Curriculum Vitae Ileana Alexandra Orlich ASU President’s Professor Arizona State University School of International Letters & Cultures College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University e-mail: [email protected] http://www.public.asu.edu/~orlich Tempe, Arizona 85287-0202 480-965-4658 Education Post Graduate School of Literary Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Department of English, Arizona State University (Dissertation: “Balzac and Henry James: The Transatlantic Transit of the Novella”) M.A., English, Department of English, Arizona State University Diploma de Licenţa, English and Romanian Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania (Thesis: “John Steinbeck and Marxism”) Positions held Academic Professor of Romanian Studies, English and Comparative Literature SILC (2005 – present) Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard’s Institute for World Literature (Summer 2012) http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/pages/2012-seminars , http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/media- gallery/detail/145111/127221 , Associate Professor, ASU Department of Languages and Literatures (2002 – 2005) Assistant Professor, ASU Department of Languages and Literatures (1998 – 2002) Lecturer, ASU Department of English (1995 – 1998) Administrative Head of German, Romanian and Slavic Faculty SILC Chairwoman of the Consular Corps Governor’s Scholarship Committee Director, Romanian Language Lectorate in SILC Director of the Romanian and Central European Cultural Collaborative Director, Summer Program in Romania and Central Europe Member of the Distinguished Teaching Academy Honorary Consul General of Romania in Arizona Awards and Honors 2015: Fulbright Scholar Senior, National University of Art, Theatre and Cinema (UNATC) Bucharest 2014: Distinguished Sustainability Scholar, ASU-GIOS 2013: Fellow, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin-ICD 2012: ASU President’s Professor 2011: ASU Parents’ Association Professor of the Year 2011: Fulbright Scholar Senior, Academy of Economics and Public Policy (ASE) Bucharest, Romania 2006-7: Fulbright Scholar, University of Bucharest, Romania 2006: ASU Professor of the Year, Special Recognition 2004: Medalia Ordinul Cultural al Romaniei (awarded by the President of Romania) 2004: Translation Prize of Romania’s Institute of Culture 2001: ASASU Centennial Professor Grants • Fall 2014: The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Grant for collaborative theatre project with UNATC (National University of Art, Theatre and Cinema) of Bucharest for Eugene Ionesco’s The Lesson and The Chairs staged at ASU in Nov. 2014; 15,000 Euros • Fall 2013: The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Grant for collaborative theatre project with UNATC (National University of Art, Theatre and Cinema) of Bucharest for Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano staged at ASU in Nov. 2013; 15,000 Euros • Summer 2012: University of South Carolina, Columbia Publishing Grant • Spring 2012: The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) Grant for a conference in Comp Lit offered by six academics from the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania • Fall 2011: The Romanian Language Institute (ILR): A 6-year funding grant for a Visiting Professor from Romania to teach ROM courses in SILC. • Fall 2011: The Romanian Cultural Institute Grant • Fall 2010: ICR Collaborative project grant with Théâtre Denis, Hyeres, France and the National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, Romania • Fall 2009: Phoenix Romanian Community Grant • Summer 2009: Collaborative project grant with Théâtre Denis, Hyeres, France Summer 2008: ASU’s Institute for Humanity Research Seed Grant • Summer 2008: Romanian Writers’ Union Grant • Fall 2007, 2008, 2009: Collaborative project grant with the National Theatre of Cluj-Napoca. The Romanian Cultural Institute and Government sponsored projects • Fall 2006 - Summer 2007: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Literary Translation • 2006; 2007: Literary Translation Grants of the Romanian Cultural Institute • Spring 2005: ASASU Travel Grant for ASU Romanian Program • 2005; 2003; 2002: ASU’s Women’s Studies Research Summer Grants • 2003: The London Raţiu Foundation Publishing Grant • 2001; 2002: ASU CLAS Travel Grants PUBLICATIONS Books • SUBVERSIVE STAGES. Dramatic Transcreations in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian Theater. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016. http://www.ceupress.com/catalog/Catalog_2016_web.pdf • Staging Stalinism in Post-Communism Romania. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cartii de Stiinta, UniArt Collection 2012. • Avantgardism, Politics and the Limits of Interpretation in The (Ex)Centric Waste Land: Reading Gelu Naum’s Zenobia. Bucharest: Paideia Press, 2010. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16506962W/Avantgardism_politics_and_the_limits_of_interpretatio n_in_The_(ex)centric_waste_land • Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel. East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/Modernity-Twentieth-Romanian-European- Monograph/dp/0880336439/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1324317357&sr=8-4 • Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Romanian Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. http://www.amazon.com/Articulating-Gender-Narrating-Nation- Allegorical/dp/0880335475/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1324317357&sr=8-5 • Silent Bodies: (Re)Discovering the Women of Romanian Short Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Bodies-Ileana-Alexandra- Orlich/dp/0880334991/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439944419&sr=1- 2&keywords=ileana+orlich Book Translations with Critical Commentaries and Notes • Carlos Manuel Varela. Interrogatorio en Elsinore. Bilingual volume. Translated from Spanish. In English and Romanian. Bucuresti: Editura Euro Press. 2016. ISBN 978-606-668-195-7 http://www.europressgroup.ro/advanced_search_result.php?d=off&inc_subcat=1&keywords=Vare la • Boris Akunin. Hamlet. A Version. Bilingual volume. Translated from Russian. In Romanian and English. Bucuresti: Editura Euro Press. 2014. ISBN 978-606-668-066-0. http://www.europressgroup.ro/hamlet-p-182.html • The Cherry Orchard, Sequel. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cartii de Stiinta. UniArt Collection, 2012. • Kiss Me. Confessions of a Bare-Footed Leper. Gardena: Bettie Youngs Books, 2011. http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Me-Confessions-Bare-footed-Leper/dp/1936332132 • The Bed of Procrustes. Bucharest: Camil Petrescu Cultural Foundation Press, 2008. • Velvet Tache. Bucharest: Paideia Press, 2008. • The Hidden Way. Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, 2007. http://www.revistascrisulromanesc.ro/editura/work/carti/papadatmare.jpg • The Hallipa Trilogy. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2007. • A Concert of Music by Bach. Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, 2005. • Tales from Ancuţa’s Inn. Bucharest: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2004. http://litere.ro/doc/anale/2008/13_Olrich.pdf • The Disheveled Maidens. Bucharest: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2004. • Travestiuri. Bucharest: UNITEXT, 2004 (translated from English into Romanian both as a book and a stage text of this play premiered at the National Theatre of Romania). • Mara. Bucharest: Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, 2003. • Ciuleandra. Cluj-Napoca: European Studies Foundation Publishing House, 2002. • Haia Sanis Cluj-Napoca: European Studies Foundation Publishing House, 2001. Book Chapters • “Code Name: Porn. Political Protest and Spiritual Redemption in András Visky’s Theatre.” Komporaly, Jozefina, Ed. Memories of the Body: Captivity as a State of Being in András Visky’s Barrack Dramaturgy. Forthcoming from Bristol: Intellect, UK. November 2016. • Theatre and Theology in “Kiss Me”. Absinthe: New European Writing , in Absinthe 21, No.18, 2012. • “Exile as Political Discourse in the novels of Herta Muller.” Migrazione e Patologie dell’ humanitas. Frankfurt am Main, Bruxelles, New York: Internationel Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. • “Modernism and the Male World: The Crisis of Masculinity in The Bed of Procrustes.” The Canonical Debate Today Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2011. http://www.brill.com/products/book/canonical-debate-today • “Is There a Life after Communism? The Textualization of the Capital in Contemporary Romanian Short Fiction.” US – Romanian Relations in the Twentieth Century. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2010. • “Un nou sfirsit de veac in Bucuresti: Dimineata pierduta.” Published in Italian “Una nuova fin de siècle a Bucarest: una Dimineata pierduta.” Trans. Bernacchia, Anita Natascia. Volume of critical essays Il Romanzo Rumeno Contemporaneo (1989-2010). Teorie E Proposte Di Lettura. Roma: Bagatto Libri, 2010. • “Aesthetic Pursuits and the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Picture and Text in Henry James’s Madame de Mauve.” Text(e)/Image. Etudes critiques (Critical Studies). Ed. Alexandra Vranceanu. Bucharest: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2009. • “Translations and Impact. Translation and Transculturation: Transmission and Innovation of Culture.” The Impact of European Integration on the National Economy. Cluj Napoca: Editura Risoprint, October 2006. • “Mad Voices in the Forest: Caryl Churchill’s Configurations of Women in The Mad Forest.” Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Representations of East European Women in Western Fiction. Eds. Domnica Radulescu and Valentina Glajar. Columbia University Press, December 2004. https://cup.columbia.edu/search-results?keyword=Vampirettes • “The Role of Romanian and Central East European Studies in American Universities at the Dawn of the New Millennium.” Romanian Studies