Titles

• Distinguished Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• President's Professor of Romanian Studies an Compariative Literature, School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Director, Central European Cultural Collaborative
• Visiting Professor, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University
• Honorary Consul General of Romania in Arizona
• Fellow, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

Biography

Ileana Alexandra Orlich is President’s Professor of Romanian studies and comparative literature in the School of International Letters and Cultures, head of the German, Romanian, and Slavic faculty and director of the Romanian and Central European Summer Study Program at Arizona State University. A senior sustainability scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Orlich is faculty affiliate in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Politics and Global Studies. She is ASU's Professor of the Year (2011) and Centennial Professor (2001).

Her publications, which comprise 10 monographs, more than 20 book translations with critical commentaries, numerous book chapters and more than 100 refereed articles, include: "Subversive Stages: Dramatic Transcreations in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian Theater" (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016); "Staging Stalinism in Post-Communism Romanian Theatre" (2012); "Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel "(New York: Columbia University Press, 2009); "Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Romanian Fiction" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004); "Silent Bodies: (Re)Discovering the Women of Romanian Short Fiction" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).

She is a well-known speaker in China, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, the UK, and Romania on cultural, political and gender relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict. Orlich has taught at state universities in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia and in the Harvard summer Institute for World Literature at the Bilgi University in Istanbul. She was also involved with Harvard’s IWL's academic projects in Seoul, Shanghai, and Beijing (2010, 2011, 2012).

Orlich received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Literary Translation, was a Fulbright Professor in Romania and a Fulbright Senior Specialist grantee, and has also been the recipient of grant awards from Romania's Writers' Union, Romania's Cultural Institute, and Romania's Language Institute that opened a Romanian Language Lectureship in the School of International Letters and Cultures at ASU. She was awarded Romania's highest cultural distinction, Meritul Cultural al României, serves as Honorary Consul General of Romania in Arizona and is the chairwoman of the Consular Corps of Arizona’s Scholarship Committee.

Recent Press Coverage

Interviewed in Bucharest, Romania by the Washington-based host of Higher Education Steve Goodman, on the topic of ASU, the New University in July 5, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HoQ3jj64s

Education

• PhD, English and Comparative Literature, Arizona State University
• MA, English, Arizona State University
• Diploma de Licenta, English and Romanian Studies, University of Bucharest

Expertise

• international relations
• communities
• civil society
• urban geography
• urbanization
• cultural studies
• literature
• sustainability in cinema and theater
• sustainability discourse
• humanities in sustainability

External Links

• Website