Domnica Radulescu will offer a talk, “Female Clowns, Tricksters and Con-Artists: Feminist Humor across the Centuries” on Monday, Nov. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 124 of the Schwartz Center.

Domnica Radulescu is Professor of French and Italian at Washington and Lee University. She received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and won the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award for the novel Train to Trieste (Knopf, 2008), published in 11 languages. Her second novel, Black Sea Twilight, was published with Doubleday (UK) in 2010. Dr. Radulescu has authored, edited, or co-edited nine scholarly books and collections of essays on subjects ranging from early modern and modern French and Italian theater to representations of women, exiles and Gypsies in Western literature and culture. She has also written two plays, Naturalized Woman and The Romanian Return: A Country That Devours Its Own. Naturalized Woman was produced as a staged reading in New York at Nora’s Playhouse in 2010. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Teacher Fellowship to Romania in 2007. Radulescu received her M.A. in Comparative Literature and her Ph.D. in French and Italian literature from the University of Chicago in 1992.

Her talk is sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program