Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Irina Nastasă-Matei, holds a PhD in History from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj. She is the author of the monograph Education, Politics, and Propaganda: Romanian Students in Nazi Germany (Cluj: Școala Ardeleană Publishing House / Bucharest: Eikon, 2016); co-author of the volumes Kultur und Propaganda. Das Rumänische Institut in Berlin (1940–1945) (Frank & Timme Verlag, 2023, with Lucian Nastasă-Kovacs) and Yiddish Culture in Greater Romania, 1918–1940 (CEU Press, 2025, with Camelia Crăciun, Valentin Săndulescu, and Francisca Solomon); and co-editor of the volume Negotiating In/visibility: Women, Science, Engineering and Medicine in the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, 2025, with Amelia Bonea).

Research fields: Romanian-German relations, transnationalism, academic migration, cultural policies, cultural diplomacy/soft power/propaganda, German studies, Jewish studies, history of science, history of women.

Courses: SPR, SPE, RISE, MSE, MPC

Recent publications:

• Nastasă-Matei, Irina, Jinga, Luciana, (Re)Gendering Science: Policies, Practices and Discourses in Socialist Context and Beyond”. Numar special coordonat in History of Communism in Europe, vol. 16/ 2025.
• Nastasă-Matei, Irina, Caterina Preda, State-Socialist Romania Turned Global: Cultural Encounters during the Cold War. Numar special coordonat in “Etudes Balkaniques”, Vol. LX, nr. 4, 2024, DOI: 10.62761/645.EB.LX4.
• Nastasă-Matei, Irina, „Entre collaboration académique, diplomatie culturelle et surveillance politique. Un romaniste ouest-allemand et la Roumanie des années 1960-1980 : Klaus Heitmann”, in Études Balkaniques – Cahiers Pierre Belon, EHESS, 2025/1, no. 28: special issue „Voyages et échanges culturels pendant la guerre froide: pratiques et discours”, p. 103-141: https://shs.cairn.info/revue-etudes-balkaniques-2025-1-page-103?lang=fr
• Nastasă-Matei, Irina, Debating the Place of Yiddish in the Romanian Jewish Education System during the Interwar Period: Perspectives from Various Jewish Elites and Romanian Authorities, în “Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies”, Vol. 42, Issue 3, 2024, p. 26-53 [SSCI, AHCI, FI: 0,2]
• Nastasă-Matei, Irina, Transnational Far Right and Nazi Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Humboldt Fellowships for Romanians, în „East European Politics and Societies”, Vol 35, Issue 4, 2021, pp. 899-923.

Topics for BA/MA coordination:(1) cultural politics, (2) the far right and the Holocaust, (3) the Cold War, (4) women’s history / history of science

 Office hours: by appointment via email

E-mail:  irina.matei@fspub.unibuc.ro