ACADEMIC
AND MANAGERIAL POSITIONS
- Associate Professor
- Vice-dean
- Department representative in charge with
research and international relations
- Tutor of 2nd year MA programme (English
Language. Communication Practices)
- Coordinator of Erasmus+ agreements
(University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; University of Bratislava,
Slovakia; University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
- BA in Philology (1999-2003), University of Bacau,
Faculty of Letters and Sciences, English language and literature –
Romanian language and literature; diploma advisor: Professor Doina
Cmeciu
- MA in Language and
Communication Sciences (2003-2005), University of Bacau, Faculty of
Letters
- PhD in Philology, British and
American Literature (2008), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from Iasi,
Romania, Doctoral Studies Department; doctoral advisor: Professor Stefan
Avadanei
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
Teaching
positions
- February 2012 to the present - Senior lecturer, “Vasile
Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, Romania
- 2005-2012 - assistant lecturer in English
literature, University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters,
Romania
- 2003-2005 - teaching assistant,
University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Romania
TEACHING
ACTIVITY
Academic
disciplines currently taught
- English Literature (Enlightenment and
Romanticism)
- The History of British culture and
civilisation
- Practical English
- Business English
- Discourse practices. European
discourse
- Stylistics of discourse
- Interculturality and Anglophone horizon
Didactic
materials
- CULEA, MIHAELA, The History of
English Culture and Civilisation, Bacău, Alma Mater, ISBN
978-606-527-037-4, 2009.
- CULEA, MIHAELA, English for
Marketing Students. A Workbook for Marketing Students, I Year Students,
Distance Learning Programme, Bacău, Alma Mater, ISBN 978-606-527-190-6,
2012
- Culea, Mihaela; Galiţa, Raluca, English
for Accounting and Business Administration, Bacău, Alma Mater, 2012,
ISBN 978-606-527-229-3.
Erasmus
teaching staff mobilities:
- University of Poitiers, France
(2007)
- University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
(2014)
- University of Bratislava, Slovakia
(2015)
RESEARCH
ACTIVITY
Research
interests/fields of research
- English literature
- British cultural history
- cultural studies
- discourse analysis
Publications
Books
- CULEA, MIHAELA, Linguistic Representations and Contested Identities in the Media. The Special Case of SDouth-Eastern Europeans as 'Others' in the British Press, tHartung-Gorre Publishing House/ Konstanz, Germany, 2016, 278 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-569-9
- CULEA, MIHAELA; SUCIU, ANDREIA, Introduction to
Literary Interpretation. From Theory to Practice. Narrative Strategies,
Discourse Presentation and Tropes, Hartung-Gorre Publishing House/
Konstanz, Germany, 2014, 296 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-507-1
- SUCIU, ANDREIA, CULEA, MIHAELA, Literary Readings:
Key Terms from Theory to Practice, Hartung-Gorre Publishing House/
Konstanz, Germany, 2014, 318 pages, ISBN 978-3-86628-506-4
- CULEA, MIHAELA, Cultural Types and Spaces in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives. Interdisciplinary Readings, VDM Verlag Dr Muller, Saarbrucken, 2011, ISBN 978-3639373837
Selected articles/papers
- Mihaela Culea, “The
discourse of morality in S. Richardson’s Pamela;
or, Virtue Rewarded”, in Interstudia.
DISCURSIVE FORMS. NEW PERSPECTIVES - LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, COMMUNICATION,
“Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, No. 19(1)/2016, pp. 66-77, indexed
Index Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0,
Fabula, CEEOL, SCIPIO, http://www.scipio.ro/web/interstudia.
- Suciu, Andreia; Culea, Mihaela, “The Risk of Losing National Identity in the Twenty-First
Century Romania, or National Identity from Adaptation to Self-censorship”, in Khazar
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, volume 18, no. 1/2015, Khazar University Press, Baku,
Azerbaijan, ISSN 2223-2613 (PRINT), ISSN 2223-2621 (ONLINE), indexat in
Index Copernicus, DOAJ, Scirus Elsevier, Genamics, EBSCO, Asos, Arastrimax, pp. 13–34, DOI: 10.5782/2223-2621.2014.18.1.13, available at http://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2new-mihaela.pdf
- Mihaela Culea, “Adaptation or Escapism? The British Royals’
Tribulations and the Crisis of Personal Identity in Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I”, in Ars Aeterna, vol. 7, nr. 2/2015, De
Gruyter Open (electronic version), ISSN 1337-9291, pp. 44-64, indexed in
CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities),
EBSCO Discovery Service, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the
Humanities and Social Sciences), Genamics JournalSeek, Summon (Serials
Solutions/ProQuest)
- Mihaela Culea, “Humanizing
the Queen: Reading as Self-discovery and Writing as Redemption in Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader”, in Rupkatha Journal on
Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, India
(Calcutta), http://rupkatha.com/v5n3.php, 3(5)/2013, pp. 91-108, ISSN
0975-2935, indexed in Elsevier, MLA International Directory, Ulrichs Web, DOAJ, EBSCO etc.
- Mihaela Culea, “Socio-economic
Hardship and the Financial Crisis of the Working Class in Sue Townsend’s The Queen and I”, in Speech and Context. International Journal
of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science, Alecu Russo State University of Bălţi, Republic
of Moldova, http://speech-and-context.blogspot.ro/, 5(2)/2013, pp. 96-106, ISSN 1857-4149,
indexat in EBSCO, Index
Copernicus, ProQuest Central, DOAJ,
WorldCat etc.
- Mihaela Culea, “Addressing the Age-old Question of Human Perfectibility in Daniel Defoe’s Mere Nature Delineated: Or, a Body without a Soul”, in Brno Studies in English, no. 39(1)/2013, pp. 199-209, http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/home/publikace/bse-plone-verze, Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, ISSN 0524-6881, indexat in ERIH, MLA Bibliography, ABELL, CSA Language Behaviour Abstracts, Scopus
- Mihaela Culea, “From
Marginality to Celebrity in Enlightenment English Culture: The Case of Peter the Wild Boy”, in Interstudia.
Margins, Marginalization and the Discourse of Marginality, “Alma
Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, No. 13/2013, pp. 72 – 80, indexed in Index
Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0, Fabula,
CEEOL, SCIPIO, http://www.scipio.ro/web/interstudia.
- Mihaela Culea, “Current Trends in Literary Agenting, the Roles of Literary Agents and the Hardships of Getting Published in Contemporary Romania”, în Sudosteuropa. Journal for Policy and Society, http://www.ios-regensburg.de/en/publications/periodicals/suedosteuropa.html, ISSN 0722-480X, no. 61 (1)/2013, pp. 25 – 51, The Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, pp. 25 – 51, indexed "InternationaleBibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichenZeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)", "Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)“, "Sociological Abstracts (SA)", World Affairs Online database, researchable using (IREON) - The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway, CEEOL
- Mihaela Culea, “Book
branding and promoting authorial identity: a comparative approach”, in Knygotyra
(Book Science), Volume
59, No. 59/2012, ISSN 0204–2061, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, pp.
93 – 112, indexed Directory of Open Access Journals, BHO, EBSCO, LISA, MLA
Directory of Periodicals, http://www.leidykla.eu/en/journals/book-science/about-knygotyra/.
- Mihaela Culea, “Images
of the Moral Order: (Im)Morality and Redemption in Daniel Defoe's The Fortunes and Misfortunes
of the Famous Moll Flanders”, in American and British Studies
Annual (ABSA), no.
4/2011, University of
Pardubice, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of English and
American Studies, Czech Republic, ISSN
1803-6058, pp. 9-21; http://www.upce.cz/en/ff/kaa/casopis/obsah-4.cisla.html
- Mihaela Culea & Nadia-Nicoleta
Morăraşu, “Literary and Cultural Representations of the
Building-Metaphor in the English Culture of Sensibility”, in "Studii
si cercetari stiintifice - seria filologie. Plurilingvism si
interculturalitate/Plurilingualism and Interculturality", no.
24/2010, Bacău, “Alma Mater”, ISSN1224-841 X, pp. 69-77
- Mihaela Culea, “Means
of Exercising Power in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded”, in Philologia
Journal, nr. 7/2009, published by Philologia,
Beograd, Serbia, ISSN 1451-5342, eISSN 1820-5682, pp. 151-159, indexed SCIndekshttp://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%267995&page=15&sort=8&stype=0&backurl=%2fissue.aspx%3fissue%3d7995, DOAJ http://www.philologia.org.rs/Files/broj_7.pdf
- Mihaela Culea, “Spatial Arteries:
the Road Chronotope in the Eighteenth-Century English Novels”, in Interstudia, no. 3/2009,
Bacău, “Alma Mater”, ISSN 2065-3204, pp. 279–287, indexed Index
Copernicus, http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/passport.php?id=0, Fabula
and CEEOL
- Mihaela Culea, “Desire
and Confinement: The Body as Sequestered Object in Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded”, in Cultural Perspectives, no.
11/2006, ISSN 1224 – 239X, Editura “Alma Mater”, pp. 87 – 105, indexed CEEOL
EDITORIAL
ACTIVITY
Edited
volumes
- Elena Bonta (coord.), Catalina
Balinisteanu, Mihaela Culea, Raluca Galița, Interstudia no. 9(1)/2011, proceeding
volume "Cultural Diversity through Language and Communication",
Editura „Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2065-3204, no. 9(1)/2011.
Edited
journals
- Co-editor of RoBrit Student Journal.
English Semestrial Review of the Romanian Students from The Faculty of
Letters, Editura “Alma Mater”, Bacău, ISSN 2066-6470, no. 1/2009,
2/2010, no. 5/2013, no. 6/2014, no. 7/2015.
TUTORING
ACTIVITY
- Scientific advisor of diploma papers for
the bachelor's degree
- Scientific advisor of dissertations for
the MA degree
- Coordinator of methodological-scientific
papers for obtaining the didactic degree I certificate
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
Research
centres and groups
Member
of CETAL (Centre of Textual Explorations and Action through Language), Faculty
of Letters, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau
National
associations
- RSECS (Romanian Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies)
International
associations
- ISECS, International Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies
CONTACT
E-mail: culea.mihaela@ub.ro