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Maria-Ana Tupan
Born (1949-04-19) April 19, 1949 (age 75)
Sărulești, Buzău, Romanian People's Republic
Occupationliterary criticism, essays, History of British literature, Literary theory
LanguageRomanian, English
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Period1990 – present

Maria-Ana Tupan (born April 19, 1949)[1] is a Romanian university professor, literary critic, and translator. She is a member of the "Criticism and Literary History" section of the Writers' Union of Romania and several international scientific societies. Tupan is also a PhD Supervisor at the Doctoral School of 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia.[2]

Life and work

She was born in Sărulești, Buzău County, Romania, to an Orthodox priest. After graduating from high school in Buzău in 1967, she studied English and German at the Languages Department of the University of Bucharest, where she graduated in 1972 as a valedictorian.[3] Barred from doctoral studies by the communist regime, she got her PhD degree in 1992, shortly after the 1989 fall of communism, under the supervision of Leon Levițchi and Alexandru Duțu [ro].[4] She was promoted from professor‘s assistant to full professor at the University of Bucharest (1991–2002). In 2014 she completed her habilitation thesis confirmed by the Ministry of Education[5] and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students and pursuing her career of academic writing.[6] In 1994–1995 she was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University as visiting professor under the Fulbright Scholars Program.[7][8] She has publications in the fields of literary history and theory, comparative literature, genre theory, and cultural studies. She presented papers at conferences in Athens, University Park (Penn State University), Madrid, Manchester, Salzburg, Vienna, Dresden, Graz, Rome, Cologne, and Dortmund.[9][10]

Literary activity

Her 17 books and a number of articles published in Europe, India, United States, and Australia are based on theoretical underpinnings falling within the fields of epistemology of literature, philosophy of culture, literary history and theory.[11][12]

Selected works

  • A Survey Course in British Literature București: Editura Universității din București, 1997 ISBN 973-575-835-0
  • British Literature. An Overview (București: Editura Universității din București, 2005) ISBN 973-737-086-4
  • The New Literary History (București: Editura Universității din București, 2006) ISBN 978-973-737-205-5
  • Genre and Postmodernism (București: Editura Universitatii din București, 2008) ISBN 978-973-737-572-8
  • Modernismul si psihologia. Încercare de epistemologie literara. Modernism and Psychology. An Inquiry into the Epistemology of Literary Modernism (București: Editura Academiei Române, 2009) ISBN 978-973-27-1826-1
  • Literary Discourses of the New Physics. With an Introduction by Marin Cilea (București: Editura Universității din București, 2010) ISBN 978-973-737-787-6
  • Teoria și practica literaturii la inceput de mileniu. (București: Editura Contemporanul, 2011) ISBN 978-606-92683-0-8
  • Postmodernist Energetics: Peter Ackroyd's Museum Spac (The Museal Turn. Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Winter Verlag. Heidelberg University Press, 2012)ISBN 978-3-8253-6097-9
  • Relativism/ Relativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) ISBN 978-1-4438-4744-5
  • Realismul magic. Încercare genealogică. București (Editura Academiei, 2013) ISBN 978-973-27-2393-7
  • ”The Zone: Ontological or Epistemological Operator?” (Eds. Christine Lötscher, Petra Schrackmann, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Aleta-Amirée von Holzen, Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic. Reihe: Fantastikforschung / Research in the Fantastic. Berlin-Munster-Wien-Zurich-London: LIT Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-643-80185-2
  • The Kantian Legacy. Essays in Epistemology and Aesthetics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4438-9750-1
  • “Early Modern Essays: the Harmonics of the Discourse of Authority” in The Essays: Forms and Transformations. Ed. Dorothea Flothow, Markus Oppolzer, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8253-6687-2
  • “The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes: The Mirror and the Signet. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2020) ISBN 978-1-5275-9948-2
  • "Special Issue on Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature". Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Special Issue. 15 (5). 2023.
  • Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2023) ISBN 978-1-5275-0492-9
  • "Debasish Lahiri’s Transgressive Ontologies". London Journal of Humanities and Social Science. Volume 24 . Issue 7,.24.05. 2024.

Affiliations

  • member of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Section of Criticism and Literary History (from 1996)
  • member of the "Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung" (The Association for Research in the Fantastic)[13]
  • member of EFACIS (The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies)
  • member of ISTW (International Societry for Travel Writing)
  • member of The Charles Brockden Brown Society[14]

Literary prizes

  • Romanian Writers' Union Award for Translation and World Literature, 1996.[15]
  • Convorbiri Literare Magazine Award for Anglistics, 2000.[16]
  • National Award for Excellence in Theory, History and Literary Criticism awarded by Contemporanul magazine, 2019.[17]

References

  1. ^ Biography of Maria Ana-Tupan in Fantastica magazine
  2. ^ "Conducători de doctorat – Domeniul Filologie". www.uab.ro (in Romanian). 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
  3. ^ Biography of Maria Ana-Tupan in Fantastica magazine
  4. ^ Biography of Maria Ana-Tupan in Fantastica magazine
  5. ^ http://www.cnatdcu.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/LISTA-PERSOANELOR-CARE-AU-OB%C8%9AINUT-ABILITAREA_febr_2016.pdf
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ Fulbright Scholar program
  8. ^ The biography of the critic Maria-Ana Tupan, in the General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, 2016–2021, p. 299
  9. ^ content, „INCURSIUNI ÎN IMAGINAR”, annual magazine of the Speculum Imaginary Research Center (CCI Speculum) from the "1 Decembrie 1918" University in Alba Iulia, Romania, ISSN: 2501–2169
  10. ^ „INCURSIUNI ÎN IMAGINAR”, ISSN: 2501–2169, cover and Title
  11. ^ Selected works
  12. ^ Selected works
  13. ^ "The full program of the 2nd GFF Annual Conference — Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung E. V".
  14. ^ Maria-Ana Tupan, member of EFACIS, ISIW, The Charles Brockden Brown Society, member of the Writers' Union of Romania
  15. ^ Luceafărul, nr.6/1997, page 2
  16. ^ Sasu, Aurel (2007), Biographical Dictionary of Romanian Literature (M-Z). Volume II (in Romanian), Paralela 45, p. 738
  17. ^ Roșu, Ionela (November 2, 2019). "Anul Cărții. Gala Premiilor Contemporanul 2019". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved May 3, 2024.
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