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Corina L. Petrescu is a Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi, where she has taught since 2008. A specialist in German cultural studies from the 18th century to the present, she directs the German Program and is accredited by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) in Romania.
- B.A. in German and American Studies, University of Bucharest (1999)
- M.A. in German Studies with Cultural Studies Certificate, University of Pittsburgh (2000)
- Ph.D. in German Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006)
Her research bridges German cultural studies, Yiddish theater in Romania, and secret police files as life writing. She analyzes surveillance archives from Eastern Bloc regimes, examining tensions between official records and personal narratives in works on the Romanian Securitate, East German Stasi, and Hungarian State Security Agency.
Recent publications focus on Yiddish performance under authoritarian regimes and dialogic remembrance of persecution. She explores how Cold War spy narratives and post-communist archival research reveal intersections of fact/fiction and memory/politics.
- Fulbright Global Scholar (2023)
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2016)
- Senior Core Fellowship, Central European University (2015)
- Multiple DAAD and Summer Research Grants
Co-editor of Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe and Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc, she teaches courses spanning German language, literature, cinema, and European studies.
