About me
Cristina Stanciu is an immigrant scholar of Indigenous and Multiethnic Literatures of the United States. Her career so far has been driven by a desire to recover and recirculate Indigenous histories, understand multi-ethnic voices, texts, and archives across time and space, and to think deeply about institutions of knowledge production and dissemination (archives, print culture, spaces of education, and the academy, more broadly).
Her scholarly and teaching expertise is in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S., Progressive Era literature and visual culture (especially silent film), and critical theory. Dr. Stanciu brings her areas of expertise together in four books (two monographs, one scholarly edition, and one edited collection), three edited journal special issues, over a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and other contributions that illuminate the extensive histories of Indigenous and immigrant literatures, and provide new ways to read comparatively across several fields.
Dr. Stanciu also contributes to several fields through her national service—current editorial board member of PMLA and NAIS, and book review editor of MELUS, 2020-2023. Since December 2020, Dr. Stanciu has been the director of the Humanities Research Center which, under her leadership, became a university-wide center in July 2022. Dr. Stanciu serves on many departmental, college, and university committees at VCU, including the Research Strategic Priorities Advisory Council. In April 2023, the College of Humanities and Sciences awarded her the Distinguished Service Award.
