University of Bucharest Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Department of English 7-13 Pitar Moş Street, sector 1, Bucharest dragos.ivana@lls.unibuc.ro CURRICULUM VITAE Dragoş-Alexandru IVANA PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 2012 PhD in Philology, University of Bucharest Thesis title: Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801 (summa cum laude) 2001-2002 MA in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest 1996-2000 BA in Philology, Romanian-English, University of Bucharest COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING Training for Trainers Seminar organized by the European Commission s Directorate General for Conference Interpreting, Brussels, 23-27 January 2006; Frontiers and Cultures: Europe and the Americas. Transcultural Identities international workshop organized by Ca Foscari University, Venice, 19-31 March 2012. POSITION Lecturer, PhD, Department of English, University of Bucharest TAUGHT SEMINARS AND COURSES English literature seminars (Enlightenment, Victorianism, Modernism, Postmodernism) (2002 to date) 19th-century American literature seminars (2004) English civilisation, Applied Modern languages Department (2004-2007) Courses in Enlightenment, Modernist and Postmodernist Literature (2010-to date) Concepts of Literary Theory (2007 to date) Theory and Practice of Translation, Translators-Interpreters Department (2006-2008) English Practical Courses (Philology, Applied Modern Languages, Translators-Interpreters Department (2002 to date) WORK EXPERIENCE: Editor/translator - TV Romania International (2002-2008) Part-time teaching assistant at the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest (2001-2002) Teacher of English at "Mihai Viteazul" National College, Bucharest (2001-2002) Interpreter of the National Trainers' Assessment Seminar held in Eforie Nord, part of the High- School Education Reform Project, supported by the The Black Sea University Foundation and the Ministry of Education (2001)
Collaborator of Observator Cultural cultural weekly (2000-2007) Editor of Litere Nouă, review of the Faculty of Letters (1998-2000) Editor of Bookarest, the International Bookfair Review, 7 th edition (1999) and 8 th edition (2000) Part-time teacher of English and Romanian at "Spiru Haret" National College, Bucharest (1997-1998) RESEARCH AND CONFERENCE GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Doctoral research scholarship granted by the Ratiu Foundation at the University of Kent, UK, 15 May 15 July 2007; Bursary waved by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for attending the conference Eighteenth-Century Lives held at St. Hugh s College between 5-9 January 2009; Doctoral research scholarship granted by the Ratiu Foundation at the British Library, London and the University of Kent, UK, 5-31 January, 2009; Doctoral research grant, the British Library, London, 16-30 June, 2010; supervisor: Prof. Donna Landry, University of Kent; Bursary waved by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh s College, Oxford, for attending the conference Credit, Market and the Money held at St. Hugh s College, Oxford between 3-5 January 2013 Research grant at Chawton House Library offered by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southampton, 2-28 June 2014. RESEARCH PROJECTS Founding member of the CNCSIS research project ODISEI no. 1621 (Homogeneity, Diversity, Identity: European Space and Integration) run within the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 2006-2008; project initiator: Prof. Mihaela Irimia Member of the CNCSIS project PN II, no. 1980 The Cultural Institution of Literature, 2009-2011; project initiator: Prof. Mihaela Irimia NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATIONS ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) (since 2005) RAAS (Romanian Society for American Studies) (since 2006) Centre for Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, University of Bucharest (since 2006) SSSOR (Romanian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) (since 2008) Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of Kent, UK (2007) AASR (Academic Anglophone Society of Romania) (since 2009) SELICUP (Spanish Society for the Literary Study of Popular Culture) (since 2010) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES: member of the jury (poetics and stylistics and translation workshops) at Mihai Eminescu Students National Colloquium, 25-28 May 2006 member of graduation examination boards (English major/minor) and MA entrance examination (2003 to date) first-year students coordinator, LMA (Modern Applied Languages) section (2004 - to date) English practical course coordinator, Philology and Applied Modern Languages Sections (2003 to date) organiser of the Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest (2003 -
2011) graduation paper supervisor (Philology, Translators-Interpreters, Applied Modern Languages sections, Distance Learning Programme, 2007-2008) responsible for hourly-paid teachers of literature (2003-2010) member of the Erasmus scholarships examination board (English Literature and Cultural Studies) (2008-2010) member of entrance examination boards (2002 to date) initiator of an Erasmus exchange programme with the University of the Ballearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain (2010) member of the Academic Board of the English Department (2012 2015) CERTIFICATES AND AWARDS DG SCIC conference interpreting trainer certificate, Brussels, 2006; Professor Bologna Award granted by the Romanian National Association of Student Organizations (Timişoara, Romania, 23 April, 2010). CULTURAL EVENTS Invited speaker to European Literature Night, organized by British Council Romania (19 May 2013) (with Prof. Bogdan Stefănescu) RESEARCH INTERESTS English literature (Enlightenment, Modernism), comparative literature, critical theory, intellectual history, city studies. FOREIGN LANGUAGES: English (C2), French (B2), Spanish (B2).
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801, Rodopi/Brill: Amsterdam&US, Costerus Series, 2014, 300 p., ISBN (print) 978-90-420-3773-1; ISBN (e-book) 978-94-012-1022-5. PAPERS PUBLISHED BY PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS City Space, Bucharest and the Location of Memory, în The New Central and East European Culture, Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andras, and Magdalena Marsovszky, Aachen, Shaker Verlag, 2006, pp. 209-215, ISBN: 978-3-8322-5143-7; The Shaker Publishing <http://www.shaker.eu/> monograph series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies http://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/element.asp?id=&element_id=27271&mode=pagefr ame Don Quixote, Novel and Pre-novelistic Discourses, în New Directions in Travel Writing and Travel Studies, Ed. Carmen Andraş, Aachen Shaker Verlag, 2010, pp. 351-361, ISBN 978-3- 8322-8197-7; The Shaker Publishing <http://www.shaker.eu/> monograph series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies http://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/element.asp?id=&element_id=37671&mode=pagefr ame ARTICLES AND STUDIES PUBLISHED IN BDI-INDEXED JOURNALS, A- OR B-INDEXED REVIEWS OR INTERNATIONAL VOLUMES (selective) Configuring Romanian Youth Culture Identities, in Proceedings of the Conference on Culture Identity in the Balkans, Ed. Gonül Ucele, Beykent University Press, Istanbul, 2004, pp. 91-102, ISBN 975-6319-00-3. (co-authored with Ruxandra Rădulescu) On Derridean Forgiveness and the Universal Urgency to Memory, in University of Bucharest Review, V, no. 3/2003, Sites of Memory, pp. 75-83, ISSN 1454-9328. Dis(re)membering What Has Been: Don Quixote and the Emergence of the Free Modern Individual, in Conference on British and American Studies, Ed. Marinela Burada, Transilvania University Press, Braşov, 2004, pp. 371-376, ISBN 973-635-300-1. On Reasons and Tastes: Hume and the Don Quixote Case, in University of Bucharest Review, VII, no. 3/2005, A Matter of Taste, pp. 95-99, ISSN 1454-9328. (Re)valuing the Novel: Michael McKeon s Dialectical Method, in University of Bucharest Review, VIII, no. 3/2006, The Crisis of Value and Judgement, pp. 88-92, ISSN 1454-9328. The Sentimental Tribute of a Tear : Self-Regarding Emotion, Wrong Sympathy, and Sentimental Irony in Henry Mackenzie s The Man of Feeling, in University of Bucharest Review, vol. X, no. 2/2008, Writing the Self: Modes of Self-Portrayal in the Cultural Text, pp. 117-121, ISSN 1454-9328. Eighteenth-Century English Quixotism and the Question of Benevolence, in Conference on British and American Studies, Ed. Marinela Burada, Editura Transilvania University Press, Braşov, 2009, pp. 141-152, ISSN 1844-7481.
Romance, or the Need to Perfect the Novel: 18th-Century English Quixotism as Moral Reform and Legitimate Practice in Charlotte Lennox s The Female Quixote, in British and American Studies Journal, University of the West Press, Timişoara, 2010, pp. 123-131, ISSN 1284-3086. Travelling for Commodification and Political Purposes: The Other in the Empire as described by Eighteenth-century English Popular Culture, The Travel: Knowledge, Communication and/or Power, Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. http://www.inst.at/trans/17nr/6-7/6-7_ivana_dragos17.htm 17 June 2010. Unprincipled Sentiment and the Novel, in British and American Studies, University of the West Press, Timişoara, 2011, pp. 169-177, ISSN 1224-3086. The Backstage Route to Modernity: Popular Culture as Hegemony in Eighteenth-Century England, in Actas de Congreso SELICUP IV, Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture, Mallorca: University of the Balearic Islands, 2011, pp. 1-8, ISBN 978-84-8384-197-6. Crossing Cultural Borders, Mingling Generic Categories: Henry Fielding s Comic Romance ; or, the Veiled Rise of the English Novel, in Anuarul Institutului Gh. Sincai, Romania: Târgu- Mureş, XIV/2011, pp. 48-62, ISSN 1454-5284. Exquisite Sympathy as Quixotism in Henry Mackenzie s The Man of Feeling, in Language, Literature and Culture in Present-Day Context: Contemporary Research Perspectives in Anglophone PhD Studies, Renáta Gregová, Soňa Šnircová, Slávka Tomaščiková, eds., The Slovak Association for the Study of English, SKASE, 2011, pp. 148-162, ISBN 978-809-708-213-0. PAPERS PUBLISHED IN ANNALS/BULLETINS/ANNUAL PUBLICATIONS OF UNIVERSITIES, ACADEMY, COLLECTIVE VOLUMES, C-INDEXED JOURNALS, NON- INDEXED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (selective) Don Quixote and its Eighteenth-Century Legacy, in Modele şi metamorfoze intra- şi interculturale, Ed. Mihaela Irimia, Mihaela Voicu, Luminiţa Diaconu, Dragos Ivana, University of Bucharest Press, 2006, pp. 202-210, ISBN 978-973-737-230-7. The Inn as Digressive Topography in the Early Modern Novel Archi-tecture/Texture, in Caiet de Semiotică, no. 17/2006, Mirela Borchin, Nadia Obrocea, eds., University of the West Press, Timişoara, pp. 33-37, ISSN 1012-1471. Towards a Denaturalisation of Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity and Its Methodological Tools, in Trasee conceptuale, Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, eds., University of Bucharest Press, 2008, pp. 73-83, ISBN 978-973-737-447-9. The Power of a Hero, the Purpose of a Trope: Henry Fielding s Don Quixote in England, or Don Quixote on the English Stage, in O cartografie identitară: studii de caz, Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, eds., University of Bucharest Press, 2009, pp. 222-230, ISBN 978-973-737-688-6. An Eighteenth-Century Sense of Popular Political Identity: John Wilkes and the Crowd Spirit, in Constructions of Identity (V), Rareş Moldovan, Petronia Petrar, eds., Cluj-Napoca: Napoca Star, 2009, pp. 171-176, ISBN: 978-973-647-670-9. Crisis-Consciousness and the Novel: Don Quixote to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel, in Imitatio-Inventio: The Rise of Literature from Early to Classic Modernity, Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, eds., The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2010, pp. 275-283, ISBN 978-973-577-612-1. Sentimental Quixotism vs. Mandevillian Economics in Sarah Fielding s Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, in Études sue le XVIIIe siècle, Coman Lupu, Andreea Vlădescu, eds., University of Bucharest Press, 2013, pp. 69-83, ISBN 978-606-16-0239-1.
CO-EDITED VOLUMES Mihaela Irimia, Mihaela Voicu, Luminiţa Diaconu, Dragoş Ivana, Modele şi metamorfoze intra- şi interculturale, University of Bucharest Press, 2006, 390 p., ISBN 978-973-737-230-7. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Literary into Cultural History/De l histoire littèraire à l histoire culturelle, Bucharest: The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2007, 262 p., ISBN 978-973-577-593-3. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Trasee conceptuale, University of Bucharest Press, 2008, 253 p., ISBN 978-973-737-447-9. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, O cartografie identitară: studii de caz, University of Bucharest Press, 2009, 504 p., ISBN 978-973-737-688-6. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Centralitate si marginalitate, University of Bucharest Press, 2008, 226 p., ISBN 978-973-737-699-2. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Odisei (III): Întoarcerea acasă, University of Bucharest Press, 2009, 380 p., ISBN 978-973-737-447-9. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Imitatio Inventio: The Rise of Literature from Early to Classic Modernity, Bucharest: The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2010, 423 p., ISBN 978-973-577-612-1. Mihaela Irimia, Dragoş Ivana, Author(ity) and the Canon between Institutionalization and Questioning: Literature from High to Late Modernity, Bucharest: The Romanian Cultural Institute Press, 2011, 256 p., ISBN 978-973-577-631-2.