Anastasia Stratu

Anastasia Stratu, 28, is a professional translator and interpreter. She studied international economic relations at the International Economic Relations Department of the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies. Ms. Stratu is fluent in five languages and on the way to learn two more. She is also a writer, but not a professional one, with a rather wide circle of interests in this area - from poetry to essays to plays and novels.

Research interests: linguistics, translation theory, folklore, history of arts, communication in cyberspace

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Michael Bobick

Michael Bobick, Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology is currently a
Fulbright Scholar in Moldova. When not tramping around Moldova, he can be
found in Ithaca, New York where he teaches freshman how to write essays and
tries to make the post-Soviet region interesting to non-specialists.

Research Interests: ideology, psychoanalysis, nationalism, frozen
conflicts, ex-USSR, religion, sovereignty, civil society, visual studies