Anca Parvulescu

Anca Parvulescu is a Professor of English and holds a joint appointment with the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on twentieth-century literature, modernity and modernism, literary and critical theory, narrative and the novel, and gender and feminist studies, with a recent emphasis on creolization, inter-imperiality, and Eastern European cultural histories. Her work bridges literary analysis with postcolonial, gender, and transnational frameworks.

Parvulescu’s recent articles explore themes such as Roma enslavement archives, trans-imperial cultural dynamics in Transylvania, and the theoretical contributions of Lauren Berlant. She has also engaged with questions of affect, globalization, and labor coercion in modernist contexts. Her interdisciplinary approach is evident in her collaborations across departments and her contributions to both English literature and humanities studies.

Her publications often critique traditional disciplinary boundaries, advocating for methodologies that account for overlapping imperial histories and cultural hybridity. She is affiliated with the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, reflecting her commitment to cross-field scholarly innovation.