Publications :

• Flavia Ciontu, Conference “Queering Blackness : Non-Binary Black Representations in Post-Obama Popular Cultures.” QUADERNA, online, September 7 2023, https://quaderna.org/6/conference-queering-blackness-non-binary-black-representations-in-post-obama-popular-cultures/

Conference presentations :

• “Returning the Gaze : Eastern European Filmmakers and the Quest for Self-Representation“, paper presented at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, États-Unis, December 2, 2023.
• “Making Sense of Eastern European Otherness : Theoretical Approaches to Analyzing White Racialization in US Media”, paper presented at the international seminar “Racialization : A Plurality of Paradigms ?,” Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia, Italy, June 18, 2023.
• “Hunkies, Working-Class Heroes, and Gangsters : East European Immigrants in American Cinema,” paper presented at the PhD student’s day of EMMA (Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone), University of Montpellier, June 7, 2023.
• “Extremely Dangerous and Incredibly Familiar : Reconfigurations of Russian Female Characters in U.S. Espionage Film and Television,” paper presented at the SAES Annual Conference, Université de Rennes 2, June 2, 2023.
• “Peripheral Voices in American Cinema : Emergent Russian and East European Self-Representations in a Post-Ethnic Era,” paper presented at the 54th AFEA Conference -Voices, Sounds, Noises, Silences, Université de Bourgogne, May 25, 2023.
• “These are the Real Russians : American cinema and post-communist Russia,” paper presented at the TransCrit PhD Students’ Conference, University of Paris 8, May 2022.
• “Identities in Crisis : Coming of Age as an Immigrant in Little Odessa (1994) and An American Rhapsody (2001),” paper presented at the American Studies Student Conference, University of Bucharest, May 2021.