Maria-Ana Tupan

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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
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Period1990 – present

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

Life and work[edit]

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. 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]. She was promoted from professor‘s assistant to full professor at the University of Bucharest (1991–2002). In 2014 she completed her training in literary studies and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students and pursuing her career of academic writing. In 1994–1995 she was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University as visiting professor.[2] 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.[3]

Literary activity[edit]

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.

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/ (10) 973-737-205-0; ISBN (13) 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/ ISBN: 1-4438-4744-5; ISBN13: 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: 1-4438-9750-7; ISBN13: 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 Key to Change. Interdisciplinary Essays in Cultural History, Lambert Academic Publishing (2017) (ISBN-10 : ‎3330027371; ISBN-13 ‏: ‎978-3330027374)
  • The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes: The Mirror and the Signet . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2020) (ISBN: 1-5275-9948-5; ISBN 13: 978-1-5275-9948-2)
  • Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2023) (ISBN: 1-5275-0492-1; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-0492-9)
  • Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature (editor, autor). Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Special Issue. Vol. 15, Number 5, 2023.https://rupkatha.com/v15n5.php.
* Cultural Barriers or Flawed Hermeneutics: Martin Heidegger's “Dialogue on Language”. Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7, 6 April 2024 , Page 30-45.https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rraass/v7/11671F;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIpkpQOah34 ; https://2pressrelease.org/vedantic-philosophy-a-fundamental-dogma-a-part-from-the-book-chapter-cultural-barriers-or-flawed-hermeneutics-martin-heideggers-dialogue-on-language/

Affiliations[edit]

  • 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)[4]
  • 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[5]

Literary prizes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies, Volume 3, Issue 5, 2023, pages 734-736, E ISSN: 2583-049X, "Professor Maria-Ana Tupan, affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia (Romania) and author of several books on literary epistemology, goes to considerable lengths to prove the importance of “identifying the ideas which fed into canonical modernism”"
  2. ^ The biography of the critic Maria-Ana Tupan in the General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, 2016-2021, Pag. 299
  3. ^ The biography of the critic Maria-Ana Tupan in the Cultural Barriers or Flawed Hermeneutics: Martin Heidegger’s “Dialogue on Language”. Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7, page 45
  4. ^ "The full program of the 2nd GFF Annual Conference — Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung E. V".
  5. ^ Maria-Ana Tupan, member of EFACIS, ISIW, The Charles Brockden Brown Society, member of the Writers' Union of Romania
  6. ^ Luceafărul, nr.6/1997, page 2
  7. ^ The national award for excellence in theory, history and literary criticism (in Romanian), Adevărul

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