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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor for Latin
and Greek
The International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 2006-present
Instructor for Latin and Greek
The International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 2005-2006
Visiting Professor for Latin
and Greek
The International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 2002-2005
Assistant for Latin and Greek (second
academic step)
Department of Classics
Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2000-2002
'Preparator' for Latin
and Greek (first academic step)
Department of Classics
Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 1998-2000
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Co-editor of the Familia Creştină(Christian
Family)
magazine 2004-2007
Volunteer for the Jubilee
Year in Rome 2000
President of ASTRU (Association
of the Greek-Catholic Youth)
Cluj-Napoca 1999-2001
Co-editor of the ECHINOX magazine
Cluj-Napoca 1995-2000
PRIZES AND CONTEST PARTICIPATIONS
Certamen Vaticanum LI, publica
laus (III prize) 2008
Rome, Vatican
Latinity Prize, IV prize
Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca 2001
Latinity Prize, VII prize
Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca 2000
Student scientific session, I
prize
Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 1997
Heredes Romae, Prize
Cluj-Napoca 1996
Student scientific session, II
prize
Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 1996
Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas (International
Latin Contest)
Arpino, Italy 1993
National Latin contests, various
prizes and distinctions
Romania 1991-1994
EDUCATION
Aestiva Romae Latinitas
2006, 2007
Intensive Latin summer school
Director: Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD
Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca 1994-2005
PhD in Classics 2005
Thesis: The Colors in Quintus of Smyrna and His Models
Summa cum laude
Director: Prof. dr. André Hurst
Licentiate in Classics 1998
Faculty of History and Philosophy,
Cluj-Napoca 1998-1999
Master in Classics 1999
Gheorghe Şincai High School,
Cluj-Napoca 1989-1994
General School nr. 21, Cluj-Napoca
1981-1989
Scholarships
Visiting research student
International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 2001-2002
Département des sciences de
l'antiquité, Chaire de grec
Geneva, Switzerland 1997-1998
PRESENTATIONS
“The Only Happiness on Earth…” -
An Encounter with St. Thérèse
at the International Theological Institute, Gaming (Austria),
Nov. 23, 2007
"Cinderella or Latin in the
Church"
at the International Theological Institute, Gaming (Austria),
March 1, 2007
"Adoro Te devote– a synthesis
of St. Thomas Aquinas's Eucharistic Theology"
at the International conference on St. Th. Aquinas in Piliscsaba
(Hungary), Dec. 2002
"Patriotism de faţadă?
Note despre inscripţia în limba latină de pe frontispiciul Sălii
Unirii din Alba Iulia" /Façade patriotism? Notes about the
Latin inscription on the frontispiece of the Sala Unirii in Alba
Iulia/
at the celebration of the founding of the "1 Decembrie 1918" University
in Alba-Iulia (Romania), May 25, 2001
LANGUAGES
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native: Romanian
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foreign spoken: English, French, Italian, German, Latin
- foreign reading: English,
French, Italian, German, Latin, Greek
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book
Lumineux-obscur et couleurs
chez Quintus de Smyrne et ses modèles
(Târgu-Lăpuş: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009)
Contributions to Collected
Works
"Light and Darkness in Quintus
Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica 2"
in Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic
Epic, edited by M. Baumbach and S. Bär, in collab. with
N. Dümmler
(Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007)
(review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.09.58
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-09-58.html)
"Soarta lui Quintus din Smyrna
în româneşte"
in Koruphaiôi andri, Mélanges offerts à André Hurst, textes
réunis par A. Kolde, A. Lukinovich, A.-L. Rey (Genève: Droz,
2005)
Co-author of John Paul
II, We Love You, World Youth Day Reflections 1984-2005,
ed. by Barbara A. Murray (Saint Mary's Press, 2005)
"I believe in God the
Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth in the view
of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas"
in C.-D. Paţulea, A. Tat (coord.), Studii augustiniene,
urmate de E. Gilson, Filosofie şi Întrupare la Sf. Augustin (Târgu-Lăpuş/
Cluj-Napoca, 2004)
Scientific articles
"God's Image: The Betrayer
and the Betrayed in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory"
(Logos, Winter 2007, Volume 10:1)
"Adoro Te devote–
a synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Eucharistic Theology"
(Verbum, Analecta Neolatina, VI/ 2004/ 1)
"Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces"
(Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica,
2002/ 3)
"Dei Filius (Can. 1-4). A
commentary"
(Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia
Catholica, 2002/ 3)
"Patriotism de faţadă? Note
despre inscripţia în limba latină de pe frontispiciul Sălii Unirii
din Alba Iulia" [Façade patriotism? Notes about the Latin
inscription on the frontispiece of the Sala Unirii in Alba Iulia]
(Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica 4-5,
Litterae perennes 1991-2001, 2000-2001)
"Ciceronis Sallustique Catilina
sive De damnatione memoriae"
(Echinox 1-2-3/ 1999)
"Râsul lui Telemah" [The
laughter of Telemachus]
(Echinox 7-8-9/ 1998)
Reviews
Cristian Bădiliţă, Degetul
pe rană (Bucureşti: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2006)
(Familia creştină, 2 (23)/ 2007, www.profamilia.ro)
Andrei Pleşu, Obscenitatea
publică (Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2005)
(Familia creştină, 1 (22)/ 2007, www.profamilia.ro)
I. G. Ogoranu, Amintiri din
copilărie (Timisoara: Marineasa, 2001)
(Familia creştină, 7 (20)/ 2006, www. profamilia.ro)
Vladimir Ghika, Fragmente
postume (Cluj: Dacia, 2003)
(Familia creştină, 1 (14)/ 2006, www.profamilia.ro)
Viorica Lascu, Semnele timpului (Cluj-Napoca:
Biblioteca AGRU, 2001)
(Piaţa literară, 14/ 2002)
Marian Papahagi, Raţiuni de
a fi (Bucureşti: Atlas, 1999)
(Echinox, 7-8-9/ 2000)
Selected popular articles
(over 40)
"Ziua latinităţii" [Dies
Latinitatis]
(Făclia, 25 mai 2009, www.ziarulfaclia.ro)
"Iosephus et Maria"
(Vox Latina, tomus 45, 2009, fasc. 175)
"Ziua latinităţii" [Dies
Latinitatis]
(Făclia, 19 mai 2008, www.ziarulfaclia.ro)
"Memoria quaedam temporis
lycei" [High school memory]
(Vox Latina, tomus 44, 2008, fasc. 171)
"Scrisori latine" [Latin
letters]
(Lumea Catholica, 11/ 2007, www.catholica.ro/revista/)
"Ziua latinităţii" [Dies
Latinitatis]
(Făclia, 15 mai 2007, www.ziarulfaclia.ro)
"Winnetou cenzurat" [Winnetou
censured]
(Familia creştină, 8 (21)/ 2006, www.profamilia.ro)
"De Catholicis Dacoromanis
in Transilvania"
(Vox Latina, tomus 42, 2006, fasc. 164)
"Preasfânta Inimă a lui Isus" [The
most sacred heart of Jesus]
(Familia creştină, iunie 2006, www.profamilia.ro)
"Mila dumnezeiască" [Divine
mercy]
(Familia creştină, mai 2006, www.profamilia.ro)
"Ziua latinităţii" [Dies
Latinitatis]
(Adevărul de Cluj, 15 mai 2006)
"Drumul unei
sfinte" [The road of a saint]
(Familia creştină 2 (15)/ 2006, www.profamilia.ro)
Translations
a) books (from French)
Joseph Tissot, Arta de a ne folosi greşelile [The Art
of Using One's Faults] (Târgu-Lăpuş: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2008)
b) articles (from English)
"Cum ne face puternici slăbiciunea Crucii?" (II), de Peter Kreeft
[How Does The Weakness of the Cross Make Us Strong? by Peter Kreeft]
(Familia creştină, 4/ 2007, www.profamilia.ro)
"Cum ne face puternici slăbiciunea
Crucii?" (I), de Peter Kreeft [How Does The Weakness of
the Cross Make Us Strong? by Peter Kreeft]
(Familia creştină, 3/ 2007, www.profamilia.ro)
"Sfântul Ignaţiu de Loyola
(1491-1556) – 450 ani de la moartea sa" de C. M. Card. Martini,
S. J. [St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) – 450 years since his
death, by C. M. Card. Martini, S. J.]
(Vatra, 4/ 2006)
"Sfântul Francisc Xaveriu
(1506-1552)" de R. Card. Tucci, S. J. [St. Francis Xavier
(1506-1552), by R. Card. Tucci, S. J.]
(Vatra, 4/ 2006)
"Să ne amintim împreună cu
Fericitul Pierre Favre (1506-1546)" de D. Bertrand, S. J.
[Let us remember together with Bl. Pierre Favre (1506-1546),
by D. Bertrand, S. J.]
(Vatra, 4/ 2006)
Monthly reflections (in
Romanian)
(http://www.profamilia.ro/meditatii.asp?reflectia)
COURSES TAUGHT
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Introduction to Latin (all periods)
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Introduction to Greek (classical, New Testament)
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Latin Reading (all periods)
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Greek Reading (classical, New Testament)
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Greek Literature (Homer, Sophocles)
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Latin (language, literature: Virgil, Cicero, Sallust)
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Greek (language, literature: Homer, Quintus of Smyrna)
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Mary in the Fathers (St. Bernard, St. John Damascene)
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St. Thomas Aquinas (hymns, commentaries in particular)
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St. Therese of Lisieux
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Romanian etymology
- Faith and culture
CURRENT RESEARCH
A collection of articles to be
published
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