Alina Preda

Alina Preda este conferențiar universitar dr. în cadrul Departamentului de Studii Anglofone și Scandinave.

Domenii de interes: sintaxa limbii engleze; analiza discursului; literatura engleză contemporană; studii culturale şi de gen; studiul comparativ al religiilor. 

Selecție de publicații:

Cărți: 

  • A Synoptic Outline of Phrasal Syntax and Clausal Syntax. Cluj: Argonaut, 2013. 
  • Interferences: On Gender and Genre. Cluj: Argonaut, 2013.

Articole: 

  • “Nourishing Stories: The Therapeutic Power of Cooking and Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson’s Medley of Festive Tales”. In Dana Bădulescu, Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and Florina Năstase (eds.) Women’s Imaginary Cooking and Appetites Across Cultures:Studies in Literature, Media and Film. Pp. 214-230. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025.
  • “Leonard Swidler’s Call to Inter-Religious Dialogue Revisited” in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Vol. 23, Issue 69, Winter 2024, Pp. 16-29, ISSN: 1583-0039 © SACRI.
  • “Re-Locating Religion in The Digital Age”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Vol. 23, Issue 67, Spring 2024, Pp. 109-123, ISSN: 1583-0039 © SACRI.
  • “Jeanette Winterson’s Art & Lies as the Fictional Embodiment of an Ars Poetica”, in Transylvanian Review, ISSN: 1221-1249,  Volum Nr: XXXII, Pp: 234- 247, 2023.
  • “Dynamics of Identity Negotiation: A Case Study on a Facebook Post Pertaining to Abortion Rights”, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Philologia, ISSN: 1220-0484, Volum Nr: LXVII, 4, Pp. 139 – 164, Număr identificare articol: 10.24193, 2022.
  • “Boundaries and Desire: Censorship and the Articulation of Romantic Encounters in the Works of Radclyffe Hall” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de La Laguna, 84/2022, p. 135-148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84; ISSN: 0211-5913 (edición impresa) / ISSN: e-2530-8335 (edición digital).
  • „Towards an integral study of religiosity rooted in Mircea Eliade’s new humanism”, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Philologia LXVI, 1, 2021, p. 109 – 125. DOI:10.24193/subbphilo.2021.1.09, ISSN: 1220-0484.
  • “Modification versus Complementation in the Structure of English Noun Phrases”, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Philologia 66 (LXVI), 2, 2021, p. 251-266. DOI:10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.17, ISSN: 1220-0484.
  • “Modification versus Complementation in the Structure of English Adjective Phrases and Adverb Phrases”, Philobiblon – Transylvanian Journal of Multidiciplinary Research in  Humanities, Vol. XXV, Nr. 1 2020, P.105-123, ISSN: 1224-7448.
  • “How faith-based marketing can forestall the crisis of institutionalized religion – The case of American Christian Fundamentalism”, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Vol 18, No 52, Spring 2019, P. 125-141, ISSN: 1583-0039 © SACRI. ISSN: 1583-0039.
  • “Crossing the Boundaries between Modernist and Postmodernist Poetics: The Critical Reception of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels”, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 5.2, 2019, P. 22-39. https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2019.8.02, ISSN: 2457-8827.
  • “An Agential Realist Approach to Posthumanist relational subjectivity in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods”, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 4.1., 2018, P. 22-38, ISSN: 2457-8827.
  •  „A Defense of the Cross-Cultural Approach to Male-Female (Mis)Communication”, Philobiblon – Transylvanian Journal of Multidiciplinary Research in  Humanities, 2017, P. 187-199, ISSN: 1224-7448.
  • “Literary Art versus Technological Performance: The Case of Jeanette Winterson”, Transylvanian Review, Indexare ISI, Vol. XXII, Supplement No. 1, 2013, P.287 – 297.
  • “The City as Character in Jeanette Winterson’s Literary Writing”, Cultural Imprints in the Age of Globalisation: Writing Region and Nation, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2012. P. 191-202.