Ramona MIHĂILĂ is vice rector for International Relations and full professor Ph.D. at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and director of the Institute for the Social Studies of Gender, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on literature, women’s writing, gender studies.
She is the author and (co)-editor of 20 books concerning women’s writing and gender studies, and has been visiting professor at Arizona State University, research fellow for international institutions, including the Library of Congress (Washington,) Chawton House Library and University of Southampton, Huygens Royal Institute (the Hague) National Library of Vienna. She has also received grants for conference participation at the Hogeschool University (Brussels) and the Université Paris-Est Créteil.
Ramona has been coordinator of European projects on social studies connected with gender studies and women’s writing, and serves as the executive publishing editor of Journal of Research in Gender Studies, Addleton Academic Publishers, New York. She can be reached at: ramona.mihaila@ucdc.ro
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.