Roxana Marinescu is a Professor with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania and a PhD supervisor in British and American Literature and Cultural Studies at “Ovidius” University, Constanța, Romania. Her main research interests are postcolonial and postcommunist studies, feminism and gender issues, education for intercultural and plurilingual communication, democratic citizenship. Dr. Marinescu authored four books: Salman Rushdie and Multiple Identities (2013), Northern Ireland. Border Country (2013), Self-Constructs of Identity: The Case of Northern Ireland (2012) and Violated Bodies. A Cross-Cultural Reading by Writers of South-Asian Origin (2009). Dr. Marinescu is the President of the local ASE branch of the Association of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS), member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).