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Monica Popescu

Monica Popescu
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext. 00274
Email address: 
monica.popescu [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 310
Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Professor, William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures
Stream: 
Literature
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
Africa
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
Contemporary
Area(s): 
Fiction
Archives & Bibliography
Critical Theory
History & Theory of the Novel
Identity & Representation
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Status: 
On Leave
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
M.A. (Windsor)
B.A., M.A. (Bucharest)

Current research: 

A book on contemporary literary theory, including the rise of the world literature paradigm. An intellectual biography of Ng农g末 wa Thiong'o.

Selected publications: 

Books

听(Duke University Press, 2020)

  • Winner of the Book of the Year Award-Scholarship (African Literature Association); Honourable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Modern Language Association); CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
  • Listen to on At Penpoint

Book cover of "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" by Monica Popescu

听(Palgrave, 2010)

  • Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities

The Politics of Violence in Post-Communist Films听(Concordia, 1999)

Edited Volumes

Book Series co-editor for the , with Katherine Zien and Sandeep Banerjee

. Co-editor (with Kerry Bystrom and Katherine Zien), 2020.

Book cover of "The Cultural Cold War and the Global South"

African Literary History and the Cold War. Special issue of Research in African Literatures. Co-editor (with Bhakti Shringarpure). 50.3 (Fall 2019).

Cover of journal Research in African Literatures, African Literary History and the Cold War, Volume 50, Number 3, Fall 2019

Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances during the Cold War. Special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Co-editor (with Cedric Tolliver and Julie Tolliver). 50.4 (2014).

Articles and Chapters

鈥淐old War Solidarities and Twenty-First-Century Frayed Alliances: Romanian-Ghanaian Vantage Points.鈥� Comparative Literature Studies. Forthcoming Fall 2022.

鈥淎fro-Asian Internationalism: Leftist Solidarities during the Cold War.鈥� PMLA 136.5 (October 2021): 800-808.

"Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas." Co-authored with Kerry Bystrom and Katherine Zien. The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas. Co-edited with Kerry Bystrom and Katherine Zien). New York, Routledge, 2021, 1-25.

鈥淭he Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War.鈥� The Palgrave Handbook to Cold War Literature. Ed. Andrew Hammond. Cham, Switzerland: Plagrave, 2020, 163-82.

鈥淚ntroduction: African Literature and the Cold War. What Is at Stake?鈥� Special issue on African Literary History and the Cold War. Research in African Literatures. Eds. Monica Popescu and Bhakti Shringarpure. 50.3 (Fall 2019).

鈥溾�楥hildren of the Cold War鈥�: Rethinking African Literary Generations through the Global Conflict.鈥� The Routledge Handbook of African Literature. Eds. Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee. New York: Routledge, 2019, 21-34.

鈥淩evolutionary Times: Mongane Wally Serote and Cold War Fiction.鈥� South African Writing in Transition. Eds. Rita Barnard and Andrew van der Vlies. London: Bloomsbury, 2019, 33-54.

鈥淭ransnational Dimensions in Nelson Mandela鈥檚 Autobiographical Writing.鈥� JELL: Journal of English Language and Literature 62.1 (2016): 35-53.

"Nelson Mandela." Co-authored with Rita Barnard. Mental Maps in the Era of Detente and the End of the Cold War, 1968-1991. Eds. Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright. New York: Plagrave, 2015. 236-49.

鈥淥n the Margins of the Black Atlantic: Angola, the Second World, and the Cold War.鈥� Research in African Literatures. Special Issue on Africa and the Black Atlantic. 45.3 (2014): 91-109.

鈥淎esthetic Solidarities: Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕 and the Cold War.鈥� Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50.4 (2014): 384-397.

鈥淲ar Room Stories and the Rainbow Nation: Competing Narratives in Contemporary South African Literature.鈥� National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents. Ed. Gerard Bouchard. London: Routledge, 2013. 191-205.

鈥淟ewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating Eastern European Experiences for an African Audience.鈥� Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48.2 (May 2012). 178-89.

鈥淩eading through a Cold War Lens: Apartheid-Era Literature and the Global Conflict.鈥� Current Writing 24.1 (May 2012): 37-49.

鈥淭ranslations: Lenin鈥檚 Statues, Post-communism and Post-apartheid.鈥� Marginal Spaces: Ivan Vladislavi膰. Ed. Gerald Gaylard. Wits University Press, 2011.

Reprint of: 鈥淭ranslations: Lenin鈥檚 Statues, Post-communism and Post-apartheid.鈥� The Yale Journal of Criticism 16.2 (2003): 407-423.

鈥淰oortrekkers of the Cold War: Enacting the South African Past and Present in Mark Behr鈥檚 The Smell of Apples.鈥� Settler and Creole Reenactment. Eds. Jonathan Lamb and Vanessa Agnew. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 123-137.

Reworked version of: 鈥淢irrorings: Communists, Capitalists and Voortrekkers of the Cold War.鈥� Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa鈥檚 Late-Cold War Conflicts. Eds. Peter Vale and Gary Baines. Pretoria: UNISA, 2008. 42-55.

鈥淲aiting for the Russians: Coetzee鈥檚 The Master of Petersburgand the Logic of Late Post-colonialism.鈥� Postcolonialism: South/African Perspectives. Ed. Michael Chapman. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 106-24.

Reprint of: 鈥淲aiting for the Russians: Coetzee鈥檚 The Master of Petersburg and the Logic of Late Post-colonialism.鈥� Current Writing. 19.1 (April 2007): 1-20.

鈥淟icence for Shooting: South African Literature, the Media, and the Cold War.鈥� Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 13.1 (2008): 92-104.

鈥淚maging the Past: Cultural Memory in Dubravka Ugre拧i膰鈥檚 The Museum of Unconditional Surrender.鈥� Studies in the Novel. 39.3 (Fall 2007): 336-56.

鈥淐old War and Hot Translation.鈥� Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies. 8.1 (January 2007): 83-90.

鈥淐ultural Liminality and Hybridity: The Romanian Transition.鈥�听Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers. The Paradoxes of Progress: Globalization and Postsocialist Cultures. (Special Issue). 86 (Fall 2001). 47-68.

鈥淲riting in and Writing out鈥擱ace and Ethnicity in The Sound and the Fury.鈥� Transatlantic Connections: Essays in Cultural Relocation. Ed. R. Mihaila and I. Pana, Bucuresti: Integral, 2000, 49-62.

鈥淟iminal Space in the Post-colonial Context.鈥� Studii de Limbi si Literaturi Moderne. Timisoara: Mirton, 1999, 130-38.

鈥淥n the Borderline: Liminal Aspects in Malouf鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� Bulletin of the Transilvania University 6.41 (1999): 173-79.

Fourth

鈥�.鈥� Warscapes. December 27, 2018.

  • Republished as: 鈥溾�� The Mantle. April 25, 2019.

Berfrois. August 29, 2013.

  • Republished in abridged form as: Africa Is a Country.
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Visiting Scholar, New York University, Department of English, Spring 2019
  • , The Met Breuer, New York, 2019
  • for听, 2012
  • Resident Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, 2013-2015
  • ,University of Cambridge (jointly with Visiting Fellowship, Wolfson College), Easter Term 2012
  • SSHRC Insight Grant, 2012-2016
  • Fonds qu茅b茅cois de la recherche sur la soci茅t茅 et la culture,听脡tablissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs,听2008-2011
  • Delta Kappa Gamma International Fellowship for Women Researchers
  • Open Society Institute, Global Supplementary Grant
  • Dean鈥檚 Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
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