Corina Petrescu
Professor of Modern Languages
Phone Number: (662)915-7716
Email: petrescu@olemiss.edu

Key Words: German

Research Description: Dr. Petrescu's research interests include: • secret police files as life writing • Yiddish theater in Eastern Europe • transcultural literature • subversiveness in National Socialist Germany • representations of 1968 in the German and Romanian imaginary

Honors Theses:

Cassisa, Susanna (2021) Gay Identity in the GDR: The Homosexuelle Interessengemeinschaft Berlin between Self-Expression and State Control (full text)

Cotelo, Martina (2014) My grandmothers story: a study of post-holocaust identity