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Ruxandra Radulescu
Contact: e-mail: radulescu.ruxandra_at_yahoo.com
Position: Junior Lecturer, English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UB
- Graduate degrees: MA English 2005, Emporia State University, Kansas
- MA American Studies 2001, University of Bucharest, Romania
- Currently, PhD candidate, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Ruxandra Radulescu’s current interests are: contemporary Native American literatures (in particular, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, Greg Sarris, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor); ecocriticism – the relationship between (American) literature and the environment; multiethnic American literature (with an emphasis on Native American, Chicana/o and Cuban American literature).
She is a doctoral student at the University of Bucharest, working on a dissertation titled “Constructions of Identity in Contemporary Native American Fiction: Cosmopolitanism in Post-1960 Urban Indian Narratives.” Her approach aims to bring to the fore the dialogic and postmodern-nomadologic character of contemporary American Indian fiction. Special emphasis will be placed on urban narratives, discussing the ongoing reformulation of a post-ethnic identity, constituted by means of cultural affiliation, as opposed to descent (Werner Sollors), in the context of a globalized world which offers space for cooperation and intercultural solidarity, even in the midst of intense anti-globalization movements.
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She has received training in literary and cultural studies at the University of Edinburgh (2000) and CEU (2003) summer schools. As a member of the English department – the American Studies program – at the University of Bucharest, she has taught a variety of courses and seminars in Native American literature, American literature & civilization, critical theory, English as a foreign language. She serves as secretary of the graduate program in American Studies and advisor for the undergraduate division in American Studies. She has also served on numerous faculty committees. In addition, she taught classes in English Composition and worked as a Writing Center consultant at Emporia State University, from 2003 to 2005.
Publications
Ruxandra’s list of recent publications includes:
- “Sherman Alexie’s Trickster Hermeneutics and Transitional Spaces”, in New/Old Worlds: Spaces of Transition. Ed. Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu Pana. Bucuresti: Univers Enciclopedic, 2007. 451-464.
- “Misrecognizing ‘Real Indians’:” Visual Subversion in Native American Autoethnographic Memoirs” – accepted for publication in American Visual Memoirs After the 1970s, published by Zeta Books in the Zeta Series in Literature and Visual Culture.
- “Nationalism and/as Modernity in Native American Studies: Towards the New American Indian Studies?” University of Bucharest Review 7(4) 2006. 38-44.
- “Reinventing Romania in Popular Music: Redistributing Cultural Authority in Popular Culture” in Communism, Capitalism and the Politics of Culture. Ed. Christa Buschendorf, Frankfurt: Center for North American Studies, 2004. 247-263.
- “A Culture of Reinvested Waste: The Leaking Body of African American Music” in America in/from Romania. Essays in Cultural Dialogue. Ed. Rodica Mihaila and Irina Grigorescu-Pana, Bucuresti: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2003. 169-176.
- “Configuring Romanian Youth Culture Identities” in Proceedings of the Conference on Culture and Identity in the Balkans. Ed. Gonul Ucele. Istanbul: Beykent University Publishing House, 2004. 91-102. (co-authored with Dragos Ivana).
- “Deterritorialization of Language in the Works of Two Scottish Writers” in University of Bucharest Review 3(12) 2001. 72-79. Teaching English as a Foreign Language Textbook. Co-author. Book accepted for publication by the University of Bucharest Press, 2008.
She has presented papers in more than 20 international conferences to date.
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Introduction to American Anthropology. Introduction to Native American Studies.
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