Teodora DRIȘCU (Asist. dr.)

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Teodora DRIȘCU (Asist. dr.)

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Teodora Driscu is an assistant lecturer of English literature at the Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi. She defended her PhD thesis entitled Archetypes of Death and Immortality in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction in June 2025 (Summa cum laude), participated in various international academic conferences and published multiple papers on the works of C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway etc. She teaches seminars on American Romanticism and various practical courses of English grammar and English texts (Old and Medieval Literature, The Inklings and Their Influences). She completed her education at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi (BA in English and French Language and Literature, MA in American Studies). She had ERASMUS+ scholarships at the University of Leicester, UK (2022-2023), University of Strasbourg, France (2020) and Paris-Sorbonne University, France (2016-2017) and a CEEPUS scholarship at GUSEGG Graz International Summer School in Austria (2021).

Teaching

American Literature Seminar (3^rd Year)
Grammar Practice (2^nd and 1^st Year)
Text Practice (2^nd and 1^st year)
Pedagogical Practice Mentorship
Specialty Practice Mentorship
Tutor for EduAcces Project

Research supervision

Articles

2025 – “Poiema vs Logos – Some Considerations on ‘Art For Art’s Sake’ in the Works of E. A. Poe and C. S. Lewis” in Studii de Știință și Cultură, Volume XXI, No. 4, Arad, Vasile Goldiș University Press, December 2025, pp. 144-151, ISSN 1841-1401 (print), ISSN 2067-5135 (online), indexed in ERIH PLUS, EBSCO HOST Publishing, DOAJ LAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES,https://revista-studii-uvvg.ro/files/SSC%202025/SSC%204%20-%20decembrie%202025.pdf?_t=1764919579
2025 – “‘Till Death Do Us Part’ – or Not? Death as a Unifier in The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis” in Inklings-Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 41: Dem Tode zum Trotz: Unsterblichkeit und Wiedergeburt in der Phantastik / Defying Death: Immortality and Rebirth in the Fantastic (Symposium 2023 in Magdeburg), 2025, pp. 54-64, ISSN 0176-3733, eISSN:2943-811X, https://thestacks.libaac.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/9ee06399-b3d9-40d0-86da-6ada06558e24/content
2025 – “The Archetype of the Prodigal Son in C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress and George MacDonald’s Lilith” in Studii de Știință și Cultură, Volume XXI, No. 1 (80), Arad, Vasile Goldiș University Press, March 2025, pp. 82-92, ISSN 1841-1401 (print), ISSN 2067-5135 (online), indexed in ERIH PLUS, CEEOL, EBSCO HOST Publishing, INDEX COPERNICUS INTERNATIONAL, DOAJ LAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, THE LINGUIST LIST, https://revista-studii-uvvg.ro/files/SSC%202025/SSC%201%20-%20martie%202025.pdf?_t=1741095820
2024 – “Two Antithetical Images of Death in the 20^th Century: Absurdity and Paradise” in Journal of International Scientific Publications: Language, Individual & Society, Volume 18, October 2024, pp.128-136, ISSN 1314-7250 (online), indexed in ERIH PLUS, Semantic Scholar, BASE, CiteSeerX, https://doi.org/10.62991/LIS1996407556
2024 – “C. S. Lewis’s Laugh at Modernism: The St(r)eam of Consciousness in ‘The Shoddy Lands’” in Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 1, June 2024, pp. 75-88, doi:10.47743/lincu-2024-1-0368, indexed in ERIH+ https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/368/312
2023 – “C.S. Lewis: Modernist or Anti-Modernist? His Response to his Times” in Journal of International Scientific Publications: Language, Individual & Society 17, pp. 151-160 (2023), indexed in ERIH+ https://www.scientific-publications.net/en/article/1002561/
2023 - “Human Nature in the Works of C.S. Lewis” in the book Ipoteze religioase în studiul naturii umane:O explorare științifică, filosofică și teologică, pp. 91-113 (2023), Institutul European, Iași
2021 – “La terreur de l’histoire dans le roman la 25^e heure de Virgil Gheorghiu”, in Intercultural Perspectives § Perspectives Interculturelles, Volume 3, pp. 63-72 (2021), Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, Iași
2020 - “Virgil Gheorghiu’s Engagement with the Romanian State and Religion” in Radical (Dis)Engagement: State – Society – Religion (Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought 6), pp. 133-142, (2020), Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Graz, DOI: 10.25364/25.6:2020.10.

Conferences

26-28 March 2026 – Participation in the Conference of the Faculty of Letters “Lumen Litterarum: Epoci, spații, culturi: de la textul clasic la textul digital” organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi with the paper “Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans in The Chronicles of Narnia”, https://litere.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Program_Lumen-2026v30.pdf
19-22 November 2025 – Participation in the C. S. Lewis International Interdisciplinary Conference 2025, Iași, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and The C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society with the paper “The Abrahamic Archetype in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction” https://iasi.cslks.ro/schedule/
8-9 May 2025 – Participation in the International Conference “Anglicits and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Art for Art’s Sake as an Ideology: The Search for Meaning in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and C. S. Lewis” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCxaPUeMz10AqjfGFcVBzY_3fvIh3RZr/edit?tab=t.0
8-9 November 2024 - Participation in the International Conference “George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference ‘Borderlands: George MacDonald Between Worlds’”, organised by George MacDonald Society, in St Andrews, UK, with the paper “The Archetype of the Prodigal Son in George MacDonald’s Lilith and C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress”
21-24 August 2024 –Participation in the International Conference “Language, Individual and Society” in Burgas, Bulgaria, with the paper “Two Antithetical Images of Death in the 20th Century: Absurdity and Paradise” – online
25-27 April 2024 – Participation in the “33^rd International Conference on British and American Studies” in Timișoara, Romania, organised by West University of Timisoara, Romania, with the paper “C.S. Lewis’s Laugh at Modernism: The St(r)eam of Consciousness in The Shoddy Lands,” https://bas.events.uvt.ro/wp-content/uploads/BAS-2024-programme-.pdf
19–20 April 2024 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The ‘Undisplaced’ Myths as Archetypes in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction,” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LSjcPyk8C0Cq0aDRGY4ROGv-wpB5We8FyVGTBg-ts5A/edit?tab=t.0
12 April 2024 – Participation in the National Conference “Drept si Litere” (Law and Letters), 4th Edition, “Indentități și Metafore Juridice” [“Identities and Juridical Metaphors”], organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi with the paper “Recunoașterea vinovăției: începutul vieții mistice în opera lui C.S. Lewis” [“The Admission of Guilt: The Beginning of the Mystical Life in C.S. Lewis’s works”], https://laws.uaic.ro/images/aaimagini/2024/04/Conferinta_DL_Program_Rezumate12_04_2024.pdf
9-11 November 2023 – Participation in “The 6^th International Conference C.S. Lewis – The Re-enchanted Academic” organised by The C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, with the paper “The ‘Empty’ Twenties and the ‘Steam’ of Consciousness – C.S. Lewis and Modernism,” https://simpozioncslewis.blogspot.com/p/conference.html
9 November 2023 – Participation in the conference “How to Be an Alien in British Cultural Studies” organised by the British Cultural Studies Centre and the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity at the University of Bucharest, in collaboration with New Europe College, with the paper “A British Pilgrim Outside the UK: C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress,” online, https://nec.ro/events/how-to-be-an-alien-in-british-cultural-studies/
26 August 2023 – Participation in the International Conference “Language, Individual and Society” in Burgas, Bulgaria, with the paper “C.S. Lewis: Modernist or Anti-Modernist? His Response to his Times” - online
11 -14 July 2023 – Participation in “Școala de vară pentru tinerii cercetători filologi” [The Summer School for Young Researchers in Philology], Ipotești, Botoșani county, Romania, organised by University “Babeș-Bolyai” of Cluj, with the paper “Dorul de paradis reflectat în Cronicile din Narnia de C.S. Lewis” [“The Longing for Paradise as reflected in The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis”]
29 April - 1 May 2023 – Participation in the “Inklings Symposium 2023”, organised by the Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics, Magdeburg, Germany, with the paper “`Till Death Do us Part` – or Not? Death as a Unifier in C.S. Lewis’s Fiction,” https://www.inklings.ovgu.de/inklings/en/Programme.htm
3 November 2022 – Participation in the “C.S. Lewis Symposium” at Ulster University, Coleraine, UK, with the paper “The Embodiment of Heaven in Lewis's Works”
28 - 29 October 2022 – Participation in the Conference “Religious Hypotheses and the Study of Human Nature”, Timisoara, with the paper “Human Nature in the Works of C.S. Lewis”, online, https://religioushypotheses.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Program-conferinta_FINAL-public_v3.pdf
28 - 29 October 2022 – Participation in “International Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference (IIDC2022)”, Bucuresti, Romania, with the paper “C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Quest for Paradise”, online, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5512473725495991&set=pcb.5512475378829159
14 - 15 October 2022 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, Iasi, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The Theme of Conversion in C.S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress,” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y5pOfdlaGZeVJu9wOA8NPPAYTbVHJuN0QAlkKJzOqbI/edit?tab=t.0
28 July - 5 August 2022 - Participation in the Conference “C.S. Lewis Summer Institute”, organised by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, Oxford, UK, with the paper “The Screwtape Letters - A Spiritual War in the Middle of Modernism”
18 - 19 November 2021 - Participation in the 5^th C. S. Lewis Interdisciplinary Conference, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and the C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society, Iasi, with the paper “The Fight between God and the Devil in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis”
28 Mai 2021- Participaion in the Symposium “Philologica” organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The Supreme Virtue of Love in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”
14-15 Mai 2021 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, rganised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Casy – An Iconic Spiritual Character in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”, https://www.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InterCulturalia-2021-Program-Abstracts-11-full.pdf
9 – 10 May 2019 - Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with two papers: “The American Adam – The Origins and the Present” and “La terreur de l’histoire dans le roman La 25e Heure de Virgil Gheorghiu” [“The Terror of History in the Novel The 25^th Hour by Virgil Gheorghiu”), https://events.linguaculture.ro/images/Inter2019/Program-scurt-A4-Interculturalia-2019.pdf
16 April 2019 - Participation in the International Student Symposium “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – Reconsidering American Values in the 21^st century”, organised by the Fulbright Commission with a paper about the American Adam, in Bucharest, Romania
6 May 2017 - Participation in „Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Feminism in Jane Eyre,” https://interculturalia.linguaculture.ro/principalthing/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Program-simpozion.pdf

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