Ioana Luca
Dr. Ioana Luca
Education
PhD. in English Philology, University of Bucharest, March 2008.
PhD. dissertation: The Autobiography of Displacement in Contemporary American Literature
M.A.inAmerican Studies, University of Bucharest, June 1997.
M.A.dissertation: Narratives in Culture. A Comparative Study of Postmodernism in the US and Romania: Kurt Vonnegut and Mircea Nedelciu
B.A. in English (major) and Portuguese (minor), University of Bucharest, June 1996.
B.A. dissertation: Ihab Hassan, The Pilgrimage of Criticism
Work Experience
2003–present: Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
1999–2005: Assistant Professor,MediaUniversity, School of Journalism,Bucharest
1999–2003: Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
1996–1999: Instructorof English and American Studies, Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
Courses taught
Lectures
Early US History and Culture (from the Colonial Period to 1900), survey 2nd year students (1998–2003).
Introduction to American Civilization (from the Colonial Period to the Present), survey 2ndyear students (2003–present).
Introduction to American Studies,survey 1st year students (1999–present).
Readings in Early America, 4th year Translators and Interpreters (2001–2006).
US Culture in the 20th century, 4th year Translators and Interpreters (2001–2006).
American Cultural Studies, survey 4th year Translators and Interpreters(2006–2007).
US History and Culture from the Colonial Period to the Present, survey 1st year Translators and Interpreters (2008–present).
US Cultures in the Era of Globalization, elective 4th year students(2002–2004).
US Cultures in Transnational Perspectives, elective 3rd year students (2007-present).
Life Writing in Transnational Encounters, MA students (2008–present).
US Cultures between Past and Present, MA students Translators and Interpreters (Spring 2009).
Media Culture, elective 4th year students (2003–2004).
History of American Media, elective 4th year students, MediaUniversity(2001–2005).
Media and Popular Culture, elective 4th year students, MediaUniversity(2002–2005).
Seminars
19th and 20th century American literature, British civilization, American civilization, American History, 20th century British literature, literary theory, American Studies.
English language classes
EFL: upper-intermediate and advanced English language courses for both major and non-major students, as well as for students specializing in translation and interpretation. English language classes elementaryto upper intermediate(2001–2009).
ESP: English for Journalists, 1st, 2nd, 3rd year students, MediaUniversity (1999–2005). Business, Legal, Finance and Management English(2001-2009).
Publications
Articles in refereed journals
“Post-Communist Life Writing and the Discourses of History: Vesna Goldsworthy’s Chernobyl Strawberries,” Rethinking History.Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 2009): 83–97.
“Edward Said’s Lieux de Memoire:Out of Place and the Politics of Autobiography,” Social Text 24.2 (Summer 2006): 125-144.
“American Studies in Romania,” European Journal of American StudiesEJAS Jan. 2006.
“Nabokov and the Poetics of Memory in Speak Memory!” University of Bucharest Review, vol. V, no. 4, 2003.
“Ihab Hassan and Edward Said – Autobiography and the Critical Discourse,” Analele Universităţii Bucureşti, Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii Bucureşti, 2003, 75-89.
“Orientalism, Autobiographical Mode: Said’s Out of Place. A Memoir,” Orientalism and Occidentalism, University of Bucharest Review, vol. IV, no. 3-4, 2002, 53-65.
“Vonnegut’s Crusade in Contemporary America,” University of Bucharest Review - Working Papers, vol.1, no. 3, 1999, 135-144.
“The Postmodern Critic, Mirrors of the Self,” University of Bucharest Review - Working Papers, vol.1, no. 4, 1999, 31-40.
Chapters in Books
“Between Two Worlds: Andrei Codrescu’s The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution,” Auto/Biography and Mediation,ed. Alfred Hornung, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, 271-286.
“In and Out: Andrei Codrescu and the Journey of a Romanian Exile,” Nation and Formation: Inclusion and Exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Christopher J. Gerry et. al.London: UCL Press, 2007, 117-137.
“Antigua Crossings: Reconfigurations of Displacement,” New/Old Worlds: Spaces of Transition, eds. Rodica Mihăila et. al.Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007, 435-451.
“Mediating Autobiography and Criticism: Ihab Hassan and Edward Said,” Ethnic Life Writing and Histories: Genres, Performance and Culture, eds. Rocio G. Davis et. al.Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2007, 222-240.
“Memory and the Politics of Edward Said’s Memoir,” America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations, eds. Josef Jařab et. al. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006, 71-87.
“Ethnic America: Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographical Inscriptions,” Our America: People, Places, Times, eds. Rodica Mihăila et. al.Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2005, 264-282.
“Between East and West: Andrei Codrescu’s History of Return and Revolution,” Tradition, Modernity and Postmodernity.Iaşi: Universitas XXI, 2005, 590-602.
“Balkanism or Travelling East with Eva Hoffman and Slavenka Drakulić,” -ISMs and –Nessess. Constanţa:OvidiusUniversity Press, 2004, 106-122.
“The Politics of Autobiography: Edward Said, Out of Place,” America in/from Romania, Essays in Cultural Dialogue, eds. Rodica Mihăila et. al. Bucharest:Univers Enciclopedic, 2003, 255-269.
Conference Papers
“Budapest Diary: Susan Rubin Suleiman or the 1.5 Generation,”Academic Autobiography, Intellectual History, and Cultural Memory in the 20th Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Navarra, Pamplona, March 2009.
“Revisiting Home or Marketing the Post-Communist Exotic? Eastern European Itineraries with Eva Hoffman and Slavenka Drakulić,” RAAS-Fulbright Conference, The Sense of America: Histories into Text, University of Bucharest, May 2008.
“Andrei Codrescu: An Involuntary Genius in America’s Shoes,” EAAS Biennial Conference“E Pluribus unum” or “E pluribus plura”? Oslo, May 2008.
“The Romanian Immigrant Turned American Transnational: Andrei Codrescu or Transatlantic Translations,” 3rdIASA World Congress, Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation,University of Lisbon, September 2007.
“American Studies from Post-Communism to the E.U.—A Romanian Perspective,” Transnational American Studies Symposium, UCD Clinton Institute, Dublin, July 2007.
“Andrei Codrescu: An Involuntary Genius in America’s Shoes,” Fifth International Congress on Romanian Studies,Constanţa, June 2007.
“Between Two Worlds:Andrei Codrescu’s The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution,” IABA Conference, Auto/Biography and Mediation,University of Mainz, Germany, July 2006.
“Confessions of the Critics: Ihab Hassan and Edward Said,” MESEA Conference, Ethnic Life Writing and Histories,University of Navarra, Pamplona, May 2006.
“In and Out: Andrei Codrescu and the Journey of a Romanian Exile,” Inclusion and Exclusion, UC London, February 2006.
“Speaking Truth to Power, Edward Said's Memoir,” Intellectuals and the Nation State, Clinton Institute for American Studies, UniversityCollegeDublin, November 2005.
Translations from English
Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, A Social History of the Mass Media [O Istorie Sociala a Mass Mediei, de la Gutenberg la Internet].Co-translation. Bucharest: Polirom Publishing House, 2005, 340 pp.
Pierre Restany, Hundertwasser.TaschenEdition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2004, 100 pp.
August Sarnitz, Loos. Taschen Edition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2004, 95 pp.
Maria Antonietta Crippa.Gaudi, Taschen Edition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print 2004, 126 pp.
Martin Steffens, Schinkel. Taschen Edition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2004, 100 pp.
Ingo F. Walther, Pablo Picasso.Taschen Edition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2003, 96 pp.
Gilles Neret, Michelangelo. Taschen Edition,Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2003, 96 pp.
Translations into English
Romania. CD-rom, Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2004.
Augustin Ioan, The Saxon Fortified Churches of Transilvania.Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2004, 95pp.
Adrian Silvan Ionescu, Preziosi in Romania.Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2003, 120 pp.
Romania at 1900. CD-rom, Bucharest: Noi Media Print, 2000.
Gh. Doca, Acquisition Grammar of Romanian, Romanian a Foreign Language.[Co-translator].Bucharest: Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1995.
Fellowships and Grants
2007-2008 Member of the UEFISCSU national grant for the project entitled “The Romanian Cultural Space in Transatlantic Perspective: From Post-Communism to Post-accession” (PNII ID 1000/2007).
July 2007, Clinton Institute for American Studies, Summer School Grant, UC Dublin, Ireland.
2005-2006, OSI/Chevening Grant, Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, Linacre College, UK.
2000-2001, Fulbright Scholar, Michigan State University, USA.
September 1999, USIA Grant, International Seminar “Nation and Nationhood,” Pulawy, Poland.
June–August 1999, USIA Grant, Summer Institute on Contemporary Literature, University of Louisville, USA.
November 1997–May 1998, postgraduate studies Portuguese Language and Culture, Instituto Camoes Grant, Lisbon, Portugal.
July 1994, Instituto Camoes Scholarship, Portuguese Language and Culture Summer School, Lisbon, Portugal.
Membership in Scholarly Associations
Member of RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies).
Member of EAAS (The European Association for American Studies).
Member of IASA (International American Studies Association).
Member of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas).
Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English).
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