Maria-Ana Tupan


Maria-Ana Tupan 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.

Life

Maria-Ana Tupan was born in Sărulești, Buzău County, Romania, the daughter of Margareta and Spiridon Iordache, a priest. After graduating from Mihai Eminescu 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. She was editor of the English version of the magazine Cărți românești.
Tupan made her publishing debut in 1980 with Regele visurilor, an anthology of translations from American prose of the 19th century. She obtained her PhD degree in 1992, under the supervision of Leon Levițchi and.
From 1991 until 2014, Tupan was a faculty member of the University of Bucharest. In 1994–1995 she was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University as visiting professor under the Fulbright Scholars Program. In 2014 she completed her habilitation thesis and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students.
Tupan has been a member of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Section of Criticism and Literary History since 1996. She is also a member of the German Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and of The Charles Brockden Brown Society.

Works

She wrote works on literary history, literary theory, comparative literature, genre theory, and cultural studies. She is a specialist in Anglo-Saxon literature and German and French cultures, and is attracted by the methods of deconstruction. 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. Her literary chronicles and essays have been published in Convorbiri literare, Contemporanul, Luceafărul, România literară, Viața Românească magazines. She presented papers at conferences in Athens, University Park, Madrid, Manchester, Salzburg, Vienna, Dresden, Graz, Rome, Cologne, and Dortmund.

Selected publications

  • A Survey Course in British Literature București: Editura Universității din București, 1997
  • British Literature. An Overview
  • The New Literary History
  • Genre and Postmodernism
  • Modernismul si psihologia. Încercare de epistemologie literara. Modernism and Psychology. An Inquiry into the Epistemology of Literary Modernism
  • Literary Discourses of the New Physics. With an Introduction by Marin Cilea
  • Teoria și practica literaturii la inceput de mileniu.
  • Postmodernist Energetics: Peter Ackroyd's Museum Spac
  • Relativism/ Relativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept
  • Realismul magic. Încercare genealogică. București
  • "The Zone: Ontological or Epistemological Operator?”
  • Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • "Debasish Lahiri’s Transgressive Ontologies". London Journal of Humanities and Social Science. Volume 24. Issue 7, 24.05.2024.

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