Dana Mihăilescu
Contact details Institutional address: English Department / Center for American Studies School of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Bucharest 7-13, Pitar Moş street, Bucharest, Sector 1, Romania Email: [email protected] Webpages: http://www.unibuc.ro/e/prof/mihailescu_c_d/ http://unibuc.academia.edu/DanaMihailescu Work experience • October 2015 – present: Associate Professor, Department of English/Center for American Studies, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest • October 2012 – September 2015: Assistant Professor/ Lecturer, Department of English/Center for American Studies, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest • October 2009 – September 2012: Junior Lecturer, Department of English/Center for American Studies, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest • February 2008 – October 2009: Junior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest • October 2004 – present: researcher, University of Bucharest, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of English - American Studies • September 2006 – June 2007: Executive director of “Ariel” Language Center, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest • February 2004 – February 2008: Junior Lecturer, "Dimitrie Cantemir" University, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of English • Seminars and courses taught: Ethno-Racial Identity Configurations in American Literature. Cross-Cultural Encounters (American studies sophomores) (http://unibuc.ro/prof/mihailescu_c_d/Ethno- Racial_Identity_Configurations_in_American_Literature._Cross-Cultural_Encounters..php); Introduction to Mass Media (U.S. Mass Media and Image Culture: The Stakes of Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics) (American studies sophomores) (http://unibuc.ro/prof/mihailescu_c_d/Introduction_to_Mass_Media._U.S._Mass_Media_and _Image_Culture_The_Stakes_of_Gender_Ethnicity_and_Ethics.php); Media Communication: Intergenerational Dynamics in African American and Jewish American Media (American studies 1st year graduate students) (http://unibuc.ro/prof/mihailescu_c_d/Media_Communication.php); Introduction to American Civilization (Translators freshmen); (http://unibuc.ro/prof/mihailescu_c_d/Introduction_to_American_Civilization.php); seminars in (19th and 20th century) American literature; Practical courses of English. • July 12 – July 20, 2006 and July 16 - July 23, 2005: Translator/Interpreter – Summer schools organized by “Le Centre International de Formation Européenne / Institut Européen des Hautes Études Internationales”, Nice, France and held at "Dimitrie Cantemir" University, Bucharest (2006 topic: “Perspectives de l’entrée de la Roumanie dans l’Union Européenne”; 2005 topic: « La Nouvelle Europe élargie: perspectives et premiers résultats») • Peer reviewer for Journal of Modern Jewish Studies; European Review of History (ISI- AHCI journal); Intercultural Education (ISI journal); Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies; Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review; Rowman & Littlefield International Publishers. • Editorial board member for [Inter]sections, an annual online journal of American Studies at the University of Bucharest (ISSN 2068 – 3472). http://www.intersections-journal.com/ Education 2004-2010, January 30 • PhD in Philology, Magna Cum Laude, University of Bucharest (PhD dissertation: Ethical Dilemmas and Reconfigurations of Identity in Early Twentieth Century Eastern European Jewish American Narratives; advisor: Prof. Rodica Mihăilă; committee: Prof. Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University); Prof. Victor Neumann (University of West, Timişoara); Prof. Ştefan Avădanei (Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi).
2003-2004 • MA in American Studies, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest (MA dissertation: Ethnic Identity Dilemmas. The Jewish Immigrant Margin vs. American Mainstream Impositions; advisor: Assoc. Prof. Mihai Mîndra)
1999-2003 • BA in English major / French minor, School of Letters, University of Craiova (BA dissertation: Levels of Silence in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury; advisor: Assist. Prof. Aloisia Şorop)
1995-1999 • High school studies, “Carol I” high school of Craiova
Awards • December 2016: UEFISCDI Award (PNIII-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2016-13096) for publication of “Transnational conundrums around trips by young people to Holocaust death camps: Ethical potentialities of incongruous memories in Thomas Duranteau’s travelogue Des miettes et des étoiles (2012)” in French Cultural Studies 27.4 (November 2016): 348-360. http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/articole/4386/Premierea-rezultatelor-cercetarii--articole.html • August 2016: UEFISCDI Award (PNIII-P1-1.1-PRECISI-2016-10947) for publication of “Specifics of Holocaust Child Survivors’ Memoirs as Reflected in Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life” in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Special Issue on War and Life Writing. Guest editors Louise O. Vasvári and I-Chun Wang. 17.3 (September 2015, published in May 2016): 1-7. ISSN: 1481-4374. http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/userfiles/file/PNCDI %20III/P1_Resurse%20Umane/PRECISI_2016/PROCES %20EVALUARE/PRECISI_Rezultate%20eligibilitate_lista%201_25_08_2016.pdf • December 2014: UEFISCDI Award (PN-II-RU-PRECISI-2014-8-5289) for publication of “Traumatic Echoes of Memories in Child Survivors’ Narratives of the Holocaust: The Polish Experiences of Michał Głowiński and Henryk Grynberg” in European Review of History 21.1 (February 2014): 73-90. ISSN: 1350-7486 (Print), 1469-8293 (Online). http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/userfiles/file/PREMIERE_ARTICOLE/ARTICOLE%202014/LISTA %202%20REZULTATE%20ARTICOLEE.pdf • October 2010: Romanian Association of American Studies Graduate Student Award for best PhD dissertation in American Studies submitted between 2008 and 2010 (http://www.raas.ro/stire/show/slug/raas-graduate-student-awardees-2010).
Scholarships and fellowships • August 2008 – June 2009: Fulbright Junior Visiting Researcher, American Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts [Advisor: Prof. Stephen J. Whitfield] • Raphael Patai Fellow at the Conference “Modern Jewish Culture: Unities and Diversities,” June 24-26, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland. • October 2004 – September 2008: PhD scholarship offered by the University of Bucharest • October 2002 - February 2003, "Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3" University, Lille, France: study grant within the Socrates European Commission Exchange Programme. Areas of study: English and French.
Research projects
• October 2015 – September 2017: Project leader/researcher in PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0051 project “Intergenerational Dynamics of Vulnerability in American Trauma Narratives”, project no. 173 / 2015 funded by UEFISCDI, the National University Research Council of Romania. http://americanstudies.ro/?article=337. https://sites.google.com/site/dmihailes/ • October 2015 – September 2017: Researcher in PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0609 project “Representations of Violence in Contemporary American Popular Culture”, director: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup; project no 174 / 2015 funded by UEFISCDI, the National University Research Council of Romania. http://americanstudies.ro/?article=344. • January 2016 – December 2017: Director/Researcher in University of Bucharest project no.177, “Regimes of Vulnerability in American Trauma Narratives”, project funded by the University of Bucharest • January 2016 – December 2017: Researcher in University of Bucharest project no.178 “Means of Representing Violence in American Popular Culture ”, director: Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Precup; project funded by the University of Bucharest • January 2014 – December 2017: Researcher in University of Bucharest project no.271 “Trauma Narratives in the United States”, director: Prof. Roxana Elena Oltean; project funded by the University of Bucharest • October 2011 – October 2014: Researcher in PNII-RU-TE-2011-3-0149 project “Cross- Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories”, director: Assoc. Prof. Roxana Elena Oltean; project funded by the National University Research Council of Romania (NURC) • October 2011 – October 2013: Researcher in PNII-RU-TE-2011-3-0159 project “Women’s Narratives of Transnational Relocation”, director: Assoc. Prof. Maria-Sabina Alexandru Draga; project funded by the National University Research Council of Romania (NURC) • September 2007 – September 2010: Junior Researcher in PN-II-Idei project no. 205 “Romanian Cultural Space in Transatlantic Perspective. From Post-Communism to Post- Accession”, project director: Prof. Rodica Mihăilă; project funded by the National University Research Council of Romania (NURC) • September 2007 – December 2010: Junior Researcher in PN-II-Idei project no. 280 “Cultures of Diasporas: The Margin and the Mainstream in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish- American Literatures”, Project director: Assoc. Prof. Mihai Mîndra; project funded by the National University Research Council of Romania (NURC)
Summer schools / Training / Research stays • August 17th – August 30th 2012 Paris, France: Research at Mémorial de la Shoah, funded by EUFISCSU-CNCSIS project no. 64 / 2011, titled “Cross-Cultural Encounters in American Trauma Narratives: A Comparative Approach to Personal and Collective Memories”, director: Assoc. Prof. Roxana Elena Oltean • May 30th – June 3rd 2011 Dubrovnik, Croatia: Participant in Feminist Critical Analysis Course, Witnessing the Past, Remembering the Future, organized by The Center for Gender and Politics of Belgrade University (Political Science Department), Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest • August 20th – September 3rd 2010 London, Great Britain: Research at British Library, funded by EUFISCSU-CNCSIS project no. 280 / 2007, titled “Cultures of Diasporas: The Margin and the Mainstream in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish-American Literatures”, Project director: Assoc. Prof. Mihai Mîndra • August 4th – August 18th 2010 Osnabrueck, Germany: “International Osnabrueck Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law – Synergies: Law, Language and Culture,” Department of English and American Studies, Osnabrueck University • April 16th – April 20th 2007 Heidelberg, Germany: Presentation of PhD project structure, “The Contingency of Double Identity. The East European in Early 20th Century Jewish American Prose Narratives” at the Heidelberg Spring Academy in American Studies • August 25th – September 5th 2006 Budapest, Hungary: “The European Union and the New Transatlantic Challenges”. Organizers: L’Institut Européen d’Hautes Études Internationales, Nice and Hungarian New Atlantic Initiative
Visual / Media projects • “ Stories of Staring Eyes. A Lineage.” http://www.familylineups.com/dana-mihailescu/. FAMILY LINE-UPS. Trans-generational Encounters in Family Photography (Joint Project with Mihaela Precup, Roxana Oltean – www.familylineups.com)
Publications Books • Regimes of Vulnerability in Jewish American Media and Literature. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2015. ISBN 978-606-16-0551-4. 293 pages. MLA-indexed. http://editura- unibuc.ro/produs/regimes-of-vulnerability-in-jewish-american-media-and-literature/. http://www.worldcat.org/title/regimes-of-vulnerability-in-jewish-american-media-and- literature/oclc/944431470&referer=brief_results • co-editor, with Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 398 pp. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5672-0. MLA-indexed. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/mapping-generations-of-traumatic-memory-in-american- narratives; http://www.worldcat.org/title/mapping-generations-of-traumatic-memory-in- american-narratives/oclc/881747684&referer=brief_results • Ethnic Identity Dilemmas in Early Twentieth Century East European Jewish Immigrant Narratives in the United States. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2012. 167 pp. ISBN 978-606-16-0125-7. MLA-indexed. http://www.worldcat.org/title/ethnic-identity- dilemmas-in-early-twentieth-century-east-european-jewish-immigrant-narratives-in-the- united-states/oclc/924614234&referer=brief_results. • co-editor, with Rodica Mihăilă. Romanian Culture in the Global Age. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2010. 305 pp. ISBN 978-973-737-848-4. MLA-indexed. [http://www.worldcat.org/search? qt=worldcat_org_all&q=romanian+culture+in+the+global+age]
Encyclopaedia chapter entries • “Hate Crime.” Violence in American Society: An Encyclopedia of Trends, Problems, and Perspectives. Ed. Chris Richardson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2017. Studies in peer-reviewed journals: Articles in ISI-AHCI indexed journals • “ Transnational conundrums around trips by young people to Holocaust death camps: Ethical potentialities of incongruous memories in Thomas Duranteau’s travelogue Des miettes et des étoiles (2012).” French Cultural Studies 27.4 (November 2016): 348-360. Impact Factor: 0.143. eISSN: 17402352| ISSN: 09571558. DOI: 10.1177/0957155816660678. http://frc.sagepub.com/content/27/4/348.full.pdf+html. http://frc.sagepub.com/. • “ A bundle of confessions in Jewish women’s comics: Reconstructing Eastern European Jewish American life in Liana Finck’s A Bintel Brief.” Studies in Comics. Special issue on Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women. Guest editors Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum and Sarah Lightman. 6.2 (December 2015): 271-290. ISSN 2040-3232, Online ISSN: 2040-3240 [ERIH-PLUS journal, indexed in Web of Science]. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stic.6.2.271_1. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/stic/2015/00000006/00000002/art00006. • “Specifics of Holocaust Child Survivors’ Memoirs as Reflected in Appelfeld’s The Story of a Life.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. Special Issue on War and Life Writing. Guest editors Louise O. Vasvári and I-Chun Wang. 17.3 (September 2015, published in May 2016): 1-7. Purdue University Press. ISSN: 1481-4374. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2711&context=clcweb; http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2711. • “ Traumatic Echoes of Memories in Child Survivors’ Narratives of the Holocaust: The Polish Experiences of Michał Głowiński and Henryk Grynberg.” European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire 21.1 (February 2014): 73-90. ISSN: 1350-7486 (Print), 1469-8293 (Online) (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, ISI-AHCI, ERIH Int 1 journal); http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2013.869791#.UwuN0jNWHIU • “Being without Pleasurable Memories: On the Predicament of the Shoah’s Child Survivors in Norman Manea’s “Proust’s Tea” and Kindred Narratives.” American Imago 70.1 (Spring 2013): 107-124. E-ISSN: 1085-7931; Print ISSN: 0065-860X [Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, ISI-AHCI-indexed journal]; http://muse.jhu.edu/login? auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_imago/v070/70.1.mih-ilescu.html • “Images of Romania and America in Early Twentieth-Century Romanian-Jewish Immigrant Life Stories in the United States.” East European Jewish Affairs 42.1 (April 2012): 25-43. ISSN 1350-1674 / ISSN 1743-971X online [Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, Manchester, UK, ISI-AHCI-indexed journal].
Review articles in ISI-AHCI indexed journals • “ Comics from the World Wars as Palimpsest-Laden Tools for Historical Analysis.” [Review article on Comics and the World Wars. A Cultural Record by Jane Chapman, Anna Hoyles, Andrew Kerr and Adam Sherif and Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima. By Jane Chapman, Dan Ellin and Adam Sherif] Rethinking History. The Journal of Theory and Practice 20.4 (2016): 586-593. [Taylor and Francis, UK, ISI-AHCI-indexed journal, Impact factor: 0.302] ISSN: 1364-2529 (Print), 1470-1154 (Online). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2016.1150026. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ewgPXAqhnwu3D4fYGBPR/full
Reviews in ISI-AHCI indexed journals • Review of Mémoires des Juifs de Roumanie, by Mehdi Chebana and Jonas Mercier Mure- Ravaud. Journal of Jewish Studies 63.1 (April 2012): 186-189. ISSN 0022-2097 [Oxford, UK, ISI-AHCI-indexed journal] http://www.jjs-online.net/toc.php? subaction=content&id=063_01. • Review of Dancing in the Dark by Morris Dickstein. Vingtième Siecle. Rêvue d’histoire. Presses de Sciences-Po. 2/2011 (110): 213-214. ISSN: 0294-1759 E-ISSN: 1950-6678. ISBN: 9782724632071. ISI-AHCI, ERIH Int 1 journal.
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals • “ Haunting Spectres of World War II Memories from a Transgenerational Ethical Perspective in Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Special issue on War and Ethics. Guest editors Mihaela Precup and Rebecca Scherr. 6.2 (April 2015): 154-171. ISSN: 2150-4857 (Print), 2150-4865 (Online). DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2015.1027940. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2dfQU4dfsJHrkhwGTkjC/full. • “ Intergenerational Encounters in the Wake of Shoah and the Ethics behind a Child Survivor’s ‘Terrified Smile’ in Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance.” HBI Online Working Paper Series, December 2012. Part of Hadassah Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust, Brandeis University. Series editor Joanna Michlic. http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/childrenholocaust/workingpapers/milhailescuWP.pdf; http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/childrenholocaust/workingpapers/index.html • “ Sides of the Nagging Wife Stereotype in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Narratives.” Journal of Jewish Identities 3.2 (July 2010): 47-76. [Project Muse Database:
Book/Exhibition reviews in international peer-reviewed journals • “Review of Le Bastard, Gwenola. Eugene O’Neill. Le génie illégitime de Broadway. Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2014.” Transatlantica. Revue d’études américaines/American Studies Journal. 2/ 2016. Forthcoming. • “ Review of Out of Chaos. Hidden Children Remember the Holocaust. Edited by Elaine Saphier Fox. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013.” Jewish Culture and History 17.1-2 (2016): 175-178. ISSN: 1462-169X (Print), 2167-9428 (Online). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2016.1140943. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RF5y2EwBDZJZ3kdIeVgv/full. • “ Legacies of a Traumatic Past in Romanian Jews’ Artworks. Review of Exhibition Crossroads: Jewish Artists during the Holocaust.” Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture (Brill Press, Boston, US), 2011. 123-125. ISSN 1871-7993, Online ISSN: 1871-8000. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ima/2011/00000005/00000001;jsessionid=2m6 18v2lyicmj.alice [Ingenta Brill / EBSCOHOST Arts and Architecture databases]
Articles in internationally-indexed / B Romanian journals • “Children’s Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross-Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects about Child Survivors and Children of Survivors.” Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review (Special Issue on Children, November 2013): 93-108.
Articles in Romanian journals/volumes • “Jewish Stereotypes between Shtetl Culture and Mythic America: The Birth of Contingent Jewish Identity in Anzia Yezierska’s Prose.” University of Bucharest Review. A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies IX.3 (2007). 122-128.
Reviews in Romanian journals • “Writing Visually for Another Crack in the Wailing Wall: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. A Review.” [Inter]sections 4.13 (Winter/Spring 2011): 12-14.
Book chapters in international volumes • “The Thrusts of Ghost-Writing Eastern European Survivors’ Memories of the Holocaust in Post-Cold War Western Societies.” After Memory. Rethinking Representations of World War II in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures. Eds. Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller, and Heike Winkel. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (“Media and Cultural Memory” Series), forthcoming 2017. • “Shadows of Memory and Intergenerational Legacies in Child Survivors’ Testimonies from the Kestenberg Archive.” Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive. Eds. Eva Fogelman, Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dalia Ofer. New York: Berghahn Press, 2017. 122-149. ISBN 978-1-78533-438-2 (hardback) / ISBN 978-1-78533-439-9 (ebook). http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php? rowtag=FogelmanChildren. • “ Gendered Intergenerational Spaces of Holocaust and Communist Traumas in Anca Vlasopolos’s Transatlantic Memoir No Return Address.” Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges. Eds. Andrea Petö, Louise Hecht and Karolina Krasuska. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo IBL (Instytut Badan Literackich PAN) /The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House, 2015. 183-205. ISBN: 978- 83-64703-24-9. http://akademicka.pl/index.php?detale=1&a=2&id=0799 • “ Photography and Prose Pictures in Beloved: The Frames of Emotional Memory.” Toni Morrison - Au-delà du visible ordinaire / Toni Morrison - Beyond the Ordinary Visible. Eds. Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, Maryemma Graham and Janis A. Mayes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2015. 175-194. L’imaginaire du texte series. ISBN: 978-2- 84292-413-3. http://www.cairn.info/toni-morrison--9782842924133-page-175.htm; http://www.puv-univ-paris8.org/catalogue/tous-les-titres/toni-morrison-au-dela-du-visible- ordinaire-9782842924133-0-598.html • “ The Lower East Side as Mishmash of Jewish Women’s Multicultural Images in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn.” Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. Eds. Ian Hague and Carolene Ayaka. Routledge, 2015. 212-227. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series. ISBN: 978-1-13-802515-8. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138025158/ • “ Negotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity Configurations out of Grief: Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project.” Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives. Eds. Dana Mihăilescu, Mihaela Precup and Roxana Oltean. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 31- 53. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5672-X, ISBN (13): 978-1- 4438-5672-0. • “ Being Off-Track: Returns to Post-Communist Spaces and Transits around the U.S. as Fertile Acts of Dislocation in Svetlana Boym’s Works.” Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women’s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium. Eds. Maria- Sabina Draga Alexandru, Mădălina Nicolaescu, Helen Smith. Graz: Lit Verlag (Contributions to Transnational Feminism Series), 2013. 211-227. ISBN 978-3-643-90448-9. • “The Legacy of Communism through a Child’s Lens: The Thrusts of Emotional Knowledge out of Marzi’s Poland.” Literary and Visual Dimensions of Contemporary Graphic Narratives. Eds. Mária Kiššová and Simona Hevešiová. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University Press, 2012. 45-75. ISBN: 978-80-558-0099-8. • “Lower East Side Fiction and the Displacement of Unified Jewishness.” E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture. [EAAS Biennal Conference Volume (Oslo Conference 2008)]. Eds. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, Ole Moen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. 221-239. (European Views of the United States Series / Volume of conference proceedings indexed on Thomson Reuters Web of Science) ISBN: 978-3-8253-5857-0. • “ The ‘Frightened Smile’ of Elie Wiesel’s Narrative Imagination: Jewish Identity and Diaspora.” Exile and The Narrative/Poetic Imagination. Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 41-50.
Citations
• “Being without Pleasurable Memories: On the Predicament of the Shoah’s Child Survivors in Norman Manea’s “Proust’s Tea” and Kindred Narratives.” American Imago 70.1 (Spring 2013): 107-124. Cited in Cătălina Botez, “Media, Trauma, Anamnesis: Norman Manea in René Frolke’s Documentary Portrait Le beau danger (2014).” Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media 15.1 (2016): 110-128. ISSN: 2067-631X. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=412854 [cited on page 119]. • Regimes of Vulnerability in Jewish American Media and Literature. By Dana Mihăilescu (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2015). Cited in Maria-Nicoleta Tirică, “Remapping the Jazz Singer from the 1920s to the 1980s.” [Inter]sections 19 (2016): 77-92. http://www.intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Maria-Tirica-article.pdf [cited on page 87] • “ Traumatic Echoes of Memories in Child Survivors’ Narratives of the Holocaust: The Polish Experiences of Michał Głowiński and Henryk Grynberg.” European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire 21.1 (February 2014): 73-90. Cited in Such Good Children: Child Agency During the Holocaust. M.A. thesis by Heather Angela Grossbard, San Francisco State University, May 2016. http://sfsu- dspace.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10211.3/172989/AS362016HISTG76.pdf?sequence=1. • Romanian Culture in the Global Age (eds. Rodica Mihăilă and Dana Mihăilescu, University of Bucharest Press, 2010), introduction ideas cited in Andaluna Borcila. American Representations of Post-Communism. Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives. London: Routledge, 2014 (Routledge research in cultural and media studies series), citation in the introduction, page 11. http://www.google.ro/books? hl=en&lr=&id=X_IABAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT12&dq=dana+mihailescu&ots=KeMLn_ gEND&sig=huSuISIKpbg6VlIlGStXQRR_4RM&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false • Ethnic Identity Dilemmas in Early Twentieth Century East European Jewish Immigrant Narratives in the United States. By Dana Mihăilescu (Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2012). ISBN 978-606-16-0125-7. Cited in Precup, Mihaela. States of Displacement in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-606-16-0365-7 [cited on page 15, note 2] • “The Legacy of Communism through a Child’s Lens: The Thrusts of Emotional Knowledge out of Marzi’s Poland.” Literary and Visual Dimensions of Contemporary Graphic Narratives. Eds. Mária Kiššová and Simona Hevešiová. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University Press, 2012. 45-75. ISBN: 978-80-558-0099-8. Cited in Stańczyk, Ewa. “‘Long Live Poland!’ Representing the Past in Polish Comic Books.” The Modern Language Review 109.1 (January 2014): 178-198. [cited on page 193, journal of Modern Humanities Research Association indexed in JSTOR] http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5699/modelangrevi.109.1.0178? uid=3738920&uid=2129&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103412821783 • “Performing the Gendered Self. The Stakes of Affect in Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own.” American Visual Memoirs after the 1970s: Studies on Gender, Sexuality and Visibility in the Post-Civil Rights Age. Ed. Mihaela Precup. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2010. 139-154. ISBN: 9787-973-737-779-1. Cited in Precup, Mihaela. The American Graphic Memoir. An Introduction. Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-606-16-0364-0 [cited on page 101, note 17] • “ Jewish Men and the Early Twentieth-Century American Code of Masculinity through Ethnic Lenses.” Atenea. Special Issue on Men and Masculinity. Published by University of Puerto Rico at Malaga 28.1 (June 2008): 87-102. Cited in “A hell of a good guy.” Homosocial Desire and Ethnicity in The Sun Also Rises. BA Thesis by Emma Karlsson, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Languages, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2014. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:699590/FULLTEXT01.pdf • “ Jewish Men and the Early Twentieth-Century American Code of Masculinity through Ethnic Lenses.” Atenea. Special Issue on Men and Masculinity. Published by University of Puerto Rico at Malaga 28.1 (June 2008): 87-102. Cited in Team Players to Spiritual Warriors: The Images of the Jewish Male in Selected Novels by Philip Roth. M.A. Thesis Project by Amy Marie Lopez. Rutgers Camden, May 2012. http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/showfed.php?pid=rutgers-lib:37256
Reviews by other scholars of my works • Nicoleta Roman, Rev. of special issue on “Remembering Childhood.” In Martor. The Museum of Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review no.18/2013. Sociologie românească 1-2 (2014). http://www.cooperativag.ro/remembering-childhood/. • Agnieszka Kotwasińska, Rev. of E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture. Eds. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, Ole Moen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. In Polish Journal of American Studies 6 (2012): 139-142. http://www.theasa.net/images/contributor_uploads/PJAS_vol6_24Kotwasinska.pdf. [on my chapter from the collection see page 141]. • Gregory Jason Bell, Rev. of E pluribus unum or E pluribus plura? Unity and Diversity in American Culture. Eds. Hans-Jürgen Grabbe, David Mauk, Ole Moen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011. In Moravian Journal of Literature and Film 3.2 (Spring 2012): 89-95. http://www.eaas.eu/images/stories/eaas/MJLF0302_Grabbe.pdf. [on my chapter from the collection see page 93].
Interviews • Interview with Radu Florescu / Interview with Norman Manea. Cultura românească în perspectivă trans-atlantică. Dialoguri româno-americane. Eds. Maria-Sabina Draga- Alexandru and Teodora Oprescu-Şerban. Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2009. 69- 72; 125-130.
Translations • (from Romanian into English) Victor Neumann and Armin Heinen, eds. Key-Concepts of Romanian History. Alternative Approaches to Socio-Political Languages (Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2013. 504 pp. ISBN: 978-615-5225-16-1) • (from French into English) Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert, “The Letter as Object. The Written Word between Reification and Hermeneutics in Rabbinic Judaism”, Cahiers «Mondes anciens» [En ligne], 1 | 2009, mis en ligne le 20 janvier 2010. URL : http://mondesanciens.revues.org/index129.html • (from French into English) Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert, “The Right Type of Knowledge: Theory and Experience in Two Passages of the Babylonian Talmud”, Korot. The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, 19, April 2009: 161-180. http://books.google.ro/books? id=4VYdAQAAMAAJ&q=dana+mihailescu&dq=dana+mihailescu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=- efUU8HaAuKj4gShpoHIAg&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA • (from Romanian into English) Co-translator of Encyclopedia of Worship Places of Bucharest (Bucharest: Universalia, 2006)
Invited talks • “ Facets of Romanian Anti-Semitism in Memoirs by Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Romanian Jewish Immigrants to the U.S.,” Collaborative Outreach Workshop: Anti-Semitism in Romania and Moldova, 1881-1991, project organized by Dr. Irina Marin (University of Leceister) and Dr. Raul Cârstocea (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany), held at the Stanley Burton Centre, University of Leicester, 2 July 2014 (http://romanianmoldovanresearchgroup.wordpress.com/)
Conferences • “Mediating Memories of World War II Violence in Contemporary United States: On Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch,” Transcultural Memorial Forms: Contemporary Remembrance of War, Displacement and Political Rupture, Tallinn, Estonia, 17-19 March 2017. http://nordic.university/study-circles/4-narrative-memory/preliminary-program-winter- session-2017/. • “The Festering Consciousness of an SS Medical Doctor: Representations of Johann Paul Kremer’s Diary in Thomas Duranteau’s Des miettes et des étoiles (2012).” Representing Perpetrators of Mass Violence, Utrecht, Netherlands, 31 August-4 September 2016. https://perpetratorstudies.sites.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/48/2016/06/Representing- Perpetrators-Conference-Program-1.pdf • “Palimpsestic History as Confession in Jewish Women’s Comics: Reconstructing Eastern European Jewish American Life in Liana Finck’s A Bintel Brief.” 2016 MESEA Conference Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories, Warsaw, 21-25 June 2016. http://mesea.org/files/MESEA_2016_program.pdf. • “Images of Childhood from 1950s Communist Bucharest in Memoirs by Women Émigrées Authors to the United States.” Remembering the (Post)Communist City: Vulnerable Sites of Intergenerational Traumatic Memories in Transatlantic Perspective Workshop (organizer: Dana Mihăilescu). Cultural Representations of the City, 18th Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 2-4 June 2016. http://www.unibuc.ro/depts/limbi/literatura_engleza/docs/2016/iun/01_15_05_24ACED_18_ -_English_Department_Conference_Programme.pdf. • ‘ “ You ain’t heard nothing yet”: The Jazz Singer as A Malleable Icon of American Cinematic Culture.’ American Icons panel organized by Ian Gordon and Byant Simon. 2016 EAAS Conference, Constanţa Romania, 22-25 April 2016. http://eaas2016.org/conference- program • “ Shifts in Testimony Focus depending on Medium and Temporal Context: On Ruth Glasberg Gold’s Holocaust Experiences in Transnistria.” Bearing Witness More Than Once Conference, Berlin, 14-16 March 2016. http://www.zentrum-juedische-studien.de/wp- content/uploads/2016/01/Flyer_Bearing_Witness_More_Than_Once_kl.pdf. • “The Thrusts of Ghost-Writing Eastern European Survivors’ Memories of the Holocaust in Post-Cold War Western Societies. On Sara Tuvel Bernstein’s The Seamstress and Leah Kaufman’s Live! Remember! Tell the World!.” After Memory: Conflicting Claims to World War Two in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures Conference, Berlin, 6-8 November 2015. http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltungen-detail/items/after-memory-conflicting- claims-to-world-war-two-in-contemporary.html • “ Intergenerational Legacies of Romanian (post)Holocaust Traumas in Jewish Women’s Memoirs from Post-communist Times.” Entangled Legacies of the Holocaust in Post- Communist Romania Panel (organizer: Dana Mihăilescu). Society for Romanian Studies Conference Linking Past, Present and Future: The 25th Anniversary of Regime Change in Romania and Moldova (1989/1991), Bucharest, 17-19 June 2015. http://www.academia.edu/11829333/Preliminary_Program_-_SRS_Conference_2015. • “ Shadows of Memory: Intergenerational Legacies of Child Survivor Testimonies from Southeastern Europe.” The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe International Conference. Organizers: Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest, 25-26 May 2015. http://www.ushmm.org/research/scholarly-presentations/conferences/the-holocaust-in- southeastern-europe • “ Transnational Conundrums of Young Generations’ Contemporary Trips to Holocaust Death Camps: Ethical Potentialities of Incongruous Memories in Thomas Duranteau’s Travelogue Des Miettes et des étoiles.” Transnational Holocaust Conference, Leeds, 26-27 January 2015. http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/transnationalholocaustmemory/2015-conference/ • “ Reconfigurations of the Witness Figure via Cross-Generational Ways of Policing Women’s Bodies in Miriam Katin’s Holocaust Graphic Memoir We Are on Our Own.” Graphic Details: Communities of Experience? Conference and Exhibition, Jewish Community Centre London, 12 November 2014. https://www.jw3.org.uk/event/graphic- details-communities-experience#.VCPDlRaTCDh • “Tropes of Lingering Vulnerability for Migrant Generations of Holocaust Survivors: On Susan Geroe Simpson’s Transatlantic Narratives The Silence of Parents (2007) and Treasures and Pleasures (2009).” (Im)Migration Patterns: Displacement and Relocation in Contemporary America RAAS-Fulbright Conference, Ovidius University, Constanţa, 10-12 October 2014. • “ Family Pictures Constructing Narratives of Transpersonal Being: On Svetlana Boym’s Visual Projects Unforeseen Past and Touching Photographs–Most Wanted,” Picturing the Family: Media, Narrative, Memory Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 10-11 July 2014. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brakc/conference.html. • “ Understanding the Past through Holocaust Child Survivors’ Voices: The Input of Mnemonic Structures Molded on Cognitive and Critical/Creative Grids,” "Looking at then Now" Oral History Conference, Oral History Division, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 8-10 June 2014, http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/english/units.php?cat=5019&incat=4254. • “ Haunting Specters of World War II Memories from a Transgenerational Ethical Perspective in Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go,” Workshop on The Ethics of War and Conflict in Graphic Narratives organized by Rebecca Scherr and Mihaela Precup, 2014 EAAS Conference “America: Justice, Conflict, War,” The Hague, Netherlands, 3-6 April 2014, http://www.eaas2014.org/ehome/eaas2014/141766/?&&. • “Children’s Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross-Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects about Child Survivors and Children of Survivors.” Future of Holocaust Studies Conference, Southampton University, United Kingdom, 28-31 July 2013. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/holocaustconf2013/programme/index.page?. • “ Traumatic Echoes of Memories in Child Survivors’ Narratives of the Holocaust: The Polish Experiences of Michał Głowiński and Henryk Grynberg.” Spaces of Childhood in the Memory of War and Genocide Panel. 8th Biennal Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, Nottingham University, United Kingdom, 25-27 June 2013. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/history/documents/conferences/shcy-conference- programme.pdf. • “ Memory Cues Imbricated in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Family Photos from the American South: William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!.” Cultures of Memory, Memories of Culture. Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 6-8 June 2013. http://www.unibuc.ro/depts/limbi/literatura_engleza/conferinte.php. • “ Transnational Contours of Jewish Traumas in Anca Vlasopolos’s Memoir No Return Address,” Women’s Transnational Literature in Europe Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 May 2013. http://www.asszisztencia.hu/femtranslit/index.php?c=8. • “ Oy, Gevalt, Meydele! The Lower East Side as Mishmash of Jewish Women’s Multicultural Images in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn,” Comics Forum Conference, Leeds, UK, 15-16 November 2012. http://comicsforum.org/comics-forum-archives/comics-forum- 2012/. • “ Negotiating Traumas via Cross-Cultural Urban Identity Configurations out of Grief: Outlook on Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project”, Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American City Narratives Panel, RAAS Fulbright Conference Remapping Urban Spaces – American Challenges, “Ovidius” University of Constanţa, 4-6 October 2012. http://www.raas.ro/stire/show/slug/the-2012-raas-fulbright-conference. • “Being Off-Track: Returns to Postcommunist Eastern Europe as Fertile Acts of Dislocation in Svetlana Boym’s Works”, Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women’s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium Conference, University of Bucharest, Romania, 21-22 September 2012. http://www.americanstudies.ro/?article=257. • “ American Jewess and Turn-of-the-Century Gender Images”, 8th Biennial MESEA Conference, Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity, Barcelona, Spain, 13-16 June 2012. http://mesea.org/files/Conference_Program_MESEA_2012B.pdf. • “Being without Pleasurable Memories: On the Predicament of Shoah’s Child-Survivors in Norman Manea’s ‘Proust’s Tea’”, Beyond Camps and Forced Labor. Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, 4-6 January 2012. (http://www.iwm.org.uk/events/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour) • “ Gendered Spaces of Holocaust Traumas in Anca Vlasopolos’s No Return Address.” Women and Holocaust in Central Europe: New Perspectives and Challenges, Conference organized by Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw), Kurt and Ursula Schubert Institute of Jewish Studies (Olomouc), Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava), and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (Budapest), Warsaw, 17-19 November 2011. http://www.womenandholocaust.eu/. • “ On the Performative Lure of War Memories: Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”.” Tales of War: Expressions of Conflict and Reconciliation, Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 4 June 2011. http://www.unibuc.ro/depts/limbi/literatura_engleza/conferinte.php. • “ Prose Pictures, Imagination and the Stakes of Emotional Memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” Toni Morrison Society Conference “Toni Morrison and the Circuits of Imagination,” Paris, 4-7 November 2010. http://www.bu.univ- paris8.fr/web/actualites/documents_actu/ToniMorrisonProgramme.pdf. • “ The Struggle between Descent and Dissent in Early Twentieth Century U.S.: Anzia Yezierska’s Reconfigurations of Charity in Arrogant Beggar,” RAAS-Fulbright Conference The American Tradition of Descent/Dissent: The Underground, the Countercultural, the (Anti) Utopian, Ovidius University, Constanţa, 7-9 October 2010. http://www.raas.ro/stire/show/slug/the-2010-raas-fulbright-conference-the-american- tradition-of-descent-dissent-1. • “Frames of Life and the Will to Memory through the Lenses of Exile: Eastern European -U.S. Encounters in Norman Manea’s Vizuina,” East-European Cultural Space from Post- Communism to Post-E.U. Accession: Transatlantic Perspectives and History in the Making Workshop, Annual Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 14 June 2010. http://www.unibuc.ro/depts/limbi/literatura_engleza/conferinte.php. • “Ethnic Life Stories in America: Specifics of Romanian Jewish Immigrants' Narratives.” Cultures of Diaspora: The Margin and the Mainstream in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish- American Literatures International Workshop, University of Bucharest, 15 May 2010. • “Images of Romania in Contemporary North American Narratives,” Romanian Culture in the Global Age Workshop, Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of Bucharest, 30-31 October 2009. • “The Stakes of Emotional Memory in Mary Antin’s Promised Land: Towards an Ethics of the Vulnerable,” English Department Conference Expressions of the Self, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iaşi, 24-26 September 2009. • “ Shoah, Gender and Memory: The Stakes of Affect in Miriam Katin’s We Are on Our Own”, ACLA Conference, Harvard University, 26-29 March 2009. http://www.acla.org/sites/default/files/files/Full_Program_Guide_2009.pdf. • “The ‘Terrified Smile’ of Elie Wiesel’s Narrative Imagination”, NEMLA 40th Anniversary Convention, Boston University, 26 February – 1 March 2009. http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/nemla/Convention%20Archives/nemla_2009.pdf. • “ Jewishness: A Lens towards Post-communist Romania and Democratic America in Norman Manea’s Memoir”, RAAS Fulbright Conference The Sense of America. Histories into Text, Bucharest, 22-24 May 2008. http://americanstudies.ro/?article=69. • “Lower East Side Fiction and the Displacement of Unified Jewishness”, EAAS Conference E Pluribus Unum, Oslo, 8-13 May 2008. http://www.eaas.eu/conferences/eaas-biennial- conferences/eaas-2008-oslo-conference. • “Performing the Gendered Self. The Stakes of Affect in Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own”, Paris Graduate Conference in American Studies, EHESS, April 18-20, 2008. http://www.ehess.fr/cena/colloques/2008/pgcas.html. • “ Jewish Stereotypes between Shtetl Culture and Mythic America: The Birth of the Contingent Jewish Identity in Anzia Yezierska’s Prose”, International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 31 May – 2 June 2007. • Presentation of PhD project structure, “The Contingency of Double Identity. The East European in Early 20th Century Jewish American Prose Narratives” at the Heidelberg Spring Academy, Heidelberg, 16-20 April 2007. http://www.hca.uni- heidelberg.de/spring/retrospectspring_en.html. • “ East-European Traditions in Early 20th Century Jewish-American Fiction: The Case of Tsdokeh in Anzia Yezierska”, International Colloquium organized by Sergiu Al-George Institute of Oriental Studies Herménéutique et bricolage: territoires et frontières de la tradition dans le judaïsme, University of Bucharest 27-28 October 2006. http://www.fabula.org/actualites/hermeneutique-et-bricolage-territoires-et-frontieres-de-la- tradition-dans-le-judaisme_15552.php. • “ Early 20th Century Eastern-European American-Jews and the Struggle between Nationalism and Ethnicity. Comparative Outlook on the Life Stories of M. E. Ravage and Michael Gold”, MESEA Conference Ethnic Life Writing and Histories, University of Navarra, Pamplona, May 2006. http://mesea.org/pamplona-2006. • “ Jewish-American Rewriting of the Rags-to-Riches Myth: The Case of Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska.” Conference on British and American Studies, Transylvania University of Braşov, 31 March – 1 April 2006 • “ From Duality to Doubleness: Assimilation and the Jewish-American in Mary Antin’s Writings.” Conference on British and American Studies, Transylvania University of Braşov, March 2005 • “Dilemmas of Jewish-American Identity Formation in Anzia Yezierska’s Encounter with the Limits. A Bridge to Otherness”, English Department Conference Mapping the Future, "Al. I. Cuza" University, Iaşi, March 2005. • ‘ “ Kilroy Was Here”: Identity-in-the-Making in Thomas Pynchon’s V.’, International Conference of the English Department The Secret and the Known, University of Bucharest, June 2004.
Language expertise • November 24th, 2007: TOEFL ibt Score: 119 (out of 120) • December 2001, Bucharest: Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, Grade A
Affiliations RAAS (Romanian Association of American Studies) [I am the postgraduate representative of Romania in the European Association of American Studies] ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) MESEA (Multiethnic Society of Europe and the Americas) [2006-2007; 2012-2013; 2016- 2017] NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) [2008-2009] ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) [2009-2010; 2017] Toni Morrison Society [2010] SHCY (Society for the History of Children and Youth) [2013]