Studies:
2005, PhD at „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu
1978-1982, „Oradea College of Higher Education”, at present the University of Oradea, MA in Romanian and English
1974-1978, „Emanuil Gojdu” High-School,

Area of speciality:
Literary Theory, English, Creative Writing
Teaching:
Literary Theory, Mass Culture
Research:
Parable and Allegory, Psychoanalysis, Archetypal Criticism, Feminisms, Historiography and Fiction

Lectures/seminars given:

Scientific research projects:
2006-2008
– I am a member of the research group run by Professor Ion Simut at the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, dealing with „European Features of Contemporary Romanian Literature”; I shall write about historiographic metafiction;
2004-2008
– I have been involved (with another colleague of mine in the English Department of the Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea) in the „Reading Groups Project”, initiated by the British Council Romania and meant to promote extremely contemporary British fiction in six Romanian universities;
2001-2004
– I was one of the thirteeen teachers and academics who designed and ran the Creative Writing Project initiated by the British Council Romania, a project meant to implement CW activities in schools and universities all over Romania;

Other:
Exposure to the international higher education arena
2007
– March: attended, as recipient of a grant awarded by the Central European University, the seminar “New Paradigms in Writing and Teaching History in Eastern-Europe after 1989”; in Budapest, Hungary;
2006
– August: attended the I. S. C. L. T. Conference on “Water in Literature”; in Istanbul, Turkey;
– April: attended, as recipient of a grant from the Press & Culture Section of the US Embassy in Bucharest, the EAAS Biennial Conference “Conformism, Non-conformism and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the United States”, co-chaired Workshop 2, “From the Melting Pot of Entropy to a Crack-Potting Ecriture”; in Nicosia, Cyprus;
2005
– April: attended, as recipient of a grant awarded by the British Council Seminars, “Reading Reputations’, the Oxford Conference for the Teaching of Literature; in Oxford, UK;
2004
– June: attended, as recipient of a grant, the East-West American Studies Conference on “Artists and Intellectuals and the Challenge of Political Commitment” at “J. W. Goethe’ University”; paper presented, “Peeping Through the Iron Curtain: From Kafka to Vonnegut”; in Frankfurt, Germany;
2003
– August: completed research for my PhD, as recipient of an Intra-European grant awarded by EAAS, at the University of London; in London, UK;
– August: attended the I. S. C. L. T. Conference on “Bestiaries and Animal Metaphors”; paper presented, “The Beast as Text and the Text as Beast”; in Giggleswick, UK;
– July: attended, as recipient of a grant awarded by the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, the course “Psychoanalysis and Literature”; I also received a grant from the Press & Culture Section of the US Embassy in Bucharest; in Ithaca, USA;
– March: attended, as recipient of a grant awarded by the Central European University, the seminar “Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Gender”; in Budapest, Hungary;
2002
– August: attended the I. S. C. L. T. Conference on “Otherness and the Stranger”; paper presented, “Orwellian Identities in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland”; in Kazimierz, Poland;
2001
– August: attended the Creative Writing Summer School organized by the British Council Slovakia; in Zdiar, Slovakia;
– August: attended, as recipient of a grant awarded by the Arvon Foundation, “Starting to Write”, a Creative Writing course; in Totleigh Barton, UK;
2000
– July: attended “On Miracle Ground: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference”; paper presented, “Lawrence Durrell. In Between the Enchanted Island and the Continent”; in Corfu, Greece;
– February: attended the Creative Writing Seminar organized by the British Council Slovakia; in Bumeridce, Slovakia;
1998
– July: attended the conference ”The Iconography of the European Fantastic”; paper presented, “Mapping the Allegorical Fantastic in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress”; in Szeged, Hungary;
1997
– September: attended, as recipient of a grant, the Salzburg Seminar Workshop on TEFL, “Neglected Genres in the Classroom: Travel Writing, Autobiography, Diaries, Detective Fiction and Science Fiction”; project developed, “On Translating Batman”; in Salzburg, Austria;
1995
– August: attended, as recipient of a grant, “Re-Writing History”, the fourth Session of the Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies; in Stuttgart, Germany;
– January: attended the HUSSE Conference; paper presented, ”An Odd Messiah”; in Szeged, Hungary;
1993
– July: attended, as recipient of a grant, “Literature as a Political Force”, Session 306 of the Salzburg Seminar; in Salzburg, Austria;



Affiliation and Membership

– starting with 2006, I am a member of the editorial board of SKASE Journal of Literature Studies (SKASE: The Slovak Association for the Study of English)

– starting with 2002, I am a member of I. S. C. L. T. (International Society for Contemporary Literature and Theatre)

– starting with 2002, I am a member of International Hemingway Society

– starting with 2000, I am a member of EAAS (European Association for American Studies)

– starting with 2000, I am a member of International Lawrence Durell Society

– starting with 1996, I am a member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)



Contact info:

e-mail: dhpopescu@yahoo.com

2006
– wrote Efectul de parabolă/The Parable Effect, published by Oradea University Press;
2002
– translated Linda Hutcheon’s A Poetics of Postmodernism, published in Bucharest by the Univers Publishing House;
1999
– edited a second bilingual anthology of Contemporary British Writers, jointly published by Familia Publishing House and Oradea University Press;
1997
– translated Batman and Robin, by Michael J. Friedman, published by Papyrus Press;
– edited a first bilingual anthology of Contemporary British Writers, published by Oradea University Press;
1995
– translated Poems by John Drew, published by Familia Publishing House;