Biography
Alina Haliliuc is Associate Professor in the Communication & Media Studies Department, with affiliations in Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies and in Sustainability & Environmental Studies. A rhetorician trained at the University of Iowa, she studies post-socialist Romanian public culture, the material and affective rhetoric of place, and transnational feminist writing and film. Her scholarship appears in Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication, Culture & Critique, The Journal of Popular Culture, Western Journal of Communication, Film Criticism, Aspasia, Media/Culture Journal, among other venues.
Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Iowa; M.A., University of Alabama; B.A., State University of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Learning & Teaching
Courses
Rhetoric, theory, and public address:
- COMM 101: Public Address
- COMM 223: Rhetoric
- COMM 280: Theorizing Communication
- COMM 215 / 315: Rhetoric and Performance
- COMM 315: Rhetorics of Hope
- COMM 344: Exploring Rhetorical Texts
Place, space, and environment:
- COMM 384 / 315: The Rhetoric of Place: How Spaces Speak
- COMM 421: Holding Environments: Place and Displacement in Cultural Life
- COMM 115 / ENVS 290: Walking on Earth
Rhetoric, memory, and photography:
- COMM 421: Say Memory! Photography and the Past
- COMM 401: Discourses of Authentic Experience
- COMM 215: Communicating Culture through Place and Space
Transnational feminist and gender studies:
- COMM 315 / INTL 250 / WGST 353: Women Creators across Borders
- COMM 315 / INTL 200: Masculinities in Popular Culture
- COMM 315: Exploring Masculinity
Single-credit classes:
- PHED 106: Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
- FYS 103: Building Community
- AC 101: Advising Circle — Mindfulness from Year One
Works
Publications
- Haliliuc, Alina, and Pamela Conners. 2024. 鈥淓mbodied Trauma and Pastoral Relief: The Rhetoric of the Flight 93 National Memorial.鈥 Western Journal of Communication 88 (4): 760鈥81. DOI: .
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淯nderstanding Affectively: Beyond the Hills as Cinematic Invitational Rhetoric.鈥 In Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, edited by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin, 247鈥63. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. ISBN: 153813103X.
- Rice, Jennifer H., et al. 鈥淢emory and Lost Communities: Strange Methods for Studying Place.鈥 Review of Communication 20 (2), 144鈥51, 2020. (Co-authored, invited)
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淒emocracy and Deliberation in the Age of Facebook.鈥 Book review of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, by Siva Vaidhyanathan. Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 22 (1): 139鈥43, April 2020. DOI: .
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淪ia鈥檚 Strained Girl: Performing Persistence in Neoliberal Environments.鈥 Gender Forum 71, 23鈥46, 2019. DOI: .
Popular inspiration: - Haliliuc, Alina. 2018. 鈥淲alking into Democratic Citizenship: Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania鈥檚 Capital.鈥 M/C Journal 21 (4). DOI: .
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淏eing, Evoking, and Reflecting from the Field: A Case for Critical Ethnography in Audience-Centered Rhetorical Criticism.鈥 In Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method, edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Ch谩vez, and Robert Glenn Howard, 133鈥47. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-271-07210-4.
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淲hat Is So Funny about The Death of Mr. L膬z膬rescu?鈥 The Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 1 (2015): 154鈥67. DOI: .
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淢anele Music and the Discourse of Balkanism in Romania.鈥 Communication, Culture & Critique 8 (2), June 1, 2015, 290鈥308. DOI: .
- Haliliuc, Alina. 鈥淲ho Is a Victim of Communism? Gender and Public Memory in the Sighet Museum, Romania.鈥 Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women鈥檚 and Gender History 7: 108鈥31, 2013. DOI: .
- Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. 鈥淭he Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu鈥檚 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.鈥 Text and Performance Quarterly 31 (2): 111鈥29, 2011.
- Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. 鈥淩eality Television: The Business of Mediating (Extra)Ordinary Life.鈥 In The Business of Entertainment鈥擳elevision, edited by Robert Sickels, 159鈥78. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2009.
- Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. 鈥Flavor of Love and the Rise of Neo-Minstrelsy on Reality Television.鈥 In Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity, edited by Elwood Watson, 85鈥105. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2009.
Journal Editorship:
- Haliliuc, Alina, and Jesse Schlotterbeck, co-editors. Film Criticism Special Issue: New Romanian Cinema. 41 (2), October 2017.
- Haliliuc, Alina, and Jesse Schlotterbeck. 鈥淪tyle, Affect, and Subjectivity: An Introduction to 鈥楻eadings of The Romanian New Wave.鈥欌 Film Criticism 41, no. 2 (2017). .
Short Form Publications:
- Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of The Porous Museum: The Politics of Art, Rupture and Recycling in Modern Romania, by Gabriela Nicolescu. Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2003). In Slavonic & East European Review 102 (4), 2024.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960, by Amy Bryzgel. Women East-West 7 (2), Nov. 2018.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Film annotation of 鈥淐igarettes and Coffee鈥 (Cristi Puiu, 2004). Senses of Cinema 84, September 2017.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of The Forms of the Affects, by Eugenie Brinkema. Film Criticism 34 (2): 146鈥49, Winter 2014鈥15.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Encyclopedia entries, 鈥淐茅saria 脡vora鈥 and 鈥淜ettly No毛l.鈥 In Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today鈥檚 World, edited by Mary Zeiss Stange et al. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2013.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films, by Barry Keith Grant. Film Criticism 33 (3): 64鈥67, 2012.
- Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of The Other Half of History: Women Telling Their Stories, edited by Zolt谩n Rost谩s and Theodora-Eliza V膬c膬rescu. Bucure葯ti: Curtea Veche, 2008. In Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women鈥檚 and Gender History 4: 221鈥23, 2010.