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Full Name: Dennis John Deletant
Post and Affliation: Professor of Romanian Studies
School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, University College, London
Professor of Romanian Studies
University of Amsterdam
(on secondment in 1st semester since
2003)
Date of appointment as Professor in
SSEES: 1 October 1996
Date of Birth: 5 March 1946
Previous appointments:
1 October 1969:
Assistant Lecturer in Romanian Language and Literature, SSEES
1 October 1972:
Lecturer in Romanian Language and Literature, SSEES
1 October 1988:
Senior Lecturer in Romanian Studies, SSEES
1 October 1993:
Reader in Romanian Studies, SSEES
Other appointments and awards
Between 2000 and 2001 I was Rosenzweig Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in December 2002 was appointed a Senior Research Scholar of the Cold War International History Project, funded by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC.
From September 2003 I have been seconded for the autumn semester to the University of Amsterdam under a bi-lateral agreement between that university and UCL.
British Academy Small Grant of £5098 for the period 1 July 2007 -31 May 2009 to research the topic ‘Britain and anti-Fascist and anti-Communist resistance in Romania, 1940-1964'.
TEACHING DUTIES
I Undergraduate (BA) courses (all tutorials)
Note that student demand fluctuates from year to year and that not all undergraduate courses may be taught in a given year
Introduction to Romanian Culture
Romanian literature 1850-1948
Romanian literature since 1948
II MA Teaching Tutorials
Romanian literature, 1944-1989
III Postgraduate research supervision
4 students currently under supervision
EXAMINING
Chairman of Examiners in B.A.Romanian
Chairman of the Board of Examiners for BA East European Languages and Culture
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Grants received from British Academy for organization of:
- Nicolae Titulescu Symposium at SSEES in May 1982 (joint organizer)
- Anglo-Bulgarian humanities conference at SSEES in July 1982 (joint organizer)
- International Conference in honour of Professor Hugh Seton-Watson in July 1983 at SSEES (joint organizer)
- Fourth British-Romanian Historical Colloquium in September 1984 at SSEES
- British organizer of the Fifth British-Romanian historical conference sponsored by The British Academy and the Romanian Academy of Social and Political Sciences in September 1987 and held in Cluj, Romania
- Organizer of Sixth British-Romanian Historical Colloquium in October 1990 at St Antony's College, Oxford
Grants received from Ford Foundation and British Academy:
- for conference on 'Romanian - the shaping of an identity' held between 22-24 September 1992 in SSEES
Other Conferences
Joint organizer of Romanian Studies Day, SSEES, 26 April 1994
Joint organizer of Romanian Studies Day, SSEES, 13 January 1995
Joint organizer of Romanian Studies Day, SSEES, 29 March 1996
Joint organizer of Romanian Studies Day, SSEES, 24 February 1997
Organizer of Romanian Studies Day, SSEES, 13 May 2004
Organizer of British-Romanian Symposium to mark 125th anniversary of British-Romanian Diplomatic Relations, New Europe College, Bucharest, 4-5 April 2005
Joint organizer of Romanian-Moldovan Studies Group, funded jointly by University College, London and The Ratiu Foundation. Symposia held on 26 January and 11 May 2007.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
1980-1984 Head of the Department of East European Languages
and Culture, SSEES
1996-2000 Head of the Department of East European Languages and
Culture, SSEES, University College (SSEES merged with
University College in summer 1999)
2006 (March-July) Acting Head of the Department of East European Languages and Culture, SSEES, University College
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1981-89 Treasurer of the International Association for Romanian Studies, based
in Amsterdam
1982-2000 (Joint to 1993), Sole (from 1993-1997), Joint (from Oct. 1997-2000)
editor of South-Eastern European Newsletter, published for UK
universities
1984-93 Member of the British National Committee of Association Internationale des Études sud-est européenes of UNESCO
Member of the British campaign committee 'Save Romanian Villages' which worked under the patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales from 1988 to 1990
1990-1999 Member of the Advisory Board of British Government's Know-How Fund for Central and Eastern Europe
1990-1993 Romanian adviser to Voluntary Service Overseas East European Partnership
1992-1994 Romanian adviser to Help Age International
2002- 2006 Member of the Executive Board of the Romanian Institute for Recent History (established in Bucharest by the Dutch Foreign Ministry)
2003- Member of the Advisory Board of the Fund for Central and East European Book Projects, based in Amsterdam and funded by the European Union
2006- Member of the Board of the Institute for the Study of
the Crimes of Communism, established by the
Romanian Government.
MISCELLANEOUS
Co-organizer of British Book Appeal in aid of Central University Library in Bucharest which assembled 400,000 volumes for despatch between January and April 1990. In addition 1,500 books were donated and sent to the library of the ‘A. I. Cuza' University of Iaşi , and to the Institute of History in Cluj.
CSCE (Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe) observer for Romanian parliamentary and presidential elections of May 1990 and September 1992, for local elections of February 1992.
OSCE observer in Romania for the parliamentary and presidential elections of November 1996, of November 2000, and of November/December 2005.
Adviser to Foreign Relations Committee of Moldavian Parliament on presentation of English-language material to international agencies including EC, Council of Europe, and United Nations, 1991-94
CSCE/OSCE non-governmental observer for the Moldovan Parliamentary Elections, Moldova, 25-28 February 1994, and March 1998
I initiated and helped to bring to fruition, in cooperation with Dr Ann Lane of the historical section of the FCO, the presentation of 43 volumes of Documents on British Foreign Policy, covering the years 1919-39, and 11 volumes of Documents on British Policy Overseas, from the years 1945-59 to the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History in Bucharest. The volumes were the gift of the British Government and were handed over at a ceremony at the Institute on 28 July 1995 by His Excellency Mr Andrew Bache, HM Ambassador to Romania.
HONOURS
Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 1 January 1995 for services to British-Romanian relations.
Awarded 'Ordinul pentru merit' with the rank of commander for services to Romanian democracy on 1 December 2000 by President Emil Constantinescu
Awarded honorary doctorate of ‘Lucian Blaga' University of Sibiu, 1996
Awarded honorary doctorate of ‘Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, 2001
