Adriana Neagu is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Studies at
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. She is the author of
Sublimating the Postmodern Discourse: toward a Post-Postmodern
Fiction in the Writings of Paul Auster and Peter Ackroyd
(2001), In the Future Perfect: the Rise and Fall of
Postmodernism (2001), and of numerous critical and cultural
theory articles. Dr Neagu has been the recipient of several pre-
and postdoctoral research awards. Previous academic affiliations
include an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Edinburgh and visiting positions at Oxford
University, University of Bergen, University of East Anglia, and
University of London. Her teaching areas are diverse, combining
literary and cultural studies disciplines. Her main specialism is
in the poetics of modernist and postmodernist discourse,
postcolonial theory and the literatures of identity, and
translation theory and practice. At present her research centres on
new paradigms of cultural identity in the U.K. She is currently at
work on a book project on Englishness, Regionality and Religion in
the Post-secular Age. Since 1999, Dr Neagu has been Advisory Editor
and, since 2004, Editor-in-Chief of American, British and Canadian
Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania.