Silviu Angelescu


Professor Silviu Angelescu, senior researcher I, holds a BA (1972) in Romanian and French from the University of Bucharest, and a PhD in philology (1983) from the same university, with a thesis on portrayal patterns in oral and written epic work. Since graduation he has taught in the Ethnology and Folklore Department of the University of Bucharest, where he eventually became a professor. Between 1991 and 1995 he was head of the Faculty of Letters’ Chair of Ethnology and Folklore, and between 1997 and 2004 he was director of the university’s summer courses. He was in charge of the Art History Institute from 1999 to March 2011. He supervised the development of the institute’s national research projects within the CERES and CEEX research programmes. Co-founder of the project entitled The Danube and the Danube. The River and Its Representation in Art, the outcome of which was made public in a series of international symposia between 2005 and 2008. He also was the director of the two journals edited by the institute.

Contact: - e-mail: istartro@yahoo.com; – correspondence address: Institutul de Istoria Artei „G. Oprescu”, Calea Victoriei 196, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania, 010098


MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC AND LITERARY SOCIETIES

The national board for the attestation of academic degrees
The Society of Philological Sciences
The Writers' Union of Romania


ENGAGEMENTS ABROAD

Lecturer in Romanian language and literature at the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 1995-1996


POSITIONS IN NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

CERES - sub-programme director; PIR – coordinator; CEEX - monitor


MEMBERSHIP OF JOURNAL ADVISORY BOARDS

• Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art. Série Beaux-Arts, G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, Romanian Academy (director of the periodical)

• Studii ºi Cercetãri de Istoria Artei. Teatru, Muzicã, Cinematografie, New Series, G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, Romanian Academy (director of the periodical)

• Limbã ºi literaturã, journal of the Society of Philological Sciences

• Cercetãri Etnologice Româneºti Contemporane, University of Bucharest

• Lecturi filologice, Chiºinãu, Free International University of Moldova

• Revista de Etnografie ºi Folclor, Constantin Brãiloiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore, Romanian Academy

 

BOOKS

Folclor din Dîmboviþa (coauthor: Octav Pãun), University of Bucharest, 1981
Legende populare româneºti (coauthor: Octav Pãun), Albatros Press, 1983
Portretul literar [doctoral thesis], Univers Press, Bucharest, 1985

Legenda, Cartex Press, 1985; new edition at Valahia Press in 2002

Calpuzanii [novel], Cartea Româneascã, 1988; new edition at Humanitas, 1999

Basme, cântece bãtrîneºti ºi doine (coauthor: Octav Pãun), Minerva Press, 1989

Mitul ºi literatura, Cartex Press, 1995; new edition in 1999

Petre Georgescu Delafras, monograph, Valahia Press, 1999

 


 


 

 

 

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE VOLUMES

Roman ºi etnografie, in Liviu Rebreanu dupã un veac, ed. by Mircea Zaciu, Dacia Press, 1985

Caracterizarea unui personaj, in Limba românã în ºcoalã, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 1985

Elemente de artã popularã româneascã, in Introducere în cultura ºi civilizaþia poporului român, ed by I. Coteanu and F. Popescu, University of Bucharest, 1988

Dicþionarul cronologic al romanului românesc, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, 2004, p. 1097

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

"Contes médiévaux de Vlad Þepeº", Etnologica, 1979, pp. 131-137

"Portrait and Civilisation", Analele Universitãþii Bucureºti, XXX, 1981, pp. 13-23

"Poetica legendei", Limbã ºi literaturã, IV/1983, pp. 550-556 and II/1984, pp. 246-256

"Poetic Patterns of Oral Narratives", Cahiers Roumains d’Etudes Littéraires, 1/1986, pp. 41-50

"Mentalities, Moral Norms and Epical Conflicts", Cahiers Roumains d’Etudes Littéraires, 1/1986, pp. 34-42

"Nicolae Labiº. Moartea Cãprioarei", în Limbã ºi literaturã, III/1986, pp. 591-603

"Mitologie românã", Analele Universitãþii Bucureºti, XXXV 1986, pp. 93-99

"Toma Alimoº", în Limbã ºi literaturã, I/1987

"Procedee ºi figuri de stil: repetiþia ºi enumeraþia", Limba ºi literatura românã, I/1987, pp. 11-14

"Procedee ºi figuri de stil: metafora ºi metonimia", Limba ºi literatura românã, II/1987, pp. 19-22

"Procedee ºi figuri de stil: hiperbola ºi litota", Limba ºi literatura românã, III/1987, pp. 13-15

"Eros et réclusion", în Cahiers Roumains d’Etudes Littéraires, 2/1988, pp. 56-64

"Dorul – un tip de sensibilitate ºi o viziune asupra vieþii", Lumina, nr. 11-12/1990, Panciova, Yugoslavia, pp. 73-100

"Folclorul ºi literatura", Limba ºi literatura românã, III/1993, pp. 24-27

"Mitul ºi literatura", Limbã ºi literaturã, 4/1994

"Un eufemism al morþii" – metafora mioriticã, Transilvania, 4/1996, pp. 8-10

"Personajul literar", Limba ºi literatura românã, 1/1998, pp. 13-16

"Portretul personajului", Limba ºi literatura românã, 4/1988

 

AWARDS

1985 - George Cãlinescu Prize of The Romanian Academy for the book Portretul literar
1988 - Ion Creangã Prize of The Romanian Academy for the novel Calpuzanii