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Charles I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British
Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author
of Romantic Organicism:
From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003) and co-editor of
Postcolonial Dislocations:
Travel, History and the Ironies of Narrative (Novus, 2006).
In addition to being a regular book reviewer in various journals
and Norwegian newspapers, he has also published articles on
authors such as Derrida, de Man, Nancy, Spivak, Kant,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Hopkins, Tennyson, Yeats, Woolf,
Beckett, Heaney, and Muldoon, as well as the Norwegian authors
Obstfelder, Einan, and Jansson. A board member of the Nordic
Irish Studies Network and the Norwegian Study Centre in York, he
has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and
the Irish Studies Centre at the National University of Ireland,
Galway. In 2005, he was among the lecturers at the W. B. Yeats
International Summer School. His main research interests are in
modern literary theory, Irish Studies, and British poetry from
Wordsworth to the present, and his most recent projects have
addressed the connection between poetry and memory and the
question of identity in the writings of W. B. Yeats.
Dumitra BARON is
Lecturer at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu. She earned her Ph.D. in
comparative literature in December 2006 when she defended her
doctoral thesis on The
Anglo-American Intertextual Materials in Emil Cioran’s Work,
at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. She has pursued
post-graduate studies (October 2003-March 2004) and trainee
research at the Research Center CTEL of the University of Nice.
Her research has been conducted at Jacques Doucet Library
(collection of Cioran's manuscripts) in Paris and at the
Documentary Center Marguerite Yourcenar in Clermont-Ferrand
(March 2004). She has been guest lecturer at the Faculty of
Letters, Arts and Human Sciences of the University of Nice,
Department of Modern Languages (teaching a course in comparative
literature on “Writing the Decomposition: Cioran, Beckett,
Fitzgerald”) (October 2005-January 2006) and has participated in
national and international conferences with papers on Cioran,
Beckett and Yourcenar, publishing numerous articles and studies
on Cioran in various national and international reviews. Her
research interests include: French literature of the 20th
century, French-writing authors (Cioran, Beckett, Ionesco),
intertextuality and intermediality, French civilization and
mentalities.
Peter BARRY is Professor of English at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is reviews and poetry
editor for English (the journal of the English
Association), an Advisory Member of the Association’s Executive
Committee, and a Fellow of the English Association. He is series
co-editor for the ‘Beginnings’ series of Manchester University
Press, and author of Beginning Theory (Manchester
University Press, 1st edition 1995, 2nd
edition 2002), which has a current sale of over 100,000, plus
Korean and Hebrew translations and a South Asian edition. His
other books include Contemporary British Poetry and the City
(Manchester University Press, 2000), English in Practice
(Edward Arnold/ Oxford University Press, New York, 2003),
Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls
Court (Salt, Cambridge, 2006), with a Foreword by Andrew
Motion, and Literature in Contexts (Manchester University
Press, 2007). As of 2005, Peter Barry
is a subject specialist and consultant for ABC journal.
Caroline BENNETT is Senior Lecturer in the
English Department at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
where she teaches on a wide range of courses. Her PhD,
The Politics and Poetics
of Latin American Magical Realism, was awarded by
Goldsmith’s College, University of London. She is currently
working with Sebastian Groes, editing a collection of critical
essays on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels, and is contributing a chapter
on representations of childhood in Ishiguro’s early works.
Joanne BISHTON holds a BA (Hons) from
the University of Derby, an MRes from the University of
Nottingham (2008), and is currently embarking on a PhD at the
University of Derby. Her research area is the dissident lesbian
voice of the twentieth/ twenty-first century.
Robert CARVER was born in the UK and brought up
in Cyprus, Turkey and India. Educated at the Scuola Medici,
Florence, and Durham University, where he read Oriental Studies
and Politics, he taught English in a maximum security gaol in
Australia and worked as a BBC World Service reporter and arts
broadcaster in Eastern Europe and the Levant. Four of his plays
have been broadcast by the BBC. He has written for the
Sunday Times,
Observer,
Daily Telegraph, TLS, New Statesman, and other major
London papers
for the last fifteen years. He is the
author of The
Accursed Mountains:
Journey in Albania (Flamingo 1999)
and
Paradise with Serpents:
Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay (HarperCollins
2007) as well as a book of poetry. He also edited a book of
essays.
The Accursed Mountains:
Journey in Albania was shortlisted
for the Thomas Cook Travel Award in 1999.
Ana-Blanca CIOCOI-POP has been a teaching
assistant with the Department of British and American Studies at
Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, since 2005, running seminars in
19th- and 20th-century British and
American Literature, the Beginnings of American Literature,
Victorian Poetry and International Relations and Institutions,
as well as practical courses in Text Interpretation and English
as a Foreign Language courses with students of Drama and Acting.
Her area of interest consequently ranges from 19th
century, modern and postmodern British and American Literature,
to Comparative and Global Politics.
Ms. Ciocoi-Pop has been a Ph.D. candidate of LBUS since October
2005, her area of research and investigation being “Constructive
Scepticism as Evinced in the Works of Franz Kafka, William
Golding and Jeffrey Eugenides,” and she has published
extensively in this field. Ms. Ciocoi-Pop is also the author of
three volumes published at LBUS Press: Zwischen Weltschmerz
und Lebensbejahung: Elemente der judischen Mentalitat in Franz
Kafkas Kurzprosa (2005), Identity as Obsession and the
Legacy of the Past in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Major Novels
(2005), and Notes on 19th Century American
Literature (2007), and is currently at work on a volume of
lecture notes on Victorian Poetry.
Dorin COMŞA is Lecturer in the French
Department at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu. His teaching
expertise includes: the francophone culture, with a special
course and seminar in the French Canadian literature, narration
theories applied to French and Canadian contemporary novels,
French modern civilization, and debate workshops focusing on
contemporary social and political events linked to France and
the francophone countries. His research is centred primarily on
narratology (specifically on subjects such as self-writing,
autobiography and auto-fiction), francophone literatures and
cultural studies.
Maria-Teodora CREANGĂ is Teaching Assistant in
the Department of British and American Studies at Lucian Blaga
University, Sibiu. She holds an MA in Translation Studies (2001)
and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in philology at
Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca. She has been teaching
E.F.L. to various target groups as well as seminars in English
Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics. She has also
developed an interest in Semantics, Pragmatics and more recently
in Contrastive Linguistics and linguistic-based translation
theories.
Silvia FLOREA is
Associate Professor of Linguistics and American Literature in
the Department of British and American Studies, Lucian Blaga
University of Sibiu. She earned her Ph.D. from L.B.U.S.
with a thesis on the Poetics of Ezra Pound. Her teaching areas
are diverse, combining literary and linguistic-based
disciplines. Her main expertise is in
Sociolinguistic and the Pragmatics of Communication,
Contrastive Linguistics, Rhetoric and
Communication Strategies, Translation Studies and of late,
Cultural Anthropology and Higher Education issues. She is
the author of two books: Ways with Words (2001) and
Ezra Pound: His Poetic Universe of Ezra Pound and Its Reception
in Romanian Literature (2003) and multiple studies, as well
as a regular book reviewer for the international UNESCO-CEPES
publication
Higher Education in Europe. She has published
extensively in Romanian scholarly journals and participated in
numerous national and international conferences in Romania and
abroad. She was the recipient of a Governmental
Research Scholarship at the University
of Helsinki, Finland (1996) and a Senior Post-Doctoral Fulbright
Research Grant (2008) at Temple University, Pennsylvania, U.S.,
where she is currently conducting research on education.
Eric GILDER is University Professor and Fellow
of the C. Peter Magrath Centre at Lucian Blaga University
(Sibiu, Romania), holding a Ph.D. in Communication (rhetorical
emphasis) from The Ohio State University (USA). Before coming to
the University of Sibiu in 2000, he served as a Visiting
Lecturer with the Civic Education Project in Romania
(1992-1994), as an Associate Professor in the Faculties of
Sociology and Foreign Languages at the University of Bucharest
(1994-2000), and as a Visiting Lecturer (and then Professor) at
Kyonggi University in South Korea (1998-2000). In link with his
academic appointment, Dr. Gilder currently is an Appointed
Missionary of the Episcopal Church of the USA serving in the
Anglican Diocese in Europe. In these capacities, he is also a
periodic Visiting Professor to Cuttington University (Liberia,
West Africa) and as Book Reviews Editor of the international
UNESCO-CEPES publication, Higher Education in Europe.
Author of three books and multiple studies, he has published
extensively in Romanian, American and international journals and
books on topics of communication (rhetoric, mass media and
theory), cultural studies, and international higher educational
policy and practice. He is a member of the Society for Research
into Higher Education (UK), The World Association of Christian
Communication (Canada) and the World Futures Studies Federation
(USA).
Asbjørn GRØNSTAD is Professor of Visual Culture
in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies,
University of Bergen. His latest publications are
Transfigurations: Violence, Death and Masculinity in American
Cinema (Amsterdam University Press 2008) and Coverscaping:
The Art of the Album Cover, co-edited with Øyvind Vågnes
(forthcoming from Museum Tusculanum Press 2008).
Suman GUPTA teaches
contemporary literature and cultural history at the Open
University, London. He has held appointments at Nottingham
University and the University of Surrey Roehampton before
joining the Open University in 2000. He was the production
course team chair for A300:
Twentieth Century Literature:
Contexts and Debates, and is currently involved in
the production of A816, the New Literature MA, and the Level 3
course on Children’s Literature based in Education and Language
Studies. As Principal Coordinator of the
Globalization, Identity Politics and Social Conflict (GIPSC)
Project, he arranges and oversees
collaborations with institutions and colleagues in a range of
countries: India, Nigeria, China, Morocco, Iran, USA, Bulgaria,
and Romania. He is also Joint Director of the
Ferguson
Centre for African and Asian Studies of
the Open University Arts Faculty, and is coordinating
collaborative research projects in Nigeria and India.
Jim HICKS is Director of the American Studies
Diploma Program at Smith College, and a Lecturer in Comparative
Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is
also U.S. Project Director of the Educational Partnership
Program between Smith College and the University of Sarajevo. He
regularly teaches courses on literary theory, war stories, and
transnational readings of US culture. He received his Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. In
1999-2000, he was a Fulbright professor in the English
Department at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In
2005, Hicks participated in a National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute on “Rethinking America in Global
Perspective” at the Library of Congress. He has published work
in The Centennial Review,
The Minnesota Review, Postmodern Culture, Twentieth-Century
Literature, as well as scholarly journals in Italy, Estonia
and Turkey. His current research project is entitled “Lessons
from Sarajevo: The Use and Abuse of Compassion in Telling the
Story of War.”
David Brian HOWARD is Associate Professor of
Art History and Chair of the Division of Historical and Critical
Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has published numerous
articles and book chapters on the history and politics of
Modernism in the United States and Canada after World War II,
and, most recently, has published the article “From the Missile
Gap to the Culture Gap: Modernism in the Fallout from Sputnik,”
in Michael Ryan (ed.)
Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, 2008.
Alexandru Dragoş IVANA teaches Enlightenment
and Victorian literature and translation studies in the English
Department of the University of Bucharest. His main research
interests include cultural and literary theory, comparative
literature, the history of ideas, translation theory and
practice. He is now completing his Ph.D. dissertation on
Quixotism as political discourse and moral reform in the
eighteenth-century English novel. Dragoş Ivana has published
extensively in reputed Romanian cultural magazines and
participated in numerous conferences in Romania and abroad. He
is a founding member of the Centre of Excellence for the Study
of Cultural Identity within the Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures of the University of Bucharest and editor of two
recent volumes published by the University of Bucharest Press:
Intra- and Intercultural Models and Metamorphoses (2006)
and Trasee Conceptuale
(2008). In January 2006 he obtained a
Training Certificate
issued by the Directorate General for Interpretation with the
European Commission.
Jaroslav KUŠNÍR
is Associate Professor at the University of Prešov, Slovakia,
where he teaches such courses as American and British
literature, Australian short story, literary theory and
criticism. His research includes American postmodern and
contemporary fiction, Australian postmodern fiction, and the
critical reception of American, British and Australian
literature in Slovakia. He is the author of Poetika americkej
postmodernej prózy (Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme)
[Poetics of American Postmodern Fiction: Richard Brautigan and
Donald Barthelme] (Prešov, Slovakia: Impreso, 2001); American
Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and
Metafiction (Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem, 2005); and
Australian Literature in Contexts (Banská Bystrica,
Slovakia: Trian, 2003).
Adrian MATHEWS was born in London in 1957 and
is a graduate and former bye-fellow of Cambridge University. He
has lived in Paris and Touraine (central France) for many years.
He has published many short stories and poems and is a former
winner of the British National Poetry Competition. He is the
author of a work of literary criticism,
Romantics and Victorians
(1994), and three novels,
The Hat of Victor Noir (1996),
Vienna Blood (1999,
winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award), and
The Apothecary’s House (2005, shortlisted for the Ian Fleming “Best
Thriller of the Year” award). His novels have been translated
into many languages. He currently works part-time for the French
Prime Minister’s office as a teacher and translator, conducts a
weekly literature course, looks after his eleven-year-old
daughter and writes the rest of the time. He has just completed
a new novel, Trinity Says,
a contemporary tale set in upstate New York.
Clementina MIHĂILESCU is Lecturer in the
Department of British, American and Canadian Studies, Lucian
Blaga University, Sibiu. She received her Ph.D. from LBUS with a
dissertation on the novels of Iris Murdoch as seen from a
socio-psychological perspective. Her specialism is in stylistics
and literature. She has published significantly and presented
research and academic papers at numerous international
conferences in Romania.
Anca MUREŞANU graduated in 2001 from Lucian
Blaga University, Sibiu, the Faculty of Letters, History and
Arts with a major in English and Romanian. Between 2001 and
2003 she completed an MA in Translation Studies. In 2003 she
embarked upon an academic career with the Department of British
and American Studies (Faculty of Letters, History and Arts) as a
Teaching Assistant. Her main teaching domains are English for
Specific Purposes and ESP Writing. She also teaches practical
courses in translation. So far her research activity in the
humanities has materialized in the form of several articles on
“The Stylistics of the Parts of Speech in Ion Creanga’s
Memories of Childhood” and stylistic analyses of Faulkner
texts in Romanian translation, published in American, British
and Canadian Studies and East-West Cultural Passage.
Adriana NEAGU is Associate Professor of
Anglo-American Studies at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, The
Department of Applied Modern Languages. She is the author of
Sublimating the Postmodern
Discourse: toward a Post-Postmodern Fiction in the Writings of
Paul Auster and Peter Ackroyd (2001),
In the Future Perfect: the
Rise and Fall of Postmodernism (2001), and of numerous
critical and cultural theory articles. Dr Neagu has been the
recipient of several pre- and postdoctoral research awards.
Previous academic affiliations include an Andrew W. Mellon
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh and
visiting positions at Oxford University, the University of
Bergen, Tuebingen University, the University of London, and a
Leverhulme Research fellowship at the University of East Anglia.
Her teaching areas are diverse, combining literary and cultural
studies disciplines. Her main specialism is in comparative
cultural studies and translation theory and practice. At present
her research centres on the nation-translation nexus and the new
paradigms of cultural identity in the U.K. Since
1999, Dr Neagu has been
Advisory Editor and, since 2004,
Editor-in-Chief of American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic
Anglophone Society of Romania.
Rebecca NESVET is a playwright and Senior
Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of
Gloucestershire, and Literary Manager at Origin Theatre Company,
which produces contemporary European plays Off-Broadway in New
York. Recent stagings of her plays include The Shape Shifter
(Thorny Theater, Palm Springs, 2007), The Girl in the
Iron Mask (Babes With Blades, Chicago, 2007, The Georgetown
Theatre Co., 2008) and readings at the Sibiu International
Theatre Festival (Romania), Hampstead Theater (London), Public
Theater (New York), and Kennedy Center (Washington DC). Dramatic
writing awards include First Place in the Association for
Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Playworks, First Place in the
Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition. She earned her MFA
in Dramatic Writing at New York University, where she won a
Sloan Writing Grant and the Department Chair’s Award.
Dr. T. RAVICHANDRAN is presently Associate
Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh, India. He won the Gold Medal Prize for his Ph.D. work
on Fluidity of Identity in John Barth and Thomas Pynchon.
He has been presenting a number of papers in seminars and
conferences. Notable among his presentations are the recent ones
in Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA, and Kogakuin
University, Tokyo, Japan. So far, he has published some forty
research articles in national/ international journals and book
chapters on Postmodern American Literature, Postcolonial
Literature, Indian Writing in English, English Language
Teaching, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Language
Learning, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Ecocriticism, and
Cybercriticism. He has recently published a book on
Postmodern Identity.
Ana-Karina SCHNEIDER is Senior Lecturer at
Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, holding a Ph.D. in critical
theory and American literature from Lucian Blaga University
(2005), as well as a Diploma in American Studies from Smith
College, MA, USA (2004). Her teaching expertise covers primarily
English literature from the seventeenth century to modernism,
alongside literary criticism. She has published a book entitled
Critical Perspectives in the Late Twentieth Century. William
Faulkner: A Case Study, and a volume of lecture notes on the
history of Anglo-American literary criticism (Lucian Blaga UP,
2006), as well as an assortment of articles on William
Faulkner’s novelistic achievement and the author’s critical
reception in Romania. Her published work also includes articles
English novelists of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, but also on stereotypes, translation and reading
practices in the wake of the globalisation. Dr Schneider has
been Manuscript and Review Editor of American, British and
Canadian Studies since its inception in 1999, Treasurer of
the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania since 2005, Director
of the Department’s Reading Group since 2002, and a contributor
to the online Literary Encyclopedia
(https://www.litencyc.com) since 2007.
Stuart SILLARS, MA, PhD, FRSA is Professor of
English at the University of Bergen, and was previously a member
of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. He is
a Visiting Scholar of Wolfson College, Cambridge, has been a
Visiting Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington
D.C., the University of Washington, the University of Zagreb and
the University of New Delhi, and has lectured widely at
Universities in Europe and the United States. His main
publications are Art and
Survival in First World War Britain. London: Macmillan and
New York, St. Martin’s, 1987;
British Romantic Art and
the Second World War. London: Macmillan and New York: St
Martin’s, 1992;
Visualisation in English Popular Fiction. London and New
York: Routledge, 1995;
Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920.
London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s, 1999; and
Painting Shakespeare: The
Artist as Critic, 1720-1820. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. He has contributed articles
and reviews on interdisciplinary subjects to journals including
Victorian Poetry, Critical Quarterly, The British Journal for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Archiv, and
Performance Research
and several volumes of essays devoted to art and literature. He
is currently writing The
Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 for Cambridge University
Press, and recently received a major research grant from the
Norwegian Research Institute for a collaborative research
programme with Makerere University, Uganda on folklore and
drama. As of 2005, Professor Sillars
is a subject specialist and consultant for ABC journal.
David SIMMONS received his PhD in American
literature from the University of Central England in Birmingham
in 2006, and currently lectures in American Literary and
Cultural Studies at both Birmingham and Northampton
Universities. He has written on a wide range of issues relating
to popular twentieth century American Literature including the
Anglophile tendencies of H.P. Lovecraft (Symbiosis, 2007); 1960’s fictional reconfigurations of the cowboy
figure (Paperback
Westerns: A Collection of Critical Essays, 2008); and the
novels of Chuck Palahniuk (Chuck
Palahniuk: Beyond Fight Club, 2008). David has a forthcoming
book entitled The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut
for publication by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008.
Randall STEVENSON is Professor of Twentieth
Century Literature and Head of the English Literature Department
of the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of
The British Novel since the Thirties (1986);
Modernist Fiction (1992; revd. edn, 1998);
A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth Century Novel in Britain
(1993); and the
Oxford English Literary History, vol.12, 1960-2000: The Last of
England? (2004), as well as many articles and book
chapters on modernist and postmodernist fiction. He edited
The Scottish Novel since the Seventies (1992) and
Scottish Theatre since the Seventies (1996), both
with Gavin Wallace;
Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama: an Anthology
(2001), with Cairns Craig; and
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in
English (2006), with Brian McHale. He is general
editor of the forthcoming
Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain
series, and is currently working on a book for OUP on time and
narrative.
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