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Professor Phd. Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu

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Contact details

E-mail:

roxana.marinescu@rei.ase.ro

Curriculum Vitae
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Main research areas:

  • Gendered Representations in British, American or Postcolonial Literature.
  • Aspects of Intersectionality in British, American or Postcolonial Literature.
  • Feminist Approaches to British, American or Postcolonial Literature.
  • Intersections: Postcolonialism-Postcommunism and Literature.

Key publications:

  1. Marinescu, R.-E. (2021). Queen Marie and motherhood. În B. Decharneux & A. Toma (Eds.), Royauté(s) entre historicités et imaginaire (pp. 359–377). Edition Harmattan.
  2. Marinescu, R.-E. (2022). The myth of motherhood in communist and postcommunist Romania: From pro-natalist policies to neoliberal views. În M. Khosrow-Pour & Information Resources Management Association (Eds.), Research anthology on feminist studies and gender perceptions (pp. 368–386). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4511-2.ch022
  3. Marinescu, R.-E. (2025a). Learning the language of gender and feminism in postcommunist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. În W. Wei & D.-l. Chao (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of the sociopolitical context of language learning (pp. 227–241). Routledge.
  4. Marinescu, R.-E. (2025b). Women and their bodies in diasporic journeys: Cross-cultural readings of Meera Syal’s House of Hidden Mothers and Gabriela Adameşteanu’s Fontana di Trevi. În N. E. Barucha, S. Rajeswaran, & K. Stierstorfer (Eds.), India 75: Reflections on and from the Indian diaspora (pp. 309–328). NavVishnu Publications.
  5. Marinescu, R.-E. (n.d.). Spatial readings and their feminist dimension in Victory City by Salman Rushdie. În A. Ciugureanu & E. Vlad (Eds.), Mapping American spaces in literature and beyond: Geocriticism and spatial literary studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01324-8_16

Research topics under supervision:

  1. Magic and society in fantasy fiction: an analysis of J.K. Rowling’s ”Harry Potter” series and of Philip Pullman’s ”His Dark Materials” and ”The Book of Dust”  (drd. Oana Neguț (Gări-Neguț))
  2. Digital narrativity. The adaptation and reimagining of literary tropes in video games (drd. Alina Astăluş)
  3. The Impact Upon the Reader of British Fantasy in Contrast with Cautionary American Realism: A Comparative Study of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (drd. Cristina-Lucia Andreescu (Vezeteu))
  4. Literary representation of antisemitism and Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era (drd. Ştefania Diaconu (Schnakovszky))