Laura Teutişan (pen name: Laura Pavel)
Prof. Univ. Dr. Habil.
Email: laura.teutisan@ubbcluj.ro
habilitated: 4104MD / 05.iul.2013
Phd. students: 5
academic profile:
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Laura Teutişan (pen name: Laura Pavel) is a full professor and holder of a Phd. habilitations (Dr. hab.) at the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babeş-Bolyai University. Under the name Laura Pavel, she has authored several volumes on literary and theatrical theory and history, two of which have been published abroad to date: Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature, trans. by Alistair Ian Blyth, Dalkey Archive Press (2011), and *Ionesco. L’Antimondo di uno scettico, translated by Maria Luisa Lombardo, Aracne Editrice (2016). For her most recent volume of essays, Characters of Theory, Beings of Fiction (European Institute, 2021), she received the “Tudor Vianu – for Literary and Cultural Theory” Award, granted by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. She also publishes poetry collections under the name Laura Francisca Pavel: Urban Tricks, OMG, 2022 (BAC-FEST Award – Poetry Book of the Year 2022; Poetry Book of the Year 2022 Award, granted by ARCCA. The French-language version, titled Scénarios urbains, translated by Gabrielle Danoux, was published in 2024 by Nombre7 Éditions); Actions and Protocols, OMG, 2023 (nominated for the Observator Universitas Award and the BAC-FEST); Zone of Excitement, OMG, 2024.
Courses thaught in the Doctoral School:
Research methodology in performing arts. Interpretative strategies– SYLLABUS
Recommended research topics for admissions 2026
Recommended research
Reinterpretarea şi rescrierea intertextuală a canonului teatral
Reprezentări identitare, mize antropologice şi interculturale ale fenomenului performance
Ficţional, virtual, performativ – experienţă estetică şi imaginar utopic/distopic în era multimedia
Performativitate, vizualitate, literaritate – dialogul perspectivelor estetice şi analiza culturală interdisciplinară
Teatrul interiorităţii: de la drama de conştiinţă la un performance al vieţii private
Identitatea histrionică: între autobiografic şi ficţional
Recommended Reading
- AUSLANDER, Philip, From Acting to Performance, London & New York: Routledge, 2007.
- AUSLANDER, Philip, Liveness. Performance in a mediatized culture. Second edition, London & New York: Routledge, 2008.
- BAL, Mieke, Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. A Rough Guide, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.BISHOP, Claire, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, London:Verso, 2012.BOAL, Augusto, Jocuri pentru actori şi non-actori. Teatrul oprimaţilor în practică, trad. de Eugenia Anca Rotescu, Bucureşti: Fundaţia CONCEPT, 2005.CĂLINESCU, Matei, Cinci feţe ale modernităţii. Modernism, avangardă, decadenţă, kitsch, postmodernism, trad. rom. Tatiana Pătrulescu şi Radu Ţurcanu, Bucureşti: Univers, 1995.
- FÉRAL, Josete, „Foreword”. SubStance. A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. Guest editor: Josete Féral. Issues 98 & 99, Vol. 31, Nos. 2 & 3, 2002.
- GOLDBERG, RoseLee, Performance Art. From Futurism to the Present, Thames&Hudson world of art, 2001.
- HAYLES, Katherine N., How We Become Posthuman. Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- HUTCHEON, Linda, Politica postmodernismului, traducere de Mircea Deac, Bucureşti: Univers, 1997
- MITCHELL, W.J.T, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- MORENO, Jacob Levy. Scrieri fundamentale. Despre psihodramă, metoda de grup şi spontaneitate, traducere din engleză de Ioana Maria Novac, Bucureşti: Ed. Trei, 2009.
- PAVEL, Laura, Teatru şi identitate. Interpretări pe scena interioară / Theatre and Identity. Interpretations on the Inner Stage, Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2012.PAVEL, Laura, „Aesthetic Negotiations of Identity ‒ Between Embodied and Disembodied Performance”. Ekphrasis, volume 13, 2015, issue 1, 80-90.
- PAVEL, Laura, Personaje ale teoriei, fiinţe ale ficţiunii. Eseuri, Iaşi:Institutul European, 2021.
- RUNCAN, Miruna, Signore Misterioso. O anatomie a spectatorului București: UNITEXT,2011.
- SCHECHNER, Richard, Performance Studies. An Introduction, London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
- SCHECHNER, Richard, Performance. Introducere și teorie, trad. de Ioana Ieronim, București: UNITEXT, 2009.
