Ph.D., Purdue University; American Studies
Associate Professor
Professor Borcila's current research is in post-Cold War cultural and literary studies (television, narratives of immigration and return, and travel writing). More generally, her research and teaching are concerned with such issues as the politics of representation and representing others, media and global events, media and remembering, remembering "communism," encounters between East/West, the construction, critical tourism studies and the intersection of race, gender, ethnicity and nationality. Professor Borcila has published and presented work on the televisual gendering of American identity and on post-Cold War representations of Eastern Europe.