Ariana

Ariana Serafinceanu  is a 2nd-year postgraduate researcher in the School of Modern Languages pursuing a full-time PhD in Comparative Literature. Her current working title for her thesis is ‘Writing the Abortee: Reinventing Identities in 21st-century Autobiographical Abortion Narratives in English, Spanish, and Romanian’. The project is an interdisciplinary, multi-lingual, and cross-cultural exploration of discursive identity construction through language and text in contemporary autobiographical narratives of abortion experiences. Providing an in-depth, comparative study of narratives of abortion since 2000, across different cultural and sociopolitical contexts, this project critically documents the multi-faceted impacts of public discourse on knowledge, of abortion on identity, and on writing as a tool of agential self-renewal.