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Biography
Dana Mihailescu is Associate Professor 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 at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2008-2009, and the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University in 2021-2022.
On the one hand, she has examined how memory and the ethics of remembrance function for the immigrant generations of Eastern European Jews coming to the U.S., particularly 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). On the other hand, she is interested in graphic narratives and Holocaust representation. She also explores how memories work for Holocaust child survivors, the 2nd and 3rd (plus) generations and for recent immigrants fleeing persecution, and how their complex paths influence fiction writing and history making. Among her most recent projects are a published monograph, Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930. Struggles for Recognition (Lexington Books/An Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, 2018); an article on the early postwar representation of Jewish orphans returning from Transnistria to Romania at the end of World War II in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2022 and an article on the representation of Holocaust child survivors in the collective volume But I Live published in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 3 (2023, issue published in September 2024), pp. 573-599. She is currently writing a book about the fusgeyer movement.
You can also access my CV by clicking here: https://www.academia.edu/2197160/CV_dana_mihailescu
Further details about my research projects and the classes I teach (including syllabi and class schedule) can be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/view/dmihailes/home