Raluca AndreescuRaluca Andreescu is assistant professor in the Modern Languages Department at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She holds an M.A. in American Studies and a Ph.D. in Philology from the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, both with th University of Bucharest. Her main research interests are in the area of American Cultural Studies, American law and literature, Gothic literature and culture, academic fiction. She is the author of a volume about Female Gothic in the American Century, with a focus on works by Edith Wharton, Shirley Jackson and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as of articles in the above mentioned fields of interest. Read More Read Less