Elena Stoican, (PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest) is currently teaching English for Business Communication at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Her research interests include literature of diaspora, South-Asian American studies, transnationalism, transculturalism. Her articles appeared in prestigious academic journals such as English Studies at NBU, American, British and Canadian Studies, East-West Cultural Passage Journal of the “C. Peter Magrath” Research Center for Cross Cultural Studies, Primerjalna književnost, Transnational Literature e-journal. She is the author of the books Transcultural Encounters in South-Asian American Women’s Fiction: Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and Transnational Itineraries in Indian Accounts of Uprooting by Women Writers. South Asian women authors who have experienced migration to the USA (LIT Verlag, 2020).