Dr. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Lecturer

American Studies Program$Upham Hall, 111A$Oxford, OH 45056

Phone: +1 513 5297528
Email: godeano@muohio.edu

Scholarly Interests:
Transatlantic studies, Hemispheric American studies, Canadian literature, American literature, popular culture, film studies. Political ideologies in literature and film, image studies. Publications: “Deconstructing Ostalgia – The National Past between Commodification and Simulacrum in Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin! (2003)” (Journal of European Studies 41:2 (June 2011), 161-177. “The Political Other in Nineteenth Century British North America – The Satire of Thomas Chandler Haliburton” Early American Studies Journal 7: 1 (Spring 2009), 205-234. “The Construction of Romanian Exoticism in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy,” British and American Studies (Timisoara) 11 (2005): 199-211.