National Taiwan Normal University

Faculty Member, Department of English

Assistant Professor

About

Ioana Luca teaches courses in life writing, American studies and American literature. Her publications include articles in Social Text, Rethinking History, Prose Studies, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, chapters in edited volumes, as well as several translations in and from Romanian.

She is completing a book on post-1945 exiles’ autobiographies in American literature, which also discusses the implications of the autobiographical narrative for other types of discourse. Her current research focuses on academic autobiography, post-1989 Eastern European life writing, as well as American Studies in global contexts.

Between 1997-2008 she held several administrative positions in the American Studies program at the University of Bucharest, during 2000-2008 she served as a treasurer and listserv moderator for the Romanian Association for American Studies.