Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2010-2011
Host Institution: Harvard University
Home Institution: West University of Timișoara
Email: cristina.cheveresan@e-uvt.ro 

Cristina Chevereșan, Professor Ph.D. Habil., teaches modern and contemporary American Literature, Culture and Civilization at the West University of Timişoara. She is the Director of the English Department’s American Studies M.A. Program and of the Faculty of Letters’ American Studies Center (CSAM). Member of several European and American scientific societies and professional associations (MLA, EAAS, ESSE, The Philip Roth Society, the Romanian Writers’ Union a. o.), Ca’ Foscari Venice Visiting Professor (August-October 2019). Past recipient of fellowships from the Salzburg Global Seminar, UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies, the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, Fulbright Senior Scholar (2010/2011, Harvard University, with a research grant on ethnic American literature), Fulbright Ambassador (2013-2018, 2018-2024). She has published ten books in English and Romanian, as well as numerous articles in national and international journals, collected volumes, and the Romanian cultural press. She has translated and edited a dozen other volumes.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2009-2010; 2024-2025
Host Institution: Columbia University; State University of New York, Cortland Campus
Home Institution: “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi
Email: gleanca@uaic.ro 

Gabriel Leanca is a PhD, Associate Professor in Modern History at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania. His research focusses on the history of international relations, French-Romanian relations, historiography, military history and geopolitics. Gabriel Leanca was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the City of New York (Research, 2009-2010 academic year) and at the State University of New York at Cortland (James M. Clark Centre for Global Engagement (Teaching, 2024-2025 academic year). He expanded his academic experience in the United States by benefiting from the Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund, as a Visiting Scholar at the Northeastern State University, Oklahoma (November 2024).

Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program, 2022
Host Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Home Institution: “Costache Negruzzi” National College, Iași
Email: cristina.mocanu@colegiulnegruzzi.ro 

Dr. Maria Cristina Mocanu is an EFL teacher, trainer and founder of PISC – Teachers Innovate School. For the past seventeen years, she has been teaching in Costache Negruzzi National College of Iași, Romania, and carried out activities on topics including mentorship and teacher training, citizenship, environment, and film, digital and media literacy, in partnership with different NGOs and governmental programs in Romania and abroad.
Cristina has her B.A. in Romanian & English Language and Literature from University of Iasi, Romania, where she has also earned her M.A. and PhD in Humanities, in 2009 and 2012 respectively. She publishes extensively and constantly gets involved in educational and academic events worldwide.
In 2022, she was awarded a full scholarship from the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program of the US Department of State, which she has completed in UW Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Her primary goals are to continually explore, experience and share new ways of being a better teacher for her students and peers.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014
Host Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Home Institution: Ovidius University of Constanța
Email: ralucarogoveanu@gmail.com

Raluca-Nicoleta Rogoveanu Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Communication Science, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. Her long-term academic engagement with American literature and culture started during her graduate years at the University of Bucharest. She has authored five books and a considerable number of essays, published as book chapters or articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings volumes. Dr. Rogoveanu has participated in postdoctoral training programs in Germany, Poland and Ukraine. She is a founding member of the Romanian Associations of American Studies and an active participant in many events organized by the European Association for American Studies. She was a U.S. Department of State alumna (2011) and a Senior Fulbright Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2014). The title of her research project was Advancing “the Romanian Cause”: Patterns of Political Activism in Romanian-American Organizations in the United States . In 2017 she was a Balch Fellow of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and in 2023 she was awarded a Lucian Blaga Research Fellowship by the Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest. Part of her project on the Romanian diaspora in the United States focused on the Romanian fraternal associations created in America in the first three decades of the 20th century and her inroads into ecocriticism investigate the existence and role of ethnic spaces in the early 20 century in the United States. In 2024 she was the recipient of a Grant-in-Aid Award by Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota, USA.

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2024-2025
Host Institution: University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
Home Institution: University of Bucharest
Email: irina.stoica@lls.unibuc.ro 

Irina Stoica is a researcher at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, specialized in linguistics. She earned her PhD in 2019, with the thesis The syntax and the semantics of manner of speaking verbs and since then she has branched out into the study of monolingual and bilingual language acquisition. Irina Stoica was a Fulbright Scholar between September 2024 – February 2025, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with dr. Silvina Montrul on the linguistic patterns of heritage speakers of Romanian living in the USA. She also works as a literary translator, having translated more than 10 books from English into Romanian. 

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023
Host Institution: Georgia Southern University
Home Institution: University of Craiova
Email: mihaela_udristioiu@yahoo.com 

Mihaela Tinca Udriștioiu is a lecturer for the Department of Physics, University of Craiova, Romania. Her research is in environmental physics and STEM education, quantized in five books and 40 ISI papers. Her professional experience includes implementing various EU projects in Romania at the University of Craiova. She organized international summer schools and workshops for students in advanced technologies (sensors, IoT, big data, ML, AI).
She is a Fulbright Alumna at Georgia Southern University. Her research project in the USA was focused on STEM education, interactive and engaging physics teaching methods, and continuous assessment. The second research scholarship is about modelling, predicting, and forecasting air quality using machine learning and moss sample spectrometry.
Volunteering for the community represents an important part of her life. She coordinated three volunteering projects sponsored by the economic and business environment. In these projects, she developed a network of air quality monitoring sensors in the Oltenia region. Her team organized public awareness campaigns in mass media about the importance of screening and prevention in detecting health issues and the importance of a clean environment for health. Lastly, she promotes physics through experiments in the network of high schools in Oltenia.