Ramona Hărșan

Research Project Member

Studies

  • BA: Faculty of Letters, Transylvania University of Brasov, English Language and Literature - French Language and Literature
  • PhD: Faculty of Letters, Transylvania University with a thesis on Amoralism and Identity Quest in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction financed by the POS-DRU project ID 76 945.
  • Postdoctoral Studies: Faculty of Letters, Transylvania University of Brasov with a research about Alternative Strategies  for Constructing Moral Identities in Central and Eastern-Europe an Fiction During the Second Half of the 20th Century ( with applications on Romanian, Hungarian, Polish and Czech  Fiction) financed by the POS-DRU project ID 134 378.
  • Research fields/interests: comparative literature and cultural studies centered on contemporary representations of identity (cultural and moral, in particular) in the Romanian, Eastern and Western Europe.

Works (a selection)

Articles in ISI Thomson Reuters indexed international conference proceedings

  • The Melancholy of Resistance with Mircea Nedelciu and László Krasznahorkai: Symbolic Images of Community under Communism and Alternative Constructions of Moral Identity. În„Redefining Community in Intercultural Context. Selection of Papers Presented Within 4th RCIC Conference”, Vol. 4, no. 1, Henri Coandă Airforce Academy Publishing House, Brașov, 2015, pp. 308-316. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • Eastern Reflections of The Sixties: Alternative Identity Construction with Mircea Nedelciu and Andrzej Stasiuk. In „Globablisation and Intercultural Dialogue. Multidisciplinary Perspectives”, Iulian Boldea (coord.), secțiunea „Literature”, Arhipelag XXX Press, Târgu-Mureș, 2014, pp. 963-973. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • The Communist Moloch: Community as Dialogic Dystopia in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction. În„Debates on Globalization. Approaching National Identity through Intercultural Dialogue”, „Literature Section”, Iulian Boldea (coord.), Arhipelag XXX Press, Târgu-Mureș, 2015, pp. 1036-1048. Autor: Ramona Hărșan. (due for indexation)

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • Guerrilla Male Libidos in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction: from Gender to Genre in Eastern European Context (autor: Ramona Hărșan), Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, Vol. 8 (57), No. 1 – 2015, pp. 91-102. 
  • History, Scenery and Identity Definition with Mircea Nedelciu and Andrzej Stasiuk (autor: Ramona Hărșan), „Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies”, Vol. 7 (56), No. 2 – 2014, pp. 117-124. 
  • La (re)construction textuelle de l’identité chez Faïza Guène et Abdellah Taïa (autor: Ramona Hărșan). „Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov”, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, Vol. 5 (54), no. 1 / 2012, pp. 35-50. 
  • Identități suspendate și surogate identitare în proza lui Mircea Nedelciu (autor: Ramona Hărșan), Revista „Transilvania”, Sibiu, nr. 4/2012, pp.24-27. 
  • Mircea Nedelciu’s Mysterious Territories (autor: Ramona Hărșan), „Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov”, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, Vol. 4 (53), no. 1 – 2011, pp.101-108.

Book chapters

  • Mircea Nedelciu et le « traitement fabulatoire » de l’idéologie communiste : l’Est-éthique d’une (contre-)utopie émancipatrice. In „Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama”, Madelena Gonzalez, René Agostini (coord.), Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Marea Britanie, 2015, pp. 21-36. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • L’ « autre » Transylvanie dans Le château des Carpathes. La configuration d’un toposculturel. În „L’imaginaire géographique. Entre géographie, langue et littérature”, Presses de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, col. Spatialités, Pau, Franța, 2014, pp. 197-208. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • Orfanii comunismului în proza lui Mircea Nedelciu. În „Politică și societate în epocaCeaușescu”, Florin S. Soare (coord.), Iași, Polirom, 2013, pp.127-142. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • Gheorghe Crăciun și formula lui Orlando. Fotograme cu Mircea Nedelciu. În „Trupul și litera. Explorări critice în biografia și opera lui Gheorghe Crăciun”, Andrei Bodiu, Georgeta Moarcăs(coord.), Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărții de Știință, 2012, pp. 238-260. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • Heterotopie şi ficţionalizare a spaţiului la Mircea Nedelciu. În „Dilemele identității: forme de legitimare a literaturii în discursul cultural european al secolului XX”, Andrei Bodiu, Rodica Ilie, Adrian Lăcătuș (coord.), Brașov, Editura Universității „Transilvania”, 2011, pp.160-170. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.
  • Mircea Nedelciu și "tratamentul fabulatoriu" al cenzurii. Despre metoda triplei prefețe. În"Legitimarea literaturii în secolul XX european", Vol. I, pp.365-386. Editura UniversitățiiTransilvania din Brașov, Brașov, 2010. Coordonatori: Rodica Ilie, Andrei Bodiu, Adrian Lăcătuș. Autor: Ramona Hărșan.

Articles in peer-reviewed international conference proceedings

  • Introducing Moral Identity (in)to Literary Metadiscourse:Some Possible Ground Rules and Basic Protocols. În „Globalization and National Identity. Studies on the Strategies of Intercultural Dialogue”, „Literature Section”, Iulian Boldea (coord.), Arhipelag XXX Press, Târgu-Mureș, 2016, pp. 519-538. Autor: Ramona Hărșan *Currently under ISI Thomson Reuters evaluation.
  • Sur les routes de l’Est avec Mircea Nedelciu et Andrzej Stasiuk: le topos de l’errance beat  sous le totalitarisme et après. În „Narratives of the Present in Post-Totalitarian Societies”, Rodica Ilie, Adrian Lăcătuș, Dan Botezatu (coord.), Editura Universității Transilvania din Brașov, 2015, pp. 55-84.Autor: Ramona Hărșan.