Denise Roman
Research Scholar since 2002
denizr@ucla.edu

Ph.D. in Political Science - York University, Canada (Comparative Politics/ Women & Politics); area of specialization: Eastern European Cultural Studies

European Union Network of Interdisciplinary Women Studies in Europe (NOISE) Summer School in Women’s Studies from Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Director: Dr. Rosi Braidotti. (September 2000, Pisa, Italy)

Present European Editor of the feminist academic peer-reviewed journal Women’s Studies International Forum

Currently working on an article titled "The Body and Corporeality in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema."

Work in progress about how Eastern European women/gender issues are under and misrepresented in present women’s studies and transnational feminism scholarship; how these experiences are conflated to either those of “European women” or “non-Western women.”

Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003)

“Poststructuralism,” in Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, ed. Victor E. Taylor and Charles E. Winquist (New York: Routledge, 2000, hardcover; 2003, paperback)

“Gendering Eastern Europe: Pre-Feminism, Prejudice, and East-West Dialogues in Post-Communist Romania,” Women’s Studies International Forum 24, no. 1 (2001): 53-65. *Selected in the database “Gender and Women Workers” of the International Labor Organization - United Nations.

Peer-reviewed articles, contributions to edited volumes, and more than twenty reviews and review essays published in academic American, Canadian, and French journals, such as Nationalities Papers, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Women’s Studies International Forum,, Slavic and East European Journal, Balkanologie, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Balcanii.

Maria Dracula, a fantasy novel for children: www.mariadracula.com