Ileana Marin

Ileana Marin teaches interdisciplinary courses at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies of the University of Bucharest. She has published books on tragic myths, Pre-Raphaelite artists, and most recently on Victorian aesthetics of erasure. Ileana Marin has participated in international conferences with papers on the de-humanizing power of art and the artistic legacy of communism as well as on the materiality of literary, pictorial, and graphic texts. Winner of several research grants she has explored interdisciplinary dialogues between text and image and the transformation of artworks into cultural icons.

Ileana is one of the founders of the Seattle based non-profit organization American Romanian Cultural Society that organizes the annual Romanian Film Festival, art exhibits, and Romanian language courses.