Laura Pavel is a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n essayist and literary critic.

Biography

Daughter of Dora Pavel

Dora Pavel

Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.-Biography:Born as Dora Voicu to Viorica Pop and Eugen Voicu, both teachers, Dora Pavel graduated from the Decebal College in Deva , and the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj .She graduated Decebal...

, writer, and Eugen Pavel, linguist, scientific researcher. Married to the literary critic Călin Teutişan. She has a BA in Letters of the „Babeş-Bolyai” University

Babes-Bolyai University

The Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca is an university in Romania. With almost 50,000 students, the university offers 105 specialisations, of which there are 105 in Romanian, 67 in Hungarian, 17 in German, and 5 in English...

 in Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...

, the Romanian-English section (1992). PhD in Letters (Literary and Drama Theory), with a thesis dedicated to Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...

 (2002). She is part of the literary group gathered around the cultural journal Echinox. Research fellowships at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...

 (1993), Indiana University of Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

 (1997) and the University of Amsterdam (2000). Presently she is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Television of the „Babeş-Bolyai” University

Babes-Bolyai University

The Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca is an university in Romania. With almost 50,000 students, the university offers 105 specialisations, of which there are 105 in Romanian, 67 in Hungarian, 17 in German, and 5 in English...

, and Head of the Department of Theatre Studies and Media.

Volumes of essays and literary criticism

• Antimemoriile lui Grobei. Eseu monografic despre opera lui Nicolae Breban
  Nicolae Breban
  Nicolae Breban is a Romanian novelist and essayist.-Biography:He is the son of Vasile Breban, a Greek Catholic priest in the village of Recea, Maramureş County. His mother, Olga Constanţa Esthera Breban, born Böhmler, descended from a family of German merchants who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine...
  
  [The Antimemoirs of Grobei. A monographical essay on the oeuvre of Nicolae Breban], Bucharest, Ed. Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1997, 166 p.; the 2nd edition, Bucharest, Ed. Fundaţiei Culturale Ideea Europeană, 2004, 202 p.
• Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
  
  . Anti-lumea unui sceptic [Ionesco. The Anti-word of a skeptic], Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2002, 316 p.
• Ficţiune şi teatralitate [Fiction and Theatricality], Cluj, Ed. Limes, 2003, 176 p.
• Dumitru Ţepeneag
  Dumitru Tepeneag
  Dumitru Ţepeneag is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France...
  
   şi canonul literaturii alternative [Dumitru Ţepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature], Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007, 180 p.
• Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth, Champaign & Dublin & London, Dalkey Archive Press, 2011, 214 p.

Prefaces; edited volumes

• Nicolae Breban
  Nicolae Breban
  Nicolae Breban is a Romanian novelist and essayist.-Biography:He is the son of Vasile Breban, a Greek Catholic priest in the village of Recea, Maramureş County. His mother, Olga Constanţa Esthera Breban, born Böhmler, descended from a family of German merchants who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine...
  
  , Bunavestire, 4th edition, preface, chronology and critical references, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2002.
• Sorin Crişan, Jocul nebunilor, preface, Cluj, Ed. Dacia, 2003.
• Dumitru Ţepeneag
  Dumitru Tepeneag
  Dumitru Ţepeneag is a contemporary Romanian novelist, essayist, short story writer and translator, who currently resides in France...
  
  , La belle Roumaine, 2nd edition, preface, Bucharest, Ed. Art, 2007.
• Nicolae Breban, Bunavestire, 5th edition, chronology and critical references, Bucharest, Jurnalul Naţional & Ed. Curtea Veche, 2011.

Translations

• Melanie Klein
  Melanie Klein
  Melanie Reizes Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis...
  
  , Iubire, vinovăţie, reparaţie [Love, Guilt and Reparation], translation from English, in collaboration, Binghamton & Cluj, Ed. S. Freud, 1994.
• Evelyn Underhill
  Evelyn Underhill
  Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism....
  
  , Mistica [Mysticism], translation from English, Cluj, Ed. „Biblioteca Apostrof”, 1995.

Collective volumes

• Dicţionar analitic de opere literare româneşti [Analytical Dictionary of Romanian Literary Works], edited by Ion Pop, vol. I-IV (1998–2003); final edition, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007 (co-author).
• Ionesco după Ionesco / Ionesco après Ionesco, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2000 (co-author).
• Dumitru Tsepeneag. Les Métamorphoses d’un créateur : écrivain, théoricien, traducteur (Les actes du colloque organisé les 14-15 avril 2006), Timişoara, Editura Universităţii de Vest, 2006 (co-author).
• T(z)ara noastră. Stereotipii şi prejudecăţi, Bucharest, Institutul Cultural Român, 2006 (co-author).
• Poetica dell’immaginario. Imago 2, coordonator Gisèle Vanhese, Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), Centro Editoriale e Librario dell’Università della Calabria, 2010 (co-author).

Affiliations

• Member of the Writers Union of Romania
• Member of Conseil International d’Études Francophones (CIEF)
• Member of the Association of General and Comparative Literature of Romania (ALGCR)
• Member in the editorial board of the academic journal Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, series Dramatica

Awards

• The Prize for Debut at the National Bookfare (1997)
• The Prize „Henri Jacquier” of the French Cultural Center in Cluj (2002)
• The Excellence Award of the „Babeş-Bolyai” University (2002)
• The Prize „Book of the Year - Literary History and Criticism” of the Romanian Writers’ Union, Cluj (2007)

Further reading

• Gabriel Dimisianu, Lumea criticului, Bucharest, Ed. Fundaţiei Culturale Române, 2000, pp. 153–158.
• Ion Bogdan Lefter, Scriitori români din anii '80-'90. Dicţionar bio-bibliografic, vol. III, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2001, pp. 29–30.
• Irina Petraş, Cărţile deceniului 10, Cluj, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2003, pp. 334–336.
• Idem, Literatura română contemporană. O panoramă, Bucharest, Ed. Ideea Europeană, 2008, pp. 671–674.
• Dicţionar Echinox, coordonateur Horea Poenar, Bucharest & Cluj, Ed. Tritonic, 2004, pp. 278–281; the 2nd edition, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2008, pp. 298–303.
• Aurel Sasu, Dicţionarul biografic al literaturii române, M-Z, Piteşti, Ed. Paralela 45, 2006, p. 311.
• Dicţionarul general al literaturii române, P-R, Bucharest, Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, 2006, pp. 110–111.

External links

The Romanian Writers’ Union, Cluj Publishing House Paralela 45 Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies Associazione Italiana di Romenistica (AIR)