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Florentina Andreescu holds a doctoral degree from the University of Miami's Department of International Studies where she focused on International Relations, International Political Economy and Comparative Politics. Her prior academic preparation includes a M.A. degree from the University of Miami in International Administration and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Romanian University Dunarea de Jos. Her work investigates through films issues of legitimization and social authority, gendered, national and ethnic identities, transitions, trauma and space.

Publications 

Book

“From Communism to Capitalism: Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production” book under contract with Palgrave Macmillan

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“The Changing Face of the Other in Romanian Films” published in Nationalities Papers The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 2011, 77-94.

“The Changing Face of the Sacrificial Romanian Woman in Cinematographic Discourses ” published in Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review, Vol. XI, No. 4, December 2011, 661-674.

“The Cage: Libidinal Economy and Cinematic Space” coauthored with Michael J. Shapiro published in Short Film Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, August 2012, 79-82.

“The Roles of Myth in Romania during the Transition to Democracy” published in Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, Volume XIII, No. II, October 2009, 33-61.

“Romanian Cinematic Nationhood” forthcoming in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 12, No. 3, December 2012

“Representing and Imagining the Romanian Transition in Cinematic Space” forthcoming in Space and Culture