Catalina Florina Florescu

About Catalina Florina Florescu

Catalina Florina Florescu was born in Romania. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree from University of Bucharest, Romanian Literature (major), American Literature (minor); she holds a Master’s Degree and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Purdue University. She teaches Introduction to Cultural Studies, 21st century Theater for Social Change, American Drama, Critical Writing, The Individual and Society, Romanticism & the Modern World, and Cinema at Pace University in New York City. Her books are in permanent libraries worldwide as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. She is the author: Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces (literary criticism; narrative medicine; human body); Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood (mothers in literature & motion picture; feminist criticism); Inventing Me/Exercitii de retrait (memoir); and Plays. Her fifth book, Transnational Narratives of Englishes in Exile, will be published in 2017 and will be exhibited at the MLA convention, followed up by readings in New York City and Chicago. She delivered papers at Harvard, Sorbonne U, NYU, and other places. Her Scrabble Cancer Poster was at MoMA and at Boston U. She is also working on a collection of short stories, poems, and photographs, “The Night I Burned My Origami Skin” (working tittle). For more information about her work, follow her on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/drflorescu or visit her page, http://www.catalinaflorescu.com/ . Dr. Florescu considers the human body to be the ideal source for inspiration: from its falls, decays, and everything in between. She thinks dark humor is the best alternative to this life’s daily absurdities.