Dana Mihailescu

Dana Mihăilescu is a Lecturer 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.

Her research interests include ethnic studies – Jewish American identities; trauma and witnessing; ethics and memory.

She has so far 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 the 2nd and 3rd (plus) generations, and how its complex paths influence fiction writing and history-making.

member of:
English Language and Literature.

department of:
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures.