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Simona Mitroiu

- UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

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Simona Mitroiu is senior researcher at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania. Her research interests include memory, life writing, alternative narratives, cultural expressions, and post-socialist re-interpretations of the past in East Central Europe. Her last book Women’s Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania was published in 2022 (De Gruyter). She is also the editor of two volumes: Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Women’s Narratives and Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAO-8708-2020

Curriculum Vitae (08/06/2025)

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Decolonize this Memory: Cultural Forms of Dealing with the Soviet Legacy in Republic of Moldova and Romania Call name: PNCDI IV, SP 5.8.3 - Proiecte de colaborare cu Republica Moldova
PN-IV-P8-8.3-ROMD-2023-0178 2024 - 2026

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Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO); Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Institutul de Filologie Romana (MD)

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Different studies argue that the impact and the appropriation of international emancipatory movements, such as Decolonize This Place, are overlooked and under-researched topics in Eastern Europe. Our project asserts that in the field of memory studies dedicated to the space of the Republic of Moldova even less attention was given to the decolonizing memory from the legacy of Soviet influence and domination. Our project proposes to look, using a collaborative approach, to cultural forms and expressions through which this movement manifested and acted and to its impact in shaping the public discourse of memory. Acknowledging the connections between Romania and Republic of Moldova in terms of the common cultural and literary scene created for and by Moldovan-born writers and artists, we ask how the Soviet legacy was and is dealt with in this space through literary, aesthetic and artistic forms. The decolonisation includes both the issue of remembering and remediating the past by using cultural forms and that of the mechanisms used to articulate the position assumed towards the Soviet legacy. Thirdly, it refers to their impact in terms of shaping the public memory discourse. Therefore, our aim is to study, develop and implement common research practices following these three levels.

Recuperative Memory in the Romanian Post-Communist Society Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0010 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Project website: https://sites.google.com/site/merecomproject

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The aim of this project is to reveal the multifaceted character of the recuperative memory, using as case study the post-Communist Romanian society. In doing so the research will focus on the various identified methods of recollecting the past and analyse the language used by individuals belonging to different groups and holding different affiliations and statuses in their interviews, oral histories or autobiographical accounts. A theoretical frame will be developed, elaborating upon the concept of recuperative memory and its main identified methods of recollecting the past. The testimony, presented at the level of oral histories and autobiographical writings, will be analysed as one of the main sources of recuperative memory process and representative studies will be reviewed in the Romanian post-Communist society context. The research will approach some institutionalized forms of recuperative memory, presenting the Romanian main institutions and organizations founded in order to facilitate the access and research of the recent past. Thus, the research will reveal the main attempts to reconcile with the past, the dynamics of remembrance and the complex structure of the collective historical narrative, pointing out the role of the recuperative memory in the frame of the politics of memory that need to be further sustained in the Romanian post-Communist society.

Walter Benjamin. The memory of fragmentation Call name:
PNCDIII-RU-PD-2009-645 2010 - 2012

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI ()

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Family, Memory and Identity Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-0671 2018 -

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Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA" IASI (RO)

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