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Dana Bădulescu holds a PhD in Philology following the defense of the thesis “Impressionistic Modes and Metaphoric Structures in E. M. Forster’s Fiction and Criticism”. She teaches modernist and postmodernist British and American literature, basic elements of literary theory and critical thinking, transculturalism, poetics and translations. She has translated books of history, philosophy, poetry, literary theory, international relations, and, most recently, Bill Bryson’s book Down Under published at Polirom in 2014, together with Radu Andriescu Edward Hirsch’s bestseller book How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry published at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press in 2015 and Wolf Singer’s and Matthieu Ricard’s Beyond the Self publshed at Cartea Românească Educaţional Press in 1920. Dana Bădulescu has published a series of articles on modernism and postmodernism, key modernist and postmodernist writers and texts. She authored a textbook on modernism, a textbook on the nineteenth and twentieth century British novel (under the care of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, the Rural Education Project), a book on postmodernism and Rushdie’s Cross-pollinations, a book on Salman Rushdie’s writings published at Junimea Press in 2013. Between October 2010 and March 2013 she was the receiver of a POSDRU postdoctoral grant for a project on Salman Rushdie and democracy. As a postdoctoral grantee she focused her research on the intriguing and often dangerous imbrication of art, politics, ideology and religion vs. secularism in Salman Rushdie’s writing. Since 2010 her research has been focusing on today’s migrancy, hybridity, transnationalism and transculturalism. In this context, she deems Rushdie to be the prototype of the “translated man”, which cuts across linguistic and cultural approaches to translation. In December 2014, she formed a national research network which joined ISCH COST Action IS 1404 “Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation (E-READ).” She is affiliated with the Romanian Association for American Studies (RAAS); Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS); the French Society of Modernist Studies / Société d’Etudes Modernistes (SEM) and Society of Woolfian Studies / Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes (SEW).