Monica Got

In 2014-2015, she was a junior Fulbright scholar to the U.S. with the Chicano/a Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a doctoral degree in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Bucharest, with a dissertation titled “Crossing Borders, Merging Homelands. Traumatic Identities in Contemporary Chicana Fiction.” Her experience abroad includes a master’s program in Paris at the Université Paris Est-Créteil and a school year teaching English in Catalonia, with a European Commission-funded project. Dr. Got delivered talks at several international conferences and published various articles on such issues as hybrid identity, cultural trauma, transnationalism, acculturation, border theory, and collective memory.