Curriculum Vitae

FLORENTINA VISAN
Professor
Department of Oriental Languages, School of Foreign Languages
University of Bucharest
inavisan@yahoo.com




DEGREES:
Degree in Philology, Chinese and Romanian, University of Bucharest, 1971
Doctor in Philology, University of Bucharest, 1995


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1971 – 1978 Chinese teacher in secondary education
1978 – 1990 Assistant lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Languages,
University of Bucharest
1990 – 1996 Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Languages,
University of Bucharest
1996 – 1999 Associate professor, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Languages,
University of Bucharest
1999 - present Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Oriental Languages,
University of Bucharest


TITLES:
• Fellow in the School Council, School of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest -1990
• Fellow in the Science Council, Institute of Oriental Studies Sergiu Algeorge – 1991
• Fellow in the Beijing International Society for Language Teaching – 1992
• Member in the Executive of Association Europeenne d’Etudes Chinois, Paris -1996
• Head of Department of Oriental Languages, University of Bucharest – 1998
• Head of the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest - 2005


CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS:
• International conferences (Paris 1994, 1999, 2000, 2005; Beijing, 1996; Barcelona, 1996, Edinburgh, 1998; Torino, 2000, Rome, 2001, Gent, 2003, Budapest, 2006, Beijing, 2008, Bologna, 2008)
• forty specialized publications
• thirty five dissertations
• five chronicles and essays
• 8 translations from modern and traditional Chinese
• three synological translations from French
• one synological translation from English

PUBLISHED BOOKS:
• A Course in Contemporary Chinese Syntax, University of Bucharest, 1994 (185 pp)
• Parts of Speech in Chinese Grammar, UOB, 1996, Bucharest (243 pp) – doctoral degree dissertation
• Chinese Grammar – Morphology, UOB, 1998, Bucharest (320 pp)
• Chinese Grammar – Syntax, UOB, 1999, Bucharest (320 pp)
• Chinese Linguistics, UOB, 2003, Bucharest (300 pp)
• Lectures on Confucianism, UOB, 2008, Bucharest (226 pp)
• Editor of the volume Studia Doctoralia, UOB, 2007, Bucharest (335 pp)
• Editor of the volume Tradition in Dialogue, UOB, 2007, Bucharest (166 pp)

INTERESTS:
• Chinese grammar
• Chinese poetics and philosophy
• history of mentalities
• linguistic typologies

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS:
• China (December, 1974 – January, 1975; July – August, 1992; July – August, 1996, July – August, 1999, December - January, 2003)
• France (May, 1995; November, 2000)