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Please click HERE to download #1(9)/2010 issue of [Inter]sections, the peer-reviewed quarterly of the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest.

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

by Mihaela Precup

I would like to use the terrible belatedness of the first 2010 issue of [Inter]sections to make a few administrative announcements which are more relevant now than they might have been a month ago, when – should the editor have been in better editorial shape – our journal was supposed to have hit the virtual waves.

I am thus quite pleased to announce that as of this issue, [Inter]sections boasts an ISSN, which is going to especially benefit those of our contributors who are interested in pursuing an academic or editorial career. Also, and perhaps most importantly, [Inter]sections is soon going to come out in printed form as well. For our Romanian contributors and readers, this shift will hopefully signify increased visibility, if only around those academic structures which provide our main readership. We shall be posting more details online (http://www.americanstudies.ro/?category=13) when the printed version comes out.

As for this issue of our journal, it begins in a most sprightly manner with Ilinca Anghelescu’s invitation to a beheading (hints: Tim Burton, Alice), and ends with a cheerful push from Silvia Filip towards the snowy and diverse Högskolan Dalarna in Falun, Sweden. Our undergraduate section takes off with Andrea Breazu’s disentanglement of the verbal construction of the homosocial body in Melville’s Moby Dick and proceeds with Irina Constantin’s unveiling of the feminist manifesto behind Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In our graduate section, Olivia Bădoi writes about the female readers engaged in intellectual activities and shifting gender paradigms in American painter Mary Cassatt’s work, Nicolae-Andrei Popa contradicts Jameson’s theory on the waning of affect by reading DeLillo’s White Noise, and Elena-Adriana Dancu warns against internalized stereotyping in Boyz n the Hood and Precious.