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ADMISSIONS 2011: American Studies Program Faculty

Prof. Rodica Mihaila 

Prof. Irina Pana

Prof. Radu Surdulescu 

E-mail: radsur at rdslink.ro (primary); radsur11 at yahoo.com (secondary)

Radu Surdulescu is Professor of English and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bucharest . In 1996 he earned his PhD with a thesis on Sam Shepard's dramatic plays. He participated in literary seminars at American universities and held visiting fellowships at Université Libre de Bruxelles and Duke University , U.S.A. In 1994 he obtained a research and teaching Fulbright grant. His courses are addressed to undergraduates, MA and doctoral students, and he is a doctoral dissertation advisor. His publications include: Sam Shepard: The Mythomorphic Vision (Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 1996), Critica mitic-arhetipală: De la motivul antropologic la sentimentul numinosului (Bucureşti, ALLFA, 1997), Form, Structure and Structurality in Critical Theory (Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2000;

http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/lls/RaduSurdulescu-FormStructuality/Prima%20Pagina.htm ), The Raping of Identity: Studies on Physical and Symbolic Violence ( Iaşi , Edit. Institutul European, 2006).

            Also, he has co-edited an anthology of contemporary critical theories and has published literary translations and articles in the fields of cultural anthropology, literary theory and criticism.

            Radu Surdulescu is editor-in-chief of The University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies.

 

Conf. Maria-Sabina Draga CV En/CV Ro

Dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Bucharest. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Bucharest and a PhD in English from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, where she was also Associate Tutor (2000-2007). Her main fields of interest are: contemporary American Studies, Ethnic and African American literatures, postcolonialism, postmodernism, women’s literature. She is currently researching the area of intersection between diasporic postcolonial and postcommunist literatures.

                She has published articles in Romanian and international journals, as well as the following books: Condiţia postmodernă: spre o estetică a identităţilor culturale (The Postmodern Condition: Towards an Aesthetic of Cultural Identities, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2003); Women’s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, two volumes, co-edited with Mădălina Nicolaescu and Helen Smith (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2005 and 2006), reviewed in Comparative Literature Studies; Identity Performance in Contemporary Non-WASP American Fiction (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2008); Cultura românească în perspectivă transatlantică: Dialoguri româno-americane (Romanian Culture in Transatlantic Perspective: Romanian-American Dialogues, co-edited with Rodica Mihăilă, Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, forthcoming); Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English (Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming).

 

 

Conf. Mihai Mindra CV En/CV Ro

Professor of American Literature and American Civilization, founder and organizer of the Ariel Foreign Language Center and the B.A. Judaic Studies Program. Brandeis University, Mass. Fulbright fellow (2001- 2002), J.F. Keedy Institute for North American Studies grantee (2003).

Research Activities and Interests:

My main interest is in nineteenth- and twentieth century American literature and civilization, specifically in American domesticity, realism, naturalism, modernism and post-modernism as well as in Jewish-American fiction as literary-cultural phenomena. 

October, 2007 – September, 2010: Research Project Director, “Cultures of Diasporas: the Margin and the Mainstream in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish-American Literatures”.

Teaching Responsibilities:

I currently teach graduate and postgraduate courses on twentieth century American literature and Jewish-American culture.

Publications:

1. Books:

The Avatars of the Problematic Hero: From Myth to Anti-novel. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Publishing House. 1999

The Phenomenology of the Novel. Iasi: Institutul European. 2002

Strategists of Assimilation: Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska. Bucharest: The Romanian Academy Publishing House. 2003 

2. Numerous studies and articles on 20th century American literature and Jewish-American culture.

Conf. Anca Peiu

Conf. Roxana Oltean 

Conf. Octavian Roske

Lect. Iulian Cananau CV En

Lect. Ioana Luca 

Lect. Cosana Nicolae 

Lect. Mihaela Precup 

Mihaela Precup is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest. She is currently finishing her PhD thesis on Sites of Memory and Trauma in the American Graphic Memoir. She is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship with the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University (2006-2007) and editor of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled American Visual Memoirs after the 1970s: Gender, Sexuality and Visibility after the Civil Rights Age. Her main research interests include contemporary American visual culture, with a focus on autobiographical and post-traumatic artistic productions from minority cultures, memory and trauma studies, with a focus on autobiography, photography and graphic narratives, as well as gender and sexuality studies. She is currently teaching seminars on American literature and civilization, as well as three undergraduate classes: The Visual Construction of American National Rhetoric (1st year, winter semester), An Introduction to American Popular Culture (3rd year, winter semester), and Cherchez la Femme: Configurations of Femininity in American Film (3rd year, spring semester).

 

Asist. Dana Mihailescu CV En

Dana Mihailescu is a Junior Lecturer and PhD candidate in American Studies, at the University of Bucharest. Topic of PhD thesis: Ethical Dilemmas and Reconfigurations of Identity in Early Twentieth Century Eastern European Jewish American Narratives. Research interests: ethnic studies – Jewish American identities; trauma and witnessing; ethics and memory.

She has examined how memory and the "ethics of remembrance" functioned for the immigrant generations of Eastern European Jews coming to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as reflected in their narratives. She is also interested in how memory works for the 2nd and 3rd (plus) generations, and how its complex paths influence fiction writing and history-making.

 

Asist. Ruxandra Radulescu 

Position: Junior Lecturer, English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

E-mail: radulescu.ruxandra@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.english-unib.ro/staff/Ruxandra%20Radulescu.htm

Graduate degrees:  MA English 2005, Emporia State University, Kansas

MA American Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania

Currently, PhD candidate, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Ruxandra Rădulescu’s current interests are: contemporary Native American literatures (in particular, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Greg Sarris, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor); ecocriticism – the relationship between (American) literature and the environment; multiethnic American literature (with an emphasis on Native American, Chicana/o and Cuban American literature). She is a doctoral student at the University of Bucharest, working on a dissertation titled “Constructions of Identity in Contemporary Native American Fiction: Cosmopolitanism in Post-1960 Urban Indian Narratives.” Her approach aims to bring to the fore the dialogic and postmodern-nomadologic character of contemporary American Indian fiction. Special emphasis will be placed on urban narratives, discussing the ongoing reformulation of a post-ethnic identity, constituted by means of cultural affiliation, as opposed to descent (Werner Sollors), in the context of a globalized world which offers space for cooperation and intercultural solidarity, even in the midst of intense anti-globalization movements.

She has received training in literary and cultural studies at the University of Edinburgh (2000) and CEU (2003) summer schools. She is a member of the English department – the American Studies program – at the University of Bucharest, teaching a variety of courses and seminars in Native American literature, American literature & civilization, critical theory, English as a foreign language. She serves as secretary of the graduate program in American Studies and advisor for the freshmen class in American Studies. She has also served on numerous faculty committees. In addition, she taught classes in English Composition and worked as a Writing Center consultant at Emporia State University, from 2003 to 2005.

Ruxandra’s list of recent publications includes: “Sherman Alexie’s Trickster Hermeneutics and Transitional Spaces”, in New/Old Worlds: Spaces of Transition. Ed. Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu Pana. Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007. 451-464. “Misrecognizing ‘Real Indians’:” Visual Subversion in Native American Autoethnographic Memoirs” – accepted for publication in American Visual Memoirs After the 1970s, published by University of Bucharest Press (2009).  “Nationalism and/as Modernity in Native American Studies: Towards the New American Indian Studies?” University of Bucharest Review 7(4) 2006. 38-44. “Reinventing Romania in Popular Music: Redistributing Cultural Authority in Popular Culture”  in Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture. Ed. Christa Buschendorf, Frankfurt: Center for North American Studies, 2004. 247-263. “A Culture of Reinvested Waste: The Leaking Body of African American Music” in America in/from Romania. Essays in Cultural Dialogue. Ed. Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu-Pana, Bucuresti: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2003. 169-176. “Configuring Romanian Youth Culture Identities” in Proceedings of the Conference on Culture and Identity in the Balkans. Ed. Gonul Ucele. Istanbul: Beykent University Publishing House, 2004. 91-102. (co-authored with Dragos Ivana). “Deterritorialization of Language in the Works of Two Scottish Writers” in University of Bucharest Review 3(12) 2001. 72-79. Teaching English as a Foreign Language Textbook. Co-author. Book accepted for publication by the University of Bucharest Press, 2008. She has presented papers in more than 20 international conferences to date.

Introduction to American Anthropology: http://sites.google.com/a/g.unibuc.ro/anthropology/
Introduction to Native American Studies: http://sites.google.com/a/g.unibuc.ro/native-american/

 

Drd. Bogdan Coman 

 



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