Elena FILOTE (PANAIT) est doctorante en IIème année à l’École doctorale de Philologie de l’Université „Dunarea de Jos” de Galati. La recherche scientifique qu’elle entreprend pour élaborer sa thèse de doctorat vise l’analyse des stratégies discursives dans la prose féminine de l’entre-deux-guerres. Son activité s’est concrétisé jusqu’à ce moment par des participations aux cours doctoraux et à des conférences nationales et internationales organisées par l’Université de Galaţi.
Oana Celia GHEORGHIUis M.A. in Translation and Interpretation Studies and PhD student in Philology – British and American Literature (“Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi). Her research area includes the interference of political and media discourse within twenty-first century fiction, as well as representations of the extreme alterity - terrorism in fiction, grounding her findings in New Historicism, Cultural Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis. Selected articles: “East of the Western Canon. Romanian Literature under British Eyes”, in Boldea, I. (ed.), Globalization and Intercultural Dialogue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Tîrgu-Mures: Arhipelag XXI, 2014 (co-author with prof. Michaela Praisler); “Translating Political Discourse in Performance: David Hare’s Stuff Happens” in H. Hulban (ed.), Ethos, Iaşi: Institutul European, 2014; “Translating Feminist Discourse in Fay Weldon’s Big Women” in S. Stan and G. Colipcă (eds.), Translation Studies. Retrospective and Prospective Views, issue 13/2012, Galaţi: GUP; “From Breaking News to Fiction: Iain Banks’s Dead Air”, in S. Stan and G. Colipcă (eds.), Translation Studies. Retrospective and Prospective Views, issue 16/2013, Galaţi: GUP (forthcoming).
Elena IANCU is a second year PhD student at „Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Faculty of Letters, Philology, Language and Literature, who’s interested in the study of Romanian Drama after the World War Two. Her research works, which were presented at The Annual PhD Student Symposium, at the conferences and workshops organized by the departement, are treating the theatre in its diversity (the theatre of the absurd, its present directions, the authors’ reflexions in the play etc.). Her recent documentations concerns the beginings of the dramatic formulas, but also the way in which those have evolved in the inter- and post-war period.