ASU Romanian Program
Summer Program
Romanian Language
Literature Courses
Ileana Orlich
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Languages and Literatures
Arizona State University

DR. ILEANA ALEXANDRA ORLICH
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

“Beyond Romania’s ‘Red Horizons’: Augustin Buzura’s Requiem for Madmen and Beasts’” forthcoming in România Literară. (in Romanian)

“Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and the Politics of Earnestness.” East European Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII No. 3 371-382 Fall 2004. (in English)

Valenţele narative ale povestirilor de la Hanu Ancuţei.” Vatra (5-6 – 2003). (in Romanian)

"Fefeleaga, Metaphoricity and the Making of a Romanian Icon." Lingua, (1-5/ 2002): 76-82.

"Requiem to the Rubble of Communist Ideology: Notes on Augustin Buzura's Moral Universe." New International Journal of Romanian Studies, (1-2/2000): 46-52. 

“Recviem Pentru Ramaşiţele Ideologiei Comuniste: Universul Moral al lui Solzhenitsyn şi Buzura.” România Literarã, 41 (Oct. 2000): 7-10. (in Romanian)

Entries on Camil Petrescu and Mateiu Caragiale. (Romanian Modern Classics) Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 221.

"At War With the Past, Uneasy Peace with the Future: Rãzvan Petrescu's 'Diary of an Apartment Dweller.'" Analele Universitatii din Craiova, (Anul XX, Nr. 1-2, 1998): 26-30. (Romanian journal)

"Schizofrenia Socială şi Represiunea Ideologică:  Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes şi Augustin Buzura, Refugii." România Literară 32 (July 1999):14-17. (in Romanian)

“The Mioritic Space as Political Subversion: The Poetry of Marin Sorescu.” Southeastern Europe, (Spring 1999):1-21 (Series on Romanian literature)

“Henry James and the Politics of Authorship: (Re)Constructing the Portrait of the Artist-Critic.”  The Centennial Review 40.3 (Fall, 1996):537-60.

“Tracking the Missing Link: Maupassant’s ‘Promenade’ and James’s ‘The Beast in the Jungle.’" The Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 18 (May, 1994):53-71.

“Song of My Emerging Self: The Poetry of Andrei Codrescu.” MELUS 18.3 (Fall, 1993):33-40. This is a modified version of a previous article on Codrescu published in the American Romanian Academy Journal.

“Avant-garde, Modernism, and Post Modernism: The Silent Voices of Romanian Women Poets.”  American Romanian Academy (ARA) Journal 18 (1993):44-53.

“The Poet on a Roll: Charles Simic’s ‘The Tomb of Stéphane Mallarmé’ and Mallarmé’ ‘Un Coûp de dés...’ and ‘Igitur.’”  The Centennial Review 36.2 (Spring, 1992):413-428.  Reprinted, in Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Summer 2000.

“Nostalgic Metamorphoses.” American Romanian Academy Journal 16-17 (1992):33-39.

“Henry James: Framing The Liar.” The International Fiction Review 18.2 (1991):91-95.

TRANSLATIONS

Translations of Contemporary American Poets (Anselm Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Ed Roberson, Rosmarie Waldrop) for the 2001 Anthology of Innovative American Poetry, (Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, 2001).

Translations of Contemporary Poets in Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Romanian Poetry, Eds: Carmen Firan and Edward Foster, forthcomning in Talisman House Publishers.

Translations of Ursachi Poems (with Adam Sorkin) in European Voices: Modern Poetry in Translation pp.187-8 (London: King's College, University of London) reprinted in Compost, April 2001 and in Archipelago (online) www. archipelago.org/vol. 5-3/ursachi.htm.

Translation of other Ursachi Poems (with Adam Sorkin) in West Branch 49 (Fall 2001) p 15. Published by Sheridan Books.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

"The Role of Romanian and Central East European Studies in American Universities at the Dawn of the New Millennium." in Romanian Studies at the Turn of the Century/Studiile romanesti la inceput de secol (Iasi, Oxford, Portland: The Center for Romanian Studies) 2000.

Mad Voices in the Forest: Caryl Churchill’s Configurations of Women in The Mad Forest.” in Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Representations of East European Women in Western Fiction (Columbia University Press, December 2004)

BOOKS

Haia Sanis, Translation and Critical Commentary Cluj: European Studies Foundation Publishing House, 2001.

Ciuleandra, Translation and Critical Commentary Cluj: European Studies Foundation Publishing House, 2002.

Silent Bodies: The Women of Modern Romanian Short Fiction East European Monographs, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Mara, Translation and Critical Commentary, Bucureşti: Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, 2003.

Tales from Ancuţa’s Inn, Translation and Critical Commentary, Bucureşti: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2004.

Tom Stoppard's play Travestiuri, in Romanian, Bucureşti: UNITEXT, 2004.

The Disheveled Maidens, Translation with Critical Commentary, Bucureşti: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, January 2005.

Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Modern Romanian Literature. (forthcoming January 2005, Columbia University Press)

PRESENTATIONS

“Roman Fever and Americans Abroad: Male Boundaries and Feminine Spaces in Henry James’s Daisy Miller,” Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Tempe, Arizona State University, October 14-16, 2004.

“The Culture Factor, Culture Shock: Cross Cultural Issues,” sponsored by the Fulbright Commission, Romania, American Cultural Center Auditorium, Bucharest, July 8, 2004.

“American Values and Central Europe: The Case of Romania,” UNESCO-sponsored International Roundtable on Brain Drain and Intellectual Labor Market in South East Europe, Bucharest, Romania, June 18-20, 2004.

“Beyond Censorship: The Madmen and Beasts of Romania’s ‘Red Horizons.’” The American Comparative Literature Association, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 15-18, 2004.

“The Poetics of Fear: Witnessing the Quotidian in the Romanian Fiction of the Communist Era,” Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, December 27-29, 2003.

“Gender in the Jaws of Life: Feminism and Contemporary Fiction in Eastern Europe,” The American Comparative Literature Association, The University of California, San Mateo, April 4-6, 2003.

“The Representation of Women in Western Literature: Mad Voices in the Forest,” Modern Language Association Conference, New York, December 27-29, 2002.

"Teaching Romanian in the Post Communist Era,” NAFSA Region II Conference, ASU, Tempe, November 11-15, 2002.

"Retrospective Narrative and the Politics of Fear in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle," The Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 10-12, 2002.

"The Role of the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Politics of the Twentieth-Century," The Eighth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies, Iaşi, Romania, June 23-25, 2002.

"Joyce and the Romanian Avant-Garde," The Eighteenth International James Joyce Symposium, Trieste, June 16-22, 2002.

"Modern Romanian Short Fiction in a Comparative Context," Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, December 27-29, 2001.

"Writing from the Periphery: The Image of the City in Contemporary Romanian Short Fiction," The Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 13-16, 2001.

"Political Subversion in the Romanian Short Fiction of the Cold War Period," American-Romanian Relations: 1940-2001 Years of Turmoil and Triumph, International Conference, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, June 28-30, 2001.

"Burnt by the Sun: The Memory of Stalinism," The American Comparative Literature Association, The University of Colorado at Boulder, April 20-22, 2001.

"Realism, Fantasy, and the Tragic Impasse in Caryl Churchill's 'The Mad Forest,'" Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 27-29, 2000. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

"Multiculturalism at the Babeş Bolyai University," Modern Language Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 27-29, 2000. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

"Images of Totalitarianism in Pre/Post Communist Drama," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Arizona State University, November 18, 2000.

"The Fictional Politics of Post-Communist Romania," Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, Phoenix, Sept. 14-16, 2000.

"Pre/Post-Communist Fictional Histories of the 'Other' Europe: Notes on Central Eastern European Literature," The American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Yale University, New Haven, February 25-27, 2000.

"The Portrayal of the Romanian  Woman-Peasant Character in Agirbiceanu's 'Fefeleaga,'" Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, December 27-29, 1999. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

"Transitional Voices, Perspectives Old and New: Late Fin de Siecle and Romanian Fiction," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Arizona State University,  October 30, 1999.

"The Role of the Balkans as a Borderline Culture: Notes on Ivo Andric and Alice Munro," The Southern Comparative Literature Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 16-8, 1999.

"Fascism as Historiographic Metafiction, The American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 8-11, 1999.

“Translating Fondane,  Modern Language Association Conference San Francisco, December 27-29, 1998. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

"Before the Wall and After the Fall: Cultural Dialogues in the Post-Totalitarian Era," American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages," ASU, Tempe, November, 1998.

“’Compulsory Visibility’” and Scopic Regimes: Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and Augustin Buzura’s Refuges, The Southern Comparative Literature Conference, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia, October 8-10, 1998.

“National Identity, Cultural Diversity and the Language of the Humanities,” The Santiago de Compostela Conference on the Future of the Humanities in Europe and the Americas, Spain, July 30-Aug.1, 1997.

“Lines Converging and Crossing: ‘The Power of the Powerless’ and Postmodern Romanian Poetry,” The Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, The University of Georgia, Athens, September, 1997.

“Social Schizophrenia and Ideological Repression in Post-Stalinist Romanian Fiction,” Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, 1997. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

“Marin Sorescu: Remembering the Man, Honoring the Achievement,” The Romanian Cultural Center, New York City, February 21, 1997.

“James and Wilde: (Re)Constructing the Portrait of the Artist as Cultural Critic,” The Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, September, 1996.

“Nordau’s Degeneration: Natural Sciences and Decadence in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle, The American Comparative Literature Association Conference, the University of Georgia, Athens, March, 1995.

“Maupassant and James:  Le Récit-Réflechissant,” The Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, September, 1994.

“Balzac, Stendhal and The Rise of the Romanian Novel:  ‘Upstarts Old and New’ in 19th-Century Wallachian Novel,  Modern Language Association, San Diego, December, 1994. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

“Intellectuality and Subversion:  New Insights in American-Romanian Poetry of the ‘90s,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, 1993. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

“The Silent Voices of Contemporary Romanian Women Poets: Censorship, Language, and Politics,” Modern Language Association, New York, 1992. Program arranged in conjunction with the Romanian Studies Association of America.

“Dadaism, the Absurd, and the Genesis of Postmodern Romanian Poetry,” Seventeenth International Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, California State University, Northridge, June, 1992.

“The Astonished Muse in Bucharest: A Study of the Influence of the American Tradition on Contemporary Romanian Poetry,” Sixteenth International Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 1991.