ABOUT ME

Born and raised in Romania, I spent my formative childhood years in Rîmnicu Vîlcea, a small town hidden in the forested hills beneath the Carpathians. During my teens and college years labyrinthine, eclectic Bucharest became my home. 

After a brief time in the United Kingdom, where I studied photographic history, I moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. My research and teaching since have explored postcolonial literature, transnational feminist theory, human rights and forced migration. 

I am now based in Cleveland, where I teach in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University. 

My prose and poems have been published in Story Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Public Seminar, World Literature Today, Tint Journal, the other side of hope, Apofenie, Sundial Magazine, and elsewhere. 

You can find my academic research in a number of other venues including The Comparatist, Women's Studies, Border Crossing, and two philosophy book collections, Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari and Phenomenology of the Broken Body. 

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