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About Alexandra Irimia
Alexandra Irimia is a Teaching Assistant and a third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature, with a background in Literary and Image Studies, French Language and Literature, and Political Science. Before moving to London, Ontario, she studied in Bucharest, Prague, and Montreal. Alexandra is currently investigating literary and cinematic narratives on bureaucracy in the second half of the twentieth century, with a focus on the figure of the scrivener and practices of institutional writing. Her work revolves around formal paradoxes of representation, seeking to explore image-text relations, with a particular emphasis on the topics of the figure, the figural, and figurability. Occasionally, she ventures into the troubled waters of translation.
January 2020 - Present | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Western University ‐ Modern Languages and Cultures | |
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September 2018 - December 2018 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Western University ‐ Modern Languages and Cultures | |
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September 2017 - December 2017 | Graduate Teaching Assistant, Western University ‐ Modern Languages and Cultures | |
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March 2017 - May 2017 | Research Assistant, UQAM ‐ Centre Figura | |
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February 2016 - September 2017 | Graduate Research Assistant, University of Bucharest ‐ CESI | |
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October 2015 - February 2016 | Teaching Assistant, Western University ‐ Faculty of Letters | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2016 - 2017 | Figura - Body, Art, Space, Language |
Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI - PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0787 | |
Role: Doctoral Research Assistant |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2019 - Present | Member, ACLA - American Comparative Literature Association | 2019 - Present | Member, BCLA - British Comparative Literature Association | 2019 - Present | Member, CCLA - Canadian Comparative Literature Association | 2019 - Present | Member, MLA - Modern Language Association | 2016 - Present | Member, ICLA - International Comparative Literature Association |
Honors and Awards
- Ontario Trillium Scholarship Award
- PSAC 610 Graduate TA Research Scholarship
2017 - Present | PhD, Western University ‐ Comparative Literature | |
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2012 - 2014 | MA, University of Bucharest ‐ Faculty of Letters | |
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2009 - 2012 | BA, University of Bucharest ‐ Faculty of Political Science | |
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2009 - 2012 | BA, University of Bucharest ‐ Faculty of Letters | |
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