Studii:
Liceul Nikolaus Lenau Timișoara (1976)
Facultatea de Filologie, Universitatea de Vest Timişoara, secţia engleză
Trăieşte la Durban (Africa de Sud)
Activitatea profesională:
Profesor universitar la Durban (Africa de Sud) – engleză şi studii interculturale/
Professor of English, UKZN Durban, South Africa
Cercetător ştiinţific
Profesor Emerit la University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Debut literar:
Debut editorial:
Membră a Uniunii Scriitorilor din România din anul
Colaborează la: “Orizont”
Este autoarea a numeroase studii și cercetări privind traducerilor, literatura postcolonială, literatura sud africană din perspectivă comparativă
Volume publicate:
Activism and the Intensity of the Local: Translation and Cultural Politics. In: Boeri,
Julie and Carol Maier. Translation and Social Activism. Granada: ECOS, 2009. Translation and Shifting Identities in Post-apartheid South Africa: Re-thinking Teaching
Paradigms in Times of Transition, In: Inggs, Judith and L. Meintjes (eds). Translation
Studies in Africa. London, 2008
Which World? Whose World? Postcolonialising Gordimer, In: Chapman, Michael (ed).
Postcolonialism: South/ African Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars: 149-170.
2006.
Symbolic Power’ and ‘World-Making, in Politically Over-Determined Times: Translation
and Social Practice under Dictatorship”. In: Wolf, Michaela (ed). Ubersetzen, Translating,
Traduire: Towards A Social Turn. Vienna/ Berlin/ Hamburg/ Zurich/ London: LIT Verlag:
55-65, 2004.
Carnivalesque Rituals of Renewal: The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and The
Man Died, In: Coullie, Judith and JU Jacobs (eds). Aka Breyten Breytenbach: Critical
Approaches to His Writings and Paintings. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2004.
Along the North/ South Axis: Interview with Mihai Sora in South Africa. In: Sora, Mihai
ed).
Locuri Comune, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 2002
A New Sense of Social Space: Gordimer’s Civil Imaginary, In: Wilson, Rita (ed). Spacesand Crossings. Frankfurt/ New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
Academic Restructuring in the Humanities: The Role and Meaning of Translation in the
South African Context, In: Thelen, Marcel (ed). Translation and Meaning. Maastricht
University Press, 2000.
Traduceri:
Art of Conscience: Re-reading Nadine Gordimer, Timisoara, Editura Hestia, 1993.
Muriel Spark, Un strigăt îndepărtat din Kensington/A Far Cry from Kensington, Editura Univers, Bucureşti 1993
Fete sărmane, proză, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 1989
Peter Abrahams, O cunună pentru Udomo, Editura Univers, 1989
Muriel Spark, N-am hoinărit chiar fără rost, Bucureş
