S-a nascut in orasul Macin, jud. Tulcea. Absolventa a Facultatii de Litere din Bucuresti (1998). Masteratul in Literatura comparata – Purdue University (SUA, 2003). Doctor in Literatura comparata (SUA, Purdue University, 2007). A predat la Purdue University, Rutgers University (2007 – 2008, lecturer of Expository Writing), St. Peter’s College (Jersey City, New Jersey). In prezent, cadru didactic la Stevens Institute of Technology, in New Jersey, unde preda arta scrisului si a conversatiei.
Colaboreaza cu lucrari creative la jurnalele “EAPSU: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work”, “Hektoen International” (A Journal of Medical Humanities, publicat de Hektoen Institute of Medicine), “Red Feather: An International Children’s Visual Culture”. Este prezenta in volume cu capitolele:
– „Of Genes, Mutations, and Desires in Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar’s The Centaur in the Garden”. In: The Body in Medical Culture / ed.: Elizabeth Klaver, prof. de engleza la Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009, 265 p.;
– “Performing Memories: Communism as Rhizome”. In: Romanian Culture in the Global Age /ed.: Rodica Mihaila, Dana Mihailescu. – Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2010 (volum realizat in cadrul proiectului “Spatiul cultural romanesc in perspectiva transatlantica: De la post-comunism la post-aderare”, sprijinit prin grantul CNCSIS PNII – Idei nr. 205/2007, cod proiect 1000, director de proiect Prof. univ. dr. Rodica Mihaila).
In anul 2006, prezinta la Universitatea Bucknell (Pennsylvania) studiul „Ne Habeas Corpus in Brian Clark’s Whose Life is it Anyway? and Alejandro Amenabar’s The Sea Inside”, in cadrul Simpozionului international “The Patient”, Sectiunea – The Experience of the Suffering Patient, desfasurat in 20 – 21 octombrie 2006;
Autoare a pieselor de teatru Transitional Object si Three as in Tri-Angle or the Aftertastes of Life.
Distinctii primite: “The Puskas Memorial Fellowship” si “Purdue Research Foundation Grant”. In prezent are un fellowship oferit de Modern Language Association Bibliographic of America, ocupandu-se de indexarea articolelor relevante despre literatura si cultura romana.
Volume publicate:
Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2011;
Inventing Me / Exercitii de retrait (memorii) . Bucuresti : Editura Scrisul romanesc, 2011
Sursa:
http://vetiver.weblog.ro Portalul Scriitorilor Romano-Americani din New York – Scriitori Romano – Americani: Noi aparitii (postare din 21 mai 2011)
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