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Madalina Nicolaescu

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Contact: e-mail: madalinan_at_clicknet.ro

Madalina Nicolaescu is full Professor in the Department of English (Faculty of Foreign Languages).

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She teaches undergraduate and graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) courses in early modern English drama (with separate courses in Shakespeare) as well as in literary theory, translation and globalization studies. The most recent graduate courses have focused on global media, transnational identities and global Shakespeare.

Her research has pursued two different directions that have at times converged: early modern studies and globalization studies. Her recent work on Shakespeare has addressed issues such as the relationship between war, religion and the emergence of the national state in his plays. Another major area of interest is Shakespeare in translation, with particular focus upon the early Romanian translations of his plays viewed as political and cultural strategies employed to negotiate Romania’s position at meeting point of different (western and eastern) cultures and political systems. In the area of globalization studies she is interested in studying instances of cultural hybridization and glocalization, the increasing mcdonaldization of traditional cultures, the construction of new transnational identities, pursuing a gendered dimension.

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She is affiliated to the following international organizations:

• International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
• European Shakespeare Research Association (ESRA)
• European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
• Womens International Studies (WISE)
• Fellow St. John’s College, Cambridge
• Fellow & Alumna of New Europe College,
• and is founder and director of GENDER – Centre for the Study of Women’s Identity

Among recent grants and projects that she has won or partcipated in are:

• Grant - PHARE (European Union) for the project : For a Community of Women NGOs (director)
• Grant Idei - University of Bucharest, Unhospitable Translations, 2007-2008 (director)
• Grant – given to the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity for the project ODISEI (member)

Publications

She has published nine books and over a 100 articles. Recent publications include:

• Women’s Voces in Post-communist Eastern Europe. Vol II. Rewriting the Body, coautor cu Maria Sabina Draga. Bucuresti:Editura Universitatii, 2007
• Women’s Voces in Post- communist Eastern Europe . Vol I. Rewriting History, coautor cu Maria Sabina Draga si Helen Smith. Bucuresti:Editura Universitatii, 2005
• Meanings of Violence in Shakespeare’s Plays, Bucuresti:Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2002
• Fashioning Global Identities, Bucuresti:Editura Universitatii, 2001
• "Mixing and Mingling: Bodin and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus", Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory, eds. Marta Gibinska , Agnieszka Romanowska-Kowalska, Kraków:Wydawnictwo UJ (Jagiellonian University Press), 2007
• "Undoing Nationalist Leanings in Teaching Shakespeare", Shifting the Scene : Shakespeare in European Culture, ed. Balz Engler. Newark:University of Delaware Press and London:Associated University Press, 2003
• "Generating Definitions of Gender Identity", Southeastern Europe, 2002, no.2
• "Dialog intercultural bazat pe parteneriat", Anale U.B, 2007
• "Regrupate sub un nou standard" – Cuvintul, May 2006
• "Globalizare – canon si anticanon", Analele U.B, iulie 2006
• "A taste for War", A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006
• "Global - Local - Subaltern” in Rodica Mihaila, Irina Grigorescu Pana Our America. People, Paces , Times, Bucuresti:Univers Enciclopedic, 2005
• "Exotic Landscapes in Early Moden England" in Paysages d’ici et d’ailleurs. Actes de colloque international, Bucharest 20-23 sept.2003. eds. Dolores Toma, Catalina Girbes, Bucuresti:Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2005
• "What is left unknown in the Translation of Henry V", University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Bucuresti 2004
• "Explosive Hybridities", Euresis, Bucuresti, 2004
• "Remembering and Forgetting in Shakespeare’s Henry V", University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Bucuresti, 2003
• "Americanization Revisited – Soap Versus Telenovelas, Globalization, Americanization, McDonaldization", America in/from Romania . Essays in Cultural Dialogue, Eds. Rodica Mihaila, Irina Grigorescu Pana. Bucuresti:Univers Enciclopedic, 2003
• "Remembering and Forgetting in Shakespeare’s Henry V", University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Bucharesti, 2003
• "Erring Barbarians. Othello’s Barbarian Erring. Orientalism and Occidentalism", University of Bucharest Review: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Bucharest, 3-4, 2002
• "Shakespeare in Romania", International Shakespeare Dictionary, ed. Patricia Parker and Ae Thompson, London and New York:Routledge 2009
• "Religion and war in Henry V", Shakespeare and War, eds. Paul Fransen, Ros King. London:Palgrave, 2008

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