MIHAELA IRIMIA
Professor
PhD from the University of Bucharest (1983)
Contact: +40213181580/26 (o) +40742096020 (m)
Email: mihaela.irimia@b.astral.ro
mirimia2003@yahoo.com
A specialist in British Studies, Prof. Mihaela Irimia teaches Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature and Culture, Cultural Theory, History of Ideas, and Cultural Studies at undergraduate, graduate, MA and Doctoral level. She is the Director of Studies of the British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC), Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, and member of the Doctoral School of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Her professional affiliations comprise: the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), the Romanian Philological Association, the Romanian Association for English and American Studies (RAEAS), the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE), the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), the Romanian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the German Society for English Romanticism, the Romanian Comparative Literature Association. She has been Fulbright Professor at Harvard, fellow of St. John's College Oxford , research fellow at Yale, Baylor, the Bodleian Library, the Taylor Institution Oxford, and is currently alumna of New Europe College .
She has been Visiting Professor or/and given invited papers at 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 Gdańsk, 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, Boğazici Universitesi Istanbul, Beykent Universitesi Istanbul.
She has attended prestigious international conferences in Dublin , Budapest , London , New York , Rostock , Brighton, Bristol , Miami , Las Vegas , Albuquerque , Athens , New Orleans , Rome , Graz , Heidelberg , Duisburg , Cardiff , Erfurt , Pescara , Helsinki , Strasbourg , Los Angeles , Vienna , Oxford , Padua , Zaragoza, Cambridge , New Haven , Lisbon , Paris , Halle , Munich , Tubingen , Giessen . Her activity at ESSE events includes papers given in conference sessions, panels and seminars, session chairing and a subplenary keynote lecture.
Among her publications in the field the following constitute a representative selection: ‘The Ineffectual Angel of Political Hijacking: Shelley in Romanian Culture', in Michael Rossington & Susanne Schmid (eds), The Reception of Shelley in Europe (2008); Lures and Ruses of Modernity / Leurres et ruses de la modernité (2007) (editor); Travel (of) Writing (2006) (coeditor); ‘The Byron Phenomenon in Romanian Culture', in Richard Cardwell (ed.), The Reception of Byron in Europe (2004); Dicționarul universului britanic (A Dictionary of Britishness) (2002); The Stimulating Difference: Avatars of a Concept (1999, 2005); The Rise of Modern Evaluation (1999); Postmodern Revaluations (1999); An Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Age (1989) (coeditor), An Anthology of English Literature: The Age of Sentiment and Sensibility (1987) (coeditor). She has authored some 200 articles and studies, translations of Romanian literature into English, as well as translations of British and American literature into Romanian.
