She holds a Ph.D. from West Virginia University and a B.A. from the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests lie at the interface of contemporary American Literature, Black American Literature and Culture, race and trauma/psychoanalytical theories, memory and life-writing studies. Dr. Dragulescu published, or has articles accepted for publication, in scholarly journals, anthologies, and an encyclopedia, on Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Art Spiegelman, John Edgar Wideman, Katherine Stockett, Philip Roth, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak.