Curriculum Vitae

MARIA NET
Senior Researcher, first grade
“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of Romanian Academy, Bucharest
mariana_net15@yahoo.com

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:
1984 – present: Senior Researcher, first grade, “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of Romanian Academy, Bucharest

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
• October 2004 – present: Professor at “Stefan cel Mare” University, Suceava. M.A. classes in semiotics and mentalities.
• 2000-2004: Associate Professor at “Stefan cel Mare” University, Suceava. M.A. classes in semiotics, mentalities, mass media and publicity.
• 1993 – 2001: Part-time Associate Professor at Bucharest University, Department of English. M.A. classes in cultural studies, semiotics, and mentalities; undergraduate classes in American literature, American civilization, English literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• September 2002: Guest-professorship for teaching semiotics and cultural studies (intensive series of lectures: “Civilization through Music”) at the Early-Fall School of Semiotics of New Bulgarian University, Sofia.
• September 1997: Guest-professorship for teaching semiotics and cultural studies (intensive series of lectures: “The Fictional Language of A. Dumas – A Semiotic Approach” and “The Gastronomical Discourse – History, Mentalities, and Signs”) at the Early-Fall School of Semiotics of New Bulgarian University, Sofia.
• November 1993: Guest-professorship for teaching two intensive classes in semiotics and language philosophy (“New Directions in Semiotics and Literary Theory”, and “An Introduction in the Semiotics of Ch. S. Peirce”) at Perpignan University, France, within a D.E.A. programme;
• 1979-1982: Part-time assistant lecturer at Bucharest University, teaching English for beginners.

EDUCATION:
1992 - Ph.D., University of Bucharest
1979 - M.A. in English and French, University of Bucharest

POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS:
1. Research Support Scheme of the Higher Education Support Program Central European University, 1995-1997 (Project: Post-War Writers’ Memoirs in Romania and France. A Study of Mentalities).
2. New Europe College Fellowship, Bucharest, 1995-1996 (Project: The Gastronomical Discourse: History, Mentalities, and Signs).
3. One-semester IREX grant at Indiana University, Bloomington and Indianapolis, USA, 1992 (Project: The Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and Present-Day Civilization).
4. Two-semester research grant at Mannheim University, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Art of the Land Baden-Würtenberg, 1991 (Project: Alexandre Dumas: le pays où il fait mort).
5. Three two-week grants awarded by the University of Urbino, Italy, in order to participate at the International Summer Stages organized by the Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e di Linguistica (July 1988, 1984, 1982).

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS:
1. 2004-2005 La fillette: exploration du monde et quête de soi. International projects sponsored by the Agence Internationale de la Francophonie.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Cultural studies
• Mentalities
• Semiotics
• Philosophy of Language
• History of Civilization

DOCTORAL TUTORSHIP: 2003 - up to the present

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1) Permanent collaboration with Romanian Broadcasting Corporation (1996 - present);
2) Contributions to Romanian cultural journals (România literară, Secolul 21, Vineri, Jurnalul literar, Echinox);
3) Part of the Ph.D. Commissions of Ph.D. candidates (1996 – present).

INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
• 2002 - present: ABI (American Biographical Institute) Research Board of Advisors.(Raleigh, NC, USA)
• 1999 – present: Executive Committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS);
• 1989 – present: Board of International Scientific Collaborators of S – European Journal for Semiotic Studies (Vienna, Perpignan, Madrid, Budapest)
• 1992-1994: “Mouton d’Or” jury; chairperson of the jury in 1994;

NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
• Editorial Board of Studii şi cercetări lingvistice (SCL);
• Romanian Linguistic Society
• Romanian Writers’ Union
• Romanian Association of Professional Journalists
• Romanian Association of American Studies

HONORS AND AWARDS:
• Fellow of CNCIS – National Council of Scientific Research (2006 – )
• Fellow of ICI – International Communicology Institute, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA (2005 – present)

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES: 8th Congress of IASS/AIS (Lyon, 2004); 7th Congress of IASS/AIS (Dresden, 1999);. 9th International Congress of the Hellenic Association for Semiotics (Thessaloniki, 1997);..5th Congress of IASS/AIS (Berkeley, CA, 1994); 3rd International Congress of American-Romanian Association (Kishinev, 1993); 15th International Congress of Linguists (Québec, 1992);. 4th Congress of IASS/AIS (Barcelona/Perpignan, 1989); 3rd Congress of IASS/AIS (Palermo, 1984).
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES: New/Old Worlds. Spaces of Transition (Bucharest, 2006); 30th Seminar Semiotics of Law Focus: Time (Vienna, 2005); Europe: Image and Concept in Cultural Changes (Vienna, 2004); Théories utopiques et mouvements sociaux du XVIIIe au XXe siècles (Athens, 2004); Le traitement des néologismes au 3e millénaire (Bucharest, 2004); Our America: People, Places, Time (Bucharest, 2004);. The Unifying Aspects of Culture (Vienna, 2003); Langue et société Dynamique des usages. 27th Conference of the International Society of Functional Linguistics (Ceske Budejowice, 2003); Signs of Power/Power of Signs. (Vienna, 2003); 7th Edition of the International Conference of Language Sciences (Chernovitsi, 2003); Layers of Reference in Language and Literature (Vienna, 2002); America In/From Romania. (Bucharest, 2002); La francophonie à travers le monde (Moscow, 2001); Myths, Rites, Simulacra. Semiotic Viewpoints (Vienna, 2000); Eminescu 2000 (Venezia, 2000); Im Dialog: Rumänische Kultur und Literatur (Berlin, 1999); Iconicity in Language and Literature (Vienna, 1999); Signs, Music, Society (Vienna, 1999); La latinité: l’avenir d’un passé (Cluj-Napoca, 1998); International Conference of Anthropology (Bucharest/Sinaia, 1998); Kitsch & Transition (Bucharest, 1997); Modeling History and Culture (Graz, 1996); Fonctions du cliché: du banal à la violence (Tours, 1995); Signs of Evil: The Seven Deadly Sins sub specie semioticae (Urbino, 1995); La Terreur et ses signes (Grenoble 1993); Semiotics in the United States (Urbino, 1992); Limits of Modernity. (Bucharest, 1992); Alexandre Dumas: le discours de l’Histoire (Liège 1990); Identity/Identität/Identité (Sigharting, 1990); Symbolicity (Budapest/Vienna, 1990);

• GUEST LECTURER ABROAD: Jagellonian University (Krakow 2005, 2003); Charles University (Prague 2006, 2005); Institute for Foreign Languages (Bratislava 2003); Institute for Literary Theory (Bratislava 2003); Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris 2002, 1996); Université Stendhal (Grenoble 1996); International Summer School of Semiotics (Imatra 1995); Université Lumière (Lyon 1993); Université François Rabelais (Tours 1993); Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 1992); Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e di Linguistica (Urbino 2002); University of Applied Arts (Vienna 1992)
• INVITED SPEAKER IN ROMANIA:
• Romanian Academy, April 2000. Lecture: “Prosody and Figures of Speech in M. Eminescu’s Early Poetry” (In Romanian).
• Romanian Academy, May 1997. Lecture: “Romanian Cookery Books. A Study of Mentalities” (In Romanian).
• “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, May 1997. Lecture: “Why a Semiotic Study of Mentalities?” (In Romanian).
• Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, May 1993. Lecture: “Present-Day Trends in American Semiotics” (In Romanian)

PARTICIPATION AT NATIONAL CONFERENCES:
• Identity/Alterity. University of Timişoara. November 1-2, 1991. Paper: “How to Dissimulate Identities in Literary Texts” (in Romanian)
• 5th National Conference on Stylistics – Poetics – Semiotics. “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca. November 16-17, 1990. Paper: “The Linguistic Sign and Peircean Semiotics” (in Romanian)
• The Symbolist Shift: Codes and Languages. University of Timişoara. June 8-10, 1989. Paper: “M. Eminescu’s (Pre)Symbolist Paradigm: Phonology and Semantics” (in Romanian)
• Annual Conference of the Center for Social Sciences. University of Timişoara. December 9-10, 1988. Paper: ”Humor and Verbal Cliché” (In Romanian)
• Annual Scientific Conference. University of Bucharest. November 28-29, 1988. Paper: “Metalinguistic Strategies in the Literary Text” (in Romanian)
• Scientific Conference of Anglo-American Studies. “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi. October 27-30, 1988. Paper: “From Text Analysis to Text Anthologies”. In collaboration with Andrei Bantaş (in English)
• M. Eminescu’s Poetry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective. University of Timişoara. June 3-4, 1988. Paper: “Textual Figures and Text Variants”. Chairperson of the section of Linguistic Poetics (in Romanian)
• Annual Conference of the Teaching Staff. University of Bucharest. November 26-28, 1987. Paper: “Possible Contacts Between Present-Day Linguistics and Peircean Semiotics” (in Romanian)
• Present-Day Trends in Literary Text Interpretation. “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi. November 13-14, 1987. Paper: ”Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Metatextual Forms” (in Romanian)
• Rhetoric and Stylistics Yesterday and Today. University of Bucharest. March 27-28, 1987. Participation in the round table: “Style et Discours” (in French).
• 4th National Conference on Stylistics – Poetics – Semiotics. “Text and Textuality”. “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca. November 14-15, 1986. Paper: “The Textualization Act and the Strategies for Involving the Receiver”
• Epistemology of Language Sciences. University of Bucharest. April 8-9, 1983. Paper: “Ode (in Sapphic Metre) – A possible Interpretation” (in Romanian)
• 20th Anniversary of the Institute for Higher Education, Piteşti. May 14-15, 1982. Paper: “Translation and Literary Theory” (in English)
• 3rd National Conference on Stylistics – Poetics – Semiotics. ”Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca. April 2-4, 1982. Paper: “The Emblem – An Object of the Artistic Text” (in Romanian)
• Present-Day Theories of the Dramatic Discourse. University of Bucharest. January 15-16, 1982. Paper: “The Dramatic Character and Its Possible Forms” (in Romanian)
• Translation Theory and Practice. University of Timişoara. May 30-31, 1981. Paper: “Pragmatic Elements in Literary Text Translation” (in Romanian)
• Annual Conference of the Teaching Staff. University of Bucharest. May 7-8, 1981. Paper: “M. Eminescu’s Lake – An Analysis” (in Romanian)
• Models in Text Analysis. University of Bucharest. February 27-28, 1981. Paper: ”Modality and Signification” (in Romanian)
• Cognition – Creativity – Communication. “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi. October 31-November 1, 1980. Paper: ”La Medeleni – A Novel of Atmosphere” (In Romanian)
• Annual Conference of the Institute for Higher Education, Piteşti. May 16-17, 1980. Paper: ”Poetics and Translation” (In English)
• Annual Conference of the Teaching Staff and Students. University of Bucharest. April 27-28, 1979. Paper: ”Revisting the Phatic Function”. (In Romanian)
• Students’ Annual Conference. University of Bucharest. June 11-12, 1977. Paper: “The 17th Century New England Referred to as a Theatrical World. An Essay on The Scarlet Letter by N. Hawthorne” (in English)
• Students’ Annual Conference. University of Bucharest. May 13-14, 1976. Paper: ”Broken Mirrors in the Drama”

ORGANIZTION OF NATIONAL CONFERENCES in poetics and semiotics at the Institute of Linguistics in Bucharest:
• Limits and perspectives of contemporary poetics. Poetics and the other linguistic disciplines (May 18-22, 1992). Paper: “Poetics, Semiotics, and Cultural Studies in a Present-Day Perspective” (in Romanian)
• The short story – between narrative and poetry (May 8-11, 1990). Paper: “A Pragmatic Perspective on the Short Story” (In Romanian)
• Textual figures and poetical arts (May 6-11, 1989). Paper: “Figures of Speech and Poetical Arts” (In Romanian)
• Figure – Text – Language (May 9-13, 1988). Paper: “Text and Figure of Speech” (In Romanian)
• Expression and strategies in the drama (May 11-16, 1987). Paper: “Dramatic Language and Dramatic Metatext” (In Romanian)
• The narrative and the lyrical (May 12-17, 1986) Paper: “Poetical Arts: the Narrative and the Lyrical” (In Romanian)
• Rhetoric of poetic text reception (February 18-23, 1985). Paper: “The Poetic Text ­ A Projection of Grammar” (In Romanian)
• Intertextuality and its cultural-linguistic problems (May 7-12, 1984). Paper: “Textual States of Tension and Intertextuality” (In Romanian)

PRESENCE IN WHO’S WHOS :
• Who’s Who: 2,000 Outstanding Personalities of the 20th Century. Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 2000, 2001.
• Who’s Who Romania, 2002.