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Corina Ecaterina Croitoru

- UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

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I am a graduate of the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Letters (BA – 2008, MA – 2010, Ph.D – 2013, Postdoc – 2015), where I studied Romanian Language and Literature-French Language and Literature, getting specialized in Romanian literature. During my studies, I also attended courses at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (2009), I had a research mobility at the Stendhal-Grenoble 3 University, France (2011-2012), a research mobility at the University Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona, Spain (2015) and one at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3, France (2015-2016). My doctoral research was published under the title "Politics of Irony in the Romanian Poetry under Communism" (2014) and my postdoctoral projects where focused on the experience of the Two World Wars in the memory of the Romanian poetry. Therefore, my research interests remain directed towards literary history, the sociology of literature and socio-poetics.

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The Rhetorics of Heroism in the Romanian Poetry of the Independence War (1877) Call name:
32630/15.07.2020 2020 - 2021

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI ()

Project website: https://cercetare.ubbcluj.ro/ro/burse-speciale-pentru-activitatea-stiintifica-competitia-2020-2021/

Abstract:

The project proposed a re-reading the Romanian poetry inspired by the Independence War, in order to highlight the mechanism through which the War of Independence (1877-1878) of the Kingdom of Romania, bringing an end to a revolutionary epoch, enters the consciousness of posterity literary instrumented by the poems of two civilian writers, fueling the myth of the heroic Romanian soldier while writing not only from a significant geographical distance in relation to the battlefield, but also from a temporal one, biologically speaking.

The Encyclopedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0326 2018 - 2021

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE ARTE DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: http://romimag.granturi.ubbcluj.ro/

Abstract:

The project The Encyclopedia of Romanian Imaginaries. Historical Patrimony and Cultural-Linguistic Identities (ROMIMAG) aims to produce a knowledge base and a five-volume Encyclopaedia, providing a synoptic perspective on the cultural inheritance and spiritual identities of Romania. However, it would be impossible to tackle cultural identities without a thorough analysis of the collective imagination. Guided by the powerful and innovative concept of social and cultural imaginaries, along with other key concepts such as semantic basin, linguistic field, constellations of images, fractal identity, ROMIMAG will use multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary methodologies for analyzing the main domains of Romanian collective representations. It will feature 5 scientific work packages, covering the following fields: Romania’s Linguistic Patrimony; Literary Imaginaries; Historical Representations; Religious Imaginaries; Artistic Imaginaries and Patrimony. Within a two-year calendar, each work package will feature about 20 contributors, who will produce 20 articles presenting the main cultural basins covered by their volume, and 2 patents. This database will be published online (an interactive site, designed as an “electronic hive”) and in print (a five-volume Encyclopedia, published by Polirom, Iași). ROMIMAG targets different categories of public: educated (writers, artists, musicians, theatre and movie directors, linguists, editors, media specialists, curators), broad (pupils, students, general readership) and institutional (media studios, advertising and tourism companies, leaders and policy makers from the administration and governance levels). This panoramic image of the cultural and spiritual patrimony of Romania will offer, within the frame of European interculturalism, a better understanding of national, but also of local and group identities, which could prevent latent tensions and social violence from erupting and allow the configuration of a collaborative climate.

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