Hristo BOEV graduated from Plovdiv University, Bulgaria in 1997, obtaining an
MA in English Philology. In April 2013 He successfully defended his PhD on representations of the Modern City in the works of Dickens and Dos Passos at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. His interests are in the field of Modern British and American Literature, Romanian Literature between the Wars, Translation and Cultural Studies. He is a teacher of English Language and Literature, translator and editor in Bulgarian, English and Romanian. Apart from his academic interests, he is also an avid reader and short story writer in English. He actively participates in conferences on Literature and Linguistics. His main publications are on Dickens and Dos Passos in a number of scientific journals.
Alina BUZARNA-TIHENEA (GALBEAZA) graduated the English-French BA
Program in 2007, the Anglo-American Studies MA Program in 2009 and the PhD program in 2011, at the Faculty of Letters, “Ovidius” University of Constanta. She is member of RAAS since 2009 and has been involved in the POSDRU “ASIGMA” research project, as Assistant Manager of the project implementation team. At present she works as a specialty referent at the Faculty of Law, Administrative Sciences and Sociology of the same university. She also teaches English at the Faculty of Law, Administrative Sciences and Sociology, at the Faculty of Medicine and at the Faculty of Arts, as Assistant Professor.
Adina CIUGUREANU is Professor of British and American literature and culture
at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University Constanta. She is the President of the Romanian Association for American Studies (RAAS), treasurer of the European Society for American Studies (EAAS) and Fulbright Ambassador. Her fields of interest and research are British and American culture (C19 and C20), American popular culture, literary theory, in which domains she has published five academic studies, one comparative study (The Boomerang Effect, 2008) and over 30 articles that appeared in important academic volumes and periodicals such as The Canonical Debate Today (Rodopi, 2011), Partial Answers (2011), Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism (2010), Journal of Victorian Culture (2007). She has been invited to hold talks at prestigious universities in the USA, Israel, Austria, France, and Great Britain.
Maria-Luiza DUMITRU OANCEA is lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign
Languages, Classical Philology, University of Bucharest. Her academic interests include Archaic Greek Literature (Homer, Hesiod) and the Hellenistic Epic (Apollonius of Rhodes). Representative books authored are Sacrul monstruos. Mitologie, mitistorie, folclor românesc (2007, București, Ed. Paideia); Mitologie greco-romană. Curs-atelier (2010, Ed. Universității din București), Apollonius Rhodius (2013, București, Ed. Universității din București), Mentalități și instituții
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indo-europene și mediteraneene în scrierile eline, 2013, București, Editura Universității din București (in press) and also academic articles, such as "Antiospeţia în Odysseia homerică"; "Principe d’hospitalité dans la littérature greco-romaine", „The Rhetoric of Suspense in Apollonios of Rhodos’ Argonautica”, „Mystification and fear: two instances of the pseudo-heroic mode in Apollonius’ Argonautika” and „Apollonius of Rhodes’ The Argonautica as Frivolous Ludic Falsetto”.
Ana-Cristina HALICHIAS is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of
Classical Philology of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest. Here she teaches Chancellery Medieval Latin, Latin Palaeography, Latin Historical Morphology, Vulgar and Late Latin. She has published five single-author volumes, and over forty articles, has coordinated three collective volumes and co-authored six editions of documents. In 2006, she received “Timotei Cipariu” award from the Romanian Academy, and in 2011 “Petru Creţia” award from the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Published titles: Smart and Dumb in Latin, Studia Mediaevalia, Mediaevalia et Neolatina, A Glossary of Romanian Terms in Latin Documents (13th-16th century),
Elements of Latin Phonetics, Morphology and Syntax.
Ana Maria MUNTEANU is Associate Professor at Ovidius University,
Constanta, Department of Modern Languages and Communication Science. She has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest. She is a peer reviewer for the collections Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Editura Universitara, Bucuresti. She has got experience as editor in broadcast media, new media, managing director of the cultural magazine Amphion, of more than 40 international and European theatre projects, multimedia artist and producer (Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy). Among the books, we mention Ana Maria Munteanu, Aurora Fabritius, The World of Romanian Dance ( Plural (ICR)15/16-2002, Ed. Artcub, Bucureşti; Ana Maria Munteanu, Aida Todi, Mass-media – limbaj, culturăşi acces la realitate. Studii de caz, 2009, Ed. Universitară, Bucuresti; Ana Maria Munteanu, Elena Maria Necula, Adina Bocai, Sorina Asan, Armonia etnică în regiunea de sud-est a României Balanţă interculturală, coabitare şi climat, ExPonto, Constanţa, 2010; Ana Maria Munteanu, Cătălin Deliu, 2010, Muzica la radio Rolul Playlist- managerului în contextual trecerii de la radio-ul classic la cel digital, Editura Universitară, Bucureşti; Doina Pauleanu, Ana Maria Munteanu, (coord.),2011, Spiritul Dunarii,
Actele Conferinţei “Spiritul Dunarii” (27-29 iulie 2009, Constanta) proiect “Spiritul Dunarii - Fluviul Dunarea factor stimulator de sinergii locale si transfrontaliere” finantat de UE prin programul PHARE CBC, Editura Universitara, Bucuresti; Ana Maria Munteanu, Raluca Petre, 2011, Flux, piaţă
culturală şi efecte ale convergenţei spectaculare, Editura Universitară, Bucureşti Ana Maria Munteanu,Aida Todi, Constantin Ioan Mladin,2011, Risk, Language and Identification in the Network Society: the Impact of New Media on Cross - Cultural Communication,Bucuresti, Editura Universitară, 2011. In recent years she
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has been involved in several projects on the role of communication in environmental governance and sustainable development.
Ileana MARIN is currently a lecturer in the Comparative Literature Department at
the University of Washington. Prior to her coming to the United States, Ileana Marin earned her first Ph.D. degree from the University of Bucharest in 2000 and subsequently taught as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Ovidius University in Constanza, Romania. During her academic career in Romania she taught a variety of courses in literature and published three books, several articles, and book chapters. She earned her second Ph.D. in Textual Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in 2011. She has recently published articles on textual culture among which “Brontë’s Heron Scissors: Cancelations and Excisions in the Manuscript of Shirley” in Brontës Studies (2011) and “Millais’ Illustrations, Fuel for Trollope’s Writing” in the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies
(2012).
Roxana MIHELE is a senior lecturer at the Department of Specialized Foreign
Languages, the Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca. She has a B.A. in Philology (English major, French minor), an M.A. in American Literature and Linguistics and a Ph.D. degree in American literature with a thesis on the Jewish cultural heritage in the work of Saul Bellow. Her academic interest areas comprise: American Literature – especially Jewish American literature, the American Multiculturalism and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, Literary Theory, ESP (English for Specialized Purposes). She has taught courses in: Techniques of Communication, Grammar Exercises, Translations, Literary Analysis, Essay Writing, English for Tourism. Roxana Mihele is a member of The Romanian Association for American Studies, The Romanian Society for English and American Studies.
Florentina NICOLAE is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius
University, Constanţa, where she teaches Biblical and Patristic Latin. She is also interested in the Neo-latin language used in the Romanian cultural space and the history of Romanian biblical language. Among her recent scientific publications are Jewel Terminology in Romanian Biblical Translations, în Revue roumaine de linguistique, LVIII, No/Issue 2, 2013 (ISI Thompson indexation), Advertising Romanian Master Programs. Case study, înProcedia. - Social and Behavioral Sciences 76, 2013 (Elsevier, Scopus indexation), The Influention of Romanian language in „Vita Constantini Cantemyrii cognomento Senis, Moldaviae Principis”, in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Uppsala 2009), Series „Acta Conventus Neo-Latini”, Vol. XIV, Brill, 2012.
Alina Costiana STAN graduated the Law BA Program in 2010, at the Faculty of
Law, Administrative Sciences and Sociology, “Ovidius” University of Constanta and the MA joint-degree program “Administrative Sciences: European Governance
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and Administration”, developed in partnership with Lille 2 University France and the Faculty of Law, Administrative Sciences and Sociology of “Ovidius” University of Constanta. Since 2010 she has been involved in the POSDRU “ASIGMA” research project, as long-time expert of the project implementation team. At present she is PhD student at the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Sociology.
Nicoleta STANCA is lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University,
Constanţa, where she teaches nineteenth-century Victorian culture, twentieth- century English and Irish literature and (American) popular culture. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi. She has published two book-length studies, one on Seamus Heaney, Duality of Vision in Seamus Heaney’s Writings (2009) and another on Irish literature, The Harp and the Pen (Tradition and Novelty in Modern Irish Writing) (2013), and a number of articles on Irish culture in academic volumes and journals in Romania and abroad. She has participated in national and international conferences. She is a member of Ireland- Romania Network, of the Romanian Association for American Studies and of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies.
Mahmut TERCI is the Deputy Principal at the International Computer High
School of Constanta. He teaches general English and gives Cambridge IELTS courses for high school students. His fields of interest and research are British and American culture, and methodology in ELT. He worked at SELT Publishing as a writer publishing ELT course books, reading and grammar books for young learners, namely, Speed Up-Course Book 2, Get to Point 3, Speed Up-Grammar 2. He has participated in national and international conferences, and presented a paper about “Online Testing” in INGED, Ankara. He is currently doing a PhD research on the concept of the English gentleman in Victorian Culture and in Charles Dickens’s fictions at the Faculty of Letters, Ovidius University, Constanta.
Eduard VLAD is Professor of British and American literature at Ovidius
University, Constanta. He has taught, at all academic levels, a series of courses in literary studies within broader cultural contexts provided by cultural studies, globalization studies, cultural theory and critical thinking, identity theory and social identity theory, publishing, in addition to a number of scholarly articles, eight books as single author, one as co-author in the above-mentioned areas of expertise, as follows: Larkin: The Glory and the Gloom, 1997, Multiple Perspectives: Essays on Contemporary British Literature (co-autored with Adina Ciugureanu), 1997, Romantic Myths, Alternative Stories, 2004, American Literature: Responses to the Po-Mo Void, 2004, Ironic Apocalypses: The World According to Vonnegut, 2004, Authorship and Identity in Contemporary Fiction, 2005, Journeys out of the Self, 2005, Perspective critice asupra globalizării culturale, 2010, Dictionar polemic de cultura americana, 2012.
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