Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
Keywordscritical literary theory, comparative literature, american postmodern
Honours and awards

2016: Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

1998: For all all post-1998 awards and honors: see attached CV

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityGreensboro
InstitutionUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro
InstituteDepartment of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Klaus HeitmannRomanisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/1992

Programme(s)

1991Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2018Christian Moraru, Andrei Terian: Introduction: The Worlds of Romanian Literature and the Geopolitics of Reading. In: Christian Moraru, Mircea Martin, Andrei Terian, Roman Literature as World Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018. 1-31
2015Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru: Decompressing Culture: Three Steps toward a Geomethodology. In: Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru, Amy J. Elias, The Planetary Turn - Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century. Northwestern University Press, 2015. 211-244
2015Prof. Dr. Christian Moraru: Reading for the Planet - Toward a Geomethodology. University of Michigan Press, 2015
2011Christian Moraru: Cosmodernism. University of Michigan, 2011
2009Christian Moraru: Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2009
2001Christian Moraru: Rewriting - Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning. State University of New York Press, 2001
2001Christian Moraru: The Global Turn in Critical Theory. In: symploke, 2001, 74-82