Ioana Mohor-Ivan is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Letters at the “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania. She was awarded the doctor’s degree in English Literature in 2003 at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iaşi, Romania (Title of the PhD Thesis: Dramatic Representations of Irishness and the Theatre of Brian Friel). Her field of expertise also includes a Certificate in British Cultural Studies awarded by the University of Warwick, England in 1994. She also benefited from training courses at Queen’s University, Belfast, and the Institute of Irish Studies, between 1995 and 1997. She has been previously involved in international projects as co-ordinator for the Galaţi University team within the East European Studies Project: Irish Studies in the New European Democracies, organised by the Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, in association with the British Council in Northern Ireland and the Cultural Relations Committee, Dublin during 1997-1999 and as a member of the Galaţi University research team within the FP6 project Society and Lifestyles: Towards enhancing social harmonization through knowledge of subcultural communities, 2006-2008. She currently teaches British Cultural Studies, Irish literature, The History, Myths and Identities of the British Isles, English Literature and Theatre. Her research interests include cultural studies, identity and otherness, imagology and post-colonialism. She has published books and articles on affiliated topics, such as Representations of Irishness: culture, theatre and Brian Friel’s revisionist stage (Bucharest, 2004), Glimpses of Britain: a cultural studies perspective (Bucharest, 2004), “’Spear-bhean’” or ‘Sean Bhean Bocht’?: Feminine Tropes of Ireland and Dramatic Representation from Cathleen ni Houlihan to Bailegangaire” (Galaţi, 2006), “Tradition, Modernity and Cinematic Scotland: from Braveheart to Trainspotting” (Galaţi, 2007), “‘Culture besieged by barbarity’: versions and reversions of the Anglo-Irish Big House” (Ploieşti, 2008).