Position Type
Faculty
Service
- Present
Other Affiliations
Women’s & Gender Studies
Sustainability & Environmental Studies
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Pronouns
She / Her / Hers
Biography

Alina Haliliuc is Associate Professor in the Communication & Media Studies Department, with affiliations in Women’s & 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. “Embodied Trauma and Pastoral Relief: The Rhetoric of the Flight 93 National Memorial.” Western Journal of Communication 88 (4): 760–81. DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2023.2169053.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Understanding Affectively: Beyond the Hills as Cinematic Invitational Rhetoric.” In Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, edited by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin, 247–63. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. ISBN: 153813103X.
  • Rice, Jennifer H., et al. “Memory and Lost Communities: Strange Methods for Studying Place.” Review of Communication 20 (2), 144–51, 2020. (Co-authored, invited)
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Democracy and Deliberation in the Age of Facebook.” Book review of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, by Siva Vaidhyanathan. Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 22 (1): 139–43, April 2020. DOI: 10.21018/rjcpr.2020.1.291.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Sia’s Strained Girl: Performing Persistence in Neoliberal Environments.” Gender Forum 71, 23–46, 2019. DOI: 10.18716/ojs/gefo/2019.2490. 
    Popular inspiration: katefergusonmusic.com — “Strained Girl”
  • Haliliuc, Alina. 2018. “Walking into Democratic Citizenship: Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania’s Capital.” M/C Journal 21 (4). DOI: 10.5204/mcj.1448.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Being, Evoking, and Reflecting from the Field: A Case for Critical Ethnography in Audience-Centered Rhetorical Criticism.” In Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method, edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard, 133–47. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-271-07210-4.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “What Is So Funny about The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu?” The Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 1 (2015): 154–67. DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12240.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Manele Music and the Discourse of Balkanism in Romania.” Communication, Culture & Critique 8 (2), June 1, 2015, 290–308. DOI: 10.1111/cccr.12083.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. “Who Is a Victim of Communism? Gender and Public Memory in the Sighet Museum, Romania.” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 7: 108–31, 2013. DOI: 10.3167/asp.2013.070107.
  • Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. “The Performance of Silence in Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.” Text and Performance Quarterly 31 (2): 111–29, 2011.
  • Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. “Reality Television: The Business of Mediating (Extra)Ordinary Life.” In The Business of Entertainment—Television, edited by Robert Sickels, 159–78. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2009.
  • Palmer-Mehta, Valerie, and Alina Haliliuc. “Flavor of Love and the Rise of Neo-Minstrelsy on Reality Television.” In Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity, edited by Elwood Watson, 85–105. 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. “Style, Affect, and Subjectivity: An Introduction to ‘Readings of The Romanian New Wave.’” Film Criticism 41, no. 2 (2017). jstor.org/stable/48731281.

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 “Cigarettes and Coffee” (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): 146–49, Winter 2014–15.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. Encyclopedia entries, “Césaria Évora” and “Kettly Noël.” In Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s 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): 64–67, 2012.
  • Haliliuc, Alina. Book review of The Other Half of History: Women Telling Their Stories, edited by Zoltán Rostás and Theodora-Eliza Văcărescu. București: Curtea Veche, 2008. In Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 4: 221–23, 2010.
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