DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (DFLL): Elena CIOBANU

ACADEMIC AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS

Associate Professor
Director of BA conversion programme (English Language and Literature)
Coordinator of Erasmus+ agreement (Istanbul Medeniyet University)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

PhD in Philology, British and American Literature (2004-2008), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from Iasi, Romania, Doctoral Studies Department.
MA in Language and Communication Sciences (2002-2004), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters
BA in Philology (1994-1998), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, English language and literature – French language and literature

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Teaching positions

February 2016 to the present – Associate Professor, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bacau, Romania
2009-2016 – Senior Lecturer, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bacau, Romania
2001-2009 – Professor Assistant in English literature; University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Bacau, Romania
1998-2001 – Qualified Teacher of English, "Henri Coanda" High School, Bacau, Romania

TEACHING ACTIVITY

Academic disciplines currently taught

BA courses: Old English literature, Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, American literature, Narratology, Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, Practical English
MA courses: Explorations of virtual identities, Discursive constructions of identity, Models of writing

Didactic materials

Ciobanu, Elena, A History of the English Language, Alma Mater, Bacau, 2014, ISBN: 978-606-527-408-2.
Ciobanu, Elena, Poetics, 2009, course delivered to 3^rd year BA students.
Ciobanu, Elena, Exploring virtual identities, 2010, course delivered to 1^st year MA students.
Ciobanu, Elena, Discursive Constructions of Identity, 2010, course delivered to 2^nd year MA students.
Ciobanu, Elena, English Literature I (Old English and Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare), 2015, course delivered to 1^st year BA students.
Ciobanu, Elena, Narratology, 2015, course delivered to 1^st year BA students.
Ciobanu, Elena, American Literature, 2016, course delivered to 2^nd year BA students.

ERASMUS teaching staff mobilities

University of Wroclaw, Poland (May 2005)
University Bordeaux 3, France (2010)
University of Erzurum, Turkey (2013)
University of Poitiers, France (2014)
University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2015)
University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (2016)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Research interests/fields of research

English literature
Narrative discourse and narratology
English and American Poetry
Poetics
American literature
Literary criticism
Discourse analysis
Cultural studies

Publications

Books

Ciobanu, Elena, Seven Ways of Looking at Poetry, Casa Casa Cărţii de Stiinţă, Cluj-Napoca, 2015, ISBN: 978-606-17-0765-2.

Ciobanu, Elena, În apărarea poeziei.Texte critice engleze, traducere, note și prefață de Elena Ciobanu, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, Cluj-Napoca, 2015, ISBN: 978-606-17-0862-8.

Sylvia Plath, Selected Poems/Poeme alese, translation, preface and bio-bibliographical notes by Elena Ciobanu, Paralela 45, Piteşti, 2012.

Ciobanu, Elena, “Interaction as a strategy for creating poetic meaning”, in Perspectives on Interaction, Bonta, E. (ed.), Cambridge Publishing Scholars, Cambridge, 2012, ISBN (10): 1-4438-4465-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4465-9, pp. 137-148.

Ciobanu, Elena, Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self, Casa Editorială Demiurg, Iași, 2009, ISBN: 978-973-152-125-125-1.

Ciobanu, Elena, „Două discursuri îndrăgostite: Sylvia Plath și Ted Hughes”, in volume In honorem prof. dr. Ștefan Avădanei, Cuțitaru, Codrin Liviu & Blănuță, Iulia & Irimia, Florin (eds.), Ed. Universitas XXI, 2006, Iași, ISBN: (10) 973-7889-38-X, pp. 99-108.

Ciobanu, Elena, Poezii cu ceas, Universitas XXI, Iaşi, 2004.

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Lady Lazarus și hoţul de lumină, translation, preface and biobibliographical notes by Elena Ciobanu, Elena Ciobanu, Corgal Press, Bacău, 2002, ISBN: 973-8017-57-2.

Selected articles/papers

Ciobanu, Elena, “The Old Dead Love of Death”, in Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity, no 1, Addleton Publishers, New York, 2013, ISSN 2327-5707, pp. 98-106, indexed in CEEOL, WorldCat, Google Scholar.

Ciobanu, Elena, “That is not what I meant at all...” in Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity, no 3, Addleton Publishers, New York, 2013, ISSN 2327-5707, pp. 54-60, indexat în CEEOL, WorldCat, Google Scholar.

Ciobanu, Elena, “The vase, reconstructed, houses the elusive rose...”, in Plath Profiles. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, no 5, W. K. Buckley (ed.), Indiana University Northwest, SUA, Summer 2012, ISSN: 2155-8175, pp. 23-29, Internet URL: http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath/vol5_supp/index.shtml.

Ciobanu, Elena, “Words as Axes: Suffering as Catalyst of Meaning in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry”, in Plath Profiles. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, no 1, W. K. Buckley (ed.), Indiana University Northwest, SUA, Summer 2008, ISSN: 2155-8175, Internet URL: http://www.iun.edu/~plath/vol1/index.shtml, pp. 127-135.

Ciobanu, Elena, “The ’instant mix’of perception in the poetry of the New York school” in Interstudia, nr. 19, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2016, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 32-41, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.

Ciobanu, Elena, “Re-imagining art in ekphrastic poetry” in Interstudia. Image, imaginary, representation, nr. 18, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2015, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 74-81, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.
Ciobanu, Elena, “La corporalité impersonnelle de l’intellect dans la poésie contemporaine”, in Interstudia, nr. 16, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2014, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 82-88, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.
Ciobanu, Elena, “The ‘glocalization’ of identity – Wild Carpathia vs. Romania”, in Interstudia. Cultural Representations in the era of globalization, nr. 15, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2014, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 43-50, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Poetry and Poetics in the Virtual Sphere”, în volumul Lingvistică integrală – multilingvism – discurs literar, Cernăuţi, Ucraina, 2014, ISBN: 978-966-8410-39-5, pp. 392-400.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Le langage qui veut être poésie: experimentations du discours postmoderniste”, in Interstudia. Discours et passions, nr. 12, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2012, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 227-233, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.
Ciobanu, Elena, “‘A little more than kin, and less than kind’: word-ghosts and ghost-words in Hamlet”, in Interstudia. Cultural Spaces and Identities in (inter)action, nr. 6, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2010, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 116-124, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK şi altele.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Words dreaming at a Shakespearean night”, in Interstudia. Le Discours sub specie ludi, nr. 5, Alma Mater, Bacău, 2009, ISSN: 2065-3204, pp. 202-209, indexed in CEEOL, Index Copernicus, Fabula, KVK.
Ciobanu, Elena, “The Woundedness of Sylvia Plath’s Poetic Being”, in Culture, Subculture, Counterculture, Ed. Europlus, Galați, 2008, ISBN: 978-973-7845-95-5, pp. 120-127.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Metaphorizing Minds: Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath”, în Inter Litteras et Terras, Ed. Universităţii „Ştefan cel Mare”, Suceava, 2007, ISSN 1843-5823, pp. 149-157.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Sylvia Plath: biography and art”, in Arta comunicării în contextul diversităţii culturale şi lingvistice, Mariana Flaişer (coord.), Casa Editorială Demiurg, Iaşi, 2007, ISBN: 973-7603-88-5, pp. 249-254.
Ciobanu, Elena, “Sylvia Plath: poetry as subversion of meaning”, in The Fellowship of Cultural Rings, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică R. A., Bucureşti, 2006, ISBN: (10) 973-30-1259-9; (13) 978-973-30-1259-7, pp. 94-104.
Ciobanu, Elena, “O semiologie a gustului: carnea”, în Analele Științifice ale Universității “A.I. Cuza” din Iași, Signa in rebus. Studia semiologica et linguistica in honorem M. Carpov, Ed. Universității “A. I. Cuza” Iași, 2006, ISSN: 1221-8448, pp. 39-45.

PUBLISHING ACTIVITY

130 cultural essays published in the Lumi anglo-saxone/Anglo-Saxon Worlds monthly column from Ateneu, ISSN: 1221-5813, since 2004 to the present, Internet URL: www.ateneu.info
Short text translations, poems, reviews, published in national cultural magazines (Ateneu, Observator Cultural, Plumb, Pro Saeculum and others).

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

Edited volumes

Interstudia, no. 2, "Otherness and Identity. Journeys back to the self", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2008.
Interstudia, no. 5, "Le discours sub specie ludi", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2009.
Interstudia, no. 11, vol. 1, "Cultural Spaces. Identity within/beyond borders", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2012.
Interstudia, no. 12, "Discourse passions", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2012.
Interstudia, no. 13, "Margins, Marginalization and the Discourse of Marginality", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2013.
Interstudia, vol. 15, "Cultural Representations in the Era of Globalization", Alma Mater, Bacau, 2014.
Interstudia, no. 18, "Margins, Image, Imaginary, Representations", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2015.
Interstudia, no. 19, "Discursive Forms. New Perspectives – Language, Literature, Communication", Alma Mater, Bacău, 2016.

Editorial board memberships

Member of the Editorial Board of Plath Profiles. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, no 1, W. K. Buckley (ed.), Indiana University Northwest, SUA, Summer 2008, ISSN: 2155-8175
Member of the editorial board of Interstudia, ISSN: 2065- 3204
Editor-in-chief of Students’ Literary Supplement, supplement of RO-BRIT student journal

TUTORING ACTIVITY

Scientific advisor of diploma theses for the bachelor's degree
Scientific advisor of master's dissertations
Advisor of methodological-scientific papers for obtaining the didactic degree I

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Research centres and groups

Member of Interstud Research Centre
Member of Cultural Spaces Research Group

National associations

Founding member of ROASS (Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies)
Member of RSEAS (Romanian Society for English and American Studies)
Member of the Society for Philological Studies from Romania (2007)

International associations

Member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)

PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS

2005: The Excellence Award of “Georgeta si Mircea Cancicov” Cultural Foundation, for the volume Poezii cu ceas, Universitas XXI, Iaşi, 2004.
2008: The Magna Cum Laudae distinction for the PhD thesis Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self, defended at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, 2008.
2013: The Translation Award of the cultural magazine Ateneu, Bacau, for the volume Sylvia Plath, Selected Poems/Poeme alese, Paralela 45, Piteşti, 2012.

CONTACT

E-mail: ciobanu.elena@ub.ro