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Curriculum Vitae ________________________________________
Professional Experience:
2013 (Spring): Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University (Arizona)
2012 (Fall): Distinguished Guest Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Notre Dame University (Indiana)
2012 (starting September): Associate Professor, The Honors College, Texas Tech University (Texas) [on leave 2012-2013]
2006-2012: Assistant Professor, The Honors College, Texas Tech University
2011 (Summer): Visiting Professor, Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2009-2010: Solmsen Fellow, The Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison (Wisconsin)
2010 (Summer): Visiting Professor, Forum on Contemporary Theory/University of Pune (India)
2004-2006: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies & Department of Philosophy, Miami University (Ohio)
2005, 2006 & 2008 (Summer): Visiting Professor, European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin, Germany)
2003-2004: Knight Post-Doctoral Associate, The Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University (New York)
2001-2003: Tutor & Part-time Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham (England)
1998-2000: Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (Romania)
Education:
2004: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham
Supervisor: Prof. David Cooper; Committee Members: Prof. Andrew Louth (Durham, Theology) & Prof. Stephen Clark (Liverpool, Philosophy) Dissertation: "On Some Ancient and Medieval Roots of George Berkeley's Thought"
1998: MA in Philosophy, University of Bucharest
1997: BA in Philosophy, University of Bucharest
1990-1992: undergraduate studies in Law, University of Bucharest
Short-Term Appointments:
2012 (Summer): Research Scholar, The Woddrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC, USA)
2010 (June): Visiting Scholar, Forum on Contemporary Theory (Baroda, India)
2010 (Summer): Visiting Professor, Fulbright International Summer Institute (Bansko, Bulgaria)
2009 (August): Guest Lecturer, European College of Liberal Arts
2009 (Summer): Clark Fellow, The Clark Library & The Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
2008 (December): Newberry Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago
2007 (July): Guest Lecturer, European College of Liberal Arts
2007 (May-July): Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di Filosofia & Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
2007 (April-May): Visiting Scholar, The Center for European Studies, The Center for Cultural Studies & The Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas, Austin
2004 (Summer): Visiting Professor, Central European University, CEU Summer University (Budapest, Hungary)
2002 (September): Visiting Postgraduate Student, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
2002 (July): Fellow, CEU Summer University (Global Mappings - Symbolic Geographies Revisited, Course Directors: Prof Sorin Antohi & Prof Larry Wolff), Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
1998 (July-August): Fellow, "The International School of Theory in the Humanities," Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain [attending Prof Giuseppe Mazzotta's seminar on Neoplatonism, Politics, Science, and Utopias]
Fellowships, Grants and Distinctions:
2013 (Spring): Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University
2012 (Fall): Distinguished Guest Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Notre Dame University
2012-2013: Residential Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut [declined]
2012 (Summer): Research Scholarship, The Woddrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2009-2010: The Solmsen Fellowship (offered by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
2010: Grant to participate in the seminar Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy (offered by The Institute for the History of Philosophy, Emory University), June 2010 [declined]
2009: Named Outstanding Professor at the 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Texas Tech University’s Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, April 17, 2009
2008-2009: The Clark Library Short-Term Fellowship (offered by The Clark Library & The Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California at Los Angeles)
2008-2009: The Newberry Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research, The Newberry Library, Chicago
2007: Big XII Faculty Fellowship (offered by the Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University, to be used at the University of Texas Austin)
2006-2007: Support for the Arts and Humanities New Faculty Grant (offered by the Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University)
2004-2006: Post-Doctoral Fellowship (offered by the Havighurst Center, Miami University)
2003-2004: Knight Post-Doctoral Fellowship (offered by the Knight Institute, Cornell University)
2003 (August): Travel Fellowship (offered by "The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies" for participating in The Eleventh Quadrennial ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
2000-2003: Durham University Research Studentship (offered by the University of Durham)
2000-2003: Overseas Research Scheme Award (offered by the “Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom”)
2000-2003: Open Society Institute Supplementary Grant (offered by the Open Society Institute)
2002 (September): Graduate Bursary (offered by the "Society for European Philosophy" for participating in the The Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland)
2002 (September): Graduate Bursary (offered by "The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies" for participating in The 5th Conference of the North Western Section of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University)
2002 (July): Fellowship (offered by the Central European University, for participating in the CEU Summer University, Budapest, Hungary)
2002 (May), Congress Travel Award, offered by the Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University) for participating in The 37-th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, USA.
2002: The Congress Award – offered by the Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University) at The 37-th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, USA
2000-2001: OSI/FCO Chevening Scholarship, St. Cross College, Oxford University (offered by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Oxford University & Open Society Foundation) (declined)
1999: The Nemira Publishing House Prize for the Best Essay
1998: Grant for attending The International School of Theory in the Humanities, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (offered by the Open Society Foundation & the Romanian Ministry of Education)
1996: The Humanitas Publishing House Prize for Junior Journalists
Professional activities, appointments and service:
Current:
2012-current: member, President’s Diversity & Equity Advisory Council, Office of the President, Texas Tech University
2011-2013: guest co-editor (with Matthew Lamb), Mimesis and Culture [a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique], London: Routledge
2011-2013: guest co-editor (with Camil Ungureanu), Playing with Fire. The Metamorphoses of Sacrifice in Contemporary Cinema [a special issue of Angelaki], London: Routledge
2010-12: guest co-editor (with Aurelian Craiutu), The Anatomy of Marginality, a special issue of The European Legacy [forthcoming 2012]
2011-current: member, Editorial Board, Intuición. Revista de Filosofía
2010-current: member, Advisory Council, Académie Itinérante des échanges Arts et Langues Européennes (AILAE), Italy
2010-13: member, The Faculty Senate, Texas Tech University
2006-current: founder & faculty mentor, The Honors College's Foreign Film Club, Texas Tech University
2004-current: Online Editor, Intellectual History Division (H-Ideas), H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
2001-current: member, Editorial Board, Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
Previous:
2011: conference co-organizer (with Camil Ungureanu), Religion and Secularity in Contemporary European Cinema, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), October 7-9, 2011.
2010: guest editor, The Unbearable Charm of Fragility. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe, a special issue of Angelaki. The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 15:3 (December 2010)
2010: seminar co-organizer, The Anatomy of Marginality (with Aurelian Craiutu and Hall Bjornstad), Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), October 15, 2010.
2005-2009: Senior Editor, Janus Head. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Publisher: Trivium Publications (Pittsburgh)
2009: guest editor, Philosophy as Literature, special issue of The European Legacy, 14.5 (2009)
2006-2008: faculty member, International Affairs Council, Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University
2007-2008: co-organizer, Speaker Series, The Honors College, Texas Tech University
2007: reviewer for The President’s Faculty Book Award Committee, Office of the Provost, Texas Tech University
2005: Conference Coordinator, Thinking in/after Utopia. East-European and Russian Philosophy before and after the Collapse of Communism [an international conference hosted by the Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies], Miami University, 27-30 October, 2005.
2004-2005: Faculty Advisor, Evropa Club [undergraduate student organization at Miami], Miami University.
2003-2004: Member of the Editorial Board, Revista Respiro (multilingual cultural quarterly magazine), New York City.
2003: Co-organizer, Durham-Bergen Graduate Philosophy Conference, 8-10 May, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway.
2002-2003: Member, Board of Examiners, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham.
2002: Organizer, Durham-Bergen Graduate Philosophy Conference, 9-11 May, Department of Philosophy, University of Durham.
2001-2004: Contributor, Selected readings (online interdisciplinary bibliographical database), edited by C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines, Penn State University, USA
1999-2000: Member of the Editorial Board, Studii Culturale, Publisher: Romanian Cultural Foundation, Bucharest
1996-2000: Columnist, Adevãrul literar si artistic (weekly literary magazine in Bucharest)
Grant evaluator:
The Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic (2011)
The Research Promotion Foundation, Republic of Cyprus (2010)
Manuscript Reviewer:
Journals: Journal of the History of Ideas (2008); The European Legacy (2009-); Angelaki (2009-); Janus Head (2005-2009) Minerva (2001-); Mosaic (2011)
Presses: Princeton University Press (2006); Rowman & Littlefield / Lexington Books (2009, 2011)
Media contributions:
New York Times (USA), CNN.com (USA), Times Literary Supplement (United Kingdom), The Philadelphia Inquirer (USA), The Globe & Mail (Canada), The Christian Science Monitor (USA), Lettera43 (Italy), The Florence Newspaper (Italy), Times Higher Education (United Kingdom), Dissent (USA), The Australian (Australia), The Romanian Public Radio (Romania), Adevărul (Romania), Evenimentul Zilei (Romania), Observator Cultural (Romania), România Literară (Romania), Dilema (Romania), Timpul (Romania), Criticatac (Romania), Revista 22 (Romania), Contrafort (Moldova), etc.
Teaching accreditation:
2002: Certificate of Accreditation as A Teacher in Higher Education [a post-graduate program run by the School of Education, University of Durham, UK
2003 (Summer): Writing 700: Teaching Writing, The Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University.
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