CV: PROF. ILEANA DIMITRIU

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1 CV: PROF. ILEANA DIMITRIU Ileana Dimitriu is a professor of English and intercultural studies. She is also an NRF-rated researcher and a SATI-accredited translator. Her research, teaching and supervision focus on South African/ postcolonial literature and comparative/ intercultural studies. Prof. Dimitriu has served as an assessor for the National Research Foundation, and has also been invited to be a referee for various peer-reviewed specialist journals and books. She has served on a number of editorial boards and advisory panels in her field. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS. CHAPTERS in BOOKS. LARGE EDITORIAL PROJECTS: In press. Activism and the Intensity of the Local: Translation and Cultural Politics. In: Boeri, Julie and Carol Maier. Translation and Social Activism. Granada: ECOS Translation and Shifting Identities in Post-apartheid South Africa: Re-thinking Teaching Paradigms in Times of Transition. In: Inggs, Judith and L. Meintjes (eds). Translation Studies in Africa. London: Continuum: Which World? Whose World? Postcolonialising Gordimer. In: Chapman, Michael (ed). Postcolonialism: South/ African Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars: Symbolic Power and World-Making in Politically Over-Determined Times: Translation and Social Practice under Dictatorship. In: Wolf, Michaela (ed). Ubersetzen, Translating, Traduire: Towards A Social Turn. Vienna/ Berlin/ Hamburg/ Zurich/ London: LIT Verlag: Carnivalesque Rituals of Renewal: The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and The Man Died. In: Coullie, Judith and JU Jacobs (eds). Aka Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to His Writings and Paintings. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi: Along the North/ South Axis: Interview with Mihai Sora in South Africa. In: Sora, Mihai ed). Locuri Comune. Bucharest: Universalia: Guest-editorship of Special Issue Current Writing 14 (2): Translation, Diversity and Power. [242 pages, including Introduction] A New Sense of Social Space: Gordimer s Civil Imaginary. In: Wilson, Rita (ed). Spaces and Crossings. Frankfurt/ New York: Peter Lang: Academic Restructuring in the Humanities: The Role and Meaning of Translation in the South African Context. In: Thelen, Marcel (ed). Translation and Meaning. Maastricht University Press: Art of Conscience: Re-reading Nadine Gordimer. Timisoara: Hestia [205 pages] Un strigat indepartat din Kensington (A Far Cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark). Bucharest: Univers [169 pages].

2 1993. Fete sarmane (The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark). Bucharest: Univers [101 pages] Between Usurpation and Tradition : Critical Introduction to my translation of Peter Abrahams's novel, A Wreath for Udomo: [See below] O cununa pentru Udomo (A Wreath for Udomo, by Peter Abrahams). Bucharest: Univers Publishing House. [421 pages, including a 35-page introductory study] N-am hoinarit chiar fara rost (Loitering with Intent, by Muriel Spark). Bucharest: Univers Publishing House [239 pages]. PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (A Selection): In press. A Translated Discipline: English as Intercultural Communication. Journal of Literary Studies 26(2) Nadine Gordimer: Getting a Life after Apartheid. Current Writing 21 (1 &2): Postmodernism and/ as Postcolonialism. B.A.S. (British and American Studies) 14: Unsettled and Unsettling Others : The Double Vision of Local and Global in Breytenbach s Later Travelogues. EAR English Academy Review 25(1): Creation and Translation. In: Current Writing 19(1): The Unbearable Simulacrum of Being: The Double Vision of Home and Exile in Kundera and Breytenbach. Scrutiny2 12(1): Translating and Being Translated: Interview with Antjie Krog. Scrutiny2 12(2): Postcolonialising Gordimer: The Ethics of Beyond and Significant Peripheries in the Recent Fiction. In: English in Africa 33(2): The Writer in Prison: Black Humour and/ as Incarceration. In: Romanian Journal of English Studies (2): Gordimer s Short Fiction: Story-Telling under Apartheid. In: Current Writing 17(1): The End of History : Reading Gordimer s Post-Apartheid Novels. In: Current Writing 15(1): The Civil Imaginary in Gordimer s First Novels. In: English in Africa 29 (1): Expanding English: The Case for Cultural and Linguistic Translation. In: The English Academy Review 19: Translation, Diversity and Power: An Introduction. In: Current Writing 14(2): [Guesteditorship of special issue: Translation, Diversity and Power].

3 2002. Translation and Existential Awareness. In: Current Writing 14 (2): First Novels and New Beginnings: Artistic Coherence amid Shifting Political Contexts. In: British and American Studies. 7(1): A Bakhtinian Reading of Prison Writing. British and American Studies 5(1): Re-reading Strategies for the Post-Totalitarian Condition. British and American Studies. 4(1): Translation at the Crossroads of History. Current Writing. 10(2): Approaches to Translation. Current Writing. 9(1): Translations of the Self: Interview with Breyten Breytenbach. Current Writing 8(1): The Trickster and the Prison Space: The Bakhtinian Dimension of the Carnivalesque in Breytenbach's True Confessions of An Albino Terrorist. Literator 16(1): The Significance of Allusion and Intimation in Ezra Pound s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. Studii de limbi si literaturi straine. Universitatea Timisoara: The Relationship Fiction/ Reality in the Novels of Muriel Spark. Analele Universitatii din Timisoara: Emily Dickinson, the Poet of Ardent Devotion and Sceptic Independence. Studii de limbi si literaturi straine. Unversitatea din Timisoara: CONFERENCE PAPERS/ PROCEEDINGS (A Selection): International Conference BAS (British and American Studies), Timisoara, May. Paper: Literary Studies Today: Shifting Sites, Comparative Perspectives International Conference on the Humanities in Southern Africa, Pretoria, June. Paper: Whither Inter-Disciplinary Studies? The Case of English, Translation and Intercultural Studies International Conference: Translation and Social Activism. Granada/ Spain, April. Paper: Activism and the Intensity of the Local: The East European Translation Scene Today International Conference: BAS (British and American Studies), Timisoara/ Romania, May. Paper: Home and Exile in the Work of Milan Kundera AUETSA, Durban, July. Paper: Unsettled and Unsettling Others: The Later Fiction of Breyten Breytenbach AUETSA, Stellenbosch, July. Paper: The Unbearable Simulacrum of Being: The Double Vision of Home and Exile in the Work of Kundera and Breytenbach.

4 2006. International Conference: IATIS (International Association of Translators and Interpreters), Cape Town/ UWC, July. Paper: Post-Communist Nervous Conditions: Translation in the East European Post-Conundrum International Conference: BAS (British and American Studies). Timisoara/ Romania, May. Paper: Literary Translation: Art or Social Practice? AUETSA, Cape Town, July. Paper: Postcolonialising Gordimer: The Ethics of Beyond and Significant Peripheries in the Recent Fiction International Conference: Translating and Interpreting as a Social Practice. Graz/ Austria, May. Paper: Versions and Subversions: Translation as Social Practice International Conference: BAS (British and American Studies). Timisoara/ Romania, May. Paper: The Incarcerated Imagination Writing Back: A Postcolonial Reading of the Prison Memoir International PEN Conference: The Diaspora and Post-Totalitarian Literatures. Invited to coordinate a workshop on literary tanslation. Neptun/ Romania, June AUETSA. Pretoria, July. Paper: Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to English Studies: Re- Writing and Translation as Cultural Practices International Conference on CTS (Corpus Translation Studies). Pretoria, July International Conference: Versions and Subversions. Centre for African Studies/ Humboldt University/ Berlin, May. Paper: Re-reading Gordimer after Apartheid th International Conference on the Literature of Region, Nation and Identity. Durban, August. Paper: Beyond Binaries: A Reappraisal of Gordimer AUETSA. Johannesburg, July. Paper: Expanding English: The Case for Cultural and Linguistic Translation Fifth Language International Conference. Bloemfontein, July. Paper: Restructuring and the Role of the Humanities International Translation Studies Conference: Global Links, Linguistic Ties. New York University, March. Paper: Academic Restructuring in the Humanities: Modular Teaching in Translation Studies Colloquium: Intercultural Communication: Perspectives on Language and Culture. University of Zululand, June. Paper: Market-related Teaching Strategies in Translation ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Conference. Pretoria, August. Paper: Transgressing the Margin: Text and Anti-Text in Select Prison Memoirs on the North/ South Axis International Conference: History and Memory. Sighet/ Romania, June. Paper: Negotiating

5 Memory in Post-Totalitarian Fiction SAVAL Conference. Johannesburg, June. Paper: A New Sense of Social Space AUETSA. Pietermaritzburg, July. Paper: Re-reading Gordimer in the 1990s.