English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts
East Europe: Higher Education in Bulgaria and Romania
English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts East Europe: Higher Education in Bulgaria and Romania |
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Project Members In the Open University UK Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History, Open University. As Principal Coordinator of the Globalization, Identity Politics and Social Conflict (GIPSC) Project since 2000 and Joint Director between 2006 and 2008 of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies he has overseen collaborative projects with colleagues and institutions in Bulgaria, India, China, Iran, Morocco, and Nigeria. He is also, at present, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Roehampton University UK and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Peking University, China. Gupta has published nine single-authored books, five co-edited volumes, and over fifty chapters, articles and reviews. He is general coordinator for this project. Recent books:
Ann Hewings is Senior Lecturer in Education, Centre for Language and Communication, Open University. She has taught English language at all levels and in a variety of countries. Additionally she has worked on lexicographic projects producing materials for English language learners. Her research interests are focused in the area of academic literacy and her most recent research projects include ‘Trajectories of knowledge production: English medium academic writing for national, transnational and international journals’ and ‘Supporting undergraduate students’ acquisition of academic argumentation strategies through computer conferencing’ (http://argumentation-hsc.open.ac.uk/). Recent publications:
Bob Owens is Professor of English Literature, Open University. From 2000 to 2008 he was Head of the Department of English at the Open University, and between 2006 and 2008 he was Joint Director of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. He is Director of the Book History and Bibliography Research Group, Open University, and was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing in 2007. He and P.N. Furbank are general editors of the 44-volume The Works of Daniel Defoe, being published by Pickering and Chatto, 2001-2008. Recent books, critical editions, and edited volumes
Joan Swann is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Language and Communications. Her research interests are: language and gender, sociolinguistics and language ideologies, linguistic and cultural diversity in student writing, everyday creativity in spoken language. Recent Books:
In Bulgaria Madeleine Danova is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology and Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Sofia University, where she teaches North American Literature and Culture. She has taught various literary courses at other Bulgarian universities and at SUNY, Albany, US. She is executive board member of the Bulgarian American Studies Association. She has participated in a number of conferences and workshops devoted to different aspects of American and Canadian Studies as well as in international projects on ethnicity, nationalism, language and identity, transatlantic studies and mass media. Among her publications are:
Milena Katsarska is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Plovdiv; Coordinator of the American Corner at Plovdiv University and Executive Board member of the Bulgarian American Studies Association. She is a Fulbright and Salzburg Seminar in American Studies alumna. She was OSI Civic Education Project Fellow and Academic Coordinator for Bulgaria and Romania until 2004 and received The Stephen R. Grand Award for Excellence in 2003. She is a holder of research grants and fellowships from the National Fund for Science and Research, Bulgaria and John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin – Germany, among others. Her academic publications are in the fields of American Studies, Nationalism and Intercultural Education. She is coordinator in Bulgaria of the Leverhulme Trust funded phase of the project. Among her most recent publications are:
Ludmilla Kostova is Associate Professor of British Literature and Cultural Studies at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo. She is currently Head of the Department of English and American Studies and was formerly Associate Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages (2003–2007). At present Kostova is an honorary research fellow of the University of Wolverhampton, England. In the past she was awarded a number of research grants such as a senior fellowship at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Austria (October 2006–January 2007), a Central European Andrew W. Mellon fellowship, IWM (Institute for Human Sciences), Vienna, Austria (October -December 2000) and a visiting fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, Scotland (February–May 1997). Kostova has published extensively on eighteenth-century, romantic and contemporary British literature and on issues of cultural encounter. Her monograph Tales of the Periphery: the Balkans in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University Press, 1997) has been frequently cited by specialists in the field. Recent articles include:
Cleo Protokhristova is Professor of Ancient and West European Literature and Comparative Literature, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria). She is Head of the Comparative Literature Department (since 1994). Protokhristova teaches also at the University of Sofia and the New Bulgarian University. She has published five single-authored books, four co-edited volumes, and over hundred articles and reviews. Recent books:
In Romania Adina Ciugureanu is Professor of English and American Literature at Ovidius University Constanta, Romania. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Letters, in which capacity she supervises the curricula and syllabi for undergraduate and graduate programmes (English and American Studies included). She has had numerous research grants to prestigious institutions such as Cambridge University (2002), Oxford University (2006), Baylor University (Armstrong Browning Library, 2007) and a Fulbright grant to UNLV, Nevada. Between 1995 and 2000, she participated in a number of workshops organized by the British Council, Bucharest about teaching and evaluating literature and literature curricula at university level. She has published six studies and over 30 articles and essays on British and American writers of the Victorian and Modernist periods where her major interest lies. Recent books:
Mihaela Irimia is Professor of English and 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, University of Bucharest. A specialist in British Studies, Prof. 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 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 authored some 200 articles and studies, translations of Romanian literature into English, as well as translations of British and American literature into Romanian. A representative selection of publications include:
Adriana Neagu is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Department of Applied Modern Languages. Dr Neagu has been the recipient of several pre- and postdoctoral research awards. Previous academic affiliations include a Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and visiting positions at Oxford University, University of Bergen, and University of London. Her teaching areas are diverse, combining literary and cultural studies disciplines. Her main specialism is in the poetics of modernist and postmodernist discourse, postcolonial theory and the literatures of identity, and translation theory and practice. At present her research centres on new paradigms of cultural identity in the U.K. Since 1999, Dr Neagu has been Advisory Editor and, since 2004, Editor-in-Chief of American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania. She is coordinating the Romanian activities of the Leverhulme Trust funded part of this project. Her recent publications include:
Forthcoming:
Ana-Karina Schneider is Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, holding a PhD in critical theory and Faulkner studies from Lucian Blaga University (2005), as well as a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College, MA, USA (2004). Her teaching expertise covers mainly English literature from the seventeenth century to the present, alongside literary criticism. Dr Schneider has been Manuscript and Review Editor of American, British and Canadian Studies since its inception in 1999, Review Editor of East/West Cultural Passage, Reviewer for College Literature, Treasurer of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, and Director of her Department's Reading Group. Recent publications: Critical Perspectives in the Late Twentieth Century. William Faulkner: A Case Study, (Lucian Blaga UP, 2006) (ed., with Eric Gilder and Ana Lita) American, British and Canadian Studies vol. 9: For the Love of God: Mediations on the Mind and Manners of Iris Murdoch (Dec. 2007). “Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in Romanian Translation: A Case of Migration,” In Other Words (Dec. 2007). Norwich: The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia: 21-31. “Competing Narratives in Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George,” in American, British and Canadian Studies 13 (December 2009): 50-60. “The Practice of Note Making, Or Literacy and the Study of English in Romania,” in English Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings. Ed. by Suman Gupta and Milena Katsarska. Plovdiv: Plovdiv UP, 2009: 193-208.
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