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The Department of Comparative Literature
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Head of Department: Phd Lecturer, Mihaela Ursa Pop
Duration of studies: (Bachelor level): 3 years
Master's level: 2 years
Diploma granted : Bachelor in Philology
Specialization: Comparative and Universal Literature
The Department of Comparative Literature was created in 2002, with the establishing of the graduation exam specialization in “Universal and Comparative Literature”. Its foundation tops a long tradition of Comparative literature in Cluj and Romania.
Indeed, in 1877, Hugo von Meltzl published at the Cluj University the first comparative literature magazine in the world, Acta comparationis litterarum universarum . The discipline was introduced in the academic studies panel in 1948, when Tudor Vianu proposed a course on universal literature at the University of Bucharest, a course which afterwards entered all the universities in the country.
In the early '60s, professor Liviu Rusu, after being reinstated in the higher education teaching, held at the Babes-Bolyai University a special course in comparative literature. In a relatively short time, "Universal literature", a subject with an already consolidated tradition in the Faculty of Philology, became a compulsory course for all students. Among the teachers who taught this subject one must mention Dumitru Popovici, Liviu Rusu, Ion Pulbere, Cornel Cãpusan, Liviu Petrescu, Ion Vartic, Vasile Voia. One must also mention that Adrian Marino, a renowned comparatist in Europe, lived and wrote in Cluj. Currently, comparative literature is part of the core curriculum subjects and is extended over two semesters (in the Bologna system) for the second year students of the Faculty of Letters.
Establishing a "Universal and comparative literature" specialty has become a necessity in the current context of Romania's integration in the European community. Comparative Literature is perhaps the most suitable and open discipline for acquiring knowledge and valorization of various cultures and national literatures. The global extension of comparative literature, the annexation of new domains, such as history of religions and history of ideas, research of the imaginary, imagology, European studies, cultural studies, theoretical reconstruction of the discipline, all in all, promoting universal and comparative literature with the Romanian universities and ensuring its compatibility with the status of the discipline now in the European and American universities, these being only some of the reasons for founding the department and for the current interests of the Comparative Literature department.
Curriculum Bachelor level – language of study - Romanian The curriculum provides a series of courses which combine several methods (comparatism, thematism, archetypology, mythocriticism, psychocriticism, psychohistory, etc.) and bring together several domains multidisciplinarily (universal literature, history of religions, mythology, philosophy, literary theory, history of arts, history of ideas and mentalities, cultural studies), covering the major ages and literary currents (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism), the major literary genres (epic, novel, theater, poetry) and, as an illustration, a few great myths, themes and symbols (the hero, the demonic, the faustic, eschatology, the woman, the double, love, etc.). The graduation exam consists of the public defence of the diploma paper written in either of the A, B specializations or in a discipline of the core curriculum. Master's level - History of Images - History of Ideas
The curriculum includes 10 courses in comparative literature, theory of literature, philosophy, art theory and cultural studies: Methods in current comparative literature: thematology, imagology, European studies; Body, gender and body language; Images of the evil in the universal culture; Image and imaginary in classic movies; Poetics of imagination; Literature and Fine Arts; Music and literature; Historic Imaginary in Central-South-Eastern Europe; The game of chess. Facets and alchemy; Symbolic histories and geographies. Duration of study: 2 years Responsible with the specialization: Professor PhD, Corin Braga The graduation exam consists of a dissertation defence.
The department possesses:
- A resource centre (the Comparative Literature room)
- A research centre (for the masterate courses)
- A small library of universal literature
- Two computers, a scanner and printer
- Internet Connection
- Video-Audio (screen, projector, speakers, DVD player, TV)
Head of Department:
PhD Lecturer, Mihaela Ursa Pop
Prof. PhD. Stefan Borbély
Prof. PhD. Corin Braga
Consulting prof. PhD. Vasile Voia
Associate prof. PhD. Diana Adamek
Associate prof. PhD. Ruxandra Cesereanu
Teaching asssistant Ovidiu Mircean
Full time doctoral students Anisie Alexandra (2009-2012)
ARDELEAN Simona (2008-2011)
Baumgarten Cristian (2009-2012)
Butusina Elena (2009-2012)
Codreanu Florina (2008 – 2011)
CUC Codruta (2006-2009)
Danci Monica (2009 – 2012)
Simut Andrei (2007 – 2010)
Fatu Tutoveanu Andrada (2006-2009)
Gradinaru Olga (Rep Moldova) (2008 – 2011)
Hasu-Balan Mihaela (2008 – 2011)
Lazar Ramona (2008-2011)
LOVIN Mihaela (2006-2009)
Maries-Gruian Simina (2008 – 2011)
MICU Iulia (2006-2009)
Milos Cristina (2009-2012)
Mircean Ovidiu (2008 – 2011)
Oros Ana-Maria (2009 – 2012)
RACATAIANU Florentina (2008-2011)
ROMAN Vlad (2006-2009)
SARVARI Eugenia (2008-2011)
SIGOVAN Ioana (2007-2010)
Tamâian Gioconda (2008-2011)
Teodorescu Adriana (2008 – 2011)
T EUDAN Aurora (2008-2011)
Toderici Radu (2008-2011)
Vesa Ileana (2009 – 2012)
VIDRUTIU Cristina (2008 – 2011)
VLAD Alexandra (2006-2009) Doctorates Comparative literature
Prof. PhD. Stefan Borbély
Prof. PhD. Corin Braga
Prof. PhD. Ion Vartic
Prof. PhD. Vasile Voia |
