Research Team

MEMBERS

  1. Dr. PETRONIA POPA PETRAR – director
  2. Prof. SANDA BERCE, PhD – founding director
  3. Dr. ELENA PÃCURAR – scientific secretary
  4. Dr. CARMEN BORBÉLY
  5. Dr. ERIKA MIHÁLYCSA-BÁNYÁSZ
  6. Dr. RAREȘ MOLDOVAN
  7. Dr. LILIANA POP
  8. Dr. ALINA PREDA
  9. Dr. DANIEL DARVAY
  10. Dr. ROXANA MIHELE
  11. Dr. EUGEN WOHL
  12. Dr. ALEX CIOROGAR
  13. Dr. CĂLINA PĂRĂU

 

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:

  • PROF. PATRICK MCGUINNESS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
  • DR. SEÁN BURKE, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
  • AGOTA MÁRTON, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, OXFORD UNIVERSITY
  • IMOLA NAGY-SERES, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS/UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
  • ORSOLYA-NOÉMI SZŰCS, PhD CANDIDATE, PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

 

MA STUDENTS ASSOCIATED TO THE CENTRE:

  • ANDREEA BELEUȚĂ
  • CATRINEL DAMIAN
  • ANDREEA GYORFI
  • PAUL PARASCHIV
  • ANDREI-BOGDAN POPA
  • CEZAR POPA

 

RESEARCH TEAM DETAILS

Professor Sanda Berce (founding director, Senior Research Fellow of Babeș-Bolyai University) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in literary theory in 1999.

  • Research interests: English and Irish literature (modernism and postmodernism), modernist and contemporary British fiction, the literary canon, literary theory (literary forms and genres, poetics, narratology, reception theory, literary anthropology), Anglo-American critical theory.

 

Dr. Carmen Borbély (Reader, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in British literature in 2008.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: 18th-Century English Literature, Representations of the Posthuman in Contemporary British Fiction, Contemporary Feminist Fiction.
  • Graduate classes taught: The New Gothic in the Contemporary British Fiction, Irish Gothic Fiction.
  • Research interests: 18th-century literature, gender studies, Gothic fiction, posthumanism, ecocriticism, geocriticism, postcolonialism.

 

Dr. Petronia Popa-Petrar (Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in British literature in 2008.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: British Literature of the 20th and 21st Century, The Modernist Novel, The Contemporary British Novel.
  • Graduate classes taught: Scottish Culture and Literature, The Ethics of Irish Fiction.
  • Research interests: 20th-century and contemporary English literature, modernism and postmodernism, Anglo-American literary theory and criticism, the ethics of fiction.

 

Dr. Elena Păcurar (Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in Irish literature in 2011.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: English for Specific Purposes.
  • Graduate classes taught: The Contemporary Irish Novel, The Literature of the irish Diaspora.
  • Research interests: modern and postmodern British and Irish literature, the modernist Irish novel, Anglo-American literary theory and criticism.

 

Dr. Erika Mihálycsa-Bányász (Reader, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in Irish literature in 2008.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: British Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries, The Experimental British Novel, English Theatre.
  • Graduate classes taught: James Joyce, Irish Theatre.
  • Research interests: 20th century Anglo-Irish Literature,. modernism and postmodernism, Anglo-American literary theory and criticism, translation and translation studies.

 

Dr. Rareș Moldovan (Reader, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. He received his PhD in literary theory from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2004.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: American Literature, American Literature and Film, American Poetry.
  • Graduate classes taught: Irish Literature and Film, Samuel Beckett.
  • Research interests: modern and contemporary British and American literature, literary theory and cultural studies.

 

Dr. Alex Ciorogar (Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature in 2020.

  • Research interests: authorship studies, British Romanticism, literary theory, hermeneutics, Academic Writing,
  • Undergraduate classes taught: Eighteenth-Century Poetry and Romanticism; Practical Course in Text Interpretation, Practical Course in Essay Writing.

 

Dr. Liliana Pop (Reader, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in American poetry in 2000.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: British Romanticism, British and American Modern Poetry.
  • Graduate classes taught: W. B. Yeats, Irish Women Writers.
  • Research interests: British and American literature (poetry from Romanticism to Modernism).

 

Dr. Alina Preda (Reader, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in British literature in 2006.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: Discourse Analysis, English Syntax, Language and Society.
  • Graduate classes taught: Representations of gender in the Contemporary British novel.
  • Research interests: linguistics and the philosophy of language (syntax, formal semantics, translation studies), cultural/media studies, gender studies.

 

Dr. Daniel Darvay (Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. He received his PhD in English literature from the University of Oklahoma in 2011.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: American Literature, Introduction to the Study of Literature, Text Interpretation, Essay Writing..
  • Research interests: modern and contemporary British and American literature, the history and theory of the novel, 20-century criticism and theory, Gothic culture.

 

Dr. Roxana Mihele (Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea. She received her PhD in Jewish American literature from Babeș-Bolyai University, in 2010.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: English for Special Purposes, British Culture and Civilisation.
  • Research interests: 20th-century American literature, Anglo-American literary theory and criticism, American multiculturalism, the British and American Jewish novel.

 

Dr. Eugen Wohl ((Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature) graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. He received his PhD in comparative literature and theatre studies from Babeș-Bolyai University in 2012.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: English for Special Purposes, British Culture and Civilisation.

 

Dr. Călina Părău graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Babeș-Bolyai University in 2020.

  • Undergraduate classes taught: Literary Theory seminars, English for Special Purposes.