Papers Presented at International Conferences

CORINA CRISU

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name

/ Crisu (née Anghel)
First Names / Corina Ana
E-mail / e-mail:

Posts Held

/ Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages, The University of Bucharest (October 1998–present)
Education / Ph.D. in Philology (American Studies), The University of Bucharest (December 2005).
Master of Arts in Literatures in English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, The University of Bucharest (September 1997).
Bachelor of Arts in Philology, Faculty of Foreign Languages, The University of Bucharest: Double Major in English and Romanian (June 1996).
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest: Major in Philosophy of Culture (June 1998).

International Awards

/ Junior Fulbright Award, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA (October 2001-July 2002).
Open Society InstituteAward (Soros Foundation Award), University of Oxford, UK (October 2000-July 2001).
International Women’s University ( Ifu) Award, Project Area: Migration, University of Hannover, Germany (15 July-15 October 2000).
List of Publications
Book / Rewriting: Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel. Bucharest: Paideia, 2006.
Articles in Books / “Inter-War Variations: Urbanism as a Way of Life in Christian Haller’sSwallowed Music.”(forthcoming)Outline of the Modern City: Images, Formats, Styles. Eds. Mariana Net, Sorin Alexandrescu, and Asunción López-Valera.Amsterdam and New York:Rodopi, 2011 (15 pp.).
“British Geographies in the Eastern European Mind: Rose Tremain’sThe Road Home.”Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture. Eds. Barbara Korte, Ulrike Pirker, and Sissy Helff.Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010. 365-79.
“Bosnian Ways of Being American: Aleksandar Hemon’sNowhere Man.”When the World Turned Upside-Down: Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe.European Journal of English Studies (EJES). Ed. Kathleen Stark. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 24-35.
“Crossing Territorial and Biographical Boundaries: Eva Hoffman’sLost in Translationand Irina Pană’sMelbourne Sundays.”Women’s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Ed. Sabina Draga Alexandru. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2006. 117-32.
“Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West: Marilynne Robinson’sHousekeeping.”Selected Proceedingsof the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association. Eds. Theo D’Haen, Paul Giles, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 415-440.
“‘A Plunge into the Abyss:’ Textual Authority in Harriet Jacobs’sIncidents.”Our America: People, Places, Times. Eds.Rodica Mihăilă and Irina Pană. Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2005.220-232.
“Eva Hoffman’s Translated Identity.”East-West American Studies Conference: Communism, Capitalism, and the Politics of Culture.Center for North American Studies. GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt am Main, 2004. 203-16.
“Eastern European Writers in Exile.” Central European University Reader, Budapest, 2000. 13-26.
“Margaret Atwood’s Versions of the Past.” Ecrits sur l’avantgarde. Bacau: Vinea, 2000. 65-67.
Articles in Refereed Journals / “Transgressing Eastern and Western Borders: Domnica Radulescu’sTrain to Trieste.”(forthcoming)Women: A Cultural Review EJES. Routledge, 2011 (15 pp.).
“Cultural and Theoretical Contexts: Rewriting, Revision, and Black Postmodernism.”(forthcoming)Euresis, University of Bucharest Press, 2011 (12 pp.).
“Stowe and Brown Revisited: Fiction-Made Characters in Ishmael Reed’sFlight to Canada.”ZAA58.2 (2010): 103-18.
“Transatlantic Forms of Lived Religion: Anthony Bukoski’sPolonaise.”The Glass21 (Spring 2009): 20-27.
“‘A Cultural Mongrel:’ Transatlantic Connections in Charles Johnson’sMiddlePassage.”Comparative American Studies. An International Journal6.3 (2008): 265-80.
“‘Tell Nannan I Walked:’ Reconstructing Manhood in Ernest J. Gaines’sA Lesson before Dying.”ZAA2 (2007): 155-172.
“‘Speak up, Ike, an ‘Spress Yo’se‘f:’ Sentimental Romance Revisited in Ntozake Shange’sBetsey Brown.”Americana –A HungarianE-Journal of American Studies.http://primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/american/americana/volIIno1.htm, 2.1 (Spring 2006).
“African American Postmodernism.”University of Bucharest Review: A Matter of Taste7.3 (2006): 145-51.
“‘The Quilt as Text, the Text as Quilt.” (Co-authorship with Jennifer MacArthur).AnaleleȘtiințifice ale Universității Ovidius. Constanţa, TOM XVII (2006): 25-39.
“From Stereotypical to Polytropic Black Identities: Excavating Literature and History.”The Journal of Semiotics16 (2005): 9-18.
“I’ve Always Been a Good Girl: (Re)Writing the Body-Text in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” University of Bucharest Review 6.4 (2004): 55-65.
“Trauma and Memory in the American West.” University of Bucharest Review: Sites of Memory 5.4 (2003): 168-80.
“Re-Visions of the Unspeakable: Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Revista Româno-Americană 7-8 (December 2003): 146-52.
“Racial Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Conference Proceedings, The National Conference on English and American Studies. University of Brasov, 2003. 9-18.
“Romanian Writers in Exile.” Genre, Long Beach, California, 23 (2002): 128-40.
“The Difficulty of Returning in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.” University of Bucharest Review (2002): 212-22.
“Emily Dickinson’s Voyages, against Eternity.” Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii Ovidius/Scientific Annals of Ovidius University, Philology Series, Vol. XII, Constanta: Ovidius University Press, 2001. 5–17.
“Polytropic Identities in Woolf’s The Years and Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest 3.12 (2001): 62-72.
“Imaginary Voyages: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” Journal of Indo-Canadian Studies, Kerala, India, (October 2001): 15-31.
“Emily Dickinson’s Seclusion.” Entre Lineas. Revista de Critica Literaria, Sevilla, 1 (June 2001): 44-49.
“Emily Dickinson: An Exile at Home.” Anglofiles Journal of English Teaching, The Danish Association of Teachers of English, Denmark, 120 (May 2001): 40-46.
Emily Dickinson’s Voyages toward Escape.” Studii de Limbi si Literaturi Moderne/Studies of Modern Languages and Literatures. Timisoara: Mirton, 2000. 244-47.
“Voyages and Places of Return in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Transatlantic Connections: Essays in Cultural Relocation. Eds. Rodica Mihăilă and Irina Pană. Bucharest: Integral Publishing House, 2000. 61-78.
“David Malouf’s and Michel Tournier’s Sub-Versions of Exile.” British and American Studies. Timisoara: Hestia, 2000. 9-13.
“Patrick White’s Voss – A Polytropic Hero.” University of Bucharest Review (1999): 123-33.
“(Post-)Modern Voyages in the Desert.” Kronstadter Beitrage Zur Germanistischen Forschung. Kronstadt: Aidus Verlag, 1999. 206-11.
“Emily Dickinson’s Second World: Metamorphoses of the Self.” Alternative Approaches to English Language Cultures in the Nineteenth Century. Kossuth University, Debrecen, 1999. 41-49.
Essays and Reviews in Non-Refereed Journals
and Annuals / “A Self-Portrait Book.” Apostrof 8 (2010): 20.
“Conjugating the Present in the Past.” Observator Cultural 450 (2008): 12.
“A Book, a Self-Portrait: Marina Cap-Bun’s Lecturi Critice.” Ex Ponto 1-2 (January-March 2004): 101-5.
“Under the Sign of Close Distance: Ioana Ieronim’s Poetry.” Steaua 1-2 (2004): 53-4.
“Corvallis.” To See the World as the Others See It: American and Romanian Alumni Share Their Fulbright Impressions. Eds. Liliana Ursu, Ioana Ieronim, and Archbishop Chrysostomos. Bucharest: Vremea, 2003, 19-21.
“Intimating Immensity: Reflections on America.” Revista Romano-Americana 5 (July 2002): 55-58.
“Oregon State University.” Revista Romano-Americana 4 (December 2001): 106-7.
“Polytropic Identities.” American Studies in Romania 2 (2001): 10.
“Eternal Return – Essay on Cornelia Pillat’s Memoir.” Contrapunct 5 (1997): 21.
Research Activity / ·  Main professional research and publication areas:
Main directions in the Twentieth-Century American and Comparative literature
Transatlantic perspectives and transnational identity constructions; the case of Eastern Europe in contemporary American fiction.
Contemporary cultural criticism: trauma studies, feminism, post-communist studies, post-colonial studies, translation studies.
·  Research in the field of American Studies:
Ph.D. thesis: Rewriting: Polytropic Identities in the Postmodern African American Novel (defended December 2005, published April 2006).
Articles, conference papers, reviews on American and comparative literature.
Joint Projects, Training Workshops and Summer Schools / Transnational Feminisms Project, University of Manchester, fully-funded participant, project: “Transgressing Eastern and Western Borders: Romanian American Identity in Recent American Fiction (4-6 December 2009).
US Embassy Award for Creative Writing Project, Embassy of the US, Bucharest (8 March 2005).
Elias Foundation Reasearch Scholarship, University of Leiden (May 2003).
American Values and Identity in a Time of National Trial, Fulbright Alumni Workshop, fully-funded participant in Fulbright Foreign Student Program, sponsored by the US Department of State, Los Angeles, USA (7-10 March 2002).
Regional Seminar on Gender and Culture: Women’s Writing and Literary History – sponsored by Open Society Institute and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (four sessions: 29-31 October 1999, 10-12 March 2000, 10-12 June 2000, and 10-12 October 2000); “Eastern European Writers in Exile” – talk on March 11, 2000.
Scottish Universities Summer School: “Text and Context: Literature in the 20th Century Britain,” sponsored by The Elias Foundations, Edinburgh, UK (2-20 August 1999).
British-Romanian Contemporary Writing Symposium, sponsored by the British Council, Oradea, Romania (22-25 April 1999).
English for Specific Purposes – Training Workshop, sponsored by the British Council, Bucharest, Romania (17-19 February 1999).
A Literary Project, sponsored by the British Council, Iasi, Romania (4-6 December 1998).
Literature for University: Summer School, joint academic project, sponsored by University of Iasi and University of Oxford Brooks, Iasi, Romania (14-25 September 1998).
Modernity and its Crises Summer School, Open Society InstituteAward, Tescani, Romania (15-31 August 1998).

Papers Presented at International Conferences

/ “Transgressing Racial Borders through Self-Sacrifice: Ernest Gaines’sA Lesson before Dying.”The Carnival of Death:Perceptions of Death in Europe and the AmericasConference, The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 24-26 February 2011.
“An Interstice of Silence: Narrating Rape in Oates’s “The Girl with the Blackened Eye” and Sebold’sThe Lovely Bones.”Trauma Narratives and HerstoryConference, University of Northampton, 12-13 November 2010.
“Postcolonialism and Postcommunism: Eastern European Writers with an American Accent.”Reading ConflictConference. The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 19 July 2010.
“Neither a Fully-Written Text, Nor a Blank Page: Eastern European London in Rose Tremain’sThe Road Home.”Literary LondonConference, The Institute of English Studies, University of London, 7-9 July 2010.
“Mediating between Cultures: Plurilingual Eastern European Writers in the USA”Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education: Focus on Languages of the Wider WorldConference. SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, London, 19-20 February 2010.
“Transgressing Eastern and Western Borders: Domnica Radulescu’sTrain to Trieste.”Transnational FeminismsConference, University of Manchester, 4-5 December 2009.
“Transatlantic Forms of Lived Religion: Anthony Bukoski’sPolonaise.”CLSGConference, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK, 8 November 2008.
“Bosnian Ways of Being American: Aleksandar Hemon’sNowhere Man.”British Association for American Studies (BAAS)53rdAnnual Conference, Edinburgh, 27-30 March 2008.
“Racial Presence/Visibility vs. Absence/Invisibility in Contemporary African American Fiction”The Idea of PresenceConference, University of Bucharest, Romania, 30 November-1 December 2007.
“Remembering Romania in Switzerland, France in Russia.”The Fifth International Congress on Romanian Studies. Constanta, Romania, 25-28 July 2007.
“Rewriting in the African American Postmodern Novel.”Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 31 May-2 June 2007.
“From Stereotypical to Polytropic Black Identities: Excavating Literature and History.”Legitimating Cultures, Cultures of Legitimacy- Conference, University of Bucharest, Romania, 23-25 November 2006.
“‘The Writer-Collector as Fetish-Breaker:’ Parodying Stereotypes in Ishmael Reed’sFlight to Canada.”The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)Conference, Institute of English Studies & University of London, UK, 29 August-2 September 2006.
“Rewriting, Revision, and Black Postmodernism.”Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2-4 June 2005.
“The Greatest of Fictions: Racial Rewriting in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” Postgraduate Conference The Politics and Aesthetics of Postcolonialism. University of Northampton, 9-10 April 2005.
“‘Show Me How to Do It:’ Textual Quilting in the African American Tradition.” (Co-authorship with Jennifer MacArthur). English Language and Literature Studies: Interfaces and Integrations Conference. University of Belgrade, Serbia, 10-12 December 2004.
“Sentimental Romance Revisited in Ntozake Shange’s Betsey Brown.” The Bulgarian-American Studies Association Conference, Varna, Bulgaria, 22-24 October 2004.
“I’ve Always Been a Good Girl: (Re)Writing the Body-Text in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 3-5 June 2004.
“Jacobs’s Garret: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The RAAS/Fulbright Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 5-6 February 2004.
“From East to West: Translating the Writer’s Identity.” East-West American Studies Conference; Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture. Center for North American Research, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 26-29 June 2003.
“Trauma and Memory in the American West.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 5-7 June 2003.
“Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” International American Studies Association Conference: How Far Is America from Here? First World Congress, Leiden, The Netherlands, 22-24 May 2003.
“Racial Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Brasov, Romania, 20-21 March 2003.
“Polytropy and Deconstruction.” Postmodern De/Constructions Conference, University of Erlangen, Germany, 22-24 November 2002.
“Kurt Vonnegut’s Return in Slaughterhouse-Five.” American Studies Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2-3 May 2002.
“‘Claiming Ownership of That Freed Self:’ Remembering the Unspeakable in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, USA, 26-27 April 2002.
“Crossing Territorial and Biographical Boundaries in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation and Irina Pana’s Melbourne Sundays.” Graduate Student Conference. Oregon State University, USA, 10 April 2002.
"Polytropic Identities in Woolf’s The Years and Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Conference on Virginia Woolf: Voyages Out, Voyages Home, University of Bangor, Wales, 13-16 June 2001.
“(De/Re)Constructing Concepts.” The 16th Oxford Conference on Teaching Literature Overseas: Firing the Canon, Oxford, 1-7 April 2001.
“Women Invested with Power in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Helsinki, 25-29 August 2000.
“Emily Dickinson’s Voyages and Places of Return.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1-3 June 2000.
“Dickinson’s Imaginary Travels in Search for Escape.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Timisoara, Romania, 18-20 May 2000.
“Emily Dickinson’s Voyages by Sea, against Eternity.” Annual Conference, University of Constanta, Romania, 14-17 March 2000.
“The Polytropic Narrator in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos.” The RAAS/Fulbright Conference, The Romanian-American Dialogue: Theory and Practice, Bucharest, Romania, 10-11 February 2000.
“Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Bucharest, Romania, 4-5 June 1999.
“David Malouf’s and Michel Tournier’s Sub-versions of Exile.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Timisoara, Romania, 20-22 May 1999.
“Emily Dickinson’s Second World: Metamorphoses of the Self.” Annual Conference of the Department of English, Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, 4-5 September 1998.