Theodora-Eliza Vacarescu
Theodora-Eliza Vacarescu is currently an assistant lecturer at the University of Bucharest and a Ph.D. student in Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Previously she worked as a visiting lecturer of feminist media studies at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration. Her dissertation topic is “Gendering the Communist System of Political Repression and Detention: Romania, 1947-1964” and she holds an MA in Gender Studies from CEU and a BA in Communication Studies from the University of Bucharest. She has co-edited the book Gender and the (Post) ‘East’/ ‘West’ Divide (with Mihaela Frunza) and is one of the co-authors of The Black Book of Equal Opportunities between Women and Men in Romania (with Laura Grünberg and Ioana Borza). Recent articles and contributions include “Women’s Participation in Professor Dimitrie Gusti’s Monographic Campaigns. A Working Hypothesis,” published in Enikö Magyari Vincze and Petruţa Mândruţ (eds), Performing Identities (with Zoltán Rostás), “What’s in a Name? Modest Considerations on the Situatedness of Language and Meaning,” published in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, and “Her Bisexual Voice. On Writing and Women,” published in Women in Politics: Sexuality between the Local and the Global.
