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Christian Moraru

Contact Information
            E-mail: c_moraru@uncg.edu
            Office: MHRA 3125
            Office Phone: 336-334-5384

At UNCG Since: 1998

Education
            Ph.D. Indiana University-1998
            M.A. Indiana University-1996
            M.A. Indiana University-1995
            B.A. University of Bucharest-1984

Research Interests
Dr. Moraru’s interests include American literature, especially post-1945, literary and cultural theory, narrative, comparative literature, postmodernism, globalism, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism and East- European developments and Cold War/post-Cold War studies in transnational perspective.

Selected Publications

• “The Other, the Namesake: Cosmopolitan Onomastics in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture of Life.” Names 55.1 (2007): 17-36.
• “The Worlding of Nations: Comparatism and the Ethics of Reading in the Wake of the Global Turn.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 52(2007): 187-198.
• “Introduction on Focus: Postmodernism, Cosmopolitanism, Cosmodernism.” American Book Review 28. 3 (2007): 3-4.
• “Plagiarism, Creativity, and the Communcal Politics of Renewal.” Electronic Book Review. 6 June 2007.      <http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionpresent/plagiarized>.
• “Saving Face: Of ‘Borderland’ Ethics.” Confluences 27 (2007).
• “Global Romance? Nicole Mones, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Critique of `Planetization.’” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 30.2 (2006).
• “Mistranslating Lolita: Mystification, Mystifiction, Metafiction.” Texte étranger (2006).
• Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson U P, 2005.
• Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning. New York: SUNY Press, 2001.
• Poetics of Reflection: An Archaeology of Mimesis. Universe P, 1990.

Awards and Honors

• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Freiburg Univ., Germany, 2005-2007.
• UNCG Regular Faculty Grant, 2007.
• UNCG Center for Critical Inquiry Fellowship, 2007.
• UNCG Kohler Research Award, 2005 and 2007.
• UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Merit Awards for Research and Publication, 1999 and 2004.
• UNCG Research Excellence Award, 2003.
• UNCG International Travel Fund Award, 2003.
• UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Merit Awards for Research and Publication and Teaching, 2002.
• UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Merit Award for Research, 2000.
• UNC Chapel Hill Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies Fellowship, 1999.

Links
            Christian Moraru's Website

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