Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Bio

Ritivoi is interested in how individuals negotiate personal and social identity in periods of
political and cultural transition. She has written about Eastern European immigrants' efforts at adjusting to a new society, about Eastern European intellectuals struggling to be accepted in Western circles in the post-communist era, and about the role of memory and nostalgia in the shaping of a political consciousness. Her first book, Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity was published in 2002, and her second book, Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory in 2006. She is also the editor of Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz (2003).

	*Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Associate Professor of English and Rhetoric*
	Ritivoi is interested in how individuals negotiate personal and social identity in periods of political and cultural transition. She has written about Eastern European immigrants' efforts at adjusting to a new society, about Eastern European intellectuals struggling to be accepted in Western circles in the post-communist era, and about the role of memory and nostalgia in the shaping of a political consciousness. Her first book, Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity was published in 2002, and her second book, Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory in 2006. She is also the editor of Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz (2003).