Madalina Stefan holds a PhD in Romance Philology and Cultural Studies from the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and a Master’s degree in Interamerican Studies from Bielefeld University. She has studied filmmaking in Barcelona and was granted a junior fellowship at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research, as well as two postdoctoral fellowships (WiRe, WWU & Mecila).
In the past years she participated in the organisation and lectureship of several international summer schools and conferences, and has taught at different Universities, such as Pompeu Fabra (Spain), Bielefeld (Germany), Guadalajara (Mexico) and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany). Her research interests are literary and cinematographic ecocriticism, gender & postcolonial studies, essay, migration studies & accented cinema, travel & autobiographical writing in film and literature, indigenous cinema & dictatorship in film and literature.