Dr. Adina Brădeanu

Research Associate

Adina Brădeanu is a visual studies researcher with an interdisciplinary background in modern languages and literatures, cinema, and political studies. She is also the Subject Consultant for Romanian Studies at Taylor Institution Library (Bodleian Libraries).

Following work in the audio-visual archive of an ethnography museum in Bucharest, she conducted historical and ethnographic research on the institutional culture and the memorial legacy of a film studio (“Alexandru Sahia”) that was active in socialist Romania. In recent years, she has curated VINTAGE SAHIA, a public history project which produced a set of pioneering film resources for research and education. She is interested in working with communities and in developing collaborative cultural heritage projects between archives, museums, and universities.

• Adina Brădeanu, The ISTROX Project: From Donation to Community Engagement, in Revue roumaine de linguistique (2022), 67:253-278
• 50 Years of the Istro-Romanian Language: from the Oxford-Hurren collection to the ISTROX project - Exhibition in Novigrad, Croatia