🎓 Academic Teaching Experience: Over 30 Years on Three Continents
📍 Institutions

• Arizona State University (USA)
• University of Granada (Spain)
• University of Alicante (Spain)
• University of Suceava (Romania)
• NUML Islamabad (appointed 2025-)

📘 Selected University Courses Designed and Delivered
Languages, Literature, and Identity

• Introduction to Romanian Culture and Civilization in the European Context
• Romanian within the Romance Language Family
• History of Spanish Literature: The Golden Age to the Avant-Garde
• Latin American Literatures: Resistance, Memory, Revolution
• Comparative Literature: From Sumerian Epics to European Modernism
• The Diary, the Body, the Self: Women's Autobiography and Autofiction

Film, Philosophy, and Interdisciplinarity

• From the Literary Text to the Cinematic Poem
• Image, Body, and Gaze: Visual Culture and Identity
• Pre-Columbian Civilizations and Postcolonial Imaginaries
• Dystopia, Dictatorship, and Utopia in Literature and Film
• Ethics and Deontology for the 21st Century Professional

Translation, Storytelling, and Creative Practice

• Literary Translation with and without AI: A Comparative Approach
• Poetry Across Borders: Theory, Voice, and Rhythm
• Cultural Untranslatability and the Ethics of the Translator
• Translation as Creation: Workshops in Multilingual Performance

📚 Published Books and Volumes - Author & Editor
📖 As Author
 Panait Istrati Revisited. Literature of Exile and F(l)ame
 Habemus Corpus. Essays on the Body, Fiction, and Identity
 Cuerpos que hablan. Estudios interdisciplinarios de cuerpología femenina / Bodies that speak. Interdisciplinary studies of female bodyology
 In search of the lost body. Interdisciplinary studies of female body
 Corpuri. Despre imagine, memorie și ficțiune (Bodies. On Image, Memory, and Fiction)
 De la text la ecran. Poemul cinematografic (From Text to Screen: The Cinematic Poem)
 Invented Countries: Diasporic Translations and Cultural Reinventions
 Frida & Marie. The Siege of the Body in Two Diaries (in progress)
📚 As Editor & Coordinator
 The Faces of Marie, Queen of Romania. A Subjective Exhibition Catalogue
 Man and Myth. Knowledge and the Human Spirit
 Teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language: Approaches and Voices
 Jurnalele care au făcut patria. De la Dora la Maria (Journals that Made a Nation)
 Romanian at Your Hand: Anthology of Literary Translations
 Translation and Diasporic Identity. Proceedings from the Alicante Symposium

🎓 Professional & Creative Hobbies

• Theatre & Performative Pedagogy - frustrated actress, enthusiastic lecturer
• Literary Translation - from poetic fragment to cultural metaphor
• Photography & Visual Culture - semiotics, portraits, and textures of place
• Scholar of Identities, Memory and Meaning
• Philosophy - especially Ricoeur, Weil, Barthes, and Gadamer
• Endangered Languages - especially indigenous American tongues and Nüshu
• Conference Curation - scenographic design, academic dramaturgy, and space choreography
• Writing as Ritual - lyrical essay, creative nonfiction, autofiction, Curator of unheard voices and Cultural Memory

🌄 Private and Vital Joys

• Motorcycling - freedom in speed and solitude in sound
• Mountain Climbing & Hiking - asceticism and vertical serenity
• Music & Dance - flamenco, salsa, Balkan rhythms, and barefoot joy
• Handwriting Letters - tactile intimacy in a digital age
• Art Collecting & Collage - assembling symbolic fragments
• Being a Mother, a Mentor and a woman of many callings
• A Waver of Selves and Stories
• A Storyteller of Plural Worlds

Education

1976-1984

Primary School Nr.1, Gura Humorului, clasele I-VIII

1984-1988

Bachelor’s Degree in Philology

Bachelor’s Degree in Philology

Pedagogical Institute, Suceava

1990-1995

Double Degree in Philology: Romanian philology and English philology

„Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of Arts, Valedictorian

Bachellor

Double degree in Philology

1999-2007

PhD in Philology

„Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences

PhD

Romanian philology, exile literature PhD research on Panait Istrati, reread Cum laude Distinction

2005-2006 Master in Communication and Public Relations

„Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences

Master

Communicational Sciences

2004-2008 Double Degree in Philology Romanian Language and Literature - Spanish Language and Literature

„Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences

Bachellor

History of Spanish literature, History of the Spanish language

January - February - March - April - May 2009 courso on Lengua y cultura españolas para extranjeros

University of Alicante / Universitat d’Alacant

Intermediate Level 1B (A2); Intermediate Level 2B (A+) Intermediate Level 1A (B1)

Experience

🎓 Academic Teaching Experience: Over 30 Years on Three Continents
📍 Institutions

• Arizona State University (USA)
• University of Granada (Spain)
• University of Alicante (Spain)
• University of Suceava (Romania)
• NUML Islamabad (appointed 2025-)

📘 Selected University Courses Designed and Delivered
Languages, Literature, and Identity

• Introduction to Romanian Culture and Civilization in the European Context
• Romanian within the Romance Language Family
• History of Spanish Literature: The Golden Age to the Avant-Garde
• Latin American Literatures: Resistance, Memory, Revolution
• Comparative Literature: From Sumerian Epics to European Modernism
• The Diary, the Body, the Self: Women's Autobiography and Autofiction

Film, Philosophy, and Interdisciplinarity

• From the Literary Text to the Cinematic Poem
• Image, Body, and Gaze: Visual Culture and Identity
• Pre-Columbian Civilizations and Postcolonial Imaginaries
• Dystopia, Dictatorship, and Utopia in Literature and Film
• Ethics and Deontology for the 21st Century Professional

Translation, Storytelling, and Creative Practice

• Literary Translation with and without AI: A Comparative Approach
• Poetry Across Borders: Theory, Voice, and Rhythm
• Cultural Untranslatability and the Ethics of the Translator
• Translation as Creation: Workshops in Multilingual Performance

Publications

📚 Published Books and Volumes - Author & Editor
📖 As Author
 Panait Istrati Revisited. Literature of Exile and F(l)ame
 Habemus Corpus. Essays on the Body, Fiction, and Identity
 Cuerpos que hablan. Estudios interdisciplinarios de cuerpología femenina / Bodies that speak. Interdisciplinary studies of female bodyology
 In search of the lost body. Interdisciplinary studies of female body
 Corpuri. Despre imagine, memorie și ficțiune (Bodies. On Image, Memory, and Fiction)
 De la text la ecran. Poemul cinematografic (From Text to Screen: The Cinematic Poem)
 Invented Countries: Diasporic Translations and Cultural Reinventions
 Frida & Marie. The Siege of the Body in Two Diaries (in progress)
📚 As Editor & Coordinator
 The Faces of Marie, Queen of Romania. A Subjective Exhibition Catalogue
 Man and Myth. Knowledge and the Human Spirit
 Teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language: Approaches and Voices
 Jurnalele care au făcut patria. De la Dora la Maria (Journals that Made a Nation)
 Romanian at Your Hand: Anthology of Literary Translations
 Translation and Diasporic Identity. Proceedings from the Alicante Symposium

Interests

🎓 Professional & Creative Hobbies

• Theatre & Performative Pedagogy - frustrated actress, enthusiastic lecturer
• Literary Translation - from poetic fragment to cultural metaphor
• Photography & Visual Culture - semiotics, portraits, and textures of place
• Scholar of Identities, Memory and Meaning
• Philosophy - especially Ricoeur, Weil, Barthes, and Gadamer
• Endangered Languages - especially indigenous American tongues and Nüshu
• Conference Curation - scenographic design, academic dramaturgy, and space choreography
• Writing as Ritual - lyrical essay, creative nonfiction, autofiction, Curator of unheard voices and Cultural Memory

🌄 Private and Vital Joys

• Motorcycling - freedom in speed and solitude in sound
• Mountain Climbing & Hiking - asceticism and vertical serenity
• Music & Dance - flamenco, salsa, Balkan rhythms, and barefoot joy
• Handwriting Letters - tactile intimacy in a digital age
• Art Collecting & Collage - assembling symbolic fragments
• Being a Mother, a Mentor and a woman of many callings
• A Waver of Selves and Stories
• A Storyteller of Plural Worlds