2020 Activities
Publications / Publicatii
Dana Mihailescu, “Representations of Identity and the Holocaust Archive in Third-Generation Graphic Narrative: Nora Krug’s Belonging. A German Reckons with History and Home (2018),” accepted for publication in the volume Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature, editors Alan L. Berger, Lucas F. W. Wilson, estimated date for publication 2022. [book chapter]
Ana Barbulescu, “The Underlife of Transnistria’s Ghettos: Recategorizing and Reframing Social Interaction.” Journal of Holocaust Research, vol. 35, no. 3, 2021, pp. 196-213. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2021.1949929. [Taylor and Francis journal article]
Dana Mihailescu, “Dynamics of Remembrance across Time and Media: On Ruth Glasberg Gold’s Multiple Accounts of Her Holocaust Experiences in Transnistria.” European Journal of Jewish Studies (Brill), vol. 15, no. 2, 2021, pp. 285-311. https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471X-BJA10027. [ISI-AHCI journal article]
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, “Perceptions of Legality during the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944,” Journal of Romanian Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 51-77. ibidem Verlag. https://www.ibidem.eu/en/zeitschriften/jrs.html. [journal article]
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, “The Restitution of Jewish Jobs in the Aftermath of the Antonescu Regime." Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork. Eds. Thomas Kühne and Mary Jane Rein. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 159-177 (19 pp). (Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide). eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38998-7. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38997-0. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030389970. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38998-7 [book chapter]
Mihaela Precup (co-author with Dragos Manea), "'Life Was a Precarious Dance': Graphic Narration and the Creation of a Transcultural Memory Space in the Positive Negatives Project." Agency in Transnational Memory Politics: A Framework for Analyzing Practice. Eds. Aline Sierp and Jenny Wustenberg. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, July 2020, pp. 261-283. ISBN 978-1-78920-694-4. eISBN 978-1-78920-695-1.https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WustenbergAgency. [book chapter]
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, “Legal Resistance through Petitions during the Holocaust: The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940-1944.” Resisting Persecution: Jews and Their Petitions during the Holocaust. Eds. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. pp. 92-113. ISBN: 978-1-78920-720-0; eISBN: 978-1-78920-721-7. https://berghahnbooks.com/title/KaplanResisting. [book chapter]
Roxana Oltean, “Promised Lands and Holocaust Survivors: US Ideological Perspectives and Itineraries of Relocation in the Writings of Ira Hirschmann and James McDonald.” Ideology, Identity, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions. eds. Eduard Vlad, Adina Ciugureanu, Nicoleta Stanca. Berlin: Peter Lang, December 2019 (published in February 2020), pp. 59-74. ISBN: 978-3-631-80872-6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b16425.https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72068. [book chapter]
Dana Mihailescu, “Networks of Sutured Consciousness in Early Holocaust Testimonies of Orphaned Jewish Child Survivors from Romania.” Starting Anew. The Rehabilitation of Child Survivors of the Holocaust in the Early Postwar Years. Eds. Sharon Kangisser Cohen and Dalia Ofer. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, ©2019 (published in 2020), pp. 145-169. ISBN: 978-965-308-610-4. https://store.yadvashem.org/en/starting-anew-the-rehabilitation-of-child-survivors-of-the-holocaust-in-the-early-postwar-years-2. [book chapter]
Dana Mihailescu, “The Jewish Fusgeyer Migration Movement from Early Twentieth Century Romania as Transcultural Rhetorical Tool in US Memorial Literary Culture.” MELUS. Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 45, no. 1, 2020, pp. 139-162. ISSN 0163-755X. EISSN 1946-3170. Oxford UP. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz063. [ISI-AHCI journal article]. Cited on wikipedia page for fusgeyer.
Dana Mihailescu, “Confronting the Shadow of the Holocaust through Transcultural Memory Networks: Martin Lemelman’s Mendel’s Daughter (2006) and Two Cents Plain (2010).” Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2020, pp. 38-75. ISSN: 0882-8539. E-ISSN: 1534-5165. DOI: 10.5703/shofar.38.1.0038; 10.1353/sho.2020.0001. [ISI-AHCI journal article]
Dana Mihailescu, "Review of Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland. Combative Remembrance, by Ewa Stańczyk." Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 98, no.2, 2020, pp. 393-395. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.98.2.0393?seq=1 [ISI-AHCI journal book review]
Mihaela Precup, "Review of Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust. Beyond Maus. Ed. Ewa Stańczyk.” Studies in Comics, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020. in press. https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-comics. [Emerging Scholars Citation Index, Scopus, EBSCO, ERIH, MLA, etc.-indexed journal book review]
Research stays / Stagii cercetare
Dana Mihailescu, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, USA, 8-18 February 2020
Invited colloquium presentation
Dana Mihailescu, “Networks of Holocaust Memories in Third Generation Graphic Narratives: On Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch (2016) and Kindred Narratives,” online streamed presentation for the American Studies Colloquium Series, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, 2 April 2020. https://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/events/american-studies-colloquium-series/; https://www.facebook.com/groups/252412805793625/.
Accepted conference presentations / Prezentari conferinte acceptate -- cancelled events on short notice because of COVID-19 Global Health Emergency
Roxana Oltean, “‘The Old World is Finished.’ Phyllis Bottome’s Lifework and Ethical-Political Engagement in Interwar and Post-War Europe,” presentation accepted at the 41st Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, Aveiro, Portugal, 25-29 March 2020. http://apeaameetingaveiro2020.web.ua.pt/
Dana Mihailescu, “Haunting Specters of World War II Memories in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs We Are on Our Own and Letting It Go,” Modern Wars, Genocide, Survival, and Life Writing Seminar organized by Phyllis Lassner and Margaretl Richardson, ACLA 2020 Conference, Chicago, 18-24 March 2020. https://www.acla.org/program-guide#/seminars/all/26208.