Gabriela Dragnea Horvath teaches for the NYU Global Liberal Studies Program and serves as general editor for the on-line publication Voyages-Journal of Contemporary Humanism.
She has two Master’s degrees, one in Germanic philology (University of Bucharest), and one in English literature with a concentration on religion and philosophy (University of Florence), a degree in journalism (Romanian Academy of Journalism) and a PhD in philosophy at the Free University Berlin.
Her publications include essays, book reviews, translations of poetry and short stories in magazines and anthologies in Italy, Romania, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia.
She has authored a monograph in Italian, Shakespeare ermetismo, mistica, magia Rome, 2003); has co-authored a book of fiction in Romanian (Preludi epici, Epic Preludes, Bucharest, 1990), has co-translated with Stuart Friebert and Adriana Varga the volume Hands Behind My Back, by Marin Sorescu (Oberlin Translation Series, 1991), prefaced by Seamus Heaney.
Her essay Philosophie, Magie de la parole, encyclopédie: la Tipocosmia d’Alessandro Citolini was included in the volume Le masque de l’écriture, Droz, Geneva, 2015.
Her comparative study Theatre, Magic and Philosophy: William Shakespeare, John Dee and the Italian legacy was published by Routledge in 2017. In 2019 her essay A’ la recherche du sens perdu: Walter Whiter et la doctrine de Locke sur l’association des idées, appeared in the volume John Locke: les idées et les choses, Éditions Mimésis, Philosophie, volume published with the support of C.N.R and the Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico modern (ISPF), Napoli-Milano.
In the same year she was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by the Global Liberal Studies Program of New York University.