Dr. Alina Bottez

Senior Lecturer in English
BA, University of Bucharest, 1998
MA, University of Bucharest, 1999
PhD, University of Bucharest, 2013
alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro
Office hours: by appointment

COURSE TAUGHT

Britishness in the Arts: Music

BIO & PUBLICATIONS

Alina Bottez has been teaching Mediaeval, Renaissance, Victorian, and Twentieth Century British Literature at the University of Bucharest since 1998. Her research interests include Shakespeare studies, cultural studies, the study of mentalities, adaptation studies, and the interdisciplinary analysis of literature and music. She was the recipient of two research travel grants in 2011 (Oxford & London, and Paris). She was a member of two CNCSIS research grants – Imaginea ca reflexie a poeziei muzicii/The Image as Reflexion of the Poetry of Music (566/2007, National University of Music, Bucharest), and Postcolonialism/Postcommunism: A Dictionary of Key Cultural Concepts (PNII_ID 2089/2008, UB). She has published extensively and has given lectures on Shakespeare and opera/musical at Koç University (Istanbul), Universitat Autònoma (Barcelona), Ca’ Foscari (Venice), the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Department of Cultural Tourism, Portugal), and the University of Seville. She has presented papers on related topics at conferences at Mansfield College (Oxford), University of London, Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Virginia, U.S.A.), ESRA Conferences (Gdansk 2017, Rome 2019, Athens 2021), SEDERI Conferences (Guadalajara 2018, Lisbon 2019), a. o. She has co-convened the 2019, 2021, and the coming 2023 editions of the Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA) in Rome, Athens, and Budapest. Alina Bottez has been invited to write a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Early Modern Literature and Music. She is a member of the Organising Committee of the Annual International Conference of the English Department (University of Bucharest), and a member of the Shakespeare and Music Study Group affiliated with the Royal Musical Association (UK).

Alina Bottez also has a performing career as an opera soprano in Romania and abroad.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Avatarurile mitului oedipian în cultura modernă. Bucharest: Eikon. 2022 – forthcoming
  • Malice in Wonderland. A Logical Anatomy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. 2022 – forthcoming
  • A Confluence between Masterpieces: Operas Inspired by Shakespeare’s Plays. Bucharest: Editura Muzicală. 2015.
  • Postcolonialism/Postcommunism: A Dictionary of Key Cultural Concepts, co-author with MonicaBottez, Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Ruxandra Rădulescu, Bogdan Ştefănescu and Ruxandra Vişan. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2011.

Edited volumes

  • The Woes of Wars in Text and Context. (Adela Dinu-Catană – co-editor). Cambridge Scholars. 2022 – forthcoming
  • Probing the Boundaries – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour. Leiden: Brill. 2023 – forthcoming
  • Urbanology. Crash Courses on a ‘Science’ in Crisis, co-edited with Raluca Velisar. Bucharest: MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art) & NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute), Master Print Super Offset, 2009.

Book chapters

  • “Not So Brave and Not So New: Shakespeare’s The Tempest Transmediated into Music in the Twenty-First Century.” The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Literature and Music. London: Routledge. 2023 – forthcoming
  • “‘Hang-hog is Latin for bacon’. Shakespeare Frills Reread as Opera Trills.” Alina Bottez (ed.) Probing the Boundaries – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Humour. Leiden: Brill. 2023 – forthcoming
  • “War as Character in Shakespeare’s Plays.” Alina Bottez & Adela Dinu-Catană eds.: The Woes of Wars in Text and Context. Cambridge Scholars. 2022 – forthcoming
  • “The Circumcised Dog and the Subtle Whore: Race and Gender in the Musical Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello.” Elena Bandín, Francesca Rayner & Laura Campillo Arnaiz (eds.) Othello in European Culture. “Shakespeare in European Culture” Series. ISBN 9789027257826. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2022, pp. 205-224
  • “Crossing Borders: Hamlet in the Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.” Mădălina Nicolaescu, Alis Zaharia, Andrei Nae (eds.) Perspectives on Shakespeare in Europe’s Borderlands. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. ISBN 978-606-16-1063-1. 2019, pp. 255-274
  • “Musical Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays in Twentieth-Century Romania.” Mădălina Nicolaescu, Alis Zaharia, Andrei Nae (eds.) SHAKESPEARE 400 IN ROMANIA. Papers Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s Death. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. ISBN 978-606-16-0820-1. 2017, pp. 281-309
  • “Shakespeare Translated into Opera and Its Main Languages.” Mădălina Nicolaescu & Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (eds.) Shakespeare, Translation and the European Dimension. Bucharest: Pro Universitaria. 2012, pp. 199-220

Journal articles

  • “Oedipus redivivus: metamorfoze moderne ale mitului antic în cultura universal.” Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ramona Mihăilă (eds.) Myth, Symbol, and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths to the Fantastic Unreality, vol. IV. ISBN 978-606-16-0843-0. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. 2022 – forthcoming
  • “Oedipus redivivus: metamorfoze moderne ale mitului antic în cultura românească”. Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ramona Mihăilă (eds.) Myth, Symbol, and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths to the Fantastic Unreality, vol. IV. ISBN 978-606-16-0843-0. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. 2022 – forthcoming
  • “The Remediation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in European Opera”. Proceedings of the ‘Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity’ International Conference, vol. 6. Târgu Mureș: Arhipelag XXI. 2019. 157-166. ISI indexed
  • “Fishy Births, Fake Deaths and Bewildering Afterdeaths: Shakespeare and Opera”. Proceedings of the ‘Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity’ International Conference, vol. 5: Mediating Globalization: Identities in Dialogue. Iulian Boldea, Dumitru-Mircea Buda & Cornel Sigmirean (Eds.). Târgu Mureș: Arhipelag XXI. 2018. 226-236. ISBN 978-606-93692-8-9. ISI indexed.
  • “Shakespeare Re-Read, Re-Written, Re-Contextualised or… Re-Placed in Opera and Musical”. Linguaculture, Vol. 8, Nr. 2. Rodica Dimitriu & Radu Andriescu (eds.). Iaşi: Editura Universitatii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”. 2017. 145-157.
  • “Shakespeare’s Britishness Globalised on the Opera Stage” in Debating Globalization. Identity, Nation and Dialogue. Iulian Boldea & Cornel Sigmirean (Eds.). Târgu Mureș: Arhipelag XXI. 2017. 839-847. ISI indexed
  • “The Fall of Moira: Flegg and Enescu’s 20th century Reinterpretation of Oedipus’ Destiny”. Proceedings of the George Enescu International Musicology Symposium. Bucharest: Editura Muzicală. 2017. 30-38.
  • “Shakespearean Matters Reread in the Dramatic Musical Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet”. East-West Cultural Passage. Sibiu: Editura Universitatii “Lucian Blaga”. 2016. 78-100.
  • “Religion and Cultural Identity in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the Musical Works it Inspired”. Messages, Sages and Ages – The Bukovinian Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (August); special issue: “Protean Shakespeare”. 2016. 46-59.
  • “Shakespeare’s Untranslatable Englishness Translated into Opera”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Vol. 2 – “Translation and Untranslatables – Reading beyond Borders”. Cluj-Napoca. 2016. 193-212.
  • “Shakespearean Matters Reread in the Dramatic Musical Adaptations of Romeo and Juliet”. East-West Cultural Passage, Vol. 16. Sibiu: Editura Universitatii “Lucian Blaga”. 2016. 78-100.
  • “Falstaff Revisited. Shakespeare’s Henry IV Adapted into Opera”. The Many Facets of Adaptation. Rodica Dimitriu et al. (eds.) Iaşi: Editura Universitatii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”. 2015. 163-177.
  • “The Transnational Dimension of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor as Adapted into Opera by Ritter and Dittersdorf”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. IV/2014, no. 1. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press. 2014. 97-104.
  • “Fairy and Human Mischief – Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Translated into Music by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Thomas, Britten, Orff and Bentoiu”. East/West Cultural Passage, Special issue: Literature and Music. Sibiu: Editura Universitatii “Lucian Blaga”. 2012. 145-166.
  • “Other and Mother in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Operas It Inspired”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. XIV (vol. II new series) no. 1/2012. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press. 2012. 39-48.
  • “An Exploration of George Enescu’s Seven Songs on Poems by Clément Marot”. Proceedings of the George Enescu International Musicology Symposium, vol. 1. Mihai Cosma (ed.) Bucharest: Editura Muzicală. 2011. 113-117.
  • “The Temporal Durability of Shakespeare’s Othello in Its Musical Rewritings”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. XI, no. 2/2009.: University of Bucharest Press. 2009. 111-118.
  • “Identity and Dissimilarity: Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and the Operas It Inspired”. University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. IX no. 2/2007. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press. 2007. 121-129.