


She is a well-known speaker in China, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, Italy, France, Spain, the UK, and Romania on cultural, political and gender relations, nationalism and ethnic conflict. Orlich has taught at state universities in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia and in the Harvard summer Institute for World Literature at the Bilgi University in Istanbul. She was also involved with Harvard’s IWL's academic projects in Seoul, Shanghai, and Beijing (2010, 2011, 2012). Interviewed in Bucharest, Romania by the Washington-based host of Higher Education Steve Goodman, on the topic of ASU, the New University in July 5, 2016: Orlich received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Literary Translation, was a Fulbright Professor in Romania and a Fulbright Senior Specialist grantee, and has also been the recipient of grant awards from Romania's Writers' Union, Romania's Cultural Institute, and Romania's Language Institute that opened a Romanian Language Lectureship in the School of International Letters and Cultures at ASU. She was awarded Romania's highest cultural distinction, Meritul Cultural al României, serves as Honorary Consul General of Romania in Arizona and is the chairwoman of the Consular Corps of Arizona’s Scholarship Committee. Staging Stalinism in Post-Communism Romania.Dramatic Transcreations in Pre- and Post-Communist Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian Theater. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2017. Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth-Century Romanian Novel. East European Monographs.Avantgardism, Politics and the Limits of Interpretation in The (Ex)Centric Waste Land : Reading Gelu Naum’s Zenobia.Cluj-Napoca : Casa Cartii de Stiinta, UniArt Collection 2012. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.īook Translations with Critical Commentaries and Notes Silent Bodies: (Re)Discovering the Women of Romanian Short Fiction.Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation: Allegorical Femininity in Romanian Fiction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Orlich, Ileana, translator from Romanian and Russian into English.
