Daniela Cârstea

Associate professor of English

BA, University of Bucharest, 2003
MA, University of Bucharest, 2004
PhD, University of Bucharest, 2012
daniela.carstea@lls.unibuc.ro
Office hours: by appointment

COURSE TAUGHT

Cultural Anthropology

BIO & PUBLICATIONS

Daniela Cârstea is associate professor at the English Department, University of Bucharest, where she teaches a graduate course in cultural anthropology, an elective course in trauma studies and relational psychoanalysis (therapeutic narrative strategies) and undergraduate courses in literary critical theory and British literature. She was post-graduate research fellow of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and recipient of a Fulbright doctoral research scholarship at Emory University, Institute of Liberal Arts, Atlanta, USA. She is associate editor of the University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series (UBR).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Discursive Identities as Sites of Interaction. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2019.
  • Beyond the Structuralist Myth of Ecriture. Aporias of Interpretation. Saarbrucken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2015.
  • Concatenated Critical Positionings and Scenarios. Edgar Allan Poe, Psychoanalysis and the Dynamics of Reading, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2014.

Journal articles and book chapters

  • “True/False Selves, Potential Spaces and Holding Environments” in Philologica Jassyensia, 2 (42), 2025: 185–199.
  • “The versatility of the Kleinian model. Melanie Klein’s theory and formulations of morality and forgiveness” in Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, 14.3 (2023): 82-86.
  • “Writing Trauma. Aesthetic Experience, Projection and the Mechanics of Representation” in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10.445 (2023): 1-7.
  • “Donald Winnicott’s Vision of Health. Creative Processes as Defence Mechanisms against Anxiety and Trauma” in Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, 14.2 (2023): 51-55.
  • “Literature as transitional object. Between omnipotence and the relinquishing of magic investment” in Cogent Arts & Humanities, 10.1 (2023): 1-9.
  • “For a Postmodernist Writing in Anthropology. The Interpretation of Cultures” in International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 6.6 (2023): 525-533.
  • “Negotiations of Anxiety in the Discourses of Melanie Klein and Edgar Allan Poe” in Journal of Literary Studies, 39 (2023): 1-12.
  • “From Structuralist to Poststructuralist Psychoanalysis” in Clara Pracana and Michael Wang (eds.), Psychological Applications and Trends, Lisbon: InScience Press, 2022: 488-491.
  • “Church and State, Church in State” in International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, 7.4 (2021): 23-29.
  • “National Identity in the Context of Globalization” in Journal of Business Diversity, North American Business Press, Atlanta-Seattle-South Florida-Toronto, 21.2 (2021): 61-65.
  • “The Dynamics of Cultural Writing in Postmodernity” in Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences, 4.3 (2021): 50–55.
  • “On Anarchism. Discourse Analysis” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Modern Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, 2021: 1-5.