Daniela Mustata

Daniela MUSTATA

Last edited: April 2011

Education

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  PhD Cum Laude (November 2006 – September 2010) defended on February 4^th 2011 at Utrecht University.
  

Dissertation: ‘The Power of Television: Including the Historicizing of the Live Romanian Revolution’. Promotor: Prof. Dr. Sonja de Leeuw (Utrecht University), Co-promotor: Dr. Andreas Fickers (University of Maastricht).

Assessment Committee: Prof. Dr. Milly Buonano (Sapienza Universitá di Roma), Prof. Dr. John Ellis (Royal Holloway University of London), Prof. Dr. Armin Heinen (Aachen University), Prof. Dr. Frank Kessler (Utrecht University), Prof. Dr. Huub Wijfjes (University of Groningen)

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  M.A. Research in Media Studies Cum Laude, 2003-2005, Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
  
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  M.A. in Film and Television Studies, 2001-2002, University of Amsterdam
  
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  B.A. in Social Sciences Cum Laude (Major: Sociology/Anthropology/Psychology; Minor: Journalism), 1998-2001, University College Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  
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  High-school Diploma (Baccalaureate), 1994 - 1998, Theoretical High-school “Radu Greceanu”, Slatina, Romania
  

Academic Employment

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  08/2011 – ongoing: Assistant Professor Television Studies/Journalism Studies, Groningen University
  

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  04/2011 – 07/2011: Lecturer Television Theory, Utrecht University
  

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  2009 – ongoing: Researcher on the European project EUscreen (www.euscreen.eu), Utrecht University
  
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  2006 – 2009: Researcher on the European project Video Active (www.videoactive.eu), Utrecht University.
  
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  11/2004-01/2005: Teaching Assistant, Utrecht University.
  
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  11/2003-01/2004: Teaching Assistant, Utrecht University
  

Publications

Peer-reviewed:

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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘The Revolution Has Been Televised…Television as Historical Agent in the Romanian Revolution’ in Journal of Modern European History, Vol. 1/2012
  
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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Bordering Romania: Transmitting and Receiving Television’ in Journal of Popular Film and Television
  
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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Discoveries of Romanian Television Archives’ in Critical Studies in European Television e-journal, Vol. 1/2011
  

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  Mustata, D.(2006): ‘Tracing the Unseen in Post-Communist Romanian Television’ in Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 9 (1), 123 - 150
  

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  Mustata, D.(2005): ‘Tracing the Unseen in Post-Communist Romanian Television’ in Jahrbucher Fur Geschichte Und Kultur Sudosteuropas, 7, 147-175
  

Articles in edited collections:

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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Television in the Age of (Post)Communism’ in Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe: Entertaining a New Europe, ed. Aniko Imre, Timothy Havens, Katalin Lustyik, Routledge
  
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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Within Excess Times and a Deficit Space: Cross-Border Television as a Transnational Phenomenon in 1980s Romania’ in Transnational Television History: a Comparative Approach, ed. Andreas Fickers and Cathy Johnson, Routledge
  
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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Dissident Broadcasting in Communist Romania’ in Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War’, ed. Alexander Badenoch, Andreas Fickers, Christian Henrich-Franke, Namos Verlag
  
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  Mustata, D. (forthcoming): ‘Nicolae Ceausescu Live’ in Uncertain Entertainment: Popular Television in Totalitarian Europe, ed. Peter Goddard, Manchester University Press
  

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  Mustata D., Adamou C. et.al (2008): ‘Institutionalizing European Television. The shaping of European television institutions and infrastructures’ in A European Television History (ed. Bignell & Fickers.), Oxford, etc.: Wiley –Blackwell, 79-101
  
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  Mustata D., Bondebjerg I., et. al (2008): ‘American Television. Point of Reference or European Nightmare?’ in A European Television History (ed. Bignell & Fickers.), Oxford: Wiley –Blackwell, 154-184
  
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  Mustata D., R. Turnock R. at. al (2008): ‘European TV Events and Euro-Visions. Tensions between the ordinary and the extraordinary’ in A European Television History (ed. Bignell & Fickers.), Oxford: Wiley –Blackwell, 184-215
  

Popularizing articles:

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  Mustata, Dana (2011) ‘Contextualization and the Critical Use of Online Audiovisual Archives. A Report on the First EUscreen International Conference’ in Rundfunk und Geschichte, Vol. 37, Issue 1-2
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2011): ‘Europa zet televisie-erfgoed online’ in 609. Cultuur en Media, 7
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2010): ‘From Modernizing to Subversive Television: Historical Practices of Romanian Television’ in Rundfunk und Geschichte, 36, Nr. 1-2, 45-47
  

Paper Presentations

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  Mustata, Dana (2011, September 30): Networks of Archival Value. Best Practices, Turin, International Federation of Television Archives World Conference
  

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  Mustata, Dana (2011, September 16): Doing Television History outside the Box. Unexplored Territories on the European Agenda, Key Note Lecture, Stockholm, EUscreen International COnfernece on Use and Creativity
  

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  Mustata, Dana (2011, March 19): Televising Sound: The Rise and Fall of a Totalitarian Regime, Hilversum, Sound Bridges, Sound Walls
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2010, May 14): Televising European Events: From Cold War Borders to EU Borders. Paris, France, 1st FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Seminar
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2009, December 07): Accessing Cross-Border Television. Utrecht, Centre for Television in Transition
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2009, September 15): Shifts of Technopolitics: TV Transmission and Reception in Romania. Pleumeur-Bodou, France, 'The History of the Electronic Image: A Long Term Perspective' Doctoral Summer School.
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2008, July 22): Cross-Over Territories of Television in Romania. Berlin, Germany and Romania: Academic, Cultural and Ideological Transfers.
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2008, June 28): The Romanian Wall: Television as the Screen between the Local and the Global. Reading, UK, Television without Borders: Transfers, Translations and Transnational Exchange.
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2008, March 15): Video Active: Creating Access to European Television History by Linking Academic and Archive Practice. Leeds, UK, Moving Image Archiving and the Academy Conference.
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2008, March 14): Discourses and Practices of Television. Historicizing Romanian Television, Utrecht Media Seminar
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2008, July 08): Visions and Practices of State Control. The case of communist Romanian Television. Aachen, Germany, PhD Seminar Historische Institut der RWTH Aachen.
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2007, April 20): Manufacturing the Alienated Nation: Media Events in Communist Romania. London, Rethinking Television Histories: Digitizing Europe's Televisual Heritage
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2007, July 12): Questioning Modernization or How Romanian Television Reordered Space and Time, Darmstadt, Germany, PhD Summer School ‘Technologies and Their Environments’
  

Teaching Experience:

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  ‘Television Theory’ (04/2011-07/2011), level 3 undergraduate course. The course explores the underpinnings of television as a medium in terms of its ontology, epistemology, phenomenology and teleology. It explores some of the key concepts that have given television form and cultural meaning. The focus is on the redefinition of the medium in the age of convergence.
  
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  ‘Thesis Labs’ (03/2010 – 06/2010 & 03/2009 – 06/2009), practical sessions designed for second year research master students where the students received instruction on how to formulate, carry out and write a research paper. The sessions also provided feedback on the students’ research master theses.
  
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  ‘Theories of Hitchcock’ (11/2004-01/2005 & 11/2003-01/2004), level 3 undergraduate course. The course explored the filmography of Hitchcock as a gateway to television theory. It addressed a wide range of theories in the field of psychoanalysis, feminism, authorship.
  

Guest lectures:

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  Mustata, Dana: (2010, July 27): Romanian Television: Negotiating Transnational Borders. Utrecht, Global Citizenship Summer School
  
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  Mustata, Dana (2009, January 30): Romanian Television: Within National Borders and Beyond. Utrecht, 'Global Citizenship in a European Context' Winterschool
  
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  Mustata, Dana. (2008, January 31): Romanian television: Within National Borders and Beyond. Utrecht, Global Citizenship Winterschool Utrecht University
  

Professional Affiliations:

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  Member and moderator of the European Television History Network
  
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  Member of ‘Transmitting and Receiving Europe’ international network
  
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  Member of Utrecht’s Centre of Television in Transition
  

Grants and Awards:

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  PhD International Grant, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2007 -2010)
  
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  Utrecht Excellence Scholarship, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2004)
  
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  Utrecht Excellence Scholarship, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2003)
  
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  Full Fellowship of University College Utrecht, the Netherlands (1998-2001)
  

Competence in Languages:

Native Romanian; near-native English; advanced Dutch (B2 level), beginner French

Computer Literacy:

Operating systems: MS Windows; Statistics Packages: SPSS; Editors: MS Office, Endnote