Roxana Lucia Cheschebec
Central European University (HU), Nationalism Studies Department
e-mail: nphchr01@phd.ceu.hu 		4th European Feminist Research Conference
4a Conferenza Europea di Ricerca Femminista

Education:

1992 - 1997: enrolled in the History Department of the Bucharest University; obtained a B.A. degree in Modern History with a thesis on the imaginary related to gender roles in Victorian literature and history (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lucian Boia, Prof.Dr. Lucia Popa)

1997-1998: enrolled in the MA program in British Cultural Studies within the Foreign Languages and Literature Department of Bucharest University and graduated with a MA degree in British Cultural Studies (MA thesis - "The 'New Woman' and 'The New Man' in the British and Romanian Magazines of the 90s", supervisors: Prof.Dr. Madalina Nicolaescu, Prof.Dr. Dana Sorea)

1998- 1999: - admitted with a full scholarship to the MA program in Gender and Culture at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); obtained a MA degree in Gender Studies with the thesis "The Discursive Image of Feminism in the Cultural Press of Post-Communist Romania" (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andrea Peto, Prof. Dr. Marina Blagojevic)

1999: - admitted with a full scholarship to the PhD program in History (Nationalism Studies track) at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and working on her thesis on the interplay of nationalism and feminism in inter-war Romania under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Susan Zimmermann
She is also a member of the Erasmus Society for Historical Studies (Bucharest), society affiliated to ISHA (International Students in History Association) and has published "Literature and History: the Identity Construction in the Victorian Novel" (in "Erasmus" no. 9, 1997) and "Generation PRO and Generation Contra. The Identity Construction in the RomanianYouth Magazines of the Late 90s" (conference paper presented within the Erasmus Conference ("The Dynamics of Identities", History Department, Bucharest University, April 1998) published in the collection of essays Collective Identities and National Identity. Perceptions of Identity in the Modern Period ed. M.Murgescu, Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 1999).