Carmen Andras

Institutul de cercetari socio-umane " Gheorghe Sincai" al Academiei Romane, Targu Mures, România

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Născut(ă) în 1952

Interese: Studii Culturale Comparative, Imagologia, Studii Postcoloniale

Detalii:
CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: CARMEN M. ANDRAS
ADDRESS: 3, Colegiului st, 4300 Targu-Mures, Mures County, Romania
PHONE: 0265/224778
MOBILE: 04/0740786557
E-MAIL ADDRESS: carmen_andras@yahoo.com
DATE and PLACE of BIRTH: JUNE 19, 1952, Toplita, Harghita County, Romania
SCHOOL EDUCATION: The "UNIREA" Secondary School, Targu-Mures (1972)
HIGH EDUCATION: "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Letters.
Department of English, Section: English-French
GRADUATION YEAR: 1980
GRADUATION DIPLOMA: "Tradition and Innovation in George Bernard Shaw's Theatre"
COORDINATOR: Prof. Dr Virgil Stanciu
TEACHING ACTIVITY: 1980-1982 at different general and secondary schools
OTHER ACTIVITIES: In the period 1983-1990, I have worked as a translator and documentarist at the Institute for Social and Human Researches of the Romanian Academy, in Targu-Mures. I have also continued my researches related to comparative literature, especially to British-Romanian literary relations.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY: In 1990, I have been promoted as a scientific researcher at the same Institute. My first theme of research has been "The Reception of English Literature by the Romanian Writers, in the first half of the 19th Century"
PRE-DOCTORAL STAGE: March 28, 1994 - July 13, 2000
 In 1997, I have been promoted as senior scientific researcher:
 1998-2000: teaching at "Petru Maior" University of Targu-Mures, at the Faculty of History-English;
 July 13, 2000; I have defended my PhD dissertation entitled: "THE IMAGE OF THE ROMANIANS AS SEEN BY BRITISH TRAVELLERS"
- Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Mircea Popa
- Board of examiners: Prof. Dr. Vasile Voia - Chairman
Prof. Dr. Dan Horia Mazilu
Prof. Dr. Virgil Stanciu
Prof. Dr. Ioan Chiorean
1994-2004: Participant to the project General Dictionary of the Romanian Literature (Dictionarul General al Literaturii Romane), co-ordinated by the Romanian Academy.


SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY:
CONFERENCE PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MANIFESTATIONS:
1. "The Reception of Modern English Literature by the Romanian Writers (1780-1830)" at the 2nd International Congress of the American Society for Romanian Studies, Iasi, Romania, July 6-10, 1993;
2. "England and English Literature in the Consciousness of the Romanian Intellectual Elite at the Crossing of the 18th and 19th centuries", at the 19th Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences", Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, November 3-6, 1994;
3. "The Message of the British Books in the Enlightenment Libraries from Transylvania", at the 20th Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences", Reno, Nevada, USA, August 22-28, 1995;
4. "Myth and Symbolism in Alina Diaconu's Novel", at the 21st Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences", Victoria University, Canada, 26-29 September, 1996;
5. "Romanian Images in Alan Brownjohn's Novel «The Long Shadows»", at the 22nd Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences", University of Targoviste, Romania, June 25-30, 1997;
6. "Romania's Images in British Literature. Clichés, Stereotypes, Archetypes", at the 23rd Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences", Rochester, USA, August 1998.
7. "Romania and its Images in 19th Century British Travel Writing: In-between Peripherality and Cultural Interference", at the International Conference "The Contemporary of the Non-Contemporary", the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies, Vienna, 06-08 December, 2002.
8. "Romania and Its Images in Contemporary British Literature," at "The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe", Targu-Mures, 21-23 August, 2003.
9. "Looking for Romania. Psychological Quest and Detective Investigation in Contemporary British Fiction", at the International Conference "The Unifying Aspect of Cultures", the Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies, Vienna, 7-9 November, 2003.
10. "Balkanist Stereotypes, Gendered Nations and Literarization of Romania in Contemporary British Literature", at the International Colloquium "Bonnes et Mauvaises Moeurs dans les Sociétés des Balkans", New Europe College, Ecole Doctarale en Sciences Sociales, Bucarest, 5-6 March, 2004.

PRIZES in 2004
The Prize of the Association for General and Comparative Literature from Romania (Asociatia pentru Literatura Generala si Comparata din Romania) for Comparative Literature (head of the jury: Paul Cornea) with the book Romania si imaginile ei in literatura britanica. Un spatiu de frontiera culturala, Bucharest, 2004.
The Prize of The Writers' Union from Romania, the Mures branch, for the book Romania si imaginile ei in literatura britanica. Un spatiu de frontiera culturala, Bucharest, 2004.
Nominated for the Great Prometheus Prize (Opera Prima), head of the jury: Andrei Plesu, Bucharest, 2004

GRANTS
o An IREX travel grant for participating at the 19th Congress of the "American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Science" in the USA (November 1994).
o 6 research grants in Britain, in the framework of the convention between the Romanian Academy and the British Academy (October 1996, November 1998, November 2002, November 2004, November 2005, November 2007).
o Pre-doctoral research grant from the Foundation for an Open Society (SOROS) - November 1999.

PUBLICATIONS
1. "Balkanist Stereotypes, Gendered Nations and Literarization of Romania in Contemporary British Literature", in Bonnes et mauvaises moeurs dans la société roumaine d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, École Doctorale Francophone en Sciences Sociales, Europe Centrale et Orientale and New Europe College, Bucuresti, 2005, pp. 271-303.
2. "Europeanness and Non-Europeanness in British Discourses about Contemporary Romania - under the Sign of (East)-Euroskepticism", in For a Stronger and Wider European Union, Simion Costea (coordinator), Cluj Napoca, Napoca Star Publishing House, 2005, pp. 231-247.
3. "Familia, statutul femeii si moralitatea in reprezentarile britanice despre romani si Romania", in Sud-Estul si Contextul European -Familia, Buletin XI- 2001, Academia Romana, Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene, Bucuresti, 2005, pp. 37-67.
4. "Natiune, Gen si Literarizarea Romaniei in proza engleza contemporana. Un taram indepartat al legendelor si poeziei" ("Nation, Gender and Literarization of Romania in Contemporary British Literature. A Remote Land of Legend and Poetry"), in The Yearbook of the "Gheorghe Sincai" Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, VII, Targu-Mures, 2004, pp. 120-131.
5. "O calatoare irlandeza in cautarea strigoilor balcanici. Dervla Murphy si Transilvania post-comunista" ("An Irish Traveller Looking for Balkan Ghosts. Dervla Murphy and Post-Communist Transylvania"), in Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr. 219, 2004, p. 15.
6. "Reprezentand alteritatea: studiile de imagine si studiile culturale comparate" ("Representing the Other: image studies and comparative cultural studies "), in The Yearbook of the "Gheorghe Sincai" Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, V-VI, Targu-Mures, 2002-2003.
7. "Romania in British Travel Literature. Discursive Geography and Strategies for Liminal Space", in Caietele Echinox, vol.5 ("Symbolic Geographies"),Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2003, pp.104-15.
8. "Olivia Manning si Bucurestiul interbelic" ("Olivia Manning and Inter-War Bucharest"), in Caietele Echinox, vol.4 ("Restrictions and Censorship"), 2003, pp.174-182.
9. "Romania and its Images in 19th Century British Travel Literature. In-between Peripherality and Cultural Interference",www.inst.at/trans/14Nr/andras14.htm - 35k
10. "Romania vazuta de britanici: un spatiu de frontiera culturala" ("Romania perceived by the British: a space of cultural frontier"), in "Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr. 97-98, 2002, pp. 18-21.
11. "Din nou despre «balcanitatea» noastra" ("Again about our «balkanness»") in Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr.85, 2001, p. 16.
12. "Comparatism, studiile de imagine si comunicarea intelectuala" ("Comparatism, image studies and intellectual communication"), in Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr. 71, 2001, p. 13.
13. "Balcanii lor … sau ai nostri?" ("Their Balkans … or ours?") in Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr. 40, 2001, p. 32.
14. "Balcanii - intre realitate si imaginar". Interviu cu Vesna Goldsworthy ("The Balkans - between reality and the imaginary" Interview with Vesna Goldsworthy), I, II, in Observator Cultural, Bucuresti, nr. 36-37, 2000, p. 32
15. "Calatoria programatica si cunoasterea Celuilalt dintr-o perspectiva britanica" ("The Programmatic Travel and the Knowledge of the Other from a British Perspective"), in Discobolul, Alba Iulia, nr. 25, 2000, pp. 64-74.
16. "Romania vazuta de britanici! Consideratii asupra unui studiu de imagine." ("Romania seen by the British! Considerations upon an Image Study"), in the Yearbook of the Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, III-IV, Targu-Mures, 2000-2001, pp. 231-238.
17. "Carti romanesti la British Library" ("Romanian Books at the British Library"), in Jurnalul de Mures, Targu-Mures, nr. 163, 2000, p. 8.
18. "Imaginand harta Europei de sud-est. Iluminismul apusean si reprezentarea Europei" ("Imagining the Map of South-Eastern Europe: Western Enlightenment and the Representation of Europe"), in Discobolul, Alba Iulia, nr. 23-24, 1999, pp. 92-103.
19. "Imaginile Celuilalt. Valori estetice si idei dominante in jurnalele de calatorie britanice despre Romania" ("Images of the Other. Esthetical Values and Dominant Ideas in the British Travel Journals about Romania"), in The Yearbook of the Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, II, Targu-Mures, 1999, pp. 191-205.
20. "Alan Brownjohn si reconsiderarea imaginilor romanesti" ("Alan Brownjohn and the Reappraisal of Romanian Images"), in Discobolul, Alba Iulia, nr. 18, 1999, pp. 75-83.
21. "Imaginile Transilvaniei in literatura britanica" ("Images of Transylvania in British Literature"), in Echinox, Cluj-Napoca, nr. 12, 1999.
22. "Imaginile romanilor in jurnalele de calatorie britanice: Loisirul" ("Images of the Romanians in British Travel Journals: the Leisure"), in Yearbook of the Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, I, Targu-Mures, 1998, pp. 174-203.
23. "Alan Brownjohn si complexitatea realitatilor romanesti" ("Alan Brownjohn and the Complexity of Romanian Realities"), in Romanian - American Confluences, vol. II, Targu-Mures, Mica Doris, 1999, pp. 51-61.
24. "Imagini anglo-romane prin carti si calatori" ("Anglo-Romanian Images through Books and Travellers"), in Tribuna, Cluj-Napoca, nr. 14-15, 16, 18, 19-20, 1998.
25. "Din nou la British Library: un document necunoscut privind propaganda protestanta a Marii Britanii in Moldova" ("Again at the British Library: an Unknown Document Regarding Britain's Protestant Propaganda in Moldavia in the 18th century"), in Jurnalul de Mures, Targu-Mures, nr. 14, 1997, p. 7.
26. "Un manuscris necunoscut la British Library: «Tatal Nostru» in romaneste cu caractere latine" ("An Unknown Manuscript at the British Library: «Our Father» in Romanian with Latin Characters «1603»"), in Jurnalul de Mures, Targu-Mures, nr. 12, 1997, p. 7.
27. "Interviu cu Alan Brownjohn" ("Interview with Alan Brownjohn"), in Vatra, Targu-Mures, nr. 9, 1997, pp. 45-46.
28. "Contacte culturale datorate cartilor engleze din bibliotecile luministe ale Transilvaniei" ("Cultural Intercourse through the British Books in the Enlightenment Libraries from Transylvania"), in Marisia, Targu-Mures, nr. 25, 1996, pp. 75-88.
29. "Carti engleze in bibliotecile luministe romanesti" ("British Books in Romanian Enlightenment Libraries"), in Biblioteca si Cercetarea, Cluj-Napoca, nr. 19, 1995, pp. 34-59; nr. 20, 1996, pp. 47-78..
30. "Receptarea literaturii luministe engleze de catre scriitorii romani" ("The Reception of the English Enlightenment Literature by the Romanian Writers"), in Romanian American Confluences, vol. I, Targu-Mures, Mica Doris, 1995, pp. 124-138.
31. "Literatura engleza in Romania" ("English Literature in Romania"), in From Humanism to the Enlightenment, The Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Targu-Mures, 1994, pp. 143-152.
32. "Samuil Micu si modelul filosofic iluminist englez" ("Samuil Micu and the British Philosophical Enlightenment Model"), in Scoala Ardeleana, Targu-Mures, nr. 3, 1992, p. 8.
33. "Nicolae Iorga si relatiile Romaniei cu Europa apuseana" ("Nicolae Iorga and Romania's Relations with Western Europe"), in Transilvania strabuna, Targu-Mures, nr. 1-2, 1991, p. 9.
34. "Liviu Rebreanu si George Bernard Shaw" ("Liviu Rebreanu and George Bernard Shaw") in Researches in Social Sciences, The Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Targu-Mures, 1988, pp.409-505.



BOOKS
1. Romanian American Confluences, (editor), Targu-Mures, "Mica Doris", 1995;
2. The English Enlightenment Model and its Transylvanian Reflections (1750-1850), Targu-Mures, "Mica Doris", 1996.
3. Romania and its Images in British Travel Writing. A Space of Cultural Interference, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2003, 450pp.

PUBLICATIONS ABROAD
1. "The Image of Transylvania in British Literature", in Journal of Dracula Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 1999, pp. 38-48.
2. "England and English Literature in the Consciousness of the Romanian Intellectual Élite (1780-1830)", in Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Davis, USA, No. 20, 1995, pp. 113-125.
3. Romania and its Images in 19th Century British Travel Literature. In-between Peripherality and Cultural Interference", http:// www.inst.at/kulturen/2003/publikation2003.htm, Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Sciences, Vienna, 2003
4. "Looking for Romania. From Psychological Quest to Detective Investigation", Clouds, No. 18, Summer/2004, http://www.cloudsmagazine.com/18/Carmen_Andras_Looking_for_Romania.htm
5. Co-editor with Steven Totosy and Magdalena Marsovsky of The New Central and East European Culture, Aachen, Shaker Verlag, 2006.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Co-organizer together with Steven Totosy (Purdue University, Canada & Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) of the international seminar "The Cultures of Post 1989 Central and East Europe", Targu-Mures, 21-24 August 2003.
Participant to a team of interdisciplinary project "Comparative Central and East European Cultures and Media Studies", organized by Professor Steven Totosy at the Halle Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2004-2007.
Vice-President of the AGRU (General Association of the Greek Catholic Romanians) in Targu Mures

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