Monica Spiridon - Biography#

Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania (Faculty of Letters.) Specializing in critical and cultural theory, comparative literature, cultural studies, cultural semiotics, narratology and East-Central European culture of the twentieth century.

Postdoctoral fellowships: L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHES), Paris, Le Laboratoire pour l’étude des langages artistiques (superviser Gérard Genette); U.C. Berkeley, Department of Philosophy, (Philosophy of Mind and Language: supervisor John R. Searle); The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, (NIAS), Wassenaar; the Rockefeller Foundation: The Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, Italy; St. John’s College, Oxford, U.K.; New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.

Authored 16 individual monographs, 150 studies in Peer reviewed scholarly publications ( 23 listed ISI/Clarivate analytics) and two dozen chapters in scientific collections published in Germany, The Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, The Czech Republic, Canada and the U.S.

Scientific Affiliations: 1.The International Comparative Literature Association, ICLA / AIL: Member of the Executive Bureau (1997-2003); Chair to the Research Committee on Eastern and South- Eastern Europe 2000- 2010; Vice-president 2010 -2015 2. The European Network for Comparative Literary Studies /Le Réseau Européen d’Etudes Littéraires Comparatives, ENCLS/REELC, founder, member of the Executive Bureau (2004-2006).

Commissions of Trust: Expert of European Research Council Executive Agency for SH (Socio-Humanities) ERC panels( 2008 - ); Evaluator for the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers (2016 -2022 ); Chair to the Expert Panel for Literature and Media for ERIH (European Research Index for the Humanities)(2005-2011); member of the European Pool of Reviewers (European Science Foundation)( 2005-2010); Evaluator for EURIAS (European Association of Institutes for Advanced Studies) Scholarship programs; Member to the advisory boards of ISI /Clarivate Analytics and ERIH listed scholarly publications.

In 2000, The Order of Cultural merit, in rank of High Officer (Ordinul Meritul Cultural “Serviciul Credincios”, in rang de ofiter) awarded by the president of Romania.