She was born in Sărulești, Buzău County, Romania, the daughter of Margareta (née Constantin) and Spiridon Iordache, a priest.[3] After graduating from Mihai Eminescu high school in Buzău in 1967[4], she studied English and German at the Languages Department of the University of Bucharest, where she graduated in 1972 as a valedictorian.[1] She was editor (1972-1975) and chief editor (1975-1989) of the English version of the magazine Cărţi româneşti (Romanian Books), and in 1990, publicist-commentator at the magazine Viaţa românească (Romanian Life)[3]. She got her PhD degree in 1992, shortly after the 1989 fall of communism, under the supervision of Leon Levițchi and Alexandru Duțu [ro].[1] She was promoted from professor‘s assistant to full professor at the University of Bucharest (1991–2002). In 2014 she completed her habilitation thesis confirmed by the Ministry of Education[5] and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students and pursuing her career of academic writing.[6] In 1994–1995 she was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University as visiting professor under the Fulbright Scholars Program.[7][8] She has publications in the fields of literary history and theory, comparative literature, genre theory, and cultural studies. She presented papers at conferences in Athens, University Park (Penn State University), Madrid, Manchester, Salzburg, Vienna, Dresden, Graz, Rome, Cologne, and Dortmund.[9][10]
Literary activity
She made her publishing debut in 1980 with Regele visurilor (The King of Dreams), an anthology of translations from American prose of the 19th century. A specialist in Anglo-Saxon literature and German and French cultures, Tupan was attracted by the new critical, psychocritical, pragmatic and stylistic methods of deconstruction. [11] As a literary critic and historian, she publishes literary chronicles and essays in the magazines "Amfiteatru", Convorbiri literare, Contemporanul, "Luceafărul", România literară, "Steaua", Viaţa românească, "Astra", etc.[11]. Her 17 books and a number of articles published in Europe, India, United States, and Australia are based on theoretical underpinnings falling within the fields of epistemology of literature, philosophy of culture, literary history and theory.[12][13]
Selected works
A Survey Course in British Literature București: Editura Universității din București, 1997 ISBN973-575-835-0
British Literature. An Overview (București: Editura Universității din București, 2005) ISBN973-737-086-4
The New Literary History (București: Editura Universității din București, 2006) ISBN978-973-737-205-5
Genre and Postmodernism (București: Editura Universitatii din București, 2008) ISBN978-973-737-572-8
Modernismul si psihologia. Încercare de epistemologie literara. Modernism and Psychology. An Inquiry into the Epistemology of Literary Modernism (București: Editura Academiei Române, 2009) ISBN978-973-27-1826-1
Literary Discourses of the New Physics. With an Introduction by Marin Cilea (București: Editura Universității din București, 2010) ISBN978-973-737-787-6
Teoria și practica literaturii la inceput de mileniu. (București: Editura Contemporanul, 2011) ISBN978-606-92683-0-8
Postmodernist Energetics: Peter Ackroyd's Museum Spac (The Museal Turn. Edited by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Winter Verlag. Heidelberg University Press, 2012)ISBN978-3-8253-6097-9
Relativism/ Relativity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Concept (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) ISBN978-1-4438-4744-5
Realismul magic. Încercare genealogică. București (Editura Academiei, 2013) ISBN978-973-27-2393-7
”The Zone: Ontological or Epistemological Operator?” (Eds. Christine Lötscher, Petra Schrackmann, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Aleta-Amirée von Holzen, Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic. Reihe: Fantastikforschung / Research in the Fantastic. Berlin-Munster-Wien-Zurich-London: LIT Verlag, 2014. ISBN978-3-643-80185-2
The Kantian Legacy. Essays in Epistemology and Aesthetics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN978-1-4438-9750-1
“Early Modern Essays: the Harmonics of the Discourse of Authority” in The Essays: Forms and Transformations. Ed. Dorothea Flothow, Markus Oppolzer, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2017 ISBN978-3-8253-6687-2
“The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes: The Mirror and the Signet. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2020) ISBN978-1-5275-9948-2