Dr. Elena Ciobanu is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bacau, Romania. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary American and British poetry and poetics. Her research has focused on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and she is currently completing a book entitled Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self. She has published translations of contemporary British and American poems in various cultural magazines of Romania, and she regularly contributes cultural essays to the national magazine Ateneu. She is also a published poet: Poezii cu ceas/Poems with a clock, Corgalpress, Bacau, 2004.