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| Group of Dracula Researchers in Transylvania |
I. Essays on Dracula and the image of Romania published in volumes
(for the complete list of essays go to publication list)
1. "Descriptions of Landscape in Bram Stoker's Dracula". in the volume New Directions in
Travel Writing and Travel Studies, edited by Carmen Andraş, Aachen (Germany):
Shaker Publishing, 2010, 311-323.
(for details click
here)
2. "Welcome to my House! Enter Freely and of your own will!"
(Dracula 26): Transylvanian Hospitality in Bram Stoker's Sources for Dracula".
in the volume Philological Explorations, Edited by Gilda M. Socarrás, Athens (Greece):
Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2009. 301-308
(also available online:
here ).
3. "At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire: The Transylvanian World as a Stage in Stoker's Dracula and in His Sources" in the volume Omogenitate, diversitate, identitate: Spatiu european si integrare. Vol II: O cartografie identitara: studii de caz. Editors Mihaela Irimia and Dragos Ivana, Centrul de Excelenta pentru Studierea Identitatii Culturale, University of Bucharest UP, 2009, 290-306.
4. "Imagini ale Timişoarei în literatura britanica" ("Images of Timişoara in British Literature"). in the volume Studia in honorem magistri: Alexandru Metea, Timişoara, Editura Universitaţii de Vest, 2008, 159 - 174.
5. "Oradea, a model for Bram Stoker's Transylvanian City", in Proceedings of the International Conference European, National and Regional Identity, Editura Universitaţii din Oradea (Oradea U.P.), Oradea, 2011. pp. 129-142.
II. Articles on Dracula and the image of Romania published in journals
(for the complete list of articles go to publication list):
1. "19th Century Oradea: The Reflections of a Multiethnic City in British Travel Literature".
Revista Româna de Geografie Politica. Year XIII, no. 1 / 2011, pp. 82 - 89 full text available online
here.
2. "Bram Stoker's Transylvania: between Historical and Mythical Readings" in TRANS - Internet Journal for Cultural Studies, Nr. 17, April 2010. full text available online
here. included in ERIH database (European Reference Index for the Humanities)
3. "I Left My Paradise Alone": British Notes on Oraviţa and Its Neighbourhood.
in "Anuarul Institutului "Gheorghe Şincai" al Academiei Române", Vol. XIV/2011, p.
137 - 149.
here
4. Ad Aquas Herculi Sacras: The Image of Baile Herculane in the 19th Century British Travel Literature, in "Anuarul Institutului "Gheorghe Şincai" al Academiei Române", Chapter Spatiu si civilizatie urbana: între realitate si imaginatie/Urban Space and Civilization: Between Reality and Imagination, Vol. XIII/2010, p. 24-40. (for details click
here)
5. "Transylvania, A Superstitious Land: Bram Stoker's Dracula and His Sources for the Novel". Journal of Ethnography and Folklore, Serie noua, 1-2/2008, Editura Academiei Române: 81-90 (for details click
here).
6. "Transylvania as a Borderland Between the West and the East", Anuarul Institutului de Cercetari Socio-Umane "Gheorghe Şincai" al Academiei Române, nr. 11, 2008: 58 - 63. Available online on CEEOL database:
here
7. "The Models for Castle Dracula in Stoker's Sources on Transylvania", Journal of Dracula Studies, Toronto, Canada, no. 10, 2008: 10 - 19: full text available online:
here.
8. "The Land Between Good and Evil: Stoker's Transylvania", English Studies 2006, Turin: Trauben, 2007: 55 - 78 (for details click
here).
III. Conference Presentations on Dracula and the image of Romania
(for the complete list of conference presentations go to publication list):
1. "Vampires and Stereotypes: Post-Stoker Imagined Transylvania", paper presented in plenary session at the International Conference Vampires: Myths of the Past and the Future. University of London. Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies. November 2011. For details click
here
2. "The Mountain Towns of the Banat in British Travel Literature", The Days of the Romanian Academy - The Archives and the Research, Sovata, May, 2010.
3. "The Two Edges of Europe as seen in Stoker's Sources for Dracula". International Conference AnthropoEast. The Europenistaion of Balkans, The Balkanisation of Europe, Craiova, 26 - 29 November 2008.
4. "Hospitality Versus Hostility in Bram Stoker's Transylvania and in his Sources for Dracula." International Conference on Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, 28-31 July 2008, for details click
here.
5. "British Travelling in Transylvania: From Reality to Fiction or the Other Way Round?" An Identitary Cartography: Case Studies International Micro-Conference Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity, Bucharest, 9-10 May, 2008. For details click
here
6. "The Imperialism of the Imagination: The Case of Transylvania". the international conference KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies, Vienna, 6 - 9 December 2007, http://www.inst.at/kctos/speakers_a-f/crisan.htm.
7. "Transylvania as A Border Land Between the West and the East", the international conference Continuity and discontinuity in East - West relationships organized by The "Gheorghe Şincai" Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Târgu Mureş, Romania, 25-26 May 2007, for details see
here.
8. "The Dual Image of Transylvania in its British Literary Reflections", the symposium "Dracula - Blurring the Boundaries between Truth and Fiction", organized by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, Sighisoara, May 2007. for details see
here.
9. "Myth and Sensationalism in the Construction of Transylvania in English Literature", ESSE 8 Conference , London, 29 August - 2 September, 2006 (the abstract published online:
here
10. "Imagini ale Transilvaniei în literaturile engleza si americana" ("Images of Transylvania in English and American literatures"), International Symposium on Teaching Strategy, Lugoj, May, 2006.
IV. Contribution to documentary films
Speech about the representation of the gypsies in Bram Stoker's Dracula and in his sources for Transylvania in The Vampire and the Voivode. The True Story behind Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Teleg Films. UK, 2008. (
draculadocumentary).
Dr. Carmen Andraş
Scientific researcher at "Gheorghe Şincai" Institute for Social Sciences
and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Târgu Mureş.
Author of the book România şi imaginile ei în literatura de cãlãtorie britanicã: un spaţiu de frontierã culturalã
("Romania and Its Images in British Travel Writing. A space of cultural border"), Cluj Napoca: Dacia, 2003.
The book is cited in many articles or volumes, for instance in Alexandra Berlina and Steven Totosy de Zepetnek,
"Comparative Literature in Russian and Central and East Europe", in The Cambridge Companion to Comparative
Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2011), p.
264, 265. ISI publication; Dennis Deletant, "Romanians", in Imagology. The cultural construction and literary
representation of national characters. A critical survey. Beller, Manfred and Joep Leerssen (Ed.) (Amsterdam/New
York, NY, 2007, XVI, pp. 223-226).
Author of several volumes on imagology and symbolic geography. Editor of the volume New Directions in Travel
Writing and Travel Studies, Shaker Publishing, Aachen (Germany), 2010.
Author of several articles on the image of Romania in British literature. The relation between Dracula and the
reflection of Transylvania in British literature is discussed in the essay "The Image of Transylvania in
English Literature", Journal of Dracula Studies 1 ( 1999): 38-48.
(also available online:
here )
