Book
Hashamova, Yana, Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sunnie Rucker-Chang, editors. Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond, University of Liverpool Press, 2022.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
“New Cold War Nostalgia in Recent US Cultural Productions: Retro and Irony in the Transnational Postsocialist World.” Comparative Literary Studies, 59 (3), 612-630, 2022.
“’What Would Lenin Do?:’ Multidirectional Cold War Nostalgia in Comrade Detective.” Cluster: Transnational Negotiations. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 420-434, 2020.
“Introduction.” Cluster: Transnational Negotiations. Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 348-351, 2020.
“Staging the PostSocialist Woman: Saviana Stanescu's Alternative Transnations.” Twentieth Century Literature.Special issue: Postsocialist Literatures in the United States. Eds. Claudia Sadowski-Smith and Ioana Luca, Volume 65, Numbers 1-2, March, 2019.
“Translingualism as Dialogism in American-Romanian Poetry.” Journal of World Literature 3:1, 2018.
Co-authored with Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy (Miami University). “From Minimalist Representation to Excessive Interpretation: Contextualizing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” In Journal of European Studies, September 2014, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 225-248 (published online before print April 9, 2014).
“Partial Recollection, Partial Recognition: Writing about the Bulgarian Gulag.” Gulag Studies, 2-3 (2009-2010), pp.69-82.
“‘Something nice to remember:’ Silence and Memory Between Generations in Two Gulag Films.” In Politics of Memory in Post-communist Europe, the 5th Yearbook of The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), vol.1, Zetabooks, 2010, pp.115-127.
“Ethics, Play and Poetry in the Interval. Evgenia Ginzburg’s Struggle Into the Whirlwind.” In Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 99-108.
Chapters in Book:
Hashamova, Yana, Oana Popescu-Sandu, and Sunnie Rucker-Chang. “Introduction.” Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond. University of Liverpool Press, April 2022.
“Of Workers and Queens: Agency and Voice in Postsocialist Immigrant Women's Theatre.” Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond. Edited by Yana Hashamova, Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sunnie Rucker-Chang, University of Liverpool Press, 2022.
Co-authored with Sukanya Gupta, “Toward a Transterritorial Pedagogy: Deliberative Inquiry into Language, Identity and Difference.” in Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices, Ed. Brian James Baer and Michelle Woods, Routledge, 2022.
“Seeing Through Discursive Screens in Matei Vişniec’s The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War.” In Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Lauri Ramey, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021.
“Haunted Transitions: Memory, Theater, and Gender Discourse.” In Florentina C. Andreescu and Michael J. Shapiro, eds. Genre and the (Post) Communist Woman. Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal. New York: Routledge, 2014.
“‘Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so.’ Nostalgic Directions in Post-communist Romania.” In Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille, eds. Post-communist Nostalgia. New York: Berghahn, pp.113-125, 2010.
Recent Conference Presentations:
2022 “American Cold War Nostalgia in Film: Nostalgia, Retro and Irony in the Transnational Postsocialist World.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (ACLA), Virtual, June 15-18.
2022 “Seeing Through Discursive Screens in Matei Vişniec’s The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War.” Panel promoting edited volume Theatres of War. The 49th Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, Feb 24-26.
2022 “More Languages, Fewer Borders: Translingual Poetry against Methodological Nationalism.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Washington DC., January 6-9.
2021 “Remembering is not Knowing: “Sampling the Cinematic Past in Creed II.” The 22th Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Literature and Cultural Studies Section (AICED 22), Bucharest, Romania, Virtual, June 3-5.
2021 “Surviving through genres: life writing and the communist carceral experience.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (ACLA), Virtual, April 8-11.
2019 "Of Workers and Queens: Agency and Voice in Postsocialist Women's Theatre in the US.”American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (ACLA), Georgetown University, March 7-10.
2018 “What Would Lenin Do? Comrade Detective and Translation as Ideological Mask,” American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) International Annual Convention, Boston, December 6-9.
2018 “What Would Lenin Do? Comrade Detective and Translation as Ideological Mask,” American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) International Annual Convention, Boston, December 6-9.
2018 “The Power of Non compliant Voices: Translingual Romanian American Poetry." American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) National Convention, Washington DC. February 1-4.
2016 “On the Pedagogy of Translated Heteroglossia.” Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, November 17-20, Washington DC.
2016 “Postsocialist Translingualism in Literature: the case of poets Mihaela Moscaliuc and Andrei Dosa.” Midwest Slavic Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 8-10.
2015 ‘Staging the Post-Socialist Woman: Saviana Stanescu's Alternative Trans-nations.” American Comparative Literature Association Convention, Seattle, March 26– 29.
2014 “From Orientalized Others to Cosmopolitan Selves: The Worldling of Eastern European Writers.” English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK), November 20-22, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.
Book reviews:
2020 Claudia Sadowski-Smith, The New Immigrant Whiteness, 2018. Slavic and East European Review. Spring 2020.
2019 Martin, Mircea, Christian Moraru, Andrei Terian eds. Romanian Literature as World Literature. Series: Literatures and World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. Slavic and East European Journal (Spring).
2018 Hardy, Jeffrey S. The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953-1964. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. Russian Review. Vol. 77 Issue 1, p.165.
2012 Ileana Orlich. Myth and Modernity in the Twentieth Century Romanian Novel. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2009. Slavic and East European Journal, 56.2 (Summer 2012).
2008 Denise Roman. Fragmented Identities: Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007. Slavic and East European Journal, 52.4 (Winter 2008).
Recent research grants and professional development:
2021 Liberal Arts Research Award, University of Southern Indiana, Fall.
2021 MLA Academic Program Services Leadership Institute: Why Humanities Matter, Virtual, June 2-11.
2019 “Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students,” Echoes and Reflection & Cypress workshop, 6.5 hours, October 22.
2017 TOLI (The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust and Social Justice Education), Leadership Meeting, Detroit, October 6-9.
2016 Online Course Development Program, University of Southern Indiana, Summer.
2016 Quality Matter’s “Design Your Online Course (DYOC),” 4-hour workshop, Feb 25.
2015 Memorial Library Summer Seminar, Memorial Library, New York, June 21 – July 1.
2014 Jack and Anita Hess Follow-up Grant, United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC, June-July.
2012 Liberal Arts Research Award, University of Southern Indiana, Fall.