Daniela Cârstea is associate professor at the University of Bucharest and a grantee of the Fulbright Commission (Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts). Dr. Cârstea holds a PhD (University of Bucharest) in trauma studies, relational psychoanalysis and American literature. Her published work and presentations are largely focused on creative processes as transitional phenomena and negotiations of anxiety in the discourse of trauma. She teaches literary critical theory, British literature and a graduate course on trauma studies and relational psychoanalysis. She is associate editor of the University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series and reviewer for several other journals.