PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association.

American Comparative Literature Association.

Southern Comparative Literature Association (Executive Board Member).

American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (ARA).

Romanian Studies Association of America (RSAA) (Current President) -- Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association. Executive Committee Member (elected) (1992-1996).

National Council of Teachers of English.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chair of Organizing Committee, Twenty-Sixth Annual Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference hosted by ASU, Phoenix, Sept. 14-16, 2000.

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Department of English, Arizona State University, 1996 - 1998.

Advisor, Alpha Mu Gamma, 1999-Present. National Foreign Language Honor Society, Department of Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University.

Manuscript Reviewer for:

The Comparatist

MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)

PMLA

World Literature Today

Affiliate faculty in English, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, Political Science, Chicana/Chicano Studies and Women's Studies Program.

Interviewer for the Fulbright and NSAP Scholarships, Honors College, ASU, fall 2000-present.

Consultant for Flinn Scholarship Program in Eastern Europe

Director, ASU Summer Program in Romania and Central Eastern Europe

Keynote speaker at the Alpha Mu Gamma National Foreign Language Honor Society, ASU Chapter, 2000 Induction Ceremony.

PUBLIC LECTURES

"The Importance of Eastern Europe Today" Centennial Professor Lecture, ASU Memorial Union, Cochise Room, April 15, 2002.

"Tracing the Borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire," Flinn Scholars Lecture Series, University of Arizona, Tucson, April 6, 2002.

"Women's Issues in Pre/Post Communist Transitions: How

Different Are They?" Women's Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, Sept. 5, 2000, ASU.

"American Naturalism:'The Case of Sister Carrie," the Babe? Bolyai University in Cluj, Nov. 6, 2000.

"The Silent Voices of Romanian Women's Poets," Women's Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, Spring 1999, ASU.

"The New Poetics of Contemporary Political Fiction," 16th Congress of the American Romanian Academy of the Arts and Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, 1991.

AWARDS/GRANTS

ASASU Centennial Professor Award, May 2001

CLAS Travel Mini-Grant, June 2001

The Women's Studies Summer Research Award, June 2002