Gabriela Iuliana Colipcă is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania. She was awarded the doctor’s degree in comparative literature and literary theory in October 2005 at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). As a PhD student, she also benefited from the opportunity of enlarging her field of expertise by training in theory and cultural analysis at the Pallas Institute for Research in History, Art History and Literary Studies of the Faculty of Letters, University of Leiden as well as at the International Seminar of Theory and Cultural Analysis World Memory, Affect and Trauma, and Sound organised by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam (2003-2004). She currently teaches English literature (Renaissance literature and eighteenth-century literature), style in fiction, narratology, film adaptations. Her research interests, which she has pursued presenting papers in numerous (inter)national conferences and submitting them for publication, are: Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature, culture and civilisation; comparative literature; literary theory and criticism (psychoanalysis, narratology, feminism); film theory; imagology, cultural analysis, trauma and affect theories. Some of her relevant publications in the above mentioned fields include: The Ways of the Novel: or, the Quest for Verisimilitude in the Eighteenth-Century French and English Novel (Leiden, 2005), “Representations of Romanian National Identity in Paul Bailey’s Kitty and Virgil” (in Individual and Specific Signs. Paradigms of Identity in Managing Social Representations, Bacău, 2008), “Representations of Otherness in Madame de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne” (in Annales de l’Université «Dunarea de Jos», Galati. Fascicule XXIII, Galaţi, 2007), “Self-Exile and the Trap of Endless Acting Out. A Study of Trauma and Affect in Paul Bailey’s Kitty and Virgil” (in (Ex)Patriation, Constanţa, 2007), “Easternising West: It-Narratives” (in The Circulation of Cultural Models within the Euroregional Spaces, Galaţi, 2006). She is also currently involved as a member of the Galaţi University research team in the FP6 project Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonization through Knowledge of Subcultural Communities, 2006-2008.