Cristina Plamadeala
Surveillance; history of communism; Eastern European Studies; cultural studies of archives
Joint-doctorate: Concordia University & Ecole des Hautes Etudes聽en聽Sciences聽Sociale, 2019聽
MA, Concordia University, 2015
MA, Harvard University, 2008
BSFS, Georgetown University, 2005
Cristina聽Plamadeala聽is a post-doctoral fellow working on two projects:聽As part of this fellowship, I am working on two research projects that build on my previous research carried out during my doctoral studies.聽My first project聽is a book under contract with Routledge.聽The manuscript undertakes a cultural history of the Securitate聽Archives聽by situating itself at the crossroads of Romania鈥檚 communist聽past, espionage, institutional life, literature,聽and art.聽The book also attempts to draw parallels between two seemingly different worlds鈥擟ommunist Romania (1945-89) and today鈥檚 neo-liberal societies.聽My聽second project聽offers new empirical聽studies, 聽frameworks, 聽and 聽concepts 聽for 聽studying 聽the 聽crucial importance of dossiers in contemporary 鈥榮urveillance societies.鈥� I am the lead editor of this edited volume under contract with the University of Toronto Press. This book is also one of the first undertakings of the聽, which I founded聽in 聽2019. 聽
Cristina Plamadeala and Cristian Tileaga. 鈥�.鈥� East European Politics & Societies and Cultures. Published on October 5, 2021.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥淭he Securitate File as a Record of Psuchegraphy鈥� Biography, Vol. 42, Nr. 3, special issue on 鈥淏iographic Mediation: The Uses of Disclosure in Bureaucracy and Politics,鈥� Vol. 42, Nr. 3, pp. 536-56.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥淒ossierveillance in Communist Romania: Collaboration with the Securitate, 1945-1989鈥� in Rob Heynen and Emily van der Meulen, eds. Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories, University of Toronto Press, 2019, pp. 215-236.
Cristina Plamadeala. Currents in Theology and Mission Journal, (April 2018) 45:2, 34-37.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥溾�� in Archiva Moldaviae, Volume VIII, (2016), 215-251.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥�,鈥� in Eurostudia (2015) vol. 1 (1): 125-141.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥淰ia葲a Mitropolitului Antonie Pl膬m膬deal膬 卯n decursul anilor 1950-1960, a葯a cum a fost 卯nf膬葲i葯at膬 卯n romanul s膬u semi-autobiografic Trei Ceasuri 卯n Iad 葯i 卯n scrisorile adresate familiei Ciobanu 卯n aceast膬 perioad膬鈥�, [The life of Antonie Plamadeala in the 1950s-1960s, as depicted in his semi-autobiographical novel Trei Ceasuri in Iad and in his letters written in this period to the Ciobanu family written in these two decades] in [Confessors of Orthodoxy during the communist regime. Studies and reflections]. Mihail-Simion Sasaujan. ed. Editura Cuvantul Vietii, the Romanian Patriarchate, 2018, pp. 171-184.
Cristina Plamadeala. 鈥淭he life of Antonie Pl膬m膬deal膬 and of his family in the decade (1944-1954) following their refuge to Romania from Bessarabia鈥� in Cosmin Budeanca, Dalia Bathory (eds.) Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2017, 202-221. Book chapter published in Romanian in Cosmin Budeanca and Dalia Bathory, eds. (2019). Istorii (Ne)spuse. Strategii de supravietuire si integrare socioprofesionala in familiile fostilor detinuti politici din Europa Central si de Est in aniii 鈥�50-鈥�60, Iasi: Editura Polirom.
Book reviews:
Cristina Plamadeala. Review of Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis and Corina L. Petrescu, eds. Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing. Rochester: Camden House, 2016, 237 pages. ISBN 978-1-57113-926-9, Journal of Biography, Vol. 43, Nr. 2, (2020), pp. 474-476.
Other:
Creative non-fiction (book)
[Maria鈥檚 Dream], Editura Eikon, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.
Lectures, presentations & interviews:
- 鈥濱ncursiune 卯n via牛a 艧i activitatea Mitropolitului Antonie Pl膬m膬deal膬 [On the life and work of the Metropolitan Antonie Plamadeala] Braila, Romania. Symposium organized by the Carol I Museum, Braila, June 20, 2015.
- Interview with Paul Faltay. 鈥溾��. 23 April, 2021. Lavits.org.