Faculty Profiles

Valentina. (n.d.). Never Make a Spy out of Me: An Epistolary Story from the Archives of the Romanian Secret Police (1947–1962). Amsterdam/Budapest, Netherlands/Hungary: CEU Press.

Valentina. (2026). “Plecarea lui Müller și a lui Wagner poate fi interpretată ca un eșec al Securității.” Observator cultural (pp. 16–17). Romania. Retrieved from https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/plecarea-lui-muller-si-a-lui-wagner-poate-fi-interpretata-ca-un-esec-al-securitatii/

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

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

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/

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/

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.

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.

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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