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FULL NAME: IULIAN MIHAIL “CANANAU”

DATE OF BIRTH:May 29, 1975

CITY OF BIRTH:Piatra Neamt, NeamtCounty

COUNTRY OF BIRTH:Romania

COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:Romania

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CURRENT POSITION AND TITLE

Lecturer, English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION

English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 7-13 Pitar Mos St., sector 1, Bucharest.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1997-1999Instructor – undergraduate seminars in Composition, American literature, and American civilization – English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest.

1999-2004Teaching assistant at the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest; teaching load:

–undergraduate seminars in composition and American literature,

–survey courses: American literature (19th and 20th centuries) and American civilization.

University of Bucharest – teaching load:

-undergraduate seminars in American literature and civilization

-American Studies undergraduate program seminars (American Life and Institutions)

2000-2006Trainer with the Center for Independent Journalism in Bucharest, teaching

English and Romanian grammar as part of the Journalism Training Program for the Young Ethnic Roma.

2004-presentLecturer at the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest; teaching load:

- undergraduate survey courses in American civilization, American constitutionalism

EDUCATION

2001admitted to the University of Bucharest Ph.D. program in American Literature (PhD director Professor Rodica Mihaila); title of PhD project “Representations of Americanness in 19th Century American Literature. A Critique of the Multicultural Canon”.

1998MA in American Studies – University of Bucharest (MA thesis: “Postmodern Political Culture”).

1997BA in English and French – University of Bucharest (title of BA graduation paper: “Isolationism and Internationalism in American Foreign Policy”).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Romanian Association for American Studies

European Association for American Studies

Romanian Society of English and American Studies

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Books:

O istorie documentara a SUA (A Documentary History of the United States), Pitesti: Editura Agatha, 2003

Articles:

“American Political Culture and Its ‘New War’” in America in/from Romania. Essays in Cultural Dialogue, edited by Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu Pana, Bucharest: Univers encyclopedic, 2003.

“The Idea of Citizenship”, in ZENAF Conference Proceedings, Volume 4/2004. Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture, edited byChrista Buschendorf, published by Zentrum fur Nordamerika-Forschung (ZENAF), Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s Cold War Politics of Racial Equality and ‘Good Citizenship’: Remembering the Decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)” in Our America: People, Places, Times. A Collection of Essays, edited by Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu Pana, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, 2005.

“Representations of Citizenship in Antebellum African American Writing”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. VIII, no. 4, 2006

“On Some Positivities of Americanness”. Old/New Worlds. Spaces of Transition. Ed. Rodica Mihaila si Irina Pana. Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007.

“Despre motivaţia de a traduce (şi) literatură”. Noua literatură 11, November-December 2007.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2002:

- “American Political Culture and Its New War” The Biennial RAAS-Fulbright Conference America in/from Romania, Univesity of Bucharest, February 2002

- “Postmodern Political Culture. A Comparative Approach”. “Spiru Haret” Univesity Conference, March 2002

2003:

- “The Idea of Citizenship: American and Romanian Approaches”, East-West American Studies Conference: Communism, Capitalism, and the Politics of Culture, J. W. Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt-am-Main, June 2003

2004:

- “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Cold War Politics of Racial Equality and ‘Good Citizenship’: Remembering the Decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)”, The Biennial RAAS-Fulbright Conference: Our America: People, Places, Times, Univesity of Bucharest, February 2004.

- “Redefining National Literatures. Two Modes of Reaction to the Courtly Muses of Europe”, The EAAS Biennial Conference; America in the Course of Human Events. Presentations and Interpretations, Prague, April 2004.

- “Executive Privilege, Secrecy. and Judicial Review in United States v. Nixon (1974)”, The Secret and the Known – The English Department’s International Conference, University of Bucharest, June 2004

2005:

- “Democratic Taste and Mid-Nineteenth Century American Literature”, A Matter of Taste – The English Department’s International Conference, University of Bucharest, June 2005.

2006:

- “On Some Positivities of Americanness”, the Biennial RAAS-Fulbright Conference Old Worlds, New Worlds, Spaces of Transition, University of Bucharest, February 2006.

- “The Americanness of the Multicultural Canon”, the EAAS Biennial Conference, Conformism, Non-Conformism, and Anti-Coformism in the Culture of the United States, Nicosia, Cyprus April 7-10, 2006.

- “Representationsof U.S. Citizenship in Pre-Civil War African American Writing”, Modernity: the Crisis of Value and Judgment, - The English Department’s International Conference, University of Bucharest, June 2006.

2007:

- “Theories of Multiculturalism and the Revision of the Nineteenth-Century Literary Canon”, Alterity and Identity. Geographies of the Mind - The English Department’s International Conference, University of Bucharest, June 2007.

2009:

- ”Keynote Address: Poe, Lincoln, and the Making of American Identity”, Celebrating American Bicentennials of 2009: Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe. The Annual Students’ Conference hosted by the AmericanCulturalCenter of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest.

- ”Organons of Temporality: Literary History and the History of Concepts”. Durability and Transience. Cultural Borders of Temporality - The English Department’s International Conference, University of Bucharest, June 2009.

- “Constructions of Americanness in Ralph Ellison’s Autobiographical Essay ‘The Little Man at Chehaw Station’” Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars – The English Department’s International Conference, ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, September 2009.

TRANSLATIONS

  • Miezul nopții în grădina binelui și a răului (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) by John Berendt. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2007.
  • Reconstructive Microsurgery. A New Conception. By Doina Dumitrescu-Ionescu. Translated from Romanian by Iulian Cananau and Rodica Mihaila.
  • The Balkans: Coming Out of the Past. Cornel Codita, gen.ed. Translated from Romanian by Iulian Cananau and Antonia Scurtulescu. Bucharest: Coresi, 2000.
  • English translations of books and monographs based on historical research by the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism (INST) of the Romanian Academy (between 2001 and 2005).

GRANTS

  • 2007-2008 Junior Fulbright Award at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.