Publications

Selected publications (click here for a fuller CV, updated 16.12.2023)

Monographs / Edited Books

Romanian Joyce: From Hostility to Hospitality (Peter Lang, 2014)
The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum (Palgrave Macmilan, 2017)
Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020)

Academic links

Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics

Edited journal issues

(co-ed. with Simona Mitroiu), Parallax 29.1 (2023), special issue: ‘Holocaust Narratives in the Post-Testimonial Era’, 137 pp. [AHCI/SSCI]
(co-ed with Laurent Milesi and Edward Waysband), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 13 (2023), special issue: ‘Speculations of the Unconscious: Encounters between Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature and the Arts’, 190 pp. [ESCI, Scopus]
(co-ed. with Ioana Galleron and Lanlan Du), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 10 (2020), special issue: ‘The New Humanities in the “Post-University”’, 239 pp. [ESCI, Scopus]
(co-ed. with Laurent Milesi and Biwu Shang), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 9 (2019), special issue: ‘Postclassical Narratology: Twenty Years Later’, 206 pp. [ESCI, Scopus]
(co-ed. with Anne-Marie Callus), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 8 (2018), special issue on ‘Encounters between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies’, 154 pp. [ESCI, Scopus]
(co-ed. with William Large and Laura Marin), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 5.1-2 (2015), special issue: ‘Blanchot’s Spaces’, 273 pp. [Scopus]
(co-ed. with Ivan Callus), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 3.1 (2013), special issue: ‘Mediocrity’, 147 pp. [Scopus]
(co-ed. with Ioana Galleron and Bogdan Ştefănescu), Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 2.1 (2012), special issue: ‘Postcommunism – Postcolonialism’s Other’, 246 pp. [Scopus]

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

‘Preserving Memory in the Twenty-First Century: The Testimonial Lives of Holocaust Objects’, Parallax 29.1 (2023): pp. 120-137; DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2271727 [AHCI/SSCI]
(with Li Feng), ‘犹太文学与大屠杀研究的跨学科探索 ———阿琳·艾欧纳斯库教授访谈录’(An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Jewish Literature and Holocaust Studies: An Interview with Professor Arleen Ionescu), 山东外语教学 (Shandong Foreign Language Teaching) 44.3 (2023): pp. 1-9; DOI: 10.16482/j.sdwy37-1026.2023-03-001
‘Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran: The Passion for Ruins’, Transilvania, 1 (January 2023): pp. 23-37; DOI.: 10.51391/trva.2023.01.02 [Scopus]
‘Hospitality in Shanghai: The Russian Jewish Community as Hosts and Polish Jewish Refugees as Guests during WW2’, SLOVO, 35.2 (Fall 2022): pp. 1-25; DOI: 10.14324/111.444.0954-6839.1297 [AHCI]
‘Towards an Affective Ludo-ethics of Re-enactment: Witnessing in Attentat 1942’, Parallax 28.2 (April-June 2022): pp. 213-229; DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2023.2184951 [AHCI/SSCI]
‘Performing Irony: Eugène Ionesco’s Battles with His Critics’, Dacoromania Litteraria, 9 (2022): pp. 9-30; DOI: 10.33993/drl.2022.9.9.30 [Scopus]
(with Cristina A. Bejan), ‘Trauma, Affect, Memory and 21st-Century Poetry’, Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 12: ‘”Make It New” Once Again: Experimental Trends in 21st-Century Poetry in English’ (2022): pp. 151-160; DOI: 10.51865/JLSL.2022.11 [SCI, Scopus]
‘Layers of Memory in Kuznetsov’s and Trubakov’s Babi Yar Narratives’, Eastern European Holocaust Studies, special issue on A. Kuznetsov, ed. Leona Toker (online, 2022): pp. 1-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2022-0012
‘Anathematizing Barthes and Admiring Beckett with Eugène Ionesco’, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 45.2 (July 2022): pp. 187-202; DOI: 10.3366/para.2022.0396 [AHCI]
(with Laurent Milesi), ‘Re-Membering—A Plea for Togetherness’, Oxford Literary Review 44.1 (July 2022): pp. 110-20; DOI: 10.3366/olr.2022.0380 [AHCI]
‘“Channels of Interference”: Maurice Blanchot and Emil Cioran’, Primerjalna književnost 45.1 (2022): pp. 189-208; DOI: 10.3986/pkn.v45.i1.11 [AHCI]
‘Makarenko’s and Țurcanu’s Re-Education Projects: Debunking a Myth in Romanian Historiography’, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas 20.1 (2022): pp. 1-26; DOI: 10.1353/pan.2022.0004 [AHCI]
‘Blanchot in Infinite Conversation(s) with Beckett’, Journal of Modern Literature 44.3 (2021): pp. 76-92; DOI: 10.2979/jmodelite.44.3.06 [AHCI]
(with Du Lanlan), ‘Chinese Versions of the Uncanny’, Oxford Literary Review 42.2 (2020): pp. 205-209, DOI: 10.3366/olr.2020.0320 [AHCI]
‘The “Differend” of Shoes: van Gogh, Beckett, Wiesel, Levi and Holocaust Museums’, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas 17.2 (June 2019): pp. 255-277; DOI: 10.1353/pan.2019.0017 [AHCI]
‘Witnessing Horrorism: the Piteşti Experiment’, SLOVO 32.1 (2019): pp. 53-74; DOI: 10.14324/111.0954-6839.086 [AHCI]
‘Spacing Literature between Blanchot and Derrida’, in ‘Deconstruction Space Ethics’, Parallax 21.1 (2015): pp. 58-78; DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2014.988907 [AHCI, SSCI]
‘Waiting for Blanchot: A Third Act for Beckett’s Play’, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and History of Ideas 11.1 (2013): pp. 71-84; DOI: 10.1353/pan.2013.0004 [AHCI]
- Forthcoming / Under review
‘Towards A Memorial Ethics of Hope: The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum’, Memory Studies (under review) [AHCI/SSCI]
‘Healing Future Generations: Witnessing in Memoirs of Shanghai Refugees during WW2’, Life Writing, ed. Stefanie Hofer and Idit Gil (under review) [AHCI]

Reviews and Review Articles

(with Laurent Milesi), Review-Essay, ‘A Tale of Two Theories: John Pier, ed, Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020’, Style, 57.1 (2023): pp. 90-107; DOI: 10.5325/style.57.1.0090 [AHCI]
(with Laurent Milesi), ‘“Committing Poetry”: A Review of Timothy Yu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021’, Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 12: ‘“Make It New” Once Again: Experimental Trends in 21st-Century Poetry in English’ (2022): pp. 168-181; DOI: 10.51865/JLSL.2022.13 [ESCI, Scopus]
‘Review of Panorama comunismului în România, ed. Liliana Corobca’, Slavic Review 81.1 (2022): pp. 224-26; DOI: 10.1017/slr.2022.108 [AHCI/SSCI]
‘Tangled Temporal Dimensions in the Post-Theory Era’, Philologica Jassyensia XVIII.1 (35) (2022): pp. 324-328 [ESCI]
(with Laurent Milesi), ‘Mircea Mihăieş, O noapte cu Molly Bloom. Romanul unei femei (A Night with Molly Bloom: The Novel of a Woman)’, James Joyce Quarterly 59.1 (Fall 2021): pp. 163-169; DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2021.0048 [AHCI]
‘Review of Leona Toker, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading’, Style 54.2 (2020): pp. 258-264; DOI: 10.5325/style.54.2.0258 [AHCI]
‘Review of Cristina A. Bejan, Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association’, SLOVO 33.1 (2020): pp. 27-29; DOI: 10.14324/111.0954-6839.099 [AHCI]
‘Review of Vladimir Tismăneanu and Marius Stan, Romania Confronts Its Communist Past: Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice’, Memory Studies 12.4 (October 2019): pp. 473-476; DOI: 10.1177/1750698019855897c [AHCI, SSCI]
Review of Mircea Mihăieş, Ulysses 732: Romanul Romanului, James Joyce Quarterly 53.3-4 (2018): pp. 374-380; DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2018.0023 [AHCI]
‘Review of Oameni din Dublin (Dubliners), 2012 and Portretul artistului la tinereţe (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man), 2012’, James Joyce Quarterly 50.3 (2013): pp. 860-864; DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2013.0039 [AHCI]
- Forthcoming
(with Laurent Milesi), Review Essay, ‘Posthuman(ist) Technological Beckett: A Review Essay of Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett’s Short Prose and Samuel Beckett and Technology’, Partial Answers (scheduled January 2024) [AHCI]
Review of Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, Slavic Review (scheduled for the last issue of 2024) [AHCI]

Chapters in Books and Conference Proceedings

‘The Essay as Brinkmanship: Cioran’s Fragment, Aphorism and Autobiography’, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, ed. Mario Aquilina, Nicole Wallack and Bob Cowser, Jr., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 343-357; ISBN 978 1 4744 8602 6 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 4744 8603 3 (webready PDF), ISBN 978 1 4744 8604 0 (epub)
‘Traces of Survival in a World of Terror: Kathy Kacer’s Shanghai Escape’, in Memories of Terror: Essays on Recent History, ed. Mihaela Gligor, Frankfurt am Main: CEEOL Press, 2021, pp. 173-202; ISBN:978-3-946993-88-9 (print), ISBN: 978-3-946993-87-2 (ebook)
(with Maria Margaroni) ‘Introduction’, in Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma, ed. Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020, pp. ix-xxxviii; Hardcover ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3, electronic book 978-1-78661-098-0
‘Forgiving as Self-Healing? The Case of Eva Mozes Kor’, in Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma, ed. Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2020, pp. 27-49; Hardcover ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3, electronic book 978-1-78661-098-0
‘Manipulated Memory: Censuring the Romanian Holocaust under Ceauşescu and Its Aftermath’, in Information and Persuasion, ed. Maria-Ionela Neagu, Domnița Tomescu, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 165-188; ISBN 978-3-631-73744-6, DOI: 10.3726/b12282
‘Hauntologies of Post-Joycean Modernity in Romanian Literature: Adrian Oţoiu’s Coaja lucrurilor sau Dansând cu jupuita’, in Literature and the Long Modernity, ed. Mihaela Irimia and Andreea Paris, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014, pp. 369-386; ISBN: 978-90-420-3852-3, E-Book ISBN: 978-94-012-1095-9
‘From Translation to Re-creation: The Cases of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake’, inJoyce Studies Annual, ed. Philip Sicker and Moshe Gold, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014, pp. 196-204; ISBN 978-0-8232-5019-6
‘Joyce’s Reception in Romania (1935-1965)’, Joyce Studies Annual, ed. Philip Sicker and Moshe Gold, New York: Fordham University Press, 2012, pp. 277-285; ISBN 978-0-8232-5019-6
‘Inter-war Romania: Misinterpreting Joyce and Beyond’, in The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, vol. I, ed. Geert Lernout and Wim van Mierlo, London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004 (2^nded. 2009), pp. 214-218, 295-298; ISBN 0-8264-5825-4

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