Maria-Ana Tupan

Maria-Ana Tupan (born Apil 19, 1949) is a Romanian university professor, literary critic, and translator. She is a member of the "Criticism and Literary History" section of the Writers' Union of Romania and several international scientific societies. Tupan is also a PhD Supervisor at the Doctoral School of 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia.

Maria-Ana Tupan
Born	(1949-04-19) April 19, 1949 Sărulești, Buzău, Romanian People's Republic
Occupation	literary criticism, essays, History of British literature, Literary theory
Language	Romanian, English
Nationality	Romanian
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Period	1990 – present

Life and work

She was born in Sărulești, Buzău County, Romania, to an Orthodox priest. After graduating from high school in Buzău in 1967, she studied English and German at the Languages Department of the University of Bucharest, where she graduated in 1972 as a valedictorian. Barred from doctoral studies by the communist regime, she got her PhD degree in 1992, shortly after the 1989 fall of communism, under the supervision of Leon Levițchi and Alexandru Duțu. She was promoted from professor‘s assistant to full professor at the University of Bucharest (1991–2002). In 2014 she completed her training in literary studies and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students and pursuing her career of academic writing. In 1994–1995 she was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University as visiting professor under the Fulbright Scholars Program. She has publications in the fields of literary history and theory, comparative literature, genre theory, and cultural studies. She presented papers at conferences in Athens, University Park (Penn State University), Madrid, Manchester, Salzburg, Vienna, Dresden, Graz, Rome, Cologne, and Dortmund.

Literary activity

Her 17 books and a number of articles published in Europe, India, United States, and Australia are based on theoretical underpinnings falling within the fields of epistemology of literature, philosophy of culture, literary history and theory.

Selected works

• A Survey Course in British Literature București: Editura Universității din București, 1997 ISBN 973-575-835-0
• British Literature. An Overview (București: Editura Universității din București, 2005) ISBN 973-737-086-4
• The New Literary History (București: Editura Universității din București, 2006) ISBN 978-973-737-205-5
• Genre and Postmodernism (București: Editura Universitatii din București, 2008) ISBN 978-973-737-572-8
• Modernismul si psihologia. Încercare de epistemologie literara. Modernism and Psychology. An Inquiry into the Epistemology of Literary Modernism (București: Editura Academiei Române, 2009) ISBN 978-973-27-1826-1
• Literary Discourses of the New Physics. With an Introduction by Marin Cilea (București: Editura Universității din București, 2010) ISBN 978-973-737-787-6
• Teoria și practica literaturii la inceput de mileniu. (București: Editura Contemporanul, 2011) ISBN 978-606-92683-0-8
• Postmodernist Energetics: Peter Ackroyd's Museum Spac (The Museal Turn. Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Winter Verlag. Heidelberg University Press, 2012)ISBN 978-3-8253-6097-9
• Relativism/ Relativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) ISBN 1-4438-4744-5; ISBN 978-1-4438-4744-5
• Realismul magic. Încercare genealogică. București (Editura Academiei, 2013) ISBN 978-973-27-2393-7
• ”The Zone: Ontological or Epistemological Operator?” (Eds. Christine Lötscher, Petra Schrackmann, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Aleta-Amirée von Holzen, Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic. Reihe: Fantastikforschung / Research in the Fantastic. Berlin-Munster-Wien-Zurich-London: LIT Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-643-80185-2
• The Kantian Legacy. Essays in Epistemology and Aesthetics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN 1-4438-9750-7; ISBN 978-1-4438-9750-1
• “Early Modern Essays: the Harmonics of the Discourse of Authority” in The Essays: Forms and Transformations. Ed. Dorothea Flothow, Markus Oppolzer, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8253-6687-2
• The Key to Change. Interdisciplinary Essays in Cultural History, Lambert Academic Publishing (2017) ISBN 978-333-00-2737-4
• The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes: The Mirror and the Signet. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2020) ISBN 1-5275-9948-5; ISBN 978-1-5275-9948-2
• Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2023) ISBN 1-5275-0492-1; ISBN 978-1-5275-0492-9
• "Special Issue on Poetics of Self-construal in Postcolonial Literature". Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Special Issue. 15 (5). 2023.
• "Cultural Barriers or Flawed Hermeneutics: Martin Heidegger's "Dialogue on Language"". Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies. 7: 30–45. 6 April 2024. doi:10.9734/bpi/rraass/v7/11671F.

Affiliations

• member of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Section of Criticism and Literary History (from 1996)
• member of the "Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung" (The Association for Research in the Fantastic)
• member of EFACIS (The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies)
• member of ISTW (International Societry for Travel Writing)
• member of The Charles Brockden Brown Society

Literary prizes

• Romanian Writers' Union Award for Translation and World Literature, 1996.
• Convorbiri Literare Magazine Award for Anglistics, 2000.
• National Award for Excellence in Theory, History and Literary Criticism awarded by Contemporanul magazine, 2019.