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PhD in English, University of Warwick, 2010
PhD in Goverment, Harvard University, 2007
BA in Political Science, Columbia University, 2000
Assistant Professor, Ghent University, 2011-2014
Teaching and Research Fellow, Université Paris V (Descartes), 2010-2011
Ethics Representative, English Department
Romanian - native
French - bilingual
German, Italian, Spanish - reading knowledge
Critical Dialogues
American Spaces
Postwar to the Present
I am currently co-supervising two PhD students at other UK universities (Kent and East Anglia).
I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduates who wish to work on topics that coincide with my research areas.
Modernism, Avant-garde, Narratology, Literary Theory
M. Hentea (2014). Henry Green at the Limits of Modernism. Sussex Academic Press.
MM. Hentea TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara. Cambridge and London: MIT Press.
M. Hentea (2015). Federating the Modern Spirit: The 1922 Congress of Paris. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 130(1), pp.37-53.
MM. Hentea ‘The Problem of Literary Generations: Origins and Limitations’. Comparative Literature Studies. 50(4), pp.567-588.
MM. Hentea ‘The End of the Party: The Bright Young People in Vile Bodies, Afternoon Men, and Party Going’. Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 56(1), pp.90-111.
M. Hentea (2013). On the Outskirts of Modernity: Tristan Tzara and Dada in Romania. Modernist Cultures. 8(2), pp.215-231.
MM. Hentea ‘The Fiction of Blindness and Real Life: The Diary Portion of Henry Green’s Blindness (1926)'. Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians. 59(3), pp.421-424.
M. Hentea (2013). Monocles on Modernity. Modernism/modernity. 20(2), pp.213-237.
MM. Hentea ‘A Guilty Self-Portrait: Henry Green’s Pack My Bag’. The Cambridge Quarterly. 40(1), pp.36-52.
M. Hentea (2011). Late Modernist Debuts: Publishing and Professionalizing Young Novelists in 1920s Britain. Book History. 14(1), pp.167-186.
M. Hentea (2010). The Forms and Functions of Back Story in the Novel. Narrative. 18(3), pp.347-366.
MM. Hentea ‘Fictions of Class and Community in Henry Green’s Living’. Studies in the Novel. 42(3), pp.321-339.
M. Hentea (2010). The Silence of the Last Poet: Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot, and the Value of the Classic. Modern Language Quarterly. 71(3), pp.297-328.
MM. Hentea ‘Fictional Doubles in Henry Green’s Back’. The Review of English Studies: the leading journal of English literature and language. 61(251), pp.614-626.
M. Hentea (2010). A Pastoral for Mr. Biswas. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 45(1), pp.97-114.
International Conferences:
2014 ‘Defining Modernism Then and Now: The 1922 Congress of Paris’, British Association of Modernist Studies, Institute of English Studies, Senate House (London, UK).
2013 ‘Auden’s Poetic Travels: Journeys into the Past, or Spain and China,’ Modernist Studies Association, Sussex University (Brighton, UK)
‘Aristocratic Proletarianism: Henry Green’s Living’, Aristocratic Imaginary of Modern Literature, KU-Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).
2012 ‘Material Meanings: The Poetry of Tristan Tzara’, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Kent University (Canterbury, UK).
‘The Janus Face of Adaptation: David Simon’s Homicide’ (with Elise Trogrlic), Transpositions, Reprises, Adaptations dans les séries télévisées européennes et américaines, University of Rouen (Rouen, France).
‘Henry Green and H.E. Bates: Marketing One’s Generation, Dismissing One’s Peers’, Generation M Modernism, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
‘Dada’s Public Ironies’, Art and Politics of Irony, McGill University Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (Montreal, Canada).
‘Tristan Tzara and the Problematic of Double Exile’, American Comparative Literature Association (Providence, USA).
2010 ‘On the Outskirts of Modernity: Tristan Tzara and the Possibility of Dada in 1910’, British Association of Modernist Studies/Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (Glasgow, Scotland).
2009 ‘The Market for Young Authors in the 1920s’, Modernist Studies Association (Montreal, Canada).
‘A Pastoral for Mr. Biswas’, Form and Identity, Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield, UK).
‘Back Story in the Novel’, International Society for the Study of Narrative (Birmingham, UK).
‘The Forged Life of the Marquise de Créquy’, British Society for 18th Century Studies (Oxford, UK).
2008 ‘Fictional Doubles in Henry Green’s Back’, Warwick English Department Postgraduate Symposium, Warwick University (Coventry, UK).
‘Concepts of Genius in the 18th Century: The Case of Sir Joshua Reynolds’, British Society for 18th Century Studies (Oxford, UK).
2007 ‘Blindness, Amputation, and the Loss of the Senses: The Fiction of Henry Green’, ManuScript ‘Senses’, University of Manchester (Manchester, UK).
‘Rousseau on Freedom and Necessity’, Rockefeller Center Conference on Rousseau (Bellagio, Italy).
‘Rousseau’s Yoke’, British Society for 18th Century Studies (Oxford, UK).
2005 ‘Sex, the Liberal Self, and the Market: The Fiction of Michel Houellebecq’, American Political Science Association (Washington, D.C., USA).
2015 ‘Epistolary Dada: Writing Dada History in the Post’, to be delivered at a roundtable sponsored by Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism, MLA (Vancouver, Canada). Participation sponsored by Man Met's Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research (IHSSR).
2012 ‘Defining the Modern: The 1922 Congress on the Human Spirit’, Literary Studies Workshop, Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium).
2007 Invited debater, ‘Pathways of Thought: Reinventing Democracy’, UNESCO, National Library of Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
2015 Organising Committee, European Narratology Network conference, Ghent University.
2015 Panel Organizer, ‘Dada Lives: Writing the Self and Dada History’, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland).
External reviewer, Clio: A Journal of History, Literature, and the Philosophy of History; Journal of the Short Story in English; Rocky Mountain Review; and Twentieth-Century Literature.
2010 Romanian Cultural Institute Research Bursary ($5000, for research on Tristan Tzara)