Education
EDUCATION
2011 – 2020:
PhD: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Thesis:
The Women of Little Paris: Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest 1919-1939 | Director of Studies: Dr Djurdja Bartlett | Second Supervisor: Elizabeth Wilson
Confirmation: 18 March 2014 (Recommended for PhD) | Internal Examiner: Prof. Roger Sabin || VIVA Voce: 20 March 2020 (Awarded PhD) | External Examiner: Prof. Christopher Breward | Internal Examiner: Dr. Nicky Ryan | Chair: Prof. Paul Coldwell | Official Completed Course and Award: 3 August 2020
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON Item ID:
15907 | ISSNI: 0000 0004 9353 1360 (Fashion History & Theory) | EThOS ID:
uk.bl.ethos.814249 | Recognition in Romania: Nr. 501503/A.N./04.02.2021 (Thesis recognised in the field of Cultural Studies)
2008-2010:
MA –
British Cultural Studies: University of Bucharest, Romania
Dissertation:
Harlequin and the P.I.P.; or, Nineteenth Century Victorian Pantomime as Presented in the Penny Illustrated Paper | Supervisor: Prof. Mihaela Irimia
2005-2008:
BA –
Universal and Comparative Literature – English: “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Dissertation:
Brainwashing and the Power of the Word | Supervisor: Prof. Ruxandra Cesereanu
Other Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Call for Book Chapters (Upcoming Books)
2023 Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols (Chapter Abstract Deadline: 1 December 2022),
Bloomsbury UK have expressed interest in considering the work for possible publication.
2023 (Co-Editor: Roxana Mihaly),
Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940 (Chapter Abstract Deadline: 3 February 2022), supported by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding-UEFISCDI, the National Research Council – CNCS, the Ministry of National Education (Romania), Project
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688, Contract 29 from 27 May 2022, titled
The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian – American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940).
Under Peer Review
2022 “A Parisian Moment in Bucharest: Fashioning Interwar Romanian Women”,
International Journal of Fashion Studies.
Accepted for Publication (Upcoming)
2022 “Perfecțiune și bun gust: Redefinirea identității feminine din Bucureștiul interbelic prin modă și frumusețe / Perfection and Good Taste: Redefining Women’s Identity in Interwar Bucharest through Fashion and Beauty”, in
Tradiție și modernitate: Elitele din România în “secolul cel scurt” (1918-1989), by Cornel Sigmirean, 351–65. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022, ISBN 978-606-37-1494-8, Classified CNCS B.
Dec 2022 “Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay, interwar Romanian connections”,
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Indexing: WOS – ESCI, Scopus, ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, Art & Architecture Complete, Art & Architecture Source, Art Source, BHI, CNKI, DAAI, NPI, Publication Forum, Finland, Summon, TOC Premier, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory.
Dec 2022 “Fashion, Cinema, German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest”,
Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, no. 24 (3 November 2021), pp. 194–212, ISSN: 1454-5284. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
Apr 2023 “From
Monitorul Oficial to Calea Victoriei: Decoding 1930s Bucharest through Women’s Fashion”,
Journal of Romanian Studies.
2023 “Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor / Fashion and Beauty. Theoretical Author Works” in
La granița dintre milenii / At the Border between Millenia, vol. II, pp. 96–103.
O istorie a traducerilor în limba română din secolul al XX-lea. Domenii literare și nonliterare / A History of Translations into Romanian in the 20th Century. Literary and Nonliterary Fields, Chapter XII. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2023.
2023 The Women of ‘Little Paris’: Fashion in Interwar Bucharest (working title), book in the
Dress Cultures collection (edited by Dr. Reina Lewis and Elizabeth Wilson) – proposal accepted by Bloomsbury UK, contract signed on 9 August 2021, manuscript due to be submitted on 30 May 2022.
Published Book Chapters
”„Morbul Garbitei”. Influența modelelor hollywoodiene în moda bucureștiului interbelic”, (2021), in Liviu Boar, Ioan Bolovan, and Laura Stanciu (eds)
Școală, biserică, stat și națiune în istoria României. Cluj-Napoca: Academia Română Centrul de Studii Transilvane, pp. 355–371, ISBN: 978-606-0-38013-9.
“Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București”, in Cornel Sigmirean, Cristina Preutu, Silviu B. Moldovan (eds),
Actele Unirii, Bucharest: Hamangiu, pp. 150-178, ISBN: 978-606-27-1256-3.
“Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador (1929-1936)” (2013) in Iulian Boldea (ed.),
Studies on literature, discourse and multicultural dialogue, Târgu-Mureș: Arhipelag XXI Press, pp. 424-431, ISBN: 978-606-93590-3-7.
Ruxandra Cesereanu (ed.) (2012),
Poveştile Duniazadei, ale sclavei sale Raşazada şi ale regelui Şahzaman, Bucharest: TracusArte. One of the authors: Sonia-Doris Andras,
“Poveste Op. 3 Nr. 9 Allegro Monstruoso” (2008) in Claun Grup,
Anunţuri mortuare în Re major, Limes Publishing House: Cluj-Napoca.
Published Journal Articles
“
De la cosmetologie la cosmiatrie: Aurel Voina și manipularea istoriei personale”,
Anuarul Institutului de Istorie “George Barițiu” – Series HISTORICA, no. LX (2021), pp. 393-404, ISSN: Print ISSN 1584-4390, Online ISSN 2344-2093. CNCS B. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
“Fashion, Dress, Costume: A Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing”, Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, no. 24 (3 November 2021), pp. 194–212, ISSN: 1454-5284. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
“
Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest“, (2019)
Yearbook of the ‘Gheorghe Şincai’ Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, (22), pp. 232–264, ISSN: 1454-5284. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
“
Creating City Chic: The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion” (2018) in
Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Târgu-Mureș: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române, Issue 21, pp. 152-176, ISSN: 1454-5284. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
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Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest“, (2017) in
Yearbook of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Târgu-Mureș: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române, Issue 20, pp. 126-165, ISSN: 1454-5284. Indexed: CEEOL, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS.
Media
Oct. – Dec. 2019
Reporter (Paid Internship) | 31 articles (Romanian)
Zi de Zi Newspaper, Târgu-Mureș, Romania
Aug. 2019 – Present
Content Writer (Fashion)
Dimeon Magazine