Anca Parvulescu
Anca Pârvulescu is a scholar of comparative literature specializing in global modernism, literary and critical theory, literary comparatism, migration studies, and East Europe. She is the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English at the Washington University in St. Louis.[1][2]
Education
[edit]Parvulescu earned a B.A. in English Literature from the West University of Timișoara in Romania and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Minnesota in the United States.[3]
Career
[edit]After an assistant and associate professorship at the Washington University in St. Louis, Parvulescu became a full professor in its Department of English. In 2022, she took up the post of Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature.[4][5]
In 2024, Parvulescu obtained a $1.2 million European Union Next Generation grant to investigate the history of comparatism and the origins of the comparative method.[6]
Research
[edit]Parvulescu is an expert in international modernism, affect theory, Eastern Europe, and the history of comparatism. Her first book, Laughter: Notes on a Passion, was published in 2010 by MIT Press.[7][8][9]
Selected publications
[edit]- (with Manuela Boatcă) Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (Cornell University Press, 2022)
- The Traffic in Women's Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
- Laughter: Notes on a Passion (MIT Press, 2010)
Awards
[edit]- Barrington Moore Book Award, American Sociological Association (ASA)[10]
- René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Anca Parvulescu | Faculty & Affiliated Academics". Department of English. Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ "Three women academics who have been appointed to endowed chairs, 14 December 2023". Women in Academia Report. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ "Professor Anca Parvulescu's profile". Critical Histories of Empires. Transimperial History Blog. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ "Anca Parvulescu's CV".
- ^ "Professor Anca Parvulescu's profile". Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Washington University in St Louis. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ "Liam Otten, 'Parvulescu wins $1.2M European Union Grant: Project will investigate origins of comparative literature,' The Source". Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ Anca Parvulescu, Laughter: Notes on a Passion (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010).
- ^ K.M. Stutman (2015). "Review of Anca Parvulescu, Laughter: Notes on a Passion". Journal of Modern Literature. 38 (3): 124–128. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ "Michelle Stein, 'Anca Parvulescu's laughing matter,' 9 October 2009". Student Life. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
- ^ List of Barrington Moore Book Award recipients, American Sociological Association (ASA), https://www.asanet.org/communities-and-sections/sections/current-sections/comparative-and-historical-sociology-award-recipient-history
- ^ List of René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature recipients, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), https://www.acla.org/prize-awards/rené-wellek-prize
