Three Romanian Fulbright alumnae,  Dana Mihăilescu, Roxana Oltean and Mihaela Precup, have recently edited Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), a volume collecting work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The volume includes several chapters by other former or current Fulbright grantees, i.e. Professor Rodica Mihăilă (Romania, currently Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in Romania) and Sara Polak (the Netherlands, Fulbright researcher at Yale University, 2014-2015). The contributors’ chapters generate and explore a complicated dialogue between various and sometimes conflicting narratives along four main lines in this volume: trauma in the context of “multidirectional memory”; the representation of trauma in autobiographical texts; the dynamic of public forms of national commemoration; and the problematic instantiation of 9/11 as a traumatic landmark. The table of contents and an extract from the book are available at the publishers’ website: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/mapping-generations-of-traumatic-memory-in-american-narratives