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Dr Ramona Dana Lungu
(she/her)
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Lecturer
School of Global Humanities
Overview
Research interests:
Early Modern French tragedy, particularly the plays written by Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille and Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre: tragic heroines and ways of approaching their behaviour inspired by recent developments in the fields of ethics and psychoanalysis; the concept of tragic hero; the psychodynamic of characters. I have been awarded the SEMFS Amy Wygant scholarship to finalise my monograph based on this work: Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre: Female Heroism Revisited in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy (Brill, Faux Titre, 2023).
Cutting edge approaches to staging early modern tragedy: the readings that emerge from recent productions of these plays and the way they inform the interpretation of the text; the way twentieth and twentieth-century radical adaptations breathe new life into these dramatic texts and create connections with contemporaneity. These interests have generated an upcoming article on contemporary adaptation: 'Faire de contraintes théâtre’ staging Bajazet at the Comédie Française'.
The experience of migration and motherhood the challenges and the possibilities for resistance which it generates; working with migrant mothers in ethical and equitable ways to provide an inclusive account of this experience.
Publication
2026
- Lungu, D. 2026. What really happens to your data when you click ‘delete’?. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/AB.uqhax9hkh)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.uqhax9hkh.
- Lungu, D. and Wilson, H. 2026. Spaces of belonging through the eyes of Bristol migrant mothers. Cardiff University and University of Bristol
2025
- Das Chowdhury, P. , Ramokapane, M. and Lungu, D. 2025. Response to Ofcom Consultation - How to promote media literacy: Consultation on recommendations for online platforms, broadcasters and services. REPHRAIN research centre
- Lungu, D. 2025. Everything from air fryers to TVs suck up our personal data - here’s how to give gadgets that respect privacy this Xmas. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.cna66vqum)Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.64628/ab.cna66vqum.
- Lungu, D. 2025. ‘Faire de contraintes théâtre’: Staging Bajazet at the Comédie-Française and the aesthetics of violence in performance. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 18 (3), pp.301-313. (10.1386/jafp_00144_1)
- Lungu, D. 2025. Amélie Mons , spectatorship and the real in French contemporary theatre [Book review]. French Studies 79 (2), pp.332-332. (10.3828/fs.2025.79.2.48)
2024
- Lungu, D. et al. 2024. Toolkit for working with migrant participants in co-produced research projects in ways that encourage their creative writing and enhance their role in shaping knowledge. Project Report.[Online].Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol. Available at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/research/projects/20232024/tookit-for-research-with-migrants.html.
2023
- Lungu, D. et al. 2023. Ethical and equitable ways of working with migrant mothers. Project Report.[Online].https://ach.org.uk/: ACH. Available at: https://ach.org.uk/publication/ethical-and-equitable-ways-of-working-with-migrant-mothers/.
- Lungu, D. 2023. Female heroism in the works of Corneille and Racine. Faux Titre Brill.
2021
- Lungu, D. 2021. Tyrants and victims or game players? A transactional analysis perspective on Barthes’s ‘Rapport de Force’ in Racine’s Phèdre. Early Modern French Studies 43 (2), pp.144-160. (10.1080/20563035.2021.1899458)
Articles
- Lungu, D. 2025. ‘Faire de contraintes théâtre’: Staging Bajazet at the Comédie-Française and the aesthetics of violence in performance. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 18 (3), pp.301-313. (10.1386/jafp_00144_1)
- Lungu, D. 2025. Amélie Mons , spectatorship and the real in French contemporary theatre [Book review]. French Studies 79 (2), pp.332-332. (10.3828/fs.2025.79.2.48)
- Lungu, D. 2021. Tyrants and victims or game players? A transactional analysis perspective on Barthes’s ‘Rapport de Force’ in Racine’s Phèdre. Early Modern French Studies 43 (2), pp.144-160. (10.1080/20563035.2021.1899458)
Books
- Lungu, D. 2023. Female heroism in the works of Corneille and Racine. Faux Titre Brill.
Monographs
- Lungu, D. et al. 2024. Toolkit for working with migrant participants in co-produced research projects in ways that encourage their creative writing and enhance their role in shaping knowledge. Project Report.[Online].Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol. Available at: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/research/projects/20232024/tookit-for-research-with-migrants.html.
- Lungu, D. et al. 2023. Ethical and equitable ways of working with migrant mothers. Project Report.[Online].https://ach.org.uk/: ACH. Available at: https://ach.org.uk/publication/ethical-and-equitable-ways-of-working-with-migrant-mothers/.
Other
- Lungu, D. and Wilson, H. 2026. Spaces of belonging through the eyes of Bristol migrant mothers. Cardiff University and University of Bristol
- Das Chowdhury, P. , Ramokapane, M. and Lungu, D. 2025. Response to Ofcom Consultation - How to promote media literacy: Consultation on recommendations for online platforms, broadcasters and services. REPHRAIN research centre
Websites
- Lungu, D. 2026. What really happens to your data when you click ‘delete’?. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/AB.uqhax9hkh)Available at: https://doi.org/10.64628/ab.uqhax9hkh.
- Lungu, D. 2025. Everything from air fryers to TVs suck up our personal data - here’s how to give gadgets that respect privacy this Xmas. [Online].The Conversation: The Conversation Trust. (10.64628/ab.cna66vqum)Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.64628/ab.cna66vqum.
Biography
Research interests:
Early Modern French tragedy, particularly the plays written by Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille and Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre: tragic heroines and ways of approaching their behaviour inspired by recent developments in the fields of ethics and psychoanalysis; the concept of tragic hero; the psychodynamic of characters. I have been awarded the SEMFS Amy Wygant scholarship to finalise my monograph based on this work: Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre: Female Heroism Revisited in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023).
Cutting edge approaches to staging early modern tragedy: the readings that emerge from recent productions of these plays and the way they inform the interpretation of the text; the way twentieth and twentieth-century radical adaptations breathe new life into these dramatic texts and create connections with contemporaneity. These interests have generated an upcoming article on contemporary adaptation: 'Faire de contraintes théâtre’ staging Bajazet at the Comédie Française'.
The experience of migration and motherhood the challenges and the possibilities for resistance which it generates; working with migrant mothers in ethical and equitable ways to provide an inclusive account of this experience.
Academic positions
News articles
Research themes
Specialisms
- 17th century
- Tragedy
- Drama, theatre and performance studies
- Racine and Corneille
- Migration
