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Dr. ANCA PEIU, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

CURRICULUM VITAE 2015

ANCA GEORGETA PEIU Born in Bucharest, Romania, April 18, 1960

EDUCATION

1999, Ph D in Philology, Comparative Literature, University of Bucharest, Romania

1986, Licence (MA) in English, University of Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Foreign Languages

& Literatures, English & German

1979, Baccalaureat, Scoala Centrala, Central High School, Bucharest, Romania

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

2002-2015, Associate Professor of American Literature (19th

& 20th

centuries) at the University

of Bucharest, Romania, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dept. of English

1995-2002, Lecturer (i.e. non-tenured Associate Professor) of American Literature (19th

& 20th

centuries), of American Civilization (18th

& 19th

centuries), the English Language - at

the same Dept.

1991-1995, Assistant Professor of American Literature (19th

& 20th

centuries), American

Civilization (18th

& 19th

centuries), British Literature (20th

century), the English

Language, at the same Dept.

1990-1991, Teacher of English and German at the Pedagogical High School, Bucharest,

Romania

1986-1989, Translator at a Foreign Trade Company (“Electroexportimport”, Bucharest,

Romania) – a non-teaching appointment

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008-2009, August-May, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, senior

Fulbright research grant

1994, November-December, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, IREX research grant

1993, October-December, University of Warwick, England, UK, a research grant from the

British Council

1991, October-November, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Institute for Applied

Language Studies, a Soros research grant

MEMBERSHIP

ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)

RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies)

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Romanian-US Fulbright Alumni Association

PUBLICATIONS:

A. BOOKS PUBLISHED

1. FIVE VERSIONS OF SELFHOOD IN 19TH

CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE, C. H.

Beck Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, Nov. 21st . ISBN 978-606-18-0260-9.

Number of pages: 280.

2. TRECUTUL TIMPULUI PERFECT: DE LA THOMAS MANN LA WILLIAM

FAULKNER (THE PAST OF A TIME PERFECT: FROM THOMAS MANN TO WILLIAM

FAULKNER), Editura Universității Bucuresti (University of Bucharest Publishing House), 2001,

ISBN 973-575-504-1. Number of pages: 220. Based on my doctoral dissertation on comparative

narratology.

3. “AFTER THE FINAL NO”: THE WORLD OF WALLACE STEVENS, Editura

Universității din Bucuresti (University of Bucharest Publishing House), 2001, ISBN 973-575-

610-2. Number of pages: 168.

This book is also available since August 2002, as an e-book, in the series Cărți oferite de

Universitatea din București, Biblioteca Online – Cărți electronice, Universitatea din București,

www.e-scoala.ro/biblioteca/indexub.html

B. ACADEMIC ESSAYS

“Lifelong Learning: Between Modern Strategies and Romantic Ideals. Our Post-Moral Society

and Its Cultural Models”, PDF, at http://ojs.pensamultimedia.it//index.php/siref/index No.2

(2014): FORMAZIONE & INSEGNAMENTO. European Journal of Research on Education and

Teaching. Registered at No. 1439 in Court of Venice on February 11th

2003, ISSN: 2279-7505,

pp. 49-60, December 12th

, 2014

“The Happy Beginning of Z the Belle, Weltbürgerin” in Journal of Arts and Humanities, at

http://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site Vol. 3, No. 7 (2014), July, PDF, ISSN 2167-9053

(online). ISSN 2167-9045 (print), pp. 105-115

“(No) City upon a Hill: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha” in the Romanian Journal of American

Studies, No. 1, 2014, pp. 67-80, at http://www.raas.ro/e-journals =ISSN 2393-171X ISSN – L

2393-171X

“A Rose for Edith: An Oasis of Poetry in the Citadel of Old New York Prose” in the Analele

Universității din București, Limbi și Literaturi Străine (The Annals of the University of

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Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Literatures), No. 2, 2013, Literatură și Studii Culturale

(Literature and Cultural Studies), Editura Universității din București (EUB: University of

Bucharest Publishing House), ISSN 1220-0263, pp. 45-54

”The American Dream of Self-Reliance: Avatars of the Anti-Heroic Couple” in the University of

Bucharest Review, Vol. III/2013, No. 1 (new series), Cultures of Memory, Memories of Culture,

EUB, 2013, ISSN 2069-8658, pp. 106-115

“On Lifelong Education: Cultural Models in/for a Post-Moral Society” – key-note speech in the

vol. Proceedings of the International Conference: Transforming the Educational Relationship:

Intergenerational and Family Learning for the Lifelong Learning Society, 24-25 October, 2013,

Bucharest, Romania, PIM Publishing House, Iași, România, 2013, ISBN: 978-606-13-1558-1,

pp. 29-41

Preface: “Addie ca în <Adio>: William Faulkner și arta monologului”, to the vol. Pe patul de

moarte (As I Lay Dying) by William Faulkner, translated into Romanian by Horia-Florian

Popescu and Paul Goma, in the “William Faulkner Library” series, a critical edition, RAO

International Publishing Company, Bucharest, 2012, ISBN: 978-606-609-447-4, pp. 11-30

Chronology, notes and a selected bibliography to the vol. Pe patul de moarte (As I Lay Dying) by

William Faulkner, translated into Romanian by Horia-Florian Popescu and Paul Goma, in the

“William Faulkner Library” series, RAO International Publishing Company, Bucharest,

Romania, 2012, ISBN: 978-606-609-447-4, pp. 31-47

“The (M)other as Monster: Modern Curious Cases of Naturals and Their (Birth) Stories” in the

University of Bucharest Review, Literary and Cultural Studies Series, (M)other Nature?

Inscriptions, Locations, Revolutions, Vol. XIV (Vol. II – new series, number 2/2012), EUB,

2012, ISSN 2069-8658, pp.55-64

“To Defy / To Defend : Letters of Dissent/ Descent in American Literature” in the vol. The

American Tradition of Descent/ Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the

(Anti)Utopian. Proceedings of the RAAS-Fulbright Conference of 7-9 October, 2010, at the

Ovidius University, Constanța. The Institutul European Publishing House, Iași, 2012, ISBN:

978-973-611-865-4, pp. 77-84

Preface: “Yoknapatawpha: hartă pentru iscoade şi (nu) pentru intruşi” (Yoknapatawpha: a Map

for Scouts and (not) for Intruders) to the vol. ISCOADĂ ÎN ŢĂRÎNĂ (INTRUDER IN THE

DUST;1948 ) by William Faulkner, translated into Romanian by Anca Peiu; Bucharest, RAO

International Publishing Company, 2011; ISBN 978 606 609 007 0; pp. 5-17.

“Nothing like the South: Aurora Greenway – A Belle in Exile” in the vol. Ovid, Myth and

(Literary) Exile – The Proceedings of the Ovid, Myth and (Literary) Exile Conference,

Constanţa, September 10-12, 2009, Edited by Adina Ciugureanu, Ludmila Martanovschi and

Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University Press, Constanţa, 2010, ISBN 978-973-614-559-9; pp. 213-

222.

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“Memory Believes before Knowing Remembers”: Evanescence and/or Endurance in William

Faulkner, in The University of Bucharest Review, A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies,

Durability and Transience: Cultural Borders of Temporality, Vol. XI, No. 2/2009, Department

of English, University of Bucharest, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2010, ISSN 1454-9328,

pp. 65-70.

Preface: “Proză de sertar” (Fiction left unpublished) to the vol. POVESTIRI INEDITE

(STORIES LEFT UNPUBLISHED) by William Faulkner, translated into Romanian by Anca

Peiu; Bucharest, RAO International Publishing Company, 2009; ISBN 978-973-54-0095-8; pp.

9-24.

Chronology and notes to the vol. POVESTIRI INEDITE (STORIES LEFT UNPUBLISHED) by

William Faulkner, translated into Romanian by Anca Peiu; Bucharest, RAO International

Publishing Company, 2009; ISBN 978-973-54-0095-8; pp. 25-40.

“(Re)Writings of Failure in William Faulkner’s FLAGS IN THE DUST (1973) and THE

MANSION (1959)”, in vol. CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY (IV), Vol. II, “Babeş-Bolyai

University, Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature,

Napoca Star Publishing House, 2008, ISBN 978-973-647-617-4, pp. 183-195.

Preface: “Yoknapatawpha: trei viziuni”(Yoknapatawpha: Three Visions), to the vol. NUVELE

REGASITE (REDISCOVERED STORIES) – the former half of the vol. WILLIAM FAULKNER’S

UNCOLLECTED STORIES, edited by Joseph Blotner, translated into Romanian by Anca Peiu),

Bucureşti, RAO International Publishing Company, 2008, biblioteca William Faulkner (the

Romanian collection “William Faulkner Library”), ISBN 978-973-103-292-4, pp. 9-25.

Chronology and notes to the vol. NUVELE REGĂSITE (REDISCOVERED STORIES – the

former half of the vol. WILLIAM FAULKNER’S UNCOLLECTED STORIES , edited by Joseph

Blotner), Bucureşti, RAO International Publishing Company, 2008, ISBN 978-973-103-292-4,

pp. 26-40.

Preface: “Steaguri în ţărână: înfrânţi şi înfrângere în ultima carte a lui William

Faulkner” (Flags in the Dust: The Defeated and the Defeat in William Faulkner’s Last Book), to

the vol. STEAGURI ÎN ŢĂRÂNĂ (FLAGS IN THE DUST, translated into Romanian) by William

Faulkner, Bucureşti, RAO International Publishing Company, 2006, Biblioteca William Faulkner

(the Romanian collection William Faulkner Library), ISBN (13) 978-973-103-007-4, pp. 5-22.

Chronology and notes to the vol. CĂTUNUL (THE HAMLET) by William Faulkner, Bucureşti,

RAO International Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 973-576-622-1, pp. 27-41.

Preface: “Yoknapatawpha: Lumea de la zero” (Yoknapatawpha: the World from Zero),

chronology and notes to the vol. CĂTUNUL (THE HAMLET) by William Faulkner, Bucureşti,

RAO International Publishing Company, 2005, Biblioteca William Faulkner (the Romanian

collection William Faulkner Library), ISBN 973-576-622-1, pp. 5-26.

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Chronology and notes to the vol. ORAŞUL (THE TOWN) by William Faulkner, Bucureşti, RAO

International Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 973-576-647-7, pp. 21-35.

Preface: “William Faulkner citadin” (William Faulkner of the City), chronology and notes to the

vol. ORAŞUL (THE TOWN) by William Faulkner, Bucureşti, RAO International Publishing

Company, 2005, Biblioteca William Faulkner (the Romanian collection William Faulkner

Library), ISBN 973-576-647-7, pp. 5-20.

Chronology and notes to the vol. CASA CU COLOANE (THE MANSION) by William Faulkner,

Bucuresti, RAO International Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 973-573-646-9, pp. 21-35.

Preface: “Ostinato: Casa întunecată a lui William Faulkner” (Ostinato: The Dark House of

William Faulkner), to the vol. CASA CU COLOANE (THE MANSION) by William Faulkner,

Bucureşti, RAO International Publishing Company, 2005, Biblioteca William Faulkner (the

Romanian collection William Faulkner Library), ISBN 973-573-646-9, pp. 5-20.

“Addie – The Return of the Letter A: The Cryptic Message of (Resumed) Beginnings”, in

University of Bucharest Review, A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. VI. No. 4,

2004, The Secret and the Known, Published by the Dept. of English, Faculty of Foreign

Languages & Literatures, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania, ISSN 1454-9328, pp. 35-44.

“Julian Barnes: Some Parenthetical Remarks”, in the Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti (The

Annals of the University of Bucharest), No. LIII / 2004, Bucureşti, Editura Universităţii din

Bucureşti (University of Bucharest Publishing House), 2004, ISSN 1220-0263, pp. 89-92.

“Ştefan Baciu, un poet roman în America” in Revista Romano-Americană (The Romanian-

American Digest), edited by the “Amicii Statelor Unite” Association (“Friends of the United

States” Association), Issue No.VII-VIII, Dec. 2003, Bucharest, ISSN 1454-4660, pp. 117-122.

“American Poetry: Wallace Stevens” in Caiete internaţionale de poezie (International

Notebooks of Poetry), Poems in Translation: East and West, Essays on Poets and Poetry,

LiterArt-XXI, Editor: Gabriel Stanescu, No. 4/2003, ISSN 1528-1957, pp. 260-264.

“T.S.Eliot în romaneşte” (“T.S.Eliot into Romanian”) in Revista Romano-Americană (The

Romanian-American Digest), edited by the “Amicii Statelor Unite” Association (“Friends of the

United States” Association”), Editor: Acad. Mihnea Gheorghiu, Issue No. VI, Dec. 2002, ISSN

1454-4660, pp. 80-84.

“Ezra Pound – The Rebel Teacher” in Revista Romano-Americană (The Romanian-American

Digest), edited by the “Amicii Statelor Unite” Association (“Friends of the United States”

Association), Editors: Acad. Mihnea Gheorghiu (President) et al., Issue No. V, July 2002, ISSN

1454-4660, pp. 19-27.

“Is She Fact or Is She Fiction? (She from a Late 20TH

Century Perspective)”, in Univ. of

Bucharest Review, A Journal of Literary & Cultural Studies, “Narrating Culture”, Vol. III, No.

12, 2001, ISSN 1454-9328, pp. 79-92.

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“Timpul şi timpurile în <Două sau trei idei> de Wallace Stevens” (“Times and Trends in <Two

or Three Ideas> by Wallace Stevens”) in the anthological volume Timpul,Timpurile, Lingua Pax

(Times, Trends Lingua Pax), Vol. II, ed. by Prof. Dr. Doina Derer et al., Cavallioti Press, 2001,

ISBN 973-9463-38-X, pp. 51-57.

“Modernismul la timpul trecut: între clasic (Thomas Mann) şi romantic (William Faulkner)”,

i.e. “Modernism in the Past Tense: between Classic (Thomas Mann) and Romantic (William

Faulkner)”, in the anthological volume Tmpul, Timpurile Lingua Pax, (Times, Trends Lingua

Pax), Vol. II, ed. by Prof. Dr. Doina Derer et al., Cavallioti Press, 2001), ISBN 973-9463-38-X,

pp. 57-64.

“Sites of Translation in Wallace Stevens’s Poetry” in the anthological volume Transatlantic

Connections: Essays on Cultural Relocation, ed. by Prof. Dr. Rodica Mihăilă et al., Integral

Press. Bucharest, 2000, ISBN 973-8209-00-5, pp. 79-92.

“Metaphorical Values in Paul Ricoeur and Wallace Stevens” in Analele Universităţii din

Bucuresti, i.e. The Annals of the University of Bucharest, No. XLIX, 2000, ISSN 1220-0263, pp.

59-78.

“<Words for Music Perhaps>: Wallace Stevens” in University of Bucharest Review, A Journal

of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. II, Spaces of Representation, No. 8/2000, ISSN 1454-9328,

pp. 47-53.

“(Time)Telling on a Map” – an essay on postmodern narrative techniques, as represented by

Michael Ondaatje in his novel The English Patient, and modern narrative techniques, as

represented in William Faulkner’s fiction – in University of Bucharest Review, A Journal of

Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. I, Cultural Transgressions, No. 4/1999, ISSN 1454-9328, pp.

84-90.

“Henry James and < the Meaningful Look>” in Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti, i.e. The

Annals of the University of Bucharest, No. XLII-XLIII/1993-1994, ISSN 1220-O263, pp. 79-82.

“Herzog: Un best-seller pentru Premiul Nobel”, i.e. “Herzog: A Best-Seller for the Nobel

Prize”, in Viaţa romanească, i.e. Romanian Life Literary Digest, No. 12, Dec., 1993, ISSN 1220-

6377, pp. 123-125.

“De tradus în engleză: Sambată, duminică,luni”, i.e. “Translate into English: Saturday, Sunday,

Monday”, in Viaţa romanească, i.e. Romanian Life Literary Digest, No. 7-8, July-August, 1995,

ISSN 1220-6377, pp. 157-159.

“Contururi ghicite”, i.e. “Imagined Outlines”, an Essay on Contemporary Romanian Poetry, in

Viaţa romanească, i.e. The Romanian Life ( A Literary Magazine), No. 6-7, June-July, 1993,

ISSN 1220-6377, pp. 151-154.

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C. LITERARY TRANSLATIONS

1. WILLIAM FAULKNER, NUVELE RE REGĂSITE, (REDISCOVERED STORIES – the

former half of the vol. WILLIAM FAULKNER’S UNCOLLECTED STORIES, edited by Joseph

Blotner, Random House, 1979), Biblioteca William Faulkner (The “William Faulkner Library”

Series – a critical edition), Bucharest, Romania, RAO International Publishing Company, 2008,

ISBN 978-973-103-292-4. Number of pages: 572. First published: March 21st 2008.

2. WILLIAM FAULKNER, POVESTIRI INEDITE, (STORIES LEFT UNPUBLISHED – the

latter half of the vol. WILLIAM FAULKNER’S UNCOLLECTED STORIES, edited by Joseph

Blotner, Random House, 1979), Biblioteca William Faulkner (The “William Faulkner Library”

Series – a critical edition), Bucharest, Romania, RAO International Publishing Company, 2009,

ISBN 978-973-54-0095-8. Number of pages: 576. First published: March 1st 2010.

3. WILLIAM FAULKNER, ISCOADĂ ÎN ŢĂRÎNĂ, (INTRUDER IN THE DUST, Random

House, 1948), Biblioteca William Faulkner (The “William Faulkner Library” Series – a critical

edition), Bucharest, Romania, RAO International Publishing Company, 2010, ISBN 978 606 609

007 0. Number of pages: 256. First published: June 1st

2011.

4. THERESE ANNE FOWLER, Z: UN ROMAN DESPRE ZELDA FITZGERALD (Z: A

NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD, St. Martin’s Press, 2013), Humanitas Fiction Publishing

House, “Denisa’s Shelf” Series (Seria “Raftul Denisei”), Bucharest, Romania, ISBN 978-973-

689-866-2. Number of pages: 399. First published: February 19th

2015.

D. NON-FICTIONAL TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH

1. Translation of memoirs, as a member of a group of professors from the Department of

English, translators of Emil Constantinescu’s book of memoirs: Time for Tearing Down, Time

for Building, Bucureşti, Universalia Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 973-7722-06-2.

2. The English version of UNArte 150 – the anniversary catalogue of the National

University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania, celebrating 150 years since the foundation of the

first Romanian School of Belle Arte (1864), ISBN 978-606-8296-98-2. UNArte Publishing

House, Bucharest, Romania. April 25th

, 2014, Number of pages: 306.

E. INTERVIEWS WITH LITERARY AND ACADEMIC PERSONALITIES

1. « Andrei Codrescu intervievat de Anca Peiu, New Orleans, aprilie 2009” » (“Andrei

Codrescu interviewed by Anca Peiu, New Orleans, April 2009”) in vol. Cultura romanească în

perspectivă transatlantică. Interviuri (The Romanian Culture in Transatlantic Perspective.

Interviews), Editors: Maria Sabina Draga Alexandru & Teodora Şerban Oprescu, Editura

Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2010, pp. 31-39. ISBN 978-973-737-761-6.

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2. „Cu Therese Anne Fowler despre Zelda Fitzgerald” ( ”Talking with Therese Anne Fowler

about Zelda Fitzgerald”), an interview with Therese Anne Fowler, published in the România

literară – the literary magazine of the Romanian Writers’ Union (Uniunea Scriitorilor Români),

No. 14, April 3rd

, 2015, year XLVII, p. 22. ISSN 1220-6318.

A SHORT BIO

Dr Anca Peiu is an Associate Professor of the Department of English, as well as of the Center of

American Cultural Studies, of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of

Bucharest, Romania. She teaches American Literature of the 19th

century and has specialized in

Faulkner Studies. Anca Peiu has recently translated William Faulkner’s Uncollected Stories into

Romanian, in two volumes, for the RAO International Publishing Company. Dr. Peiu has

recently completed an extensive research of Representations of the South in William Faulkner’s

Uncollected Stories at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA – where she

benefited from a senior Fulbright scholarship.

Anca Peiu has also recently accomplished an updated translation into Romanian of Intruder in

the Dust – William Faulkner’s 1948 extremely intricate detective novel, raising contemporary

dilemmas upon the ancient inter-racial tension, set in the troubled American Old South. Her new

Romanian version of Faulkner’s book – written just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for

Literature – is published by the same RAO International Publishing Company, like her above

mentioned two volumes of literary translations. All these volumes are preceded by sound

introductory studies, supported by plenty of reference to recent documentation, signed also by

Anca Peiu. They belong to a special critical edition series, issued by RAO, known as the

“William Faulkner Library” series – entirely provided with notes and chronology by Anca Peiu.

Early in the spring of 2015, the American writer Therese Anne Fowler’s best-selling 2013 book:

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, was launched in the Romanian bookstores. Its Romanian version

was accomplished by Anca Peiu, who also provided the book with thoroughly documented notes.

The book, already a success on the Romanian bookmarket, as well, is published in the most

fashionable contemporary literature series “Denisa’s Shelf” (”Raftul Denisei”) of the Humanitas

Fiction Publishing House in Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Peiu has guided numerous graduation papers to generations of students ever since January

1991, when her academic career started at the University of Bucharest, Romania.