Biography
Domnica Radulescu settled in the United States in 1983 as a political refugee from her native Romania. She is Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Literature at Washington and Lee University.
She is the author of ten scholarly books and edited collections on subjects as diverse as the tragic heroine across cultures, women and comedy, Exile and immigrant Literature, Theater of war and exile. She is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels: Country of Red Azaleas, Black Sea Twilight and Train to Trieste. The latter novel was translated into thirteen languages and won the 2009 Library of Virginia Best Fiction Award. She is the winner of the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award for the state of Virginia. A theater critic, director, teacher and practitioner, she is the author of several plays of which two were recognized by the Jane Chambers playwriting Award and were presented as staged readings or full productions in Virginia, Washington DC, New York and Bucharest Romania. Her play Exile Is My Home. A Sci-fi Immigrant Fairy Tale received Honorable Mention at the Jane Chambers playwriting Award and was produced off off Broadway at the Theater for the New City in April and May of 2016 under the direction of Andreas Robertz. The production of Exile is my home was awarded the Outstanding Performance by a an ensemble cast award from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors in 2016. Radulescu is two times Fulbright scholar.
