Keynote “Approaching Gender Equality Plans in universities from an intercultural communication perspective”
Roxana Elisabeta 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 feminism and gender issues, democratic citizenship, education for intercultural and plurilingual communication, postcolonial and postcommunist studies.
Dr. Marinescu was the coordinator of the team which designed the Gender Equality Plan in the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE), Romania in 2022 and the coordinator of the Committee for Gender Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion of the same university between October 2023 and April 2024. For the past 17 years Dr. Marinescu has been the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Synergy (www.synergy.ase.ro). Dr. Marinescu is the President of the Association of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies in ASE, member of the European Society for the Study of English.
For over 25 years she was a member of the Non-governmental organization AnA Society for Feminist Analyses and a president of the organization between 2018 and 2020. In this capacity, she participated in and coordinated academic projects and community work in the areas of feminism, gender issues and women’s empowerment.