Personal data:      Born on 1 06 1956 in Bucharest. Romanian citizenship.

Home address:     str. Nada Florilor nr. 1, bl. 13, ap. 42, sect. 2,

                              Bucharest, Romania.

Office address:    Universitatea Bucureşti, Fac. de litere, str. Edgar Quinet nr. 68,

                              sect. 1, Bucharest, Romania.

Education:             Ph. D., Ľ

Languages:          English (good), French (satisfactory).

Scholarship:         High School 28 in Bucharest (1963-1971); The "D. Cantemir

                              College (1971-1975); The Faculty of Letters, University of

                              Bucharest (1976-1980).

Areas of   specialization:

         Romanian literature, Cultural Studies.  

Current research interests:

                   Popular Culture, Postmodernism.

Teaching experience:

                   1980-1989: professor of Romanian language and literature in a

                              High School in Bucharest; 1990-1999: lecturer at the Faculty of

                              Letters, Univ. Of Bucharest; 1994 and 1995: invited professor at

                              the University of Amsterdam.

Research experience:

                   Studies and books on literature; currently working in the field of

                             popular culture.

Additional professional activities:

                  Literary activity as a poet, novelist and literary critic.

Professional memberships:

        Member of  the Romanian Writers Union, the Romanian Pen Club

                            and the ASPRO Writers Union.

Awards received

                The Writers Union Prize in 1980, 1990 and 1994. The Romanian

                            Academy Prize in 1989. The Moldavian Writers Union Prize in

                            1994. The ASPRO Prize (of the younger writers union) in 1994 and

                            1996. The Flacăra, the Ateneu and the Cuvîntul Prizes in 1990,

                            1996, 1997. The French translation Le Ręve was short-listed in 1992

                            for Prix Médicis, Prix Union Latine and Le meilleur livre étranger

                            prize.

Participation in international conferences, symposia, eminars etc.:

        Fellow of The International Writers Program, Iowa City, U.S.A.,

                            1990; The Stuttgart Seminar in Cultural Studies, Germany, 1992;

                             Conferences and readings within the framework of the Book Fairs

                             of Frankfurt and Leipzig in Germany, 1997 and 1998. Conferences

                             at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, 1998 and

                             1999.