is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Romania. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary American
and British poetry and poetics. She was awarded her PhD from "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania, in 2008, for a thesis on Sylvia Plath's poetry. Her book, S
ylvia Plath's Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self, was published in 2009. She has also contributed translations of contemporary British and American poems and cultural essays in various Romanian journals. She is also a published poet: Poezii cu ceas/Poems with a clock (2004).