Mihaela Irimia is director of Studies of the British Cultural Studies MA, Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, and Alumna of New Europe College, whose Fellow she was in the interval 1997-2000, Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, and Research Fellow of Yale University. She currently teaches British literature at the English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, with focus on British Enlightenment and Romantic Literature. Her main research and teaching interests include literary and cultural history, critical theory, history of ideas, intellectual history, cultural identity, cultural theory, the modernity project and postmodern theory. She is a member of: the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), the Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS), the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), Societatea de Studii de Secol Optsprezece din România (SSSOR), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), the German Society for Romantic Studies (Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik), the Romanian Society for Philological Studies (SSFR), the Romanian Fulbright Association, and the Romanian Comparative Literature Association.
