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Maria Sabina Draga Alexandru
Contact: e-mail: msdalexuk_at_yahoo.co.uk
Education
- PhD, University of East Anglia, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, School of Literature and
- Creative Writing. PhD dissertation: Estrangement and Return Performances in
- Contemporary Indian Fiction in English, supervised by Prof. Ralph Yarrow and Prof. John Thieme, funded by the Overseas Resource Scheme and a scholarship from the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich (2007).
- PhD, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest, Romania,
- PhD dissertation on cultural theory and aesthetics, with reference to contemporary fictions in English, entitled The Postmodern Condition: Towards an Aesthetic of Cultural Identities, supervised by Prof Ion Ianosi (2000).
- October 1997 – July 1998: University of Oxford, Hertford College
Postgraduate research as a visiting student, with a focus on postcolonial literatures – issues of identity construction (recipient of a Soros-FCO Chevening scholarship)
- October 1994 – July 1995: MA, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, Department of Literatures in English. Thesis title: D.H. Lawrence: Mythical versus Rational Discourse
- October 1990 – July 1994: BA, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, Department of English and Romanian, Bucharest, Romania. BA Paper title: Passion/Power in D.H. Lawrence’s Novels. A Feminist Approach
Main teaching and research interests
The performance of ethnicity, race, gender and (migrant) postcolonial cultural identities in contemporary (particularly Indian) fiction in English; African American Studies; recasting postcolonial theory within the context of American Studies (diasporic cultures) and of contemporary Eastern European cultures and literatures (with a main focus on Romania).
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