Conf. Dr. in Philology, Dean Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest

Studies

PhD in Philology, in 1999, with a paper on literature and communication.

Postgraduate study and research scholarships in Romania (New Europe College, Bucharest) and abroad (University of Vienna and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)

Graduated the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, in 1981, with a merit diploma.

Professional Experience

Professional activity mainly in the educational field (academic teaching, curriculum expert, author of didactic works) and in press.

At present, PhD Ass. Prof., dean of the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

Fields of specialization: literary history, rhetorics, narratology, pragmatics, experimental poetics.

Visiting lecturer and visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (1991-1994, 2000-2002) and at the University of Amsterdam (1996-1997).

Curriculum expert for the National Board of Curriculum since 1997, intiator of the curriculum reform for Romanian language and literature in high school.

Independent Advisor for Education and member of the administration board for The Open Society Foundation and Center "Educaţia 2000+" (1999-2000)

Numerous courses in adult education (2000-2002).

Presidential counselor for the Department of Culture and Education of the Romanian Presidency (1999).

Editor and chief editor of the monthly magazine "Vineri", cultural supplement of the weekly review "Dilema" (1997-2000).

Executive secretary of the "Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature", affiliated to the "International Comparative Literature Association" (ICLA) (1997-2004)

Lectures abroad and participation in international colloquia

Public lectures delivered at the universities of Vienna, Udine, Heidelberg, Amsterdam, Pisa.

Participant in numerous internationational conferences in Romania and abroad (Vienna, Leiden, Leuven, Tartu, Berlin, Rome and others).

Published Works

Individual volumes of literary studies: Literatură şi comunicare. Relaţia autor – cititor în proza paşoptistă şi postpaşoptistă ("Literature and Communication. The Relation between Author and Reader in the Romanian Prose before and after 1848"), Iaşi, Polirom, 2000; Caragiale, fireşte ("Caragiale, Naturally", a volume of studies on the work of I. L. Caragiale), Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, 1999.

Fiction: În livada de cremene, Bucureşti, Ed. Albatros, 1981.

Coordinator of a research project at the University of Vienna, which  resulted in  the publication of the bilingual volume Der politische Diskurs in Rumänien (The Political Discourse in Romania) - (Bucharest, Humanitas Educaţional, 2003).

Co-author of the volume Calendarul după Caragiale (The Calendar after Caragiale), together with Rodica Zafiu from the University of Bucharest and Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu from the London University, Ontario.

Over 50 scientific studies and essays in periodicals and in collective volumes published in Romania and abroad.