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Position: Lecturer/Professor
University of Bucharest
American Studies
Department of English/American Studies, University of Bucharest
Str. Pitar Mos nr. 7-13, Bucharest, Romania
http://prof.unibuc.ro/bio-cv-dana-mihailescu/
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2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Recent: TR
Literary criticism: TR
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
Jews in the United States: TR
Jewish identity and assimilation: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
Holocaust Studies: TR
Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): TR
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
Scholarship, history of: TR
Description
Dana Mihăilescu is Associate Professor of English/American Studies at the University of Bucharest. She earned her Ph.D. in Philology at the University of Bucharest in January 2010, with a dissertation entitled Ethical Dilemmas and Reconfigurations of Identity in Early Twentieth Century Eastern European Jewish American Narratives. She was a Fulbright Junior Visiting Researcher in 2008-2009 at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern University in 2021-2022.
Her main research interests include Jewish American Studies, Holocaust survivor testimonies, trauma and witnessing, ethics and memory. She has examined how memory and the ethics of remembrance function for the immigrant generations of Eastern European Jews coming to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as reflected in narratives of authors born in the Pale of Settlement (e.g. Mary Antin, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska) or Romania (Konrad Bercovici, M.E. Ravage, Maurice Samuel). She is also interested in how memory works for Holocaust child survivors and for the 2nd and 3rd (plus) generations, and how its complex paths influence fiction writing and history-making.
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