Bogdan Stefanescu

I am a professor of English at the University of Bucharest, a fellow of New Europe College, and a grantee of the British Council, the University of London, the University of Stuttgart, and the European Commission. I will be spending the fall term and part of the spring term at FAU as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.  My research  focuses on literary and cultural studies, on discourse and translation, and more recently on the comparative study of nationalism, and of postcolonial and postcommunist cultures. I teach graduate courses in the rhetoric of national identity and in the identity discourse of Western and Soviet subaltern cultures. At FAU, I will be teaching a 5-week graduate seminar this spring, “Neo-nationalist” and “Populist” Discourses of Identity in the Post-Cold War Age. 

I have published  volumes, academic articles and book chapters  on British and European romanticism, on the comparative study of Soviet and Western colonialism, and on the rhetoric of nationalism. My literary translations (mostly from Romanian into English) have appeared individually or jointly in several books from Romanian and US publishers. My book on nationalist discourse types,  Patrii din cuvinte  (Making Homelands out of Words, 2017) won the critical theory prize of the Romanian Association for Comparative and World Literature. 

I am co-director of the  British Cultural Studies MA program  and editor-in-chief of  University of Bucharest Review, and served as Vice Rector for International Relations and Academic Publications at my university. Outside academia, I also worked as a journalist and as deputy director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.  

I’m looking forward to my stay at FAU!