Department of English
CHRISTIAN MORARU
Professor
Website: Dr. Moraru's Website
E-Mail: c_moraru@uncg.edu
Phone: 334-3564
Office: 3125 MHRA
CHRISTIAN MORARU is a Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in literary theory and 20th-century American literature, with emphasis on narrative and narrative theory, postmodernism in comparative perspective, and the relations between globalism and culture. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as English 740: Studies in Contemporary and Postmodern American Literature; English 650: Modern Literary Theory; English 549: The Critical Canon and Contemporary Issues; and English 565: American Prose after 1900. His book, Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning, came out from SUNY Press in its Postmodern Culture Series in 2001. His latest monograph, Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2005. A chapter of his book on 20th-century mimetic ideologies, Poetics of Reflection: An Archeology of Mimesis, has been reprinted in the SUNY Press anthology, The Play of the Self (1994). The Comparatist, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique, and other peer-reviewed journals have published his essays.