Dr. Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler

Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility
Research project founded by an ERC Consolidator Grant; Affiliated Researcher; 2023-2027

Cultures of Automobility
International Conference, 10-12 Oct 2024; co-organizer

Academic Positions

_{Since 10/2015}

Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Konstanz

_{09/ 2014 – 10/2015}

Substitute Assistant Professor of North American Studies and Student Advisor, Literature Department, University of Konstanz

_{09/ 2010 – 09 /2014}

English Instructor (English Language and Literature), Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen

_{09/ 2009 – 02/ 2010}

Teaching Assistant, Department of American Studies, University of Konstanz

_{10/ 2004- 02/ 2008}

 Research Assistant, Department of American Studies, University of Konstanz

Education

_{07/ 2009}

PhD, North American Studies, University of Konstanz, magna cum laude   (1,0)               

_{01/ 2007- 09/ 2007} 

Research Fellow, York University, Toronto, Canada

_{06/ 2003}                                

MA, American Cultural Studies, University of Iasi, Romania (1,0)

_{06/ 2001}

BA, British and American Studies and French Studies, University of Iasi, Romani (1,0)

North American Poetry
African American Studies
Migration and Mobility Studies
Environmental Humanities
Postcolonial Theory and Fiction

Publications

Re-Writing Love: North American Love Poetry of the Twentieth Century. Augsburg: Wißner Verlag, 2010.

 “’I Need You to Be Somewhere’: Margaret Atwood’s Ecopoetics of Hope and Endurance in Dearly.” In: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, Wißner Verlag, 2023: 60-77.

 ”Strategies of Encoding Emotion in Michael Ondaatje’s Love Poetry. “ In: Banauch, Eugen et al. (eds.) Canadiana: Apropos Canada / A Propos du Canada 8. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010: 31-48.

„Glas de seara“/ „Voix du soir“ and „Legenda noastra“ / „Notre légende“ - poems by Romanian poet Lucian Blaga (translations from Romanian into French). The Lucian Blaga Papers, Sibiu: "Lucian Blaga" University Press, 2000.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks