CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
Director: Dr. Dragoș Manea
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Bucharest
Research Domain: American Studies
Research Subdomains:
- Theories of American culture and the practice of American Studies.
- Comparative Romanian/Euro-American studies.
- American identities from the perspective of transnationalism and globalization.
Location:
7-13 Pitar Moș Street, Sector 1, Bucharest
Contact Information:
Phone: +40-(0)21-318.1579/ ext. 28
Email: studii_americane@lls.unibuc.ro
Material Resources:
- Technical infrastructure: 2 desktop computers, 2 printers, 2 laptops, 2 portable projectors, 2 photocopiers, 1 television set.
- Research infrastructure: 2 rooms (Library and Center headquarters); access to online databases; the Center’s library (over 4000 volumes, continuously improved through an annual grant from the U.S. Embassy).
The Center benefits from cooperative relations with the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission and the Romanian Association for American Studies.
Activities
The Center provides logistical and organizational support for the BA and MA programs in American Studies offered by the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest. The interdisciplinary character of these programs is ensured by engaging specialists from various university faculties, other higher education and research institutions, and guest professors from the United States.
The Center serves as a documentation and research hub, closely collaborating with the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission and the Romanian Association for American Studies to establish exchanges with American Studies programs in the U.S. and Europe, organize academic events, and publish research outputs.
Beneficiaries include students from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Faculty of Letters; Master’s and doctoral students; researchers in American Studies; and secondary school teachers involved in projects exploring American culture, society, and literature in a comparative context with Romanian society.
The Center offers a lending library, access to specialty journals and periodicals, and a reference collection with access to multiple databases. It provides a space for research, debate, and innovation on topics of interest to the academic community and Romanian society.
The Center hosts [Inter]sections, the annual double-blind peer reviewed journal of American Studies at the University of Bucharest (ISSN 2068 – 3472), and Stamped, the American Studies Program’s creative writing magazine. It also hosts the American Studies Program’s Student Conference, currently in its 20th edition, alongside regular workshops at AICED, the English Department’s annual conference.
Members
Prof. Emerita Rodica Mihăilă (Honorary Director)
Prof. Roxana Oltean
Dr. Raluca Andreescu
Dr. Diana Benea
Dr. Bogdan Coman
Dr. Maria Sabina Draga-Alexandru
Dr. Dragoș Manea
Dr. Dana Mihăilescu
Dr. Andrei Moran-Nae
Dr. Mihaela Precup
TA Andreea Moise
Recent Events:
The Center for American Studies organizes numerous research and documentation activities, such as those posted on our website (the archive of all events can be consulted on our Facebook page): https://www.americanstudies.ro/newsreel/
Recent Research Projects:
The Center for American Studies at the University of Bucharest has hosted the following UEFISCDI research projects (2010-2024):
Colonial Discourse in Video Games
The Representation of the Perpetrator and the Ethics of Empathy in American Graphic Narratives
Transcultural Networks in Narratives about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Intergenerational Dynamics of Vulnerability in American Trauma Narratives
Representations of Violence in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Women’s Narratives of Transnational Relocation
Recent Research Reports:
Our research reports (2015-2025) are available here.
