Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Irina Nastasă-Matei, PhD in History at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj. She is the author of the monograph ”Educaţie, politică şi propagandă: Studenţi români în Germania nazistă” (Cluj, Editura Scoala Ardeleană / Bucharest, Eikon, 2016), and co-author of the volume ”Cultură și propagandă. Institutul Român din Berlin, 1940-1945”  (MEGA Publishing House, Cluj, 2018, with Lucian Nastasă-Kovacs).

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

Courses: SPR, SPE, rise, SSL, MSE, MRI, MPC

Recent publications:

• Irina Nastasă-Matei, 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.
• Irina Nastasă-Matei, The Humboldt Fellowships for Eastern Europe During the Cold War: Politics and Numbers, în „PLURAL – History. Culture. Society”, vol. 9, nr. 1, 2021, pp. 180-204.
• Irina Nastasă-Matei, Zoltan Rostas (coord.), Rediscovering Eastern-European Universities. Perspectives from the Interwar Period, București, Edit. PRO Universitaria, 2020, ISBN 978-606-26-1240-5, 278 p.
• Irina Nastasă-Matei, Ernest Bernea and the Legionary Movement. The Ideological Choices of an Intellectual and their Post-war Consequences, în „Holocaust. Studii si cercetari”, vol. XIII, nr. 1 (13), 2020, pp. 155-180.
• Irina Nastasă-Matei, Romanian students in Nazi Germany and their political options: several case-studies, in “Intellectual Antisemitism from a Global Perspective” – Comparative Studies from a Global Perspective Vol. 4 (coord. Sarah K. Danielsson, Frank Jacob), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2018, pp. 117-131

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: Tuesday, 14.30-15.30 or online by appointment by e-mail

E-mail:  irina.matei@fspub.unibuc.ro