Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Caterina Preda is an associate professor, doctor of political science of the University of Bucharest (2009) with a doctoral research internships at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine – Paris 3 and Santiago de Chile. Caterina Preda is entitled to coordinate PhDs in political science from 2022 and is affiliated with the Doctoral School of Political Science. She is interested in comparative politics and especially the comparison between Latin America and Eastern Europe (Chile and Romania), and she conducted research projects on the cultural policies of the dictatorships in the South and Eastern Europe, the Union of Plastic artists in Romania, the art of memorialization from a trans-regional perspective, artistic representation of Roma people. Director of PolArt (interdisciplinary Center for Research Arts, Politics, Memory, Society): https://polart.unibuc.ro/

Research interests: cultural policies in dictatorships and democracies, the relationship between art and politics, artistic practices of memorialization in post-dictatorial contexts.

Courses: SPE (Politics and society in Latin America), SPF (Politique et société en Amérique latine, Art(s) et Politique(s)), SPR (Politică și societate în America latină), SSL (Probleme de securitate în America latină), MPE (Politiques mémorielles et culturelles en Europe)

Recent publications:

• Caterina Preda, Uniunea Artistilor Plastici si artistul socialist de stat (Cluj: Ed. Idea, 2023)
• Caterina Preda, “‘Living Statues’ and Nonuments as ‘Performative Monument Events’ in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe”, Nationalities Papers 51 (3), May 2023, 544-562
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.84
• Caterina Preda, “The transnational artistic memorialisation of Operation Condor: documenting a ‘distribution of the possible’”, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Vol 29: 2 (2020): 251- 269 DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2020.1801398
• Caterina Preda, “The aesthetic surveillance of performance art by the Romanian Securitate in the 1970s and 1980s”, Third Text, 35:3 (2021), 355-372 https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2021.1916219
• Caterina Preda, ”The Transnational “Memorialization” of Monumental Socialist Public Works in Eastern Europe”, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 23 (3): 401-421, Article first published online: December 2, 2019; Issue published: May 1, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877919885950
• Caterina Preda, Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships A Comparison of Chile and Romania (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) art and politics (cultural policies, art as political discourse), (2) Latin America (democratization, contemporary politics), (3) the politics of cultural memory (monuments and museums) and transitional justice, (4) comparative analysis of autocratic regimes

Office hours: Tuesday 10.30-11.30 by appointment by email

E-mail:  caterina.preda@unibuc.ro

Site: https://caterinapreda.ro/, courses: https://sites.google.com/unibuc.ro/cursuricaterinapreda