Mihaela Irimia

Profesor Universitar Doctor - Catedra de Engleza, Facultatea de Limbi si Literaturi Straine

Director - Centrul de Excelenta pentru Studierea Identitatii Culturale; Centrul de Studii Britanice; Scoala Doctorala de Studii Literare si Culturale

Profesor universitar la Catedra de Engleza, cu specializarea in literatura si cultura britanica;castigatoare a mai multor competitii nationale si internationale pentru proiecte de cercetare.

Profesor invitat si/sau participant la conferinte / simpozioane  in cadrul unor universitati de prestigiu din Europa si Statele Unite, precum Oxford University, Cambridge University, Sheffield University, University of Wales Cardiff, Nottingham University, University of Ulster Coleraine, Trinity College Dublin, Harvard University, Yale University, Oslo Universitat, Helsinki Universitet, Universität Heidelberg, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München, Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Universität Wien, Jagelonska Univerzita, Univerzita Gdansk, Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) Budapest, Università Gabriele d’Annunzio Pescara, Università La Sapienza Roma, Università di Padova, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Université Paris XII, Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg, Université d’Orleans, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, Aristotelis Panepistimiu Thessaloniki, Bogazici Universitesi Istanbul, Beykent Universitesi Istanbul.

Autoare a peste 200 de studii in domeniu, publicate la edituri internationale si nationale, precum: ‘The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking: Shelley in Romanian Culture’, in Michael Rossington & Susanne Schmid (eds), The Reception of Shelley in Europe (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008); Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres et ruses de la modernité (ICR, 2007) (editor); Travel (of) Writing (‘Ovidius’ University Press, 2006) (coeditor); ‘The Byron Phenomenon in Romanian Culture’, in Richard Cardwell (ed.), The Reception of Byron in Europe (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004); Dictionarul universului britanic (A Dictionary of Britishness) (Humanitas, 2002); The Stimulating Difference: Avatars of a Concept (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1999, 2005); The Rise of Modern Evaluation (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti,1999); Postmodern Revaluations (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti,1999); An Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age (1989) (coeditor), An Anthology of English Literature: The Age of Sentiment and Sensibility (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1987) (coeditor)

Domenii de cercetare / specializare: 

• Literatura britanica - Secolul 18 si Perioada Romantica

• Literatura comparata si teoria literaturii

• Studii culturale - Studii culturale britanice; identitati culturale; istorie intelectuala; istorie culturala; studii ale memoriei.

Publicatii recente:

• ‘Are these the Alps which I see before me, or are they but some mountains of the mind?’, in Romantic Explorations, Selected Papers from the Kobleny Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism, (ed. Michael Meyer), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011 (266 pp.), pp. 23-37.

• ‘The Classic Modern Canon and the Disciplinary Separation’, in Papadima, Liviu, David Damrosch and Theo D’haen (eds), The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, Amsterdam: Rodopi; /New York, NY: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 149, 2011, pp. 205-210.

• Imitatio – Inventio: The Rise of ‘Literature’ from Early to Classic Modernity, International Interdisciplinary Conference, New Europe College, Bucharest, 13-14 November, 2009, (eds Mihaela Irimia & Dragoş Ivana), Bucureşti: Institutul Cultural Român, 2010, 423 pp.

• ‘Classic Modernity and the Shakespeare Vulgata: A Case in Cultural Translation’, Madalina Nicolaescu & Sorana Corneanu (eds), (In)Hospitable Translations: Fidelities, Betrayals, Rewritings, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2010, pp. 203-220.

• ‘Traveling and the Grand Tour’, Carmen Andras (ed.), New Directions in Travel Writing and Travel Studies, Aachen; Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 17-27.

• ‘From London into the Wide World and Back: Guineaing It in Eighteenth-Century England’, Leonor Santa Bárbara (ed.), Identitdade e cidadania: Da antiguidade aos nossos dias, Porto: Papira Editora, 2010, pp.219-232.