Andreia-Irina SUCIU, Head of Department

ACADEMIC AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS
  • Associate Professor
  • Head of Department
  • Faculty representative in the University Trade Union
  • Coordinator of Erasmus+ agreement (University of Oviedo, Spain)

 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 
  • BA in Philology (1998-2002), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, English language and literature – French language and literature; diploma advisor: Professor Doina Cmeciu 
  • MA in Language and Communication Sciences (2002-2004), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters; dissertation advisor: Prof. Maria Carpov 
  • PhD in Philology, British and American Literature (2009), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, Doctoral Studies Department; doctoral advisor: Professor Stefan Avadanei 

 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Teaching positions
  • February 2012 to the present - Senior lecturer, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Romania
  • 2004-2012 - assistant lecturer in English literature; 2002-2004; teaching assistant, University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Romania

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Academic disciplines currently taught
  • Bachelor's courses: English Literature (Modernism, Postmodernism, Drama); Practical English; Technical and Scientific English
  • Master's courses: Theories of discourse, Geographical varieties of English language
Didactic materials
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Contemporary English Drama (J. Osborne, H. Pinter, S. Beckett), lecture notes for 3rd year students at the Faculty of Letters „Alma Mater” Publishing House, Bacău, 2010, ISBN: 978-606-527-038-1
Erasmus teaching staff mobilities: 
  • University Bordeaux 3, France (2007) 
  • University of Oviedo (2015) 
  • University of Bratislava (2016)
Teaching training sessions: 
  • Departamento de Didatica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Universidad de Granada, Spain (November-December 2011)  
  • University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy, DITALS Centre, Certificazione di Competenza in Didattica dell’italiano a Stranieri (8 – 21 July 2011)

 RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Research interests/fields of research
  • Contemporary British fiction and drama
  • The dystopian novel 
  • Postmodernity and its aspects

Publications
Books
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Malcolm Bradbury between Modernism and Postmodernism, "Alma Mater” Publishing House, Bacău, 2011, ISBN 978-606-527-163-0
  • MÂŢĂ, LILIANA; SUCIU, ANDREIA, Curricular Innovations in Language Teacher Education. An Integrative Model for the Development of Pedagogical Competences, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing House, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8433-6884-1
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Tăieturi, translation after "Cuts" by Malcolm Bradbury, “Univers” Publishing House , “Globus” Collection, 2012, ISBN 978-99931-13-50-8
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Fractionated Themal Decomposition of the Residual Ammonium Sulphate into Ammonia, Sulphate Dioxide and Oxygen. Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms, translation after Descompunerea termică fracţionată a sulfatului de amoniu rezidual în amoniac, dioxid de sulf şi oxigen. Cinetică şi mecanisme de reacţie, author Valeriu Jumanca, Editura STEF, Iași, ISBN 978-606-575-323-5, 2013
  • MÂŢĂ, LILIANA; SUCIU, ANDREIA, Inovaţii în formarea iniţială a profesorilor de limba şi literatura română. Ghid pentru dezvoltarea competenţelor pedagogice (Innovations in initial training for the Romanian language and literature teachers. Guide for the development of pedagogical competences), „Alma Mater” Publish House, 2013, ISBN ISBN 978-606- 527-327-6
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Ciudata mea căutare pe urmele lui Mensonge, (translation after "My Strange Quest for Mensonge" by Malcolm Bradbury), „Univers” Publishing House, ISBN 978-606-8631-07-3, 2014
  • CULEA, MIHAELA; SUCIU, ANDREIA, Introduction to Literary Interpretation. From Theory to Practice. Narrative Strategies, Discourse Presentation and Tropes, Hartung-Gorre Publishing House/ Konstanz, Germany, 2014, 296 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-507-1
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, CULEA, MIHAELA, Literary Readings: Key Terms from Theory to Practice, Hartung-Gorre Publishing House/ Konstanz, Germany, 2014, 318 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-506-4
  • SUCIU, ANDREIA, Spy the Lie. Foști ofțeri ai CIA te învață cum să detectezi înșelătoria (collection “Practical psychology”), Editura TREI, Bucuresti, editor Victor Popescu, 208 pages, ISBN 978-606-719-490-6, translation after Spy the Lie. Former CIA Agents Teach You How to Detect Deception, by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant

 Selected articles/papers 
  • Suciu, Andreia, A Totalitarian Regime Subverting Tradition – From George Orwell’s Modernity in “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, to Anthony Burgess’s Postmodernity in “1985” and the Romanian Reality of the 80’s in I. D. Sîrbu’s “Farewell, Europe!”, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY, VOL 5, Editura Universitatii “Petru Maior”, Târgu-Mureş, pp. 682-692, coord. Iulian Boldea, Cornel Sigmirean, 2013, ISBN 978-606-581-095-2,  ISI Thomson Reuters indexed, available at https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=1&SID=P2bfAaMrRTjvZ4Yibo4&page=1&doc=5
  • Suciu Andreia, The Discourse of the Paratext in Malcolm Bradbury’s ‘My Strange for Mensonge: Structuralism’s Hidden Hero’, in Interstudia.  Discursive forms. New Perspectives – Language, Literature, Communication, vol.1, no 19, 2016, pp. 78–88, ISSN 2065-3204, indexed in Fabula, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, KVK, worldcat.org.
  • Suciu Andreia, Representations of Space in Ali Smith’s 'Hotel World', in Interstudia.  Image, imaginary, representation, vol.1, no. 18, pp. 97–105, 2015, ISSN 2065-3204, indexed in Fabula, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, KVK, worldcat.org.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Margins and Mergings in Maxine Hong Kingston ‘The Woman Warrior’, in Interstudia, no 13/ 2013, paper delivered at the International Conference Cultural Spaces. Margins, Marginalization and the Discourse of Marginalization, Bacău, 11–12 May 2012, pp. 101–108, ISSN 2065-3204.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’: a Cultural Change from Tradition to Postmodernism, in Cultural Perspectives, no. 17/2012, ISSN 1224-239x, pp. 132–148.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Manifestations of the Self in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels, in Interstudia, no. 11 (1)/ 2012, paper presented at the International Conference Cultural Spaces. Identity within/ beyond Borders, Bacău, 6th–7th May 2011, “Alma Mater” Publishing House, pp. 174–188, ISSN 2065-3204.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Malcolm Bradbury between Critic and Novelist, in Communication Interculturelle et Litterature, B indexed by CNCSIS (cod CNCSIS 489: http://www.cncsis.ro/userfiles/file/CENAPOSS/B+_2010_arhiva.pdf) indexed in MLA (Modern Language Association, New York, www.mla.org) – MLA International Bibliography & Directory of Periodicals şi Fabula. La recherche en littérature (www.fabula.org), no. 2(14)/ 2011, “Europlus” Publishing House, pp. 99–111, ISSN: 1844-6965, lucrare prezentată la conferinţa Paradigma discursului ideologic, Galați.
  • Suciu, Andreia, The Reality of Art(S) or the Art(S) of Reality in Ian McEwan’s “Amsterdam” in Cultural Perspectives, no. 16/ 2011, pp. 100–114, ISSN 1224-239x.
  • Suciu, Andreia, The Contemporary Self’s Adaptation to Cultural Diversity or Malcolm Bradbury’s Hero-Travellers, in Interstudia. Cultural Diversity through Language and Communication, indexed in Fabula, CEEOL, Index Copernicus, volume 9, issue 1, pp. 73–83, 2011, ISSN 2065-3204.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Jimmy Porter between Active Rhetoric and Inactive Life, in Interstudia. Cultural Spaces and Identities in (Inter)Action, no. 6/ 2010, pp. 170–180, “Alma Mater” Publishing House, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204.
  • Suciu, Andreia, The Sense of History in Malcolm Bradbury’s Work, in Economy, Transdisciplinarity, Cognition, “George Bacovia” University, Bacău, editor in chief Liviu Druguş, executive editor Lorenzo Magnani, volume during the ISINI International Conference Politics–Economics– Ethics Continuum for a Free, Stable and Moral Society, vol. XII, issue 2/ 2009, pp. 152–160, George Bacovia University Printing House, ISSN 1454-5675.
  • Suciu, Andreia, The Postmodern Cultural Context – from History to Economy, in Economy, Transdisciplinarity, Cognition, “George Bacovia” University, Bacău, vol. XII, nr. 1/ 2009, editor-in-chief Liviu Druguş, pp. 284–293, “George Bacovia” University Printing House, ISSN 1454-5675.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Technical (Dis)play in Malcolm Bradbury’s Work, in Interstudia (Le Discours sub specie ludi), 3–4 April 2009, no. 5/ 2009, pp. 96–105, University of  Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204.
  • Suciu, Andreia, Malcolm Bradbury and New Postmodernism(s) @ the Turn of the Millennium – Between the Realistic Mode and Experiment in Interstudia (Language, Discourse, Society), no. 3/ 2009, pp. 330–339, University of Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204. 
Projects
  • Project manager: TE Project INOVACOM – Curricular innovations for the development of pedagogical competences for teachers of Romanian Language and Literature; Project CNCSIS/ UEFISCU, TE, no. 282/2010; duration 36 months; budget 540.000 lei

TUTORING ACTIVITY
  • Scientific advisor of diploma theses for the bachelor's degree 
  • Scientific advisor of dissertations for the MA degree 
  • Coordinator of methodological-scientific papers for obtaining the didactic degree I certificate 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Research centres and groups
  • Member of CETAL (Centre of Textual Explorations and Action through Language), Faculty of Letters, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau

 CONTACT
  • E-mail: suciu.irina@ub.ro
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