)ospitaliere: Shakespeare adaptat (director Prof. Madalina Nicolaescu), 2008; CEU (Budapest) course development grant Shaping the Republic of Letters: Philosophy, Science and Religion in the 17th Century (director Dr. Dana Jalobeanu), 2007-2008.

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