Alexandra Magearu is a literary scholar, writer, and visual artist. Born and raised in Romania, Alexandra obtained an MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies from University of London and a PhD degree in Comparative Literature and Feminist Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching have explored postcolonial literatures and cultures, transnational feminist theory, human rights, globalization, and forced migration.

Her prose and poems have been published in Story Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Public Seminar, World Literature Today, Tint Journal, the other side of hope, Apofenie, Sundial Magazine, and elsewhere.

Her academic research appears in a number of other venues including The Comparatist, Women’s Studies, Border Crossing, and two philosophy book collections, Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology with Guattari and Phenomenology of the Broken Body.