Sorina CHIPER

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

PERSONAL DATA:

 

Name:             SORINA CHIPER

 

Date of birth: 28.10.1976

 

Address:         Bd. Nicolae Iorga nr. 32 A, sc. A, et. 2, ap. 46, Iaşi.  

 

Telephone:     0746 437 938

 

Email:             sorinachiper@gmail.com; sorina.chiper@feaa.uaic.ro

 

 

 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

 

1995 – 1999    ”AL. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Letters

                        BA in English and French Language and Literature

                        University years average grade: – 9.96. Final exam average grade: 10

 

1999-2001        ”AL. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Letters

MA in American Cultural Studies. MA thesis average grade: 10.

 

2002-2004AL. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, FEAA

ELITEC Postgraduate School

MA in International Business

 

2003-               AL. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Letters

PhD student of American Literature. Topic: Novelists About Themselves: 20th Century American Literature.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

2001-2004“AL. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania, FEAA

Instructor. Main activities: teaching seminars of English for Business (1st and 2nd year students), and seminars of Business Correspondence (3rd year students).

 

2001-2005“AL. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania, FEAA

 

Assistant lecturer. Main activities: teaching seminars of English for Business (1st and 2nd year students), and seminars of Business Correspondence (3rd year students). Teaching lectures in English for Business (1st and 2nd year students).

 

2009 -             “AL. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania, FEAA

 

Lecturer. Main activities: teaching seminars of English for Business (1st and 2nd year students), and seminars of Business Correspondence (3rd year students). Teaching lectures in English for Business (1st and 2nd year students).

 

2006                University of California at Berkeley, Department of Slavic, Scandinavian and Italian Languages and literatures 

                        Lecturer of Romanian. Main activities: teaching Romanian for Reading Purposes to MA and PhD students

 

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

 

2008-               Co-tutor of the International Business and Intercultural Strategies MA programme , FEAA

 

 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND TRAINING STAGES

 

2009                Institute of Education, London. Research stage financed through the  Idei project code 80, proiect manager Prorector Constantin Salavastru, PhD

2007                Central European University, scholarship for the summer school  “Media, Globalization and Eastern European Identities”

2005 – 2006    Fulbright junior grant at University of California at Berkeley, in the Linguistics Department and the Anthropology Department.

2004                Cyrius Scholarship, Copenhagen Business School (4 months)

2004                DeXus 2.0 An International Discourse Studies Summer School, summer school at the Center for Discourse Studies, Aalborg University.

2001                Democracy Fund scholarship, Universitatea Copenhaga (4 months)

2001                scholarship for a New Greek summer school, Aristotelis University, Thessaloniki (declined)

2000                Socrates scholarship, Middlesex University, London (5 months)

1998                research stage in the English Department of the University of Freiburg

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

 

Cultural Studies, Applied Linguistics, ESP, Translation Studies, Intercultural Communication, Discourse Analysis, Visual Language, International Marketing, American Literature, Linguistic and cultural Anthropology, Identity Studies

 

 

PROFESSIONAL  AFFILIATIONS

ESSE, RAAS, American Anthropological Association, Western Coast Folklore Society

 

PARTICIPATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

 

1. Leonardo Proiect, EC/2003/B/F 148105 EURANEC 2003-2006, in collaboration with partners in Greece, Spain and Bulgaria, for the design of an interactive material for the study of New Greek for Business.

2. Leonardo Project - e-INDELO   Development of e-self-training tools for professionals in local development ES/06/B/F/LA- 149475 Oct 2006-Nov 2008

3. Leonardo Project - YSGA (You Speak Greek Already) 2007-3634 / 001-001, Oct 2007-Nov 2009

 

PARTICIPATIONS IN NATIONAL PROJECTS

1. IDEI 80 The Language of Participatory Democracy: An Inquiry into Verbal Behaviour in the Power-Citizens Relations at Local Level, Project Manager: Prof. Constantin Salavastru, PhD, Vice-Rector,  Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi

 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. Luminiţa Andrei-Cocârţă, Anca Irina Cecal, Sorina Chiper, Elena Cojocaru, Athes Haralambie Business English Grammar Practice. Workbook I.  Demiurg: Iasi, 2008. 

2. Luminita Andrei, Olesia Lupu, Simona Mitocaru, Sorina Chiper, Episodes in Business Communication- Exercise Book,  Editura Sedcom Libris: Iasi, 2004 .

3. Luminita Andrei, Olesia Lupu, Simona Mitocaru, Sorina Chiper, Episodes in Business English- Exercise Book,  Sedcom Libris: Iasi, 2003 .

 

editeD Volumes

Conference Proceedings – 1st LSP International conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a World of Global Pluralism”, Iasi: Timpul, 2008 (co-edited with Luminita Andrei Cocarta)

 

Articles

- in international publications

1. ”Translating Academic Texts from Romanian into English: A Bird’s Eye View”, in Translation and Country Studies: An International Volume of Scholarly Papers, UFA: BSU EPC, 2009, pp. 23-37.

2. ”Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania”, in Visual Communication. 2007, February, London: Sage Publications, pp. 5-18 (co-author); republished in Lees-Maffei, Grace,  Houze, Rebecca (eds), The Design History Reader, Berg Publishers.

3. ”The Discourse of Romanian Universities”, in Journal of Organizational Change Management, special issue - ”Romania: Untapped Intellectual and Spiritual Capital” Vol. 19, no. 6, November 2005, Emerald Group Publishing.

4. ”Teaching English in Romanian Business Schools”, proceedings of the Northern American and English Studies conference, 2004, Aarhus, http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/naes2004/papers.html

5. ”Business Translation”, în Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. vol. 10: 3, 2002. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd, pp. 215-233.

- in Romania

1. ”Language and Business at a Crossing,” in Analele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii Al. I. Cuza din Iaşi, Vol. XLVII., 2001, Iasi: Editura Universităţii Al. I. Cuza, pp. 303-310.

2. ”Globalisation and the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Business Schools,” in Globalizarea şi educaţia economică universitară, 2002, Iaşi: Sedcom Libris, pp. 126-130.

3. ”Postmodern Historiography: J. Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 ˝ Chapters and J. Champion’s The Piano,” 2002, in Annales Universitatius Apulensis, Philologica, 3, Alba Iulia: Editura Universitatii “1 Decembrie 1918,” pp. 233-236.

4. ”Sources of Risk in Professional Communication,” in A. D. Sarpe (ed.). A VII-a conferinţă internaţională Riscul în economia contemporană, REC 2002, 8 – 9 november Galaţi: Editura Academica, 2002, pp. 311-315.

5. ”Communication in Business – An Interdiscourse Approach,” in Studii de limbi şi literaturi moderne, Timişoara: Editura Mirton, 2002, pp 2-10.

6. ”Orientalism and Occidentalism in Business,” in Globalizare si comunicare in afacerile internationale. Comunicarile simpozionului pe tema Relatiile economice externe ale Romaniei in context Euro-Atlantic. Bucharest: Editura ASE, 2003, pp. 58-62.

7. ”Representations of the City in Jeanette Winterson’s Art and Lies and The Passion” In Annales Universitatius Apulensis, Philologica, 3, Alba Iulia: Editura Universităţii “1 Decembrie 1918,” 2003, pp. 193-196.

8. ”Business Attire,” in Analele stiintifice ale Universităţii ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi, tomul XLVIII-XLIX, Iasi: Editura Universitatii ,,Al. I. Cuza,” 2002-2003, pp. 470-476.

9. ”The Quest for Identity in the Postmodern (Auto)Biographical Form: Angela Carter’s Wise Children and Jeannete Winterson’s Art & Lies”, in Constructions of Identity (II), Cluj Napoca: Ed. Napoca Star, 2004, pp. 269-274.

10. ”Beautiful Mind: What Goes on in the Translating Process”. In Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Philologica, 5/2004, Tom 2, Alba Iulia, pp. 407-410.

11. ”Translation in International Advertising”, în Lucrarile conferinţei “-ISMs & -NESSes,” Constanţa: Ovidius University Press, 2004, pp. 426-433.

12. ”The Id in the Ad” in Analele ştiinţifice ale Universităţii ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi, Tomul L/LI, 2004/2005, Editura Universităţii ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi, pp. 391-396.

13. ”The American Character in Henry Adams’ Eyes”, in Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Philologica, 6, Tom 2, Alba Iulia, 2005, pp 91-96.

14. ”Henry James – A Phenomenological Perspective,” in Colocviile filologice gălăţene, Bucureşti: Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 2005, pp. 130-135.

15. ”Educatie si cultura: Programul Leonardo da Vinci pentru limba neogreaca pentru afaceri. In Conference Proceedings – 1st LSP International conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a World of Global Pluralism”, Iasi: Editura Timpul, 2008.

16. ”’City of Culture. City of Cultures:’ Local and Global Dimensions in Sibiu 2007” in Conference Proceedings – 1st LSP International conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a World of Global Pluralism”, Iasi: Editura Timpul, 2008

17. ”E-Indelo – An Exercise in Integrating ICT in the Learning Process”, in proceedings of the Strategies for Optimizing the Quality Standard in Higher Education ESP International Workshop, Cluj Napoca: Risoprint, 2009.

18. ”Fidelity in the Cinema Adaptation of Shakespeare,” în The Buletin of the Students' Seventh National Shakespeare Symposium, 2001, Galati: Universitatea Dunarea de Jos, pp. 36-41.

 

TraNSLATIONS

 

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Adevarul Holding: Bucharest. 2009 (co-translators: Maria Petrescu, Luminita Cocarta)

 

Dorin Popa For ever for never, Fides: Iaşi, 2001 (co-translators: Ştefan Colibaba, Laura Ioana Cuţitaru (Leon), Eileen McFarren);

 

conference presentations

1. March 2002 Living on and Between the Borders, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, The Color Purple: Making and Unmaking Stereotypes

2. 24-26 October, 2002 Globalizarea şi Educaţia economică universitară, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Globalisation and the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Business Schools

3. 26-28 October 2002 Colloquium on Translation, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Translation in Business

4. 11-13 September 2003 Translation Targets, Charles University, Prague, Interpreting for the Rroma: Bridging Multiple Gaps

5. 12-14 November 2003 DICOEN Second International Conference on Discourse, Communication and Enterprise, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, Under Western Eyes: Westernising the Discourse of Romanian Universities

6. 5-8 May 2004 International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, Universitat de Valencia, In Black and White: Representations of the Roma in the Romanian Print Media

7. 27-29 May 2004 NAES, Ninth Nordic Conference for English Studies, Aarhus, Teaching English in Romanian Business Schools

8. 17-19 October 2004, American Freedoms, American (Dis)Orders, Warsaw University, The Master’s Lesson: Freedom and (Dis)Order in The Education of Henry Adams

9. 19-21 November 2004 Messages, Sages, and Ages, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, Romania, Questioning (American) Autobiography

10. 8-10 February 2005 The Language and Identity Tapestry Conference, Georgetown Linguistic Society, Georgetown University, Swoosh Identity: Recontextualizations in Haiti and Romania

11. 24-26 March 2005 Tradition, Modernity, Postmodernity, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Universitatea of Iaşi, The Education of Henry Adams

12. 13-15 May 2005 British and American Studies Conference, University of the West, Timisoara, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: Portrait of the Artist on a Willed Exile

13. 16-20 June 2005 CASA, University of Amsterdam, The Roma: Truly Anti-Global or Genuinely Global

14. 23-24 June 2005 Dilemmas of the Post-Communist Condition, History and Governance Research Institute, Wolverhampton University, Between Images: Representations of the Romanian Rroma in the Print Media

15. 7-9 July 2005 Language and Global Communication, Cardiff University, Unfinalizable Signs: The Avatars of Nike's Logo on the Outskirts of the Global Market (co-author)

16. 8-10 September, 2005 DICOEN, Third International Conference on Discourse, Communication and Enterprise, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Sacredization in a Marketplace of Signs: The Nike Swoosh on the Fringes of Global Capitalism (co-author)

17. 29 Nov – 4 Dec. 2005 American Anthropological Association Bringing the Past into the Present, The Wandering Roma: Hubris, Healing and Humility

18. 20-22 April 2006 Western States Folklore Society, Exploring Current “Theoretical Directions” in the Field of Folkloristics, Berkeley, Roma Music Performance – from a Safe Distance

19. 14-19 November 2006 American Anthropological Association, Critical Intersections/ Dangerous Issues, The “Gypsy” Music of the Roma

20. 17-19 May 2007 British and American Studies Conference, Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara, Black Boy: A Portrait of the Artist  

21. 8-10 September 2007 Shifting Landscapes of Film and Media. Questioning Legacies, Navigating Critique. Bilgi Univesrity, Istanbul, Tales from the Golden Age: Romanian Cinema between Mnemosyne and Mercury

22. 24-27 October 2007 IX Congreso Cultura Europa, Universidad de Navara. City of Culture. City of Cultures : Performing Nationhood and Europeanness in Sibiu

23. 25-27 October 2007 Globalization and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Gypsy Music: the Local to Global Leap; Negotiating French American Cultural Styles in Business Management and Communication. A Game of Perception

24. 6-8 March 2008 Sixteenth International Conference of Council for European Studies at Columbia University, Chicago. ”City of Cultures;” City Branding and Experiences of Culture in Sibiu

25. 11-12 April 2008 First LSP International Conference, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in a World of Global Pluralism, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi: Educatie si Cultura: Programul Leonardo Da Vinci . Limba greaca pentru afaceri (co-author); City of Culture, City of Cultures: Local and Global Dimensions in Sibiu 2007” 

26. 10-11 May 2008 BETA (Bulgarian English Teacher’s Association) conference, Sofia. Teaching English in a Business School: Cinderella’s Story

27. 15-18 May 2008 Fulbright Conference, Bucharest: Black Boy: The Making of an Intellectual.

28. 9-11 October 2008. Translation Studies: Retrospective and Prospective Views. Black Identity in Richard Wright’s Black Boy.

29. 14-16 October 2008 – Eighth International Seminar for Universities, Beijing. The Internationalization Potential of Romanian Universities

30. 3-4 Aprilie 2009 Cultural and Linguistic Challenges in a World of Financial Crisis, 2nd International Conference of the ESP Unit, FEAA, UAIC. E-Indelo. Developing Developers' Skills

31. 14-16 May 2009 BAS Conference, University of the Werst, Timisoara. Philip Roth's The Facts: Autobiography as Meta-Autobiography.

32. 24-26 September 2009 Expressions of the Self: Autobiography and Its Avatars, Alexandru Ioan. Cuza University, The Education of Henry Adams: From Personal History to a Theory of History

 

PERSONAL SKILLS

 

Foreign Languages:

English –  C2

French –C1

New Greek –B1

German –A2

Portuguese –A 1

Danish –A 1

 

Computer literacy

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet, Project Manager

 

Sociale skills

Open, communicative, flexible, easily adjustable to new stimuli

 

 

Hobbies

Music, poetry, classical guitar, travels

 

 

Other qualifications

-          Licensed translator

-          Licensed national tour guide

 

 

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