Raluca-Andreea Petrus is a research assistant at the Faculty of Letters, History, and Theology at the West University of Timisoara, where she teaches courses in English for practical purposes and contemporary English language. Raluca-Andreea earned a PhD in Philology in 2023 from the West University of Timi?oara, with a thesis titled Literary Expressions of The Japanese American Imprisonment Camps: Reconfigurations of Civil Rights and Identity. Her research focused on the portrayal of civil rights and identity in Japanese American imprisonment camp literature, particularly as expressed by survivors and their descendants, including second-generation (Nisei) and third-generation (Sansei) women and men. Raluca-Andreea holds a BA in English Philology and an MA in American Studies.