Ioana Bot: Curriculum vitae

Name and surname
BOTH Ioana
Date and place of birth
3 May 1964, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
E-mail
iboth@lett.ubbcluj.ro
Studies
  • 1978 – 1982: “Ady-Sincai” Philological High School, Cluj-Napoca (bilingual class: Romanian-English), baccalaureate in 1982, graded 9,62 out of 10.
  • 1982-1986 – Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romanian-French double-major, state license
Work experience
  • 1986-1989 – teacher of Romanian language and literature at Secondary school nr. 1, city of Gherla, Cluj County;
  • 1989-1990 – teacher of Romanian language and literature at the Emil Racovita High School of Cluj-Napoca;
  • October 1990 - December 1993: teaching assistant (by contest) at the Department of Romanian Literature, compared literatures and literary theory at the Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca;
  • January 1994 - September 1999: assistant professor (by contest) at the same Department;
  • October 1999 (until now): associate professor (by contest) at the same Department;
  • October 1997 (until now): associate professor at the Masters « French and Francophone Literatures », “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, coordinated by Professor Rodica LASCU POP.
  • Director of Studies (October 2000 – present) of the « Romanian literature. Modernity and European Context » Masters Program of “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca.
Courses taught
  1. History of the Romanian poetry in the 19th century, Mihai Eminescu, Literary Criticism;
  2. Introduction to the poetics of fixed forms;
  3. History of European literary ideas;
  4. Autobiography: writing and witnessing – Romanian French-speaking authors (within the Masters « French and Francophone Literatures »);
  5. History of French stylistics and structuralism.
  6. D. Caracostea, literary critic and theorist.
  7. Genetical studies of Eminescu’s poetry.
  8. Techniques of Scientific Research.
  9. Historical poetics: Eminescu and the closing of the Romantic Age.
  10. Seminaries on the 18th and 19th century Romanian literature, history of French stylistics and structuralism, Romanian francophone literature.
  11. Coordinator of the Poetics and Literary Theory research group of the students at the Faculty of Letters.
Doctoral thesis
  • research begun in 1990 under the supervision of Professor Ion VLAD (Faculty of Letters of Babes-Bolyai University) with a thesis on literary theory. Thesis held in February 1997. Title awarded in June 1997.
  • Subject: D. Caracostea, theorist and literary critic. D. Caracostea was one of the most prominent theorist of Romanian literature; this study aims at a reevaluation of the place of his work in the history of Romanian and European literary ideas.
  • Having won a Swiss federal scholarship (ESKAS mobility) for post-graduate studies (Academic year 1994/1995), I have worked on my thesis at the Seminary of Romance Languages of the University of Zurich, under the supervision of Professor Roger Francillon. I have also attended regularly the sessions of the 20th Century Study Group, coordinated by Professor Laurent Jenny, Department of Modern French of the University of Geneva.
Known foreign languages
  • French, English, Italian, Finnish (reading, writing, oral proficiency)
  • Spanish and German (reading, written proficiency)
Professional and other associations
  • Member of the Romanian Writers’ Union (since 1993), founding member (1990) of the Lucian Blaga Cultural Society (participating in this quality in the organization of numerous scientific and cultural manifestations – international poetry festivals in Cluj-Napoca etc.). I have also organized (in collaboration) a week of the Finnish culture, colloquiums (e.g. the international colloquium « Marguerite Yourcenar – return to the sources », held at the Faculty of Letters of Cluj-Napoca) etc.
  • Founding member (1996) of the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Francophone Literatures of the Faculty of Letters of Cluj-Napoca.
  • Member of the reflection group on computer arts, INFOLIPO, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Member of CeRNET, interdisciplinary research group in literary theory, coordinated by Professor Laurent Jenny, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Within this framework, I am member of the organization committee of the international colloquium on “Texts and performance” that is to take place at the University of Geneva in November 2003.
  • Founder of the Reflection Group on the State of Theory (2003) within the Faculty of Letters of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
  • Responsible for the International Relations of the Faculty of Letters (March 1997 – January 1999): coordination of the Tempus, Erasmus, Socrates programs as well as of other cooperation agreements, of the curricular reform and the passage to ECTS etc.
  • Responsible for the International Relations of the Department of Romanian Literature at the “Babes-Bolyai” University (October 2000 – until now).
Scientific activity
  1. Graduation paper on the poetics of citation in present-day Romanian poetry.
  2. Field of research: history of literature, poetics, history of mentalities.
    • Since 1982 I have published over 200 literary chronicles, studies and essays in the following revues: “Steaua”, "Echinox", "Secolul XX", "Poesis", "Studia Universitatis Napocensis", "Literatura si Arta", "Mihai Eminescu" review of the University of Iasi, "Columna" of the University of Turku (Finland), "Adevarul", "Tribuna" (where I held a permanent position as literary reviewer between 1986 and 1990), "Slavic Almanach" of the University of Witwatersrand, Republic of South-Africa, "Limba si literatura româna", "România literara", "Vineri", "Dilema" etc.
    • I have also published in the same revues translations of French, English and Finnish literature (Fernand Braudel, B.H. Lévy, Mircea Eliade, Jo‘lle Kuntz, Pierre Chappuis, Etienne Barilier, Anne Cunéo, Charles Carrère, Paavo Haavikko, V.S. Naipaul, Gaston Bachelard, Hannu Salakka, Ilpo Tiihonen, Tuomas Anhava, Jérôme Meizoz, Janine Massard etc.)
  3. List of most important publications
    1. Books
      1. Eminescu and present-day Romanian poetry (Eminescu si lirica româneasca de azi), Dacia publishing house, Cluj-Napoca, 1990. Prize of the Romanian Writers’ Union in 1990. The volume continues the research begun in my graduate years and focuses manly on two aspects: the present-day value, for the Romanian literature, of the work of its most important poet (Is Eminescu still a mythical figure a century after his death ? If so, why ?), as well as on a rather theoretical subject, as the study questions consecrated concepts of intertextuality.
      2. Romanian-Finnish vocabulary of the „Suomea suomeksi” textbook, vol. I, by O. Nuutinen, SKS, Helsinki, 1993.
      3. The betrayal of words. Essays on poetics (Tradarea cuvintelor. Eseuri de poetica), Bucharest, Editions Didactiques et Pédagogiques, 1997. The volume is a collection of essays on poetics and literary critique which, despite the diversity of subjects, from classical Romanian literature to the Indo-European folklore, from past-century literary criticism to present-day debates, in the post-structuralist theory of critique, share a fundamental theoretical idea, that of distrust in language, be it that of literary critique or that of literature itself..
      4. D. Caracostea, theorist and literary critic (D. Caracostea, teoretician si critic literar), Bucharest, Minerva, 1999. The study focuses, in the framework of the history of literary ideas in Romania, on the re-discussion of an author that should have been very important for the present-day development of the field had the communist regime not transformed in nomina odiosa, by forbidding most researchers access to his work, written between 1920 and 1945. His studies on the « poetics » of the literary text and on the expressiveness of the Romanian language, very close to what we call nowadays « néo-humboldtianism », focus on the emergence of a general concept of the “figura”. Lastly, his projects on the re-structuring of literary sciences were opening paths towards the poetics, stylistics and morphology of present-day culture. The second edition, revised and completed with a 60-page study on the European context of the theory of Caracostea, was published at Casa Cartii de Stiinta Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2001.
      5. The Romanian patriotic poetry (Poezia patriotica româneasca), Bucharest, Humanitas Educational, 2001 (Anthology of commented texts). Targeted on high-school students and on first-year students, this volume proposes to tackle a delicate subject in the history of Romanian literature and to present both the esthetic components (patriotic poetry as Poetry) and the aspects regarding the interference between literary and politics, in the context of Romanian modern history..
      6. Mihai Eminescu, Romanian national poet. History and anatomy of a cultural myth ("Mihai Eminescu, poet national român". Istoria si anatomia unui mit cultural), Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2001. Volume coordinated by Ioana Both. Fruit of a research project begun under the patronage of the "New Europe College" of Bucharest, the volume seeks to explain the history and fundamental mechanisms of the « Eminescu » cultural myth, being at the frontier between literary history and cultural studies.
      7. Romanian Patriotic Poetry (Poezia patriotica româneasca, antologie, prefata, dosar critic, comentarii, note si bibliografie de IB), Bucuresti, Humanitas Educational, 2001, 232p.
      8. Histoires littéraires. Littérature et idéologie dans l’histoire de la littérature roumaine, Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2003, 292p. (Henri Jacquier Prize of the French Cultural Center – 2003, Excellency Prize of the UBB for scientific studies published in the 2003).
      9. Booksigns. Essays on Romanian Literary History (Semne de carte. Eseuri de istorie literara româneasca), Cluj-Napoca, Limes, 2004, 147p.
      10. Swiss Diary. Searching for the Lost Latin (Jurnal elvetian. În cautarea latinei pierdute), Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cartii de Stiinta, 2004, 203p.
    2. Collaboration in collective works
      1. Klapka’s « fault » (essay of archetypal criticism, début), in the volume Rebreanu, a hundred years after, coordinated by Mircea Zaciu, Dacia publishing house, Cluj-Napoca, 1985, pp.216-222.
      2. Group portrait with Ioana Em. Petrescu, volume edited and coordinated in collaboration with Diana Adamek, Dacia publishing house, Cluj-Napoca, 1991. The volume contains studies of the personality and work of one of the most original Romanian present-day literary theorists, Ioana Em. Petrescu, dead at 48, in 1990. Are also included the few chapters of a book she has written on deconstruction and on its impact on contemporary literary theory.
      3. An Analytic dictionary of Romanian literary works, coord. by Ion Pop, vol. I (A-D), 1998, Bucharest, Didactic and Pedagogic Publishings, vol. II (E-L), 1999, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cartii de Stiinta publishing house, vol. III (M-P), 2002, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cartii de Stiinta publishing house.
      4. The fantastic as expression of dissidence (case study of a Romanian writer and painter, Mariana Bojan), in R. Lascu-Pop, G. Ponnau (editors), The Fantastic at the crossroad of arts, Acts of the international colloquium in Cluj-Napoca, 22-23 October 1997, Clusium publishing house, Cluj-Napoca, 1998, pp. 103-111.
      5. The French model in the 1848 Romanian poetry, in Cercetarea literara azi. Studii dedicate profesorului Paul Cornea, L. Papadima and M. Vasilescu (editors), Iasi, Polirom publishing house, 2000, pp. 296 - 303.
      6. contributor for the articles on Romanian literature and adviser in Jane Eldridge MILLER (editor), Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, London & New York, Routledge, 2001.
      7. Le modèle français dans la poésie roumaine de 1848: Lamartine, in La France et l’identité natioanle roumaine, Ramona Bordei Boca (coord.), Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2002, pp. 251-261.
      8. Préliminaires à une poétique générale des formes fixes: nombres et formes dans la Renaissance, in Giordano Bruno e il Rinsacimento quale prospettiva verso una cultura europea senza frontiere, Smaranda Bratu Elian (ed.), Bucuresti, Editura Fundatiei Culturale Române, 2002, pp. 33-50.
      9. Portrait du poète national en jeune dieu, in Nation and National Ideology. Past, Present and Prospects, Irina Vainovsiki-Mihai (ed.), The Center for the History of the Imaginary and New Europe College, Bucarest, 2002, pp. 235-265.
      10. L’immagine della Roma antica nella poesia pattriotica di Mihai Eminescu, in Cristina Papa, Giovanni Pizza, Filippo M. Zerilli (coord.), La ricerca antropologica in Romania. Prospettive storiche et etnografiche, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2003, pp. 67-80. Romanian translation: Imaginea Romei antice în poezia lui Mihai Eminescu, in C. Papa, G. Pizza si F. M. Zerilli, Cercetarea antropologica în România. Perspective istorice si etnografice, Cluj-Napoca, Clusium, 2004, pp. 63 - 76.
      11. Ioana Bot, G.G. Neamtu, A. Pamfil (coord.), Romanian Language and Literature for Outstanding Students.... A Studybook (Limba si literatura româna pentru grupele de performanta, clasele VII – XII, Programa si ghidul profesorului), Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2003.
      12. Ioana Bot & Monica Columban, Mihai Eminescu, Satires. Reading exercises (Mihai Eminescu, Scrisori. Exercitii de lectura), Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cartii de Stiinta, 2004, 120p.
    3. Editions
      1. Ioana Em. Petrescu, Eminescu. Graduate course. Text constructed (from notes written in shorthand) by Ioana Both. Published in 1991 at the Babes Bolyai University printing presses. Reissued in 1993.
      2. Ioana Em. Petrescu, Eminescu, a tragic poet. Text reconstructed and notes by Ioana Both, Junimea publishing house, Iasi, 1994.
      3. Ioana Em. Petrescu, American letters, (Molestarea fluturilor interzisa), edition, notes and afterword by Ioana Both, Bucarest, Didactic and Pedagogic Publishings, 1998.
      4. Ioana Em. Petrescu, Modernism/Postmodernism. A hypothesis (Modernism/Postmodernism. O ipoteza), edition, introductory study and French afterword by Ioana Both, Cluj-Napoca, 2003.
    4. Translations
      1. Marianne Mesnil, Assia Popova, Etnologul, intre sarpe si balaur (The Ethnologist, between snake and dragon). Essays of European ethnology, translation by Ioana Both and Ana Mihailescu, Bucharest, Paideia, 1997.
      2. Laurent Jenny, Rostirea singulara (The Singular Utterance), translation and afterword by Ioana Both, Bucharest, Univers, 1999.
      3. Charles Mauron, De la metaforele obsedante la mitul personal (From obsessive metaphors to personal myth), translation by Ioana Both, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, 2001.
    5. Studies, essays
      1. On the relationship world-text-world in the work of J.L. Borges, in “Tribuna” nr.10/1984.
      2. Totemic elements in a Indo-European folk tale (AT 510B), in „Echinox”, nr.1-2/1986.
      3. The vision of Malraux on the art/performance relationship. The imaginary museum, in „Studia Universitatis Napocensis”, Philologiae, XXXII, nr.1/1987.
      4. Tragic and false tragic in the novel « the Master and Marguerite » by M. Bulgakov, in „Tribuna” nr.22/1987 (first prize for essay in the same revue, in 1987).
      5. « Autumn » by R. M. Rilke. A third degree metaphoric level ?, study published in the Acts of the 4th National Colloquium on Poetics, Stylistics, Semiotics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 1986.
      6. Structure of the lyrical discourse in the Romanian poetry of the ‘80s generation, study published in the Acts of the 4th National Colloquium on Poetics, Stylistics, Semiotics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 1990.
      7. Prince Charming born of a tear and his twin brother, in the Journal of the Folklore Archives, nr. XII-XIV, Cluj-Napoca.
      8. Ioana Em. Petrescu and the poetics of postmodernism, in „Tribuna”, nr. 29-32/1994.
      9. D. Caracostea and his context. A possible « exemplary history , in „Tribuna” nr. 49/1996.
      10. From personality to character. Evolution of the literary ideas of D. Caracostea, in „Limba si literatura româna”, Revue issued by the Society of Philological Sciences of Romania, nr. 1-2/1997.
      11. Could Saussure have been wrong ?, "Studia Universitatis Napocensis", year XLII, nr. 1, pp. 32-46.
      12. Eminescu is a problem, in „România literara”, nr.1/1998, p. 3.
      13. Discourse of a lover’s gaze, in „Limba si literatura româna”, Revue de la Société des Sciences Philologiques de Roumanie, vol. III-IV, 1999, p. 18-31.
      14. The forbidden words (essay on the prose of Adrien Pasquali), in „România literara”, nr. 2/2000, p. 22.
      15. Mihai Eminescu, Romanian national poet » - sketches of a necessary invention, in „România literara”, nr. 22/2000, pp. 12-13.
      16. Fundamental problems raised by the fixed form poetics in the European literature, in "Ephemeris Dacoromana. Annuario", Accademia di Romania, new series, XI, 1/2000.
      17. The French model in the 1848 Romanian patriotic poetry. Lamartine – a case study, in "La France et l'identité nationale roumaine", Ramona Bordei-Boca (ed.), Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2002, pp. 251-261.
      18. Portrait of the national poet as young god, in Nation and National Ideology. Past, Present and Prospects, Irina Vainovsiki-Mihai (ed.), The Center for the History of the Imaginary and New Europe College, Bucarest, 2002, pp. 235-265.
      19. A question onf imagology: the romanian patriotic poetry, in "Caietele Echinox", nr. 3/2002, Cluj-Napoca, Dacia, pp. 62-72.
      20. Storia e letteratura: il tema della Roma antica nell'opera di Mihai Eminescu, in "Revue de Transylvanie", no. 3/2002, pp. 97-103.
Awards, distinctions:
  • 1987 – prize for the best young literary critic, awarded by the revue « Tribuna »;
  • 1990 – prize for the best debut of the year, awarded by the Romanian Writers’ Union for the volume Eminescu et la lyrique roumaine d'aujourd'hui;
  • 1992 – prize for young writers of the Moldavian Writers’ Union (awarded at the « Lunian Blaga » festival in Kishinew, Republic of Moldavia).
  • 1999 – prize of the Cluj-Napoca Writers’ Association for the translation in Romanian of Laurent Jenny, La Parole singulière (see c.4.2).
  • 2003 – Henri Jacquier Prize of the French Cultural Center for Histoires littéraires. Littérature et idéologie dans l’histoire de la littérature roumaine, Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2003, 292p (see c.1.8).
  • 2003 –Excellency Prize of the UBB for scientific studies published in the 2003: Histoires littéraires. Littérature et idéologie dans l’histoire de la littérature roumaine, Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2003, 292p (see c.1.8).
  • 2004 – UBB Prize for Exceptional Professional Achievements
Participation in international scientific reunions
  1. Avatars of the Eminescu model in the crisis periods of Romanian culture (Avataruri ale modelului eminescian in perioadele de crizà a culturii române), 2nd International Congress of Romanian Studies, Iasi, 6-10 July 1993, issued in "Tribuna" nr. 28-31/1993.
  2. A Romanian hypothesis on postmodernism: Ioana Em. Petrescu, in the interuniversity colloquium “Postmodernism and criticism”, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca/ University of Geneva, 17-18 Nov. 1993, issued in "Studii literare", nr. 2/1999.
  3. Portrait of a Romanian critic between the two world wars (D. Caracostea), Colloquium "Present issues of critique", organized by the Faculty of Letters of Babes-Bolyai University and the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Cluj-Napoca, 16-18 May 1996.
  4. The fantastic as expression of political dissidence, international colloquium "The Fantastic at the crossroads of arts”, organized by the Centre d'Etudes de Lettres Belges de Langue Française of Babes-Bolyai University, under the patronage of the Royal Academy of Belgium and of the Romanian Academy, 22-23 October 1997.
  5. A possible return to the sources of poetics: Charles Carrère, international colloquium “Unity and diversity of francophone literature; what are the challenges for the end of the century?”, organized by the Association of Francophone Studies for Central and Oriental Europe (AEFECO), Universitaet Leipzig - Frankreich Zentrum, French Institute of Leipzig, 30 March - 4 April 1998.
  6. The French model in the 1848 Romanian patriotic poetry. Case study - Lamartine, international colloquium “France and the Romanian national identity”, "Interactions Culturelles Européennes" research center, 19-21 Nov. 1998, Dijon-Mâcon.
  7. D. Caracostea, folklorist, presented at "Romania, prospettive degli studi folclorici ed etnologici. Seminario di studi", 2 April 1999, Department of human and territorial sciences, University of Perugia (Italy).
  8. Mihai Eminescu – a problem of Romanian culture, conference within the framework of the programmes of the Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy, 15 June1999.
  9. History and anatomy of a cultural myth: Eminescu, Romanian national poet, presented at "Mihai Eminescu - oggi", Italian-Romanian colloquium, organized by the Academia di Romania of Rome, under the patronage of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, Rome, 26-27 January 2000.
  10. Antique Rome in the poetry of Mihai Eminescu, presented at the colloquium "La ricerca antropologica in Romania. Prospettive storiche ed etnografiche", 9-10 March 2000, Department of human and territorial sciences, University of Perugia (Italy).
  11. For a general poetics of fixed forms, conference at the Research Seminary at the Department of romance languages of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy), 3 May 2000.
  12. Fixed form and expression of the ego: analysis of a sonnet by Eminescu, within the "Poetica dell'indicibile” research seminary, organized at the Accademia di Romania of Rome (Italy), with the collaboration of the Romanisches Semianr, Universitat Zurich (Switzerland), 29 June 2000.
  13. Preliminaries to a general poetics of fixed forms: numbers and forms during the Renaissance, « Giordano Bruno and the Renaissance from the perspective of a European culture with no borders »International and Interdisciplinary Seminarium, Bucharest, 3-5 December 2000, University of Bucharest, Italian Cultural Institute.
  14. « Walks in the city », « Another Kind of Spaces » interdisciplinary symposium, Department of Philosophy of Babes-Bolyai University and the « New Europe College » of Bucharest, 19-20 January 2001, Cluj-Napoca..
  15. « Portrait of the national poet as a young god », International Colloquium « Nation and national ideology. Past. Present. Perspectives », organized by the « New Europe College » of Bucharest and the Center for the History of the Imaginary (University of Bucharest), 6-7 April 2001, Bucharest.
  16. Narrative, discourse, spaces, in the interdisciplinary debate « Space and community », organized by dr. Ciprian Mihali within the RELINK program, « New Europe College » of Bucharest, 19 June 2001.
  17. Rosa del Conte, in the Italian-Romanian colloquium « Italian scientists at the University of Cluj », organized by Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 25-27 October 2001.
  18. Ideology and literary history: the case of the Romanian national poet, conference within the « Research directions » program, coordinated by Prof. Laurent Jeny, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 21 May 2002.
  19. The obsessive perfection of the fixed forms in the poetry of M. Eminescu, conference held within the Department of Romance Languages of the « La Sapienzia » University of Rome, Italy (Dipartmento di studi romanzi, Facolta di Scienze Umanistiche), 19 April 2002.
  20. Fixed forms in Romanian Romanticism, conference held at the Department of Neo-Latin languages and literatures, Romanian language and literature and the Department of Modern Philology, Ugric-Finnish Sector, 18 April 2002.
  21. Mihai Eminescu, the obsession of the fixed form in poetry, conference held at the Department of Romance languages and literatures, Romanian Seminary, 17 April 2002.
  22. The Romanian literary critique (1850-1950), conference held at the Department of Romance languages and literatures, Romanian Seminary, 18 April 2002.
  23. Defense of fundamental research in literary sciences. The case of Romanian post-graduate programs, at the meeting "The Integration in the European Research Area - A realistic Chance for Romania", New Europe College - Bucharest, Ad Astra and KoWi - Deutschland, Bucharest, 25-26 October 2002.
  24. The Romanian roots of European avant-gardes, conference held in the Department of French of the St. Gall University (Switzerland), under the patronage of the Romanian Embassy in Switzerland, 20 November 2002.
  25. Public space and digital art: reading « Surveiller et punir » by Michel Foucault, (communication written in collaboration with Ambroise Barras, of the University of Geneva), at the colloquium "Digital art, technology and public space, organized by the Department of Philosophy of Babes-Bolyai University of Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and the « New Europe College » of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, 24-25 January 2003.
Research abroad, scholarships:
  • July, 1992 – summer course in Finland (4 weeks at Lappeenranta, course of Finnish culture and civilization), scholarship awarded by the Finnish Ministry of Education;
  • November 1994 / July 1995 – Swiss federal scholarship (ESKAS) for post-graduate studies at the Seminary of Romance Studies of the University of the University of Zurich.
  • October 1997 / July 1998 – research scholarship at the « New Europe College » of Bucharest, with the project: "M. Eminescu: Romanian national poet". History and anatomy of a cultural myth.
  • January 1998 / February 1998 – stage at the Department of Modern French of the University of Geneva (under the coordination of Prof. Laurent Jenny).
  • January 1999/ August 2000 – Romanian governmental scholarship at the Romanian Academy of Rome, with a research project on general poetics (comprising research stages in the Departments of Romance Languages of « La Sapienza » University of Rome and of the University of Pisa respectively).
  • May – June 2001, May 2001 – associate professor (within the bilateral agreements and Erasmus programs) to the Universities of Pisa and Florence (Italy); courses held: the 19th century Romanian literature, history of literary ideas.
  • December 2001 / October 2002 – outstanding scholarship for postdoctoral research granted by the French Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, at the University of Geneva, Department of modern French. Project of research in the stylistics of literary critique ("The « figura » of the interpreter in theoretical texts")
  • March – July 2004 – NEC-Link scholarship, awarded by the New Europe College (Bucharest) for teaching and research with a project concerning History of Romanian Literary Ideas (courses and seminaries taught in the UBB Master Programs of Romanian Literature and Compared Literature, as well as in the West University of Timisoara, in the Master Program of Romanian Literature).
Teaching experience in foreign universities:
  • May 2001: seminaries of Poetics and Metrics, seminaries for PhD students in French Literature, under the supervision of prof. Laurent Jenny, Department of Modern french Literature, University of Geneva (Switzerland).
  • Starting with the academic year 2000-2001, until now: each year, I have accomplished a 14 days TS mission within each of the Erasmus/Socrates programs of the UBB with the universities of Rome (“La Sapienza”), Pisa and Florence (Italy). Courses taught: Romanian Literature of the 19th century (mainly history of poetry, Eminescu and Caragiale) and of the 20th century (Romanian literature of the 80s, aesopic literature, minor literature before the WWI etc.), according to the curricula of these universities. As a consequence of these teaching modules, I am actually a co-director for two thesis in Romanian Literature, one in Rome and one in Florence, which are to be submitted to the Italian juries during the summer semester of 2006.
  • January 2004: invited professor at the French Department of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Lectures given: History of Romanian Avanguarde, in the frame of a programme coordinated by prof. as. Thomas Hunkeler.
  • January 2005: invited professor at the French Departments of the universities of Zurich and Neuchatel (Switzerland). Lectures given: History of Romanian Literature of the Absurd (Caragiale, Urmuz, Tzara), in the frame of a programme coordinated by prof. as. Thomas Hunkeler.
  • January 2005: TS mission within the frame of a Socrates/Erasmus programme at the Romanisch Lektorat at the Zurich University (course given by doc. Alfred Suter). Lectures given on Romanian Literature during the Ceausescu era.