Viorica Patea

Viorica Patea is Professor of American Literature at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches American and English literature. Her published books include Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximación a la obra poética de Sylvia Plath (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1989), a study on Whitman, La apología de Whitman a favor de la épica de la modernidad (Ediciones Universidad de León 1999) and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Cátedra 2005). She has edited various collections of essays such as Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2001) and, together with Paul Scott Derrick, Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry (Rodopi 2007). She has edited a collection of essays, Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (Rodopi 2012) which received the Javier Coy Research Award for the best edited book (2013) from the Spanish Association of American Studies. Her research interests include comparative studies in witness literature of East-European countries. In collaboration with Fernando Sánchez Miret, she has translated from Romanian into Spanish the annotated edition of El diario de la felicidad by Nicolae Steinhardt (Sígueme 2007) and Proyectos de Pasado and Las Cuatro estaciones by Ana Blandiana (Periférica 2008, 2011). The book she is most proud of is her translation in collaboration with Paul Scott Derrick of Ana Blandiana’s poems My Native Land A4 (Bloodaxe, UK 2014). Her most recent book is the bilingual Spanish-English edition of Patrizia de Rachewiltz’s poems Mi Taishan (Linteo 2014) and the Romanian-English version of Taishan-ul meu (Scoala Ardeleana 2016). A Spanish translation of Ana Blandiana’s El sol del más allá & El reflujo de los sentidos (Pre-textos 2016) and the English version of Sun of the Hereafter & the Ebb of the Senses (Bloodaxe 2017) are forthcoming. Currently she is working on a bilingual critical edition of Ezra Pound’s Cantos in Spanish.