Maria Ana Tupan

Maria-Ana Tupan (born April 19, 1949) is a Romanian university professor, literary critic, and translator. She is a member of the "Criticism and Literary History" section of the Writers' Union of Romania and several international scientific societies. Tupan is also a PhD Supervisor at the Doctoral School of 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia.

Life Maria-Ana Tupan was born in Sărulești, Buzău County, Romania, the daughter of Margareta (née Constantin) and Spiridon Iordache, a priest. After graduating from Mihai Eminescu high school in Buzău in 1967, she studied English and German at the Languages Department of the University of Bucharest, where she graduated in 1972 as a valedictorian. In 2014 she completed her habilitation thesis and became affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, supervising PhD students.

Tupan has been a member of the Writers' Union of Romania, the Section of Criticism and Literary History since 1996. and of The Charles Brockden Brown Society. Her literary chronicles and essays have been published in Convorbiri literare, Contemporanul, Luceafărul, România literară, Viața Românească magazines. Convorbiri Literare Magazine Award for Anglistics, 2000. National Award for Excellence in Theory, History and Literary Criticism awarded by Contemporanul magazine, 2019.