CURRICULUM VITAE FLOAREA VÎRBAN

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE FLOAREA VÎRBAN CURRENT POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS: Teaching (Adjunct/Invited Professor): CAPA Florence International (Northeastern University); European History and Cultural History of Florence Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia (CET Academic Programs in Florence and Siena, respectively); European and Italian Studies. Accademia Europea di Firenze (Elon University); Modern Italian History Research: Centro Studi sulla storia dell Europa Orientale (CSSEO), Trento, collaboration with Institute of Linguistics, Romanian Academy, collaboration with. Membership of: Since January 2014: SLE (The Societas Linguistica Europaea) Since September 2010: ASAUI (Association of Scholars at American Universities in Italy) Since September 2010 : Société de Linguistique Romane Since October 2007: the European University Institute (EUI) Alumni Association Since 2000: Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino (the most ancient linguistic circle in Italy) TITLES Ph.D., European University Institute (EUI), History and Civilisation, Florence (15 June 2007) Ph.D., Magna cum laude, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters (11 December 2003) MA, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy (June 1996) BA, University of Bucharest; Faculty of Philosophy (June 1995) BA, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters (June 1991) POST-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 2000/09/ /08/31: Ph.D. Program, EUI, History and Civilisation, Florence. 1993/ /12: Ph.D. Program, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest , Master Program in Theoretical Philosophy University of Bucharest. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: : Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest : Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Research 2007 present: Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, collaboration with 2004 present: CSSEO, Trento, collaboration with , EUI, Department for History and Civilisation 1991/ /08/31: Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics; Department for Literary Language, Philology and Poetics (the first in the history of the institute to became a principal researcher at the age of 30!). Teaching In English: Since Spring 2006, invited/adjunct Profesor: American Universities/Programs in Italy (C.I.E.E. Ferrara, CAPA Florence International, CET Florence (Vanderbuilt University) and Siena (Univesity of Virginia), Accent Florence, and Accademia Europea di Firenze). Courses: Modern Italian History, Twentieth Century European History, European Political Economy, Church and State in Italy, Italian and EU Politics, The European Banking System, and (starting with Spring 2015) a Cultural History of Florence. In Romanian: : Romanian Literature, Mircea Eliade College, Bucharest. 1

2 ACADEMIC INTERESTS: History: European History (focus on Italian, Russian and Romanian History; History of Totalitarian systems; EU History, History of Florence). Language Studies: Political Linguistics; Theory of Language; Romanian Ancient Philology; Etymology. Literature: Russian/European Avant-garde, Theory of Literature, Dissent writers. Philosophy: Philosophy of Language; Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of History. Figurative arts: Russian/European Avant-garde. Political Sciences/ Political Economy: 20 th Century totalitarian systems; Italian and EU Politics; EU political economy; EU Banking System. LANGUAGES (in order of knowledge): Modern langauges: Romanian (mother tongue); English, Italian (fluent); Russian (working professional proficiency); French (reading: very well; oral/written expressions: good); Spanish (reading: very well, oral/written expressions: elementary); German (elementary, only reading short academic texts). Knowledge in old languages: Ancient Romanian Language (Cyrillic Script) very good; Old Slavonic, Latin, and Old Greek able to work on short texts with a dictionary. COMPUTER SKILLS: Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Photo Editor, Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, OmniPro; Experience in working with Data bases. OTHER INTERESTS: Reading and Writing (Literature); Cinema and Theatre; Figurative Arts; Travelling. I have been doing research at high Academic level since 1991 and teaching for American universities in Italy since I am an active scholar (taking part in conferences and debates at international level), I gave many lectures, I have benefited of many grants, I have published many articles, studies, two chapters in volumes and a monograph, I love sharing knowledge with my students, and I am a promoter of trans-displinary approach in research and teaching (details on the following pages). Date, April 17 th, 2015 Signature, Floarea Vîrban CONFERENCES: PAPERS DELIVERED/ INVITED DISCUSSANT 2015/10/8-10 (Forthcoming) Linguistic Knowledge and Competence: The Coseriu-Chomsky Debate Revisited Integrating Wittgenstein, to be held at Linguistica Coseriana V. International Conference: Competence Function Variation, University of Potsdam, October 8-10, , Totalitarian Ideology and Language: How Stalin Planned to Turn Russian into Universal Language. The 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea: Quo Vadis Linguistics, Poznań, September. 2014/02/27: Conference at Romanian Academy: The Ancientest Octoih in Romanian Language Micul Octoih de la Brașov sau Pseudo-Oprea. Lingustic Peculiarities. Part II: Lexic, Bucharest (to be published). 2

3 2014/02/12: L avanguardia russa fra Occidente e Oriente. CSSEO conference series Gli spiriti della rivoluzione. La Russia e l Europa, Trento. 2013: Le origini dell integralismo coseriano, The Fourth International Congress: Beyond Saussure. Eugeniu Coseriu s Scientific Legacy, Undine, 1 2 October (in print). 2013, Political Power, Linguistic Authority, and National Identity: Moldavian Language in Theoretical Persective. The Fifth International Symposium of Linguistics, Bucharest, September (in print). 2013, L appello all etimologie multiplă pratica pertinente o pseudo-soluzione? L influenza russa nelle lingue romanze: la specificità del rumeno. Le XXVIIe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes, Nancy, July (accepetd for publication, forthcoming). 2013/04/16: Conference at Romanian Academy: The Most Ancient Octoih in Romanian Language Micul Octoih de la Brașov sau Pseudo-Oprea. Lingustic Peculiarities. Part I: Graphy, Bucharest (to be published). 2012/02/15: Le Avanguardie artistiche Russo-Sovietiche Incontro dibattito con Maurizio Scudiero e Floarea Vîrban. Introduced by Fernando Orlandi, Trento, in the occasion of the publication of my book The Guardians of Beauty. 2010/09/6 11: Forme rare dell articolo indeterminativo nel rumeno antico. Fra storia della lingua rumena e geografia linguistica romanza, El XXVI Congrés Internacional de Linguistica i Filologia Romàniques, Valencia (published). 2010/05/26 28: Conference series on Romanian Cultural Identity, Basel, Winterthur, Luzern. 2010/03/31: Moldova: lascito della guerra fredda? Incontro con Floarea Vîrban e Davide Zaffi; condotto da Fernando Orlandi, Trento. 2009: Il Terzo Convegno nazioanle di Studi sul Caucaso e Asia Centrale, Levico Terme, December; discussant. 2009, March, A Transatlantic Dialogue on Migration, NYU, EUI, Syracuse University, Florence University (Schools of Law and Political Science), Florence; discussant. 2008, December, The Impact of the Past on Current History, Trento; discussant. 2008: Europe Whither, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Futures Kalgoorlie, 6-9 December. 2007: Geopolitica del Energia, Trento, December; discussant. 2007: Nuovi Paesi, Nuove Speranze: la Romania in Europa. at Diversa, mescolata, multipla. Coabitare l Europa delle minoranze, World Social Agenda, Bolzano, 26 October. 2006: Sguardi sulla Guerra Fredda, CSSEO, Trento, December; discussant. 2007, Max Weber in the 21st Century: Transdisciplinarity within the Social Sciences EUI, Florence, April; discussant. 2006: Bakhtin and Arendt in Dialogue: Authority and Freedom in Making Language and Politics, Arendt and the Political, Lisbon17 18 November (published). 2006: L amico nemico: La duplice politica del governo rumeno. L indimenticabile L anticipazione del crollo?, CSSEO, Milan, October; recorded by the RadioRadicale.it. 2005/10/13: Lo Stalinismo prosegue. Inerzia o scelta politica? (L impatto della morte di Stalin in Romania), La Morte di Stalin e la lotta per la successione. Una opportunità mancata per il sistema comunista?, Milano. 2004: A Silver Age? Literary Trends in the Soviet-Union ( ), History and Literature: 19th Century Perspectives, EUI, Florence, June. 2004: The Birth of the Socialist Realism. Continuity and Discontinuity with the Russian and World Literary Trends. Intercultural Communication, EUI &CEU Joint Conference, Florence, 3 4 June. 2004, 30 April: Una Romania finalmente sotto controllo. Il ruolo dell URSS nella politica della Romania all inizio degli anni 50. Gli ultimi anni di Stalin. L enigma del dittatore insicuro, Milan. 2001/05: A New Discursive Formation of Literature in Communist Russia, Discourse Analysis and Beyond, EUI, Florence. 1999/09: The Concept of Grammar at Chomsky and Wittgenstein. A Comparative and Critical Perspective ; Extraordinary Session in the occasion of the half-centenary of the Institute of Linguistics Iorgu Iordan of the Romanian Academy; published in a revised form, in : Some Observations on Linguistic Change from the Perspective of the Coserian Linguistics. International Colloquium, in honorem Eugenio Coseriu, Chisinau, (published). 1998, A Phenomenological Approach on Poetic Language. International Colloquium on the Sciences of Language, Suceava, Romania; published. LECTURES/INTERVENTIONS 2015/04/27 (Forthcoming) The EU and the Ukrainian Question, Kent State University, Florence 2014/11/26: The Making of History as an Intellectual Project. Woodrow Wilson the making of the Post- WW1 Europe and Beyond, NYU, Florence. 2013/12/2: Soviet Legacy in Post-Soviet Moldova: Pseudo-language and Pseudo-sovereignty, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence. 3

4 2012/11/9: Keep Dreamking! Russian Futurism, Avant-garde, and Beyond, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence. 2012/03/16: Romania s Steep Path through the Crisis, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence. 2011/03/18: Communism Romanian Style, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence. 2011/02/4,7: lectures on EU Political Economy and Banking, Master level, Monash University, Prato. 2009/07/16: The Making and Self-making of the Image of Women in Italy. Between Literary Imaginary and Reality, San Francisco Community College, Accent Florence. 2008/11: Current Trends on Immigration in Europe and Italy, CAPA Florence; plenary lecture. 2008/06/14: Le forme nu e u del articolo indeterminativo nel rumeno antico. Fra storia della lingua rumena e geografia linguistica romanza, Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino. 2005/12/9: Socialist Realism. EUI, Florence. 2003/05: Dissidence and Repression in the Literary World in Russia (1920s 30s). EUI, Florence. 2003/02: Changes in Soviet Censorship Policy (1920s 30s), EUI, Florence. STAGES ABROAD & INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS, GRANTS. 2004/08/9 27: Course of Formation for Students in European Schools and Diplomatic Academies, Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Alliance Française de Bruxelles grant. 2002/2001/2000: Investigations in Russian archives (GARF, RGALI, RGASPI, RGANI), six months; supported by the EUI and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Romanian Embassy in Moscow. 1999: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest; Romanian Academy & Hungarian Academy of Sciences joint grant. 1999: International Summer School in Computational Linguistic (EUROLAN), Iaşi; Romanian Academy & European Commission joint grant. 1998: Conference on Formal Grammar and European Summer School for Linguistic, Logic and Information (ESSLLI), Saarbrucken; Saarbrucken University grant. 1997: International Summer School. Computational Linguistics (EUROLAN), Tuşnad, Romania; Romanian Academy & European Commission joint grant. 1997/1996/1995: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Linguistics & Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 3; Romanian Academy & Russian Academy of Sciences joint grant. 1991: Republic of Moldova, Summer School in Ethnography and Folklore; University of Bucharest grant. 1991: Summer Course in Russian Language, Institute of Russian Language for Foreigners A. S. Pushkin, Moscow; University of Bucharest & Moscow Pushkin Institute joint grant. 4

5 FLOAREA VÎRBAN / LIST OF PUBLICATIONS A. Forthcoming The Idea of the Post-First World War Nationhood in Europe Was American? How Words May Turn More Efficient Than Guns. In War in Studies Abroad, CAPA Occasional Publications, 4, London. Cel mai vechi octoih manuscris în limba română Micul Octoih de la Braşov sau Pseudo-Oprea. Particularităţi lingvistice. II: Lexicul [The Most Ancient Octoih in Romanian Language Micul Octoih de la Brașov or Pseudo-Oprea. Linguistic Peculiarities. II: Lexic], București: Ed. Academiei Române. Cel mai vechi octoih manuscris în limba română Micul Octoih de la Braşov sau Pseudo-Oprea. Particularităţi lingvistice. I: Grafia [The Most Ancient Octoih in Romanian Language Micul Octoih de la Brașov or Pseudo-Oprea. Lingustic Peculiarities. I: Graphy, București: Ed. Academiei Române. L appello all etimologie multiplă pratica pertinente o pseudo-soluzione? L influenza russa nelle lingue romanze: la specificità del rumeno. In Dworkin, S. N., García Arias, X. L. & Kramer, J. (éd.): Actes du XXVII e Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Nancy, juillet 2013). Section 6: Étymologie. Nancy, ATILF Putere politică, autoritate lingvistică și identitate naţională: limba moldovenească în perspectivă istorică și teoretică /[Political Power, Linguistic Authority, and National Identity: Moldavian Language in Historical and Theoretical Perspective]. In Actele celui de-al V-lea Simpozion Internaţional de Lingvistică, București, 2013, September, pp Le origini dell integralismo coseriano. In Atti del Quarto Convegno Internazionale/The Fourth International Congress: Oltre Saussure. L eredità scientifica di Eugenio Coseriu / Beyond Saussure. Eugeniu Coseriu s Scientific Legacy, Udine, 1 2 October, B. Already published I. Monographs: 2011 [2012]: The Guardians of Beauty. The Heteroglot Discourse of the Russian Literary Wider Avant-garde Paradigm ( ), Scurelle: Silvy Edizioni, 410p. II. Co-author/Chapters in collective volumes: 2012: L Avanguardia Russa e la Grande Guerra. Sul fronte artistico: le donne in prima linea. In Libardi, M., F. Orlandi and M. Scudiero (eds.), Qualcosa di immane, Scurelle: Silvy, : Influenţa rusă asupra limbii române: [Russian Influence on Romanian Language: ]. In Gheţie, I. and Gh. Chivu (coord.), Contribuţii la studiul limbii române literare. Secolul al XVIII-lea ( ), Cluj-Napoca: Ed. Clusium, III. Articles/Studies Articles in peer-reviewed/refereed Academic Journals 2006: Filologia cercetare trans-disciplinară [Philology Trans-disciplinary Research], in Limba Română (Bucharest)[LR], LV/5 6, : Bakhtin and Arendt in Dialogue: Authority and Freedom in Making Language and Politics. Cadernos de Filosofia, 19, : Preliminarii la o analiză fenomenologică a limbajului [Prolegomena to a Phenomenological Analysis of Language]. Studii şi cercetări lingvistice, L/2, 1999, Omagiu lui Emanuel Vasiliu la a 70-a aniversare, : Câteva observaţii cu privire la schimbarea lingvistică din perspectiva lingvisticii coşeriene [Some Observations on Linguistic Change from Coserian Linguistics Perspective]. Limba Română (Chişinău), VIII/6(42), : Un cronograf românesc din secolul al XVIII-lea păstrat în colecţia de manuscrise a Bibliotecii de Stat din Moscova [A 19 th Century Romanian Chronograph Preserved in the Collection of Manuscripts of the State Public Library]. LR, XLVI/1 6, : A unsprezecea elegie de Nichita Stănescu. O posibilă lectură [ The Eleventh Elegy by Nichita Stănescu. A Possible Reading] in Limbă şi Literatură, XLI, vol. II, : Împrumuturi ruseşti în graiul din comuna Izvoare Basarabia [Russian Borrows in the Dialect Spoken at Izvoare Basarabia]. LR, XLIII/5 6, : Observaţii cu privire la adaptarea neologismelor în unele graiuri munteneşti [Observations on the Adaptation of the Neologisms in Some Muntenian Romanian Sub-Dialects]. LR, XLIII/3 4, : O versiune românească din secolul al XVII-lea a Descoperirii celor 12 Vineri [A 18 th Century Romanian Version of the Legend on the Discovery of the 12 Great Fridays ]. LR XLII/1, Contributions to collective peer-reviewed Academic volumes: 2007: Despre relaţia între limba literaturii şi limba literară şi despre problema autorităţii în limbă [On the Relationship between the Language of Literature and Literary Language and the Question of Authority in 5

6 Language]. In Violeta Barbu and Alexandru Mareș (eds.), Floarea darurilor. In memoriam Ion Gheţie, Bucureşti: Ed. Academiei Române, : Gramatica filosofică vs. Gramatica universală. In M. Sala (ed.), Studii de gramatică si de formare a cuvintelor. În memoria Mioarei Avram, Bucureşti: Ed. Academiei Române, : Treptele devenirii spiritului artistic la Nichita Stănescu [The Phases of the Artistic Spirit s Becoming in Nichita Stănescu s Work]. In D. Negomireanu (ed.), ION COTEANU. In memoriam, Craiova: Ed. Universitaria. In proceedings of Conferences / Congresses: 2013[2010]: Forme rare dell articolo indeterminativo nel rumeno antico. Fra storia della lingua rumena e geografia linguistica romanza. In Casanova Herrero, Emili Calvo Rigual, Cesáreo (edd.), Actes del 26é Congrés de Lingüística i Filologia Romàniques (València, 6 11 de setembre de 2010). Berlin: W. de Gruyter, Vol. VI, : O perspectivă fenomenologică asupra discursului poetic [A Phenomenological Perspective on Poetic Discourse]. In Actele Colocviului Internaţional de Ştiinţe ale Limbajului, IV, Limbaj şi comunicare, F. Bratu ed., Suceava: Ed. Universităţii Ştefan cel Mare, : Pădurea spînzuraţilor între conştiinţa personajului şi supra-conştiinţa autorului [The Forest of the Hanged. Between the Conscience of the Character and the Over-conscience of the Author]. In Actele Colocviului Emil Rebreanu, Bacău. IV. Book-Reviews/Notes in peer-reviewed/refereed journals 2014 : Éva Buchi, Bolchevik, mazout, toundra et les autre. Dictionnaire des emprunts au russe dans les langues romanes. Inventaire Histoire Intégration, Review Roumain de Linguistique, 1, : : I. Coteanu, Crestomaţie de lingvistică [Cresthomacy of Linguistics], Bucureşti, LR. 1998: E. Coşeriu, Lingvistica integrală, interviu realizat de Nicolae Saramandu [Integral Linguistics, interview with, realised by Nicolae Saramandu] LR, XLV/ : I. Oprea, Terminologia filozofică românească modernă [Romanian Modern Philosophical Terminology], LR, XLV/ : N. A. Ursu, Contribuţii la istoria literaturii române. Studii şi note filologice [Contributions to the History of the Romanian Literature. Studies and Philological Notes], LR, XLV/ : Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, 1996, no. 1 6.Studii şi Cercetări Lingvistice. 1995: E. Mihăilă. Textul poetic. Perspectivă teoretică şi modele generative [The Poetic Text. Theoretical Perspective and Generative Models], LR, XLIV/ : V. Frăţilă, Contribuţii lingvistice [Linguistic Contributions], LR, XLIII/1 2, : S. Dumistrăcel, D. Hreapcă, I. H. Bîrleanu, Noul Atlas Lingvistic Român pe regiuni, Moldova şi Bucovina, Texte Dialectale [The New Linguistic Atlas on Regions, Moldavia and Bucovina. Dialectal Texts], I, LR, XLIII/3 4, : I. Gheţie, Introducere în dialectologia istorică românească [Introduction in the Romanian Historical Dialectology], LR, XLIII/ : Indicele de autori la Limba Română, XLI, 1992 [Index of Authors to Limba Română XLI, 1992]; with O. Dragomir. LR, XLII/ : E. Vasiliu, Introducere în teoria limbii [Introduction in Theory of Language], LR, XLII/11 12, : T. Cipariu, Opere [Works], II, LR, XLII/6, 316, : Gh. Chivu, E. Buză, A. Roman, Dicţionarul împrumuturilor latino-romanice în limba română veche: [Dictionary of the Latin-Romance Borrows in the Romanian Old Language: ], LR, XLI/11 12, : V. Marinov, Figures du crime chez Dostojevsky [Figures of Crime at Dostoyevsky], with V. Dem. Zamfirescu. România literară, 10. IV. Interviews and Chronicles: 2003: Interview with Yves Mény (the President of the European University Institute) on the War in Iraq / Intervista con Yves Mény (il presidente dell Istituto Universitario Europeo) sulla guerra in Iraq, in English and Italian. Firenze in Europa, Florence, May, : Festivalul Popoarelor. Florenţa, noiembrie 2002 [People s Movie Festival. Florence, November 2001]. Deci, the monthly Cultural Supplement of the weekly journal Caţavencu, Bucharest, November, p