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Mihai Mindra
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Contact: e-mail: mihai_mindra_at_yahoo.com
Introduction
Professor of American Literature and American Civilization, founder and organizer of the Ariel Foreign Language Center and the B.A. Judaic Studies Program. Brandeis University, Mass. Fulbright fellow (2001- 2002), J.F. Keedy Institute for North American Studies grantee (2003).
Research Activities and Interests
My main interest is in 19th and 20th century American literature and civilization, specifically in American domesticity, realism, naturalism, modernism and post-modernism as well as in Jewish-American fiction as literary-cultural phenomena.
October, 2007 – September, 2010: Research Project Director, “Cultures of Diasporas: the Margin and the Mainstream in Jewish-Romanian and Jewish-American Literatures”.
Teaching Responsibilities
I currently teach graduate and postgraduate courses on 20th century American literature and Jewish-American culture.
Publications
1. Books:
- The Avatars of the Problematic Hero: from Myth to Anti-novel- Bucharest: University of Bucharest Publishing House. 1999
- The Phenomenology of the Novel - Iasi: Institutul European. 2002
- Strategists of Assimilation: Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska.- Bucharest: The Romanian Academy Publishing House. 2003
2. Numerous studies and articles on 20th century American literature and Jewish-American culture.
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