About
Professor of American Literature and American Civilization; Brandeis University, Mass. Fulbright fellow (2001- 2002), J.F. Keedy Institute for North American Studies grantee (2003). Author of numerous studies on American literature; e.g.
The Phenomenology of the Novel, 2002;
Strategists of Assimilation: Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, 2003; “Narrative Constructs and Border Transgressions in Jewish-American Holocaust Fiction”,
Studies in Jewish American Literature, 28 (2009): 46-54; “La Roumanie et les Juifs. Pessimisme ou lucidité?”
Cité, 29/2007, Presses Universitaire de France, 2007; “Delving into the Kernel: Teaching Bernard Malamud in Post-Communist Romania.”
Imaginaires 14 Presses Universitaire de France (2010): 73-92; “Inescapable Colonization: Norman Manea’s Eternal Exile”.
Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe. Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2009.
His most recent publications are: “From Shtetl to the Hub: Mary Antin’s Networking Palimpsest,”
Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women’s (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (1776-1939), eds. Julia Nitz, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Theresa Schon, (2016, European Views of the United States – Universitätsverlag Winter); “Space and Place in Fictional Storyworlds,”
Teaching Space, Place and Literature. Ed.
Robert T. Tally Jr., London: Routledge, forthcoming – 2018.
Publications
Publications (a selection)
Books
Strategists of Assimilation: Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska. Bucharest: The Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2003.
The Phenomenology of the Novel. Iasi: Institutul European, 2002.
Avatarurile eroului problematic: de la mit la anti-roman. Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1999.
Essays and Studies
“Space and Place in Fictional Storyworlds,”
Teaching Space, Place and Literature. Ed.
Robert T. Tally Jr., London: Routledge, 2018
https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Space-Place-and-Literature/Tally Jr/p/book/9781138047037
“Globalized Space, Place and Identity in the Neoliberal American Novel”
Space and Place 6; Inter-Disciplinary.Net. Eds. Aaron Deveson, Heidi Seetzen, 2016 (forthcoming: ISBN: 978-1-84888-434-2;
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/archives/panorama/space-and-place-6-2015-ebook)
“
Neoliberalism in a Cognitive Key: Decoding the Deixis of Contemporary American Novelistic Discourse”, Ed. Aleksandar Prnja , Belgrade: Alpha University, 2016, 107 – 113,
https://www.ceeol.com/search/chapter-detail?id=481659
“A Cognitive Narratology Approach to the American Neoliberal Novel: Figure Versus Ground in Jonathan Franzen’s
Freedom. Belgrade: English Language and Literature Studies. – ISSN 1821-4827. – Vol. 8 (2016), p. 311-318.
“From Shtetl to the Hub: Mary Antin’s Networking Palimpsest.” in
Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women’s Networks across Europe and the Americas. Eds. Julia Nitz, Sandra H. Petrulionis, Theresa Schön. Universität WINTER, Heidelberg, 2016.
“Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Studies.”
Proceedings of the International Conference CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY (VII), Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2014, 237 – 244.
“Delving into the Kernel: Teaching Bernard Malamud in Post-Communist Romania.”
Imaginaires 14 (2010): 73-92.
“Narrative Constructs and Border Transgressions in Jewish-American Holocaust Fiction”,
Studies in Jewish American Literature, 28 (2009): 46-54.
“Inescapable Colonization: Norman Manea’s Eternal Exile”.
Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe. Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2009.
“Exile and Ethnic Identity in Norman Manea’s Work”,
Balkanistica 22 (2009): 75- 88.
“Re-storying Tradition as Bricolage: Judaic Lore and Jewish American Fiction”, in
Herméneutique et bricolage. Territoires et frontières de la Tradition dans le judaïsme. Actes du colloque de Bucarest, 27-28 octobre 2006. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2008.
“Exiles of the Ethnic Mind: Norman Manea’s
The Hooligan’s Return”,
University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume IX, No. 1/2007.
“Multiculturalism and the Literary Canon: American and Romanian Perceptions”,
Români majoritari/ Români minoritari: Interferenţe şi coabitări lingvisitce, literare şi etnologice. Academia Română, Filiala Iaşi, Institutul de filologie ,,A. Philippide”, Iaşi: Editura Alfa, 2007.
“Terms of Consent: Nineteenth Century German Jewry in the New World”.
New/Old Worlds: Spaces of Transition. Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007
“La Roumanie et les Juifs. Pessimisme ou lucidité?”
Cité, 29/2007, Presses Universitaire de France, 2007.
“Modernism and Fascism in American Letters: The Nashville Group”, University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume VIII, No. 4, 2006.
“A Taste of Doom: Postmodern Deconstructions of Jewishness in Melvin Jules Bukiet’s ‘After’”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. Vol. VII, no. 3, 2005
