Portrait of Dr. Valentina Glajar

Dr. Valentina Glajar

  • Professor at Dept of World Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Glajar, V. (2025). Dosarul de Securitate al Hertei Müller. (A. Pavelescu, Trans.). Iasi, Romania: Polirom. Retrieved from https://polirom.ro/studii-romanesti/8561-dosarul-de-securitate-al-hertei-m%C3%BCller.html
  • Glajar, V., & Petrescu, C. L. (2025). Factual Fictions and Fictionalised Facts in the Reports of the Romanian Secret Police. In The Routledge Handbook of Information History (pp. 485–500). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003310532-35

2024

  • Glajar, V. (2024). “What Is Your Price?” Southeastern Europe, 48(1), 84–108. https://doi.org/10.30965/18763332-48010005

2023

  • Glajar, V. (2023). The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A “File Story” of Cold War Surveillance. Camden House. Retrieved from https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781640141537/the-secret-police-dossier-of-herta-muller/
  • Glajar, V. (2023, November). Herta Müller. In LEXIKON ZUR DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN LITERATUR AUS ZENTRAL- UND SÜDOSTEUROPA. Germany. Retrieved from https://dokalit.ikgs.de/mueller-herta/

2022

  • Glajar, V. (2022). Secrecy Matters: The Case of the Securitate Source SORIN. Limbus: Australian Yearbook for German Literary and Cultural Studies, 49–66. Retrieved from https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/rombach-wissenschaft/title/geheimnisse-secrets-id-107917/

2021

  • Costabile-Heming, C. A., Glajar, V., & Lewis, A. (2021). Citizen Informants, Glitches in the System, and the Limits of Collaboration: Eastern Experiences in the Cold War Era. In Histories of Surveillance from the Antiquity to the Digital Era: The Eyes and Ears of Power. Routledge.

2020

  • Glajar, V. (2020, January). Wendemanöver. Beiträge zum Werk Richard Wagners. Mit literarischen Texten von Felicitas Hoppe, Johann Lippet und Richard Wagner. Germanistische Beiträge Sibiu. Sibiu, Romania.

2019

  • Glajar, V., Lewis, A., & Petrescu, C. L. (2019). Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books. Retrieved from https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640121874/?fbclid=IwAR3RQBT2PSTljMjFTnxulWQpmUTBMJajbSlftlcBlGTHQQS0ZnlozkcOUQ0
  • Glajar, V. (2019). The Rise and Fall of a Securitate Officer: The File Story of Samuel Feld. Caietele CNSAS, 20(2), 137–162. Retrieved from http://cnsas.ro/documente/caiete/Caiete_CNSAS_nr_20_2017.pdf
  • Glajar, V. (2019). “The File Story of the Securitate Officer Samuel Feld.” In Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (pp. 29–69). Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Potomac Books; University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved from https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640121874/?fbclid=IwAR3RQBT2PSTljMjFTnxulWQpmUTBMJajbSlftlcBlGTHQQS0ZnlozkcOUQ0
  • Lewis, A., Glajar, V., & Petrescu, C. L. (2019). Introduction. In Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe. Potomac Books; University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved from https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/potomac-books/9781640121874/?fbclid=IwAR3RQBT2PSTljMjFTnxulWQpmUTBMJajbSlftlcBlGTHQQS0ZnlozkcOUQ0

2018

  • Petrescu, C. L., Lewis, A., & Glajar, V. (2018). Archive und Geheimdienstakten: Dialogisches Erinnern an Verfolgung und Zensur im Ostblock. Monatshefte (Vol. 110). University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Glajar, V. (2018). „Cristina“ oder was in Herta Müllers Securitate-Akte steht. Über Löcher und Fehlschlüsse einer Aktengeschichte. Monatshefte, 110(2), 189–201. https://doi.org/10.3368/m.110.2.189
  • Glajar, V. (2018). 45 pentru 45 Anca Sincan interviu cu Dr. Valentina Glajar. Romania: LaPunkt.ro. Retrieved from https://www.lapunkt.ro/2018/03/45-pentru-45-anca-sincan-interviu-cu-dr-valentina-glajar/

2017

  • Brandt, B., & Glajar, V. (2017). The Politics of Archives. Seminar (3rd ed., Vol. 53, pp. 193–309). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from http://www.utpjournals.press/toc/seminar/53/3
  • Glajar, V. (2017). Essays. In Herta Müller-Handbuch (pp. 91–101). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05401-2_11
  • Brandt, B., & Glajar, V. (2017). Introduction: The Politics of Archives. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 53(3), 193–201. https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.53.3.01

2016

  • Glajar, V., Lewis, A., & Petrescu, C. L. (2016). Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing. Rochester, NY: Camden House.
  • Glajar, V. (2016). 2: “You’ll Never Make a Spy Out of Me”: The File Story of “Fink Susanne.” In Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc (pp. 56–83). Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782048695-006

2013

  • Glajar, V., & Brandt, B. (2013). Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Glajar, V. (2013). Interview with Ernest Wichner. In B. Brandt & B. Brandt (Eds.), Politics and Aesthetics (pp. 36–53). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Glajar, V. (2013). The Presence of the Unresolved Recent Past: Herta Müller and the Securitate. In Herta Müller (pp. 49–63). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199654642.003.0004

2011

  • Glajar, V. (2011). Framing the Silence: The Romanian Jewish and Romani Holocaust in Filmic Representations. In Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (pp. 225–249). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118416_13
  • Glajar, V. (2011). Zur europäischen Dimension der Repräsentationen von Roma nach dem Holocaust. Transcarpathica:  Germanistisches Jahrbuch, 47–55.
  • Glajar, V. (Ed.). (2011). Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Glajar, V. (2011). Introduction. In Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust (pp. 1–16). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118416_1

2010

  • Valentina Glajar. (2010). Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (review). The Comparatist, 34(1), 189–193. https://doi.org/10.1353/com.0.0052

2008

  • Glajar, V., & Radulescu, D. (2008). “Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Glajar, V., & Radulescu, D. (2008). Trauma, Guilt, and Revenge: The Romani Holocaust in Stefan Kanfer’s The Eighth Sin. In V. Glajar (Ed.), Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture (pp. 125–144). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2007

  • Glajar, V. (2007). Erinnerungen in Schwarz und Weiß: Erich Hackls Abschied von Sidonie. In I.-K. Patrut (Ed.), Fremde Arme—arme Fremde: ‘Zigeuner’ in den Literaturen Mittel- und Osteuropas (pp. 125–142). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

2006

  • Glajar, V., Cohen-Pfister, L., & Wienröder-Skinner, D. (2006). Victims and Perpetrators: Representations of the German-Czech Conflict in Texts by Peter Härtling, Pavel Kohout, and Jörg Bernig. In Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945 and Beyond.  (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture (pp. 225–240). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Glajar, V. (2006). The Czech-Sudeten German Conflict in post-1989 Literary and Filmic Narratives. In S. Tötösy (Ed.), The New Central European Culture (pp. 138–147). Shaker Verlag.

2005

  • Glajar, V. (2005). Politics and the Discourse of Discontent: Female Representations in Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums. In M. Nicolaescu, M.-S. Draga-Alexandru, & H. Smith (Eds.), Women’sVoices in Postcommunist Eastern Europe (pp. 127–144). Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press.
  • Glajar, V. (2005). ‘Die wunde Naht der Grenze’: Czechs and Germans in Libuše Moníková’s Treibeis and Verklärte Nacht and Erica Pedretti’s Engste Heimat. In Libuše Moníková in Memoriam (pp. 161–178). BRILL. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401201193_013

2004

  • Glajar, V. (2004). The German Legacy in East Central Europe. Rochester, NY: Camden House.
  • Glajar, V. (2004). Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Glajar, V., & Radulescu, D. (2004). Half-Asia and the Local Women of the European Periphery in German-language Travel Writings. In V. Glajar (Ed.), Vampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women (pp. 91–106). New York: Columbia University Press.

2001

  • Glajar, V. (2001). From Halb-Asien to Europe: Contrasting Representations of Austrian Bukovina. In Modern Austrian Literature (pp. 15–35).

1998

  • Glajar, V., Lefevere, A., & Müller, H. (1998). Traveling on One Leg. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

1997

  • Glajar, V. (1997). Banat-Swabian, Romanian, and German: Conflicting Identities in Herta Müller’s Herztier. Monatshefte, 521–540.