Codrin Liviu CUȚITARU (Prof. dr.)

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Codrin Liviu Cuţitaru (b. 1968). Professor of English and American Literature at „Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi. Ph.D. adviser. Graduate (B.A./M.A.) of the Faculty of Letters from the University of Iași (English-Romanian, 1991). Ph.D. in English and American Literature (1996). Guest IIE Researcher at the University of Texas (USA, Austin, 1993). Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona (USA, Tucson, 1993-1994). Guest Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Freiburg (Germany, 1995 and 2000), at the University of Sheffield (UK, 2002), at the University of London (UK, 2009).

Task Force Representative of the University of Iaşi in the Coimbra Group Doctoral Programmes at the University of Padua (Italy, 2011) and the University of Gottingen (Germany, 2012). Appointed Consul General of Romania in Vancouver (Canada, 2007). Director of Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Letters, University of Iaşi (2009-2012). Dean of the Faculty of Letters, University of Iaşi (since 2012).

Fields of research/interest: American Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Anthropology.
 

Books

Author of six books published so far (literary history, critical theory, criticism, mentalities), i.e.

Istoria depersonalizată, Editura Universităţii “Al.I.Cuza”, Iaşi, 1997, 173 pp., ISBN 973-93-12-08-X

Jurnalul Vestului Sălbatic. Un studiu de mentalităţi, Editura Junimea, Iaşi, 1999, 124 pp., ISBN 973-37-0439-3

Transcendentalism şi ascendentalism. Proiect de fenomenologie culturală a romantismului american, Editura Universităţii “Al.I.Cuza”, Iaşi, 2001, 210 pp., ISBN 973-8243-03-3,

The Victorian Novel. A Critical Approach, Editura Universitatii “Al.I.Cuza”, Iaşi, 2004, 215 pp.

Reprezentări critice, Editura Standart, Iaşi, 2004, 354 pp., ISBN 973-86589-0-X

Istoreme, Editura Institutul European, Iaşi, 2009, ISBN 978-973-611-594-3.

Contributions and articles

Contributor to various international academic volumes, such as
 
Postmodernism: A Romanian Perspective in Southeastern Europe, Idyllwild/California (USA), vol. 17, 2000, pp. 29-38

Romanian Criticism in Southeastern Europe, Idyillwild/California (USA), 2002, vol.29, pp. 77-87

Eminescu and Hegel in Prelegeri Academice, Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest (Romania), vol. IX, 2010, pp. 57-67, ISBN 1583-4514

Identities and Models in Romanian Criticism, in Memory. Identity. Intercultural Communication, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, Rome (Italy), 2012, pp. 58-81, ISBN 978-886-8120-01-6.

Author of more than 1.000 articles (academic articles, critical reviews, essays) in Romania and abroad.