Mihaela CULEA, Vice-dean

ACADEMIC AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS 
  • Associate Professor 
  • Vice-dean
  • Department representative in charge with research and international relations 
  • Tutor of 2nd year MA programme (English Language. Communication Practices) 
  • Coordinator of Erasmus+ agreements (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; University of Bratislava, Slovakia; University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 
  • BA in Philology (1999-2003), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, English language and literature – Romanian language and literature; diploma advisor: Professor Doina Cmeciu 
  • MA in Language and Communication Sciences (2003-2005), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters 
  • PhD in Philology, British and American Literature (2008), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from 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 
  • 2005-2012 - assistant lecturer in English literature, University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Romania  
  • 2003-2005 - teaching assistant, University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Romania 

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Academic disciplines currently taught 
  • English Literature (Enlightenment and Romanticism) 
  • The History of British culture and civilisation 
  • Practical English 
  • Business English 
  • Discourse practices. European discourse 
  • Stylistics of discourse 
  • Interculturality and Anglophone horizon

Didactic materials 
  • CULEA, MIHAELA, The History of English Culture and Civilisation, Bacău, Alma Mater, ISBN 978-606-527-037-4, 2009. 
  • CULEA, MIHAELA, English for Marketing Students. A Workbook for Marketing Students, I Year Students, Distance Learning Programme, Bacău, Alma Mater, ISBN 978-606-527-190-6, 2012 
  • Culea, Mihaela; Galiţa, Raluca, English for Accounting and Business Administration, Bacău, Alma Mater, 2012, ISBN 978-606-527-229-3. 

Erasmus teaching staff mobilities: 
  • University of Poitiers, France (2007) 
  • University of Pardubice, Czech Republic (2014) 
  • University of Bratislava, Slovakia (2015) 

RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Research interests/fields of research
  • English literature
  • British cultural history
  • cultural studies
  • discourse analysis

Publications 
Books 
  • CULEA, MIHAELA, Linguistic Representations and Contested Identities in the Media. The Special Case of SDouth-Eastern Europeans as 'Others' in the British Press, tHartung-Gorre Publishing House/ Konstanz, Germany, 2016, 278 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-569-9 
  • 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 
  • CULEA, MIHAELA, Cultural Types and Spaces in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives. Interdisciplinary Readings, VDM Verlag Dr Muller, Saarbrucken, 2011, ISBN 978-3639373837 

Selected articles/papers 
  • Mihaela Culea, “The discourse of morality in S. Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded”, in Interstudia. DISCURSIVE FORMS. NEW PERSPECTIVES - LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, COMMUNICATION, “Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, No. 19(1)/2016, pp. 66-77, indexed Index Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0, Fabula, CEEOL, SCIPIO, http://www.scipio.ro/web/interstudia.
  • Suciu, Andreia; Culea, Mihaela, “The Risk of Losing National Identity in the Twenty-First Century Romania, or National Identity from Adaptation to Self-censorship”, in Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, volume 18, no. 1/2015, Khazar University Press, Baku, Azerbaijan, ISSN 2223-2613 (PRINT), ISSN 2223-2621 (ONLINE), indexat in Index Copernicus, DOAJ, Scirus Elsevier, Genamics, EBSCO, Asos, Arastrimax,  pp. 13–34,  DOI: 10.5782/2223-2621.2014.18.1.13,  available at http://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2new-mihaela.pdf
  • Mihaela Culea, “Adaptation or Escapism? The British Royals’ Tribulations and the Crisis of Personal Identity in Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I”, in Ars Aeterna, vol. 7, nr. 2/2015, De Gruyter Open (electronic version), ISSN 1337-9291, pp. 44-64, indexed in CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), EBSCO Discovery Service, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Genamics JournalSeek, Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest)
  • Mihaela Culea, “Humanizing the Queen: Reading as Self-discovery and Writing as Redemption in Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader”, in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, India (Calcutta), http://rupkatha.com/v5n3.php, 3(5)/2013, pp. 91-108, ISSN  0975-2935, indexed in Elsevier, MLA International Directory, Ulrichs Web, DOAJ, EBSCO etc.
  • Mihaela Culea, “Socio-economic Hardship and the Financial Crisis of the Working Class in Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I”, in Speech and Context. International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science, Alecu Russo State University of Bălţi, Republic of Moldova, http://speech-and-context.blogspot.ro/, 5(2)/2013, pp. 96-106, ISSN  1857-4149, indexat in EBSCO, Index Copernicus, ProQuest Central, DOAJ, WorldCat etc.
  • Mihaela Culea, “Addressing the Age-old Question of Human Perfectibility in Daniel Defoe’s Mere Nature Delineated: Or, a Body without a Soul”, in Brno Studies in English, no. 39(1)/2013, pp. 199-209, http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/home/publikace/bse-plone-verze, Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, ISSN 0524-6881, indexat in ERIH, MLA Bibliography, ABELL, CSA Language Behaviour Abstracts, Scopus
  • Mihaela Culea, “From Marginality to Celebrity in Enlightenment English Culture: The Case of Peter the Wild Boy”, in Interstudia. Margins, Marginalization and the Discourse of Marginality, “Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, No. 13/2013, pp. 72 – 80, indexed in Index Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0, Fabula, CEEOL, SCIPIO, http://www.scipio.ro/web/interstudia.
  • Mihaela Culea, “Current Trends in Literary Agenting, the Roles of Literary Agents and the Hardships of Getting Published in Contemporary Romania”, în Sudosteuropa. Journal for Policy and Society, http://www.ios-regensburg.de/en/publications/periodicals/suedosteuropa.html, ISSN 0722-480X, no. 61 (1)/2013, pp. 25 – 51, The Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, pp. 25 – 51, indexed "InternationaleBibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichenZeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)", "Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)“, "Sociological Abstracts (SA)", World Affairs Online database, researchable using (IREON) - The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway, CEEOL
  • Mihaela Culea, “Book branding and promoting authorial identity: a comparative approach”, in Knygotyra (Book Science), Volume 59, No. 59/2012, ISSN 0204–2061, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 93 – 112, indexed Directory of Open Access Journals, BHO, EBSCO, LISA, MLA Directory of Periodicals, http://www.leidykla.eu/en/journals/book-science/about-knygotyra/.
  • Mihaela Culea, “Images of the Moral Order: (Im)Morality and Redemption in Daniel Defoe's The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders”, in American and British Studies Annual (ABSA), no. 4/2011, University of Pardubice, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of English and American Studies, Czech Republic, ISSN 1803-6058, pp. 9-21; http://www.upce.cz/en/ff/kaa/casopis/obsah-4.cisla.html
  • Mihaela Culea & Nadia-Nicoleta Morăraşu, “Literary and Cultural Representations of the Building-Metaphor in the English Culture of Sensibility”, in "Studii si cercetari stiintifice - seria filologie. Plurilingvism si interculturalitate/Plurilingualism and Interculturality", no. 24/2010, Bacău, “Alma Mater”, ISSN1224-841 X, pp. 69-77
  • Mihaela Culea, “Spatial Arteries: the Road Chronotope in the Eighteenth-Century English Novels”, in Interstudia, no. 3/2009, Bacău, “Alma Mater”, ISSN 2065-3204, pp. 279–287, indexed Index Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0, Fabula and CEEOL
  • Mihaela Culea, “Desire and Confinement: The Body as Sequestered Object in Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded”, in Cultural Perspectives, no. 11/2006, ISSN 1224 – 239X, Editura “Alma Mater”, pp. 87 – 105, indexed CEEOL 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Edited volumes 
  • Elena Bonta (coord.), Catalina Balinisteanu, Mihaela Culea, Raluca Galița, Interstudia no. 9(1)/2011, proceeding volume "Cultural Diversity through Language and Communication", Editura „Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, no. 9(1)/2011.
Edited journals 
  • Co-editor of RoBrit Student Journal. English Semestrial Review of the Romanian Students from The Faculty of Letters, Editura “Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2066-6470, no. 1/2009, 2/2010, no. 5/2013, no. 6/2014, no. 7/2015. 

TUTORING ACTIVITY
  • Scientific advisor of diploma papers 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 

National associations 
  • RSECS (Romanian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 
International associations 
  • ISECS, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 

CONTACT  
E-mail: culea.mihaela@ub.ro 
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