Ileana Marin (Comparative History of Ideas; Comparative Literature)
Phone: 206 604-1831
Email: marini@uw.edu

Website: https://chid.washington.edu/people/ileana-marin

 Ileana Marin is an affiliated lecturer with University of Washington’s Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies Program (REECAS) in the Jackson School of International Studies. She is also an Associate Professor and Chair of the Doctoral School “Space, Image, Text, and Territory at the University of Bucharest. Ileana Marin teaches interdisciplinary courses both at the University of Washington and at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies of the University of Bucharest. Marin holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bucharest and another one in Textual Studies from the University of Washington. Her books include Beata Beatrix (2001), Pictura prerafaelită sub semnul narativului / Narrative Dimensions of Pre-Raphaelite Painting (2003), and Victorian Aesthetics of Erasure in Fiction and Illustration (2015).  Together with artists Mira Sanders and Alina Cristea, Ileana Marin has recently authored Micronarratives and the City. An Annotated Map of Bucharest, an artist’s book published by Brussels’ Graphische Cell in 2023. She has also published chapters in several collective volumes: “Expanding Auditory Images: E-Literature and Its New Melos” in From Ear to Ear (Poznan, 2023); “Texts as You Don’t Know Them: Digital Literature” in Exploring the Digital Turn (IaÈ™i, 2018), “Rossetti’s Aesthetically Saturated Readings: Art’s Dehumanizing Power” in Art and Life in Aestheticism: De-Humanizing and Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist, and the Artistic Receptor (Palgrave 2008), among many others. Her articles on the artistic legacy of communism, the materiality of literary, pictorial, and graphic texts, as well as on the multimediality of digital works have appeared in prestigious publications. Recently, she has focused on artists’ books as precursors of E-Literature and digital arts. She is currently working on an article about homelessness in the digital era. 

Her long-standing academic career on both sides of the ocean has given her the opportunity to establish contacts between international scholars, artists, writers, and institutions. This academic experience helped her create successful Exploration Seminars in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine, in tandem with other scholars interested in Eastern Europe. Marin is co-founder, and currently a board member of the Seattle non-profit American Romanian Cultural Society. For her contribution to bridging Romanian and American cultural spaces, in 2019, Mr. Klaus Johannis, President of Romania, awarded her the Order of Merit in Education at the Rank of Cavalier. She is also a Fulbright Alumna and serves on the UW Fulbright Committee. Last year, she was nominated for the Honors Excellence for Teaching Award by her students in the "How to Read E-Literature" class.