Curriculum Vitae
LIDIA VIANU
Professor of Contemporary British Literature
English Department
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Bucharest University
Fulbright Professor at State University of New York, Binghamton (1991-1992)
Fulbright Professor at University of California, Berkeley (1997-1998)
Director of CTITC
CENTRE FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT
Bucharest University
Director of MTTLC
MA Programme for the Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text
Director of the online translation and E-Learning review Translation Café
http://www.escoala.ro/ctitc/translation_cafe.html
Director of the collection Contemporary Literature in Translation, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, Bucuresti
Director of the collection TEXT IN CONTEXT, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
Moderator of the Translation and E-Learning group translationcafe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationcafe/
Soros Grant, Research Support Scheme, 2000-2002
Member of the Writers’ Union, Romania
Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)
Member of EAAS (European Association for American Studies)
Member of RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies)
Winner of the London Poetry Society biennial Prize for Poetry Translation Corneliu M. Popescu, London 2005.
E-mail address: lidiavianu@yahoo.com
Internet address: http://lidiavianu.home.ro
LITERARY CRITICISM
T. S. Eliot – An Author for All Seasons, Paideia, 1997;
http://www.e-scoala.ro/desperado/contents_ts_eliot.html
Censorship in Romania, Central European University Press, Budapest, 1998
British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, ALL Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999;
http://editura.liternet.ro/ebooks/lvianudesperadoes/lvianudesperadoes.pdf
http://www.e-scoala.ro/desperado/table_of_contents.html
Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, Bucharest University Press, 2003;
http://editura.liternet.ro/ebooks/lvianualan/lvianualan.pdf
http://www.e-scoala.ro/desperado/alan_brownjohn_and_the_desperado_age_contents.html
The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium,
Bucharest University Press, 2004;
http://editura.liternet.ro/ebooks/lvianudesperadoage/lvianudesperadoage.pdf
http://www.e-scoala.ro/desperado/contents_the_desperado_age.html
Desperado Essay-Interviews, Bucharest University Press, 2006
HANDBOOKS
English with a Key, Teora, Bucharest, 1993
English with a Choice, Teora, Bucharest, 2001
English in Style, Univers Enciclopedic, Bucharest, 2002
English with a Key, 2, Teora, Bucharest, 2005
EDITOR
The Quicksands of Criticism, Bucharest University Press, 1980
Later 20th Century British Poetry, Bucharest University Press, 1984
An Anthology of English Literature. The Modern Age, Bucharest University Press, 1984 (joint volume)
Modern British Short Fiction, Bucharest University Press, 1987
29 Postwar American Poets, Bucharest University Press, 1989
Desperado Poetry – A Selection of Contemporary British Verse, Bucharest University Press, 2004
TRANSLATIONS
Joseph Conrad: The Mirror of the Sea, translated into Romanian, Amarcord, Timisoara, 1994
Eugen Simion: The Return of the Author, translated into English, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1996
Marin Sorescu: The Bridge, Bloodaxe, UK, 2003, translated into English with Adam J. Sorkin; winner of the London Poetry Society biennial Prize for Poetry Translation Corneliu M. Popescu, London 2005
Marin Sorescu : The Past Perfect of Flight; translated into English with Adam J. Sorkin, The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2004
FICTION, POETRY
Prisoner in the Mirror, novel, Porto Franco, Galati, 1993
1, 2, 3, Integral, Bucharest, 1997
Moderato 7, Orient-Occident, Bucharest, 1998
Very (Foarte), Cartea Româneascã, Bucharest, 2001
