Monica Filimon | Holocaust Studies | Best Researcher Award Published on 22/09/202522/09/2025 by Innovation Technologist Ms. Monica Filimon | Holocaust Studies | Best Researcher Award Associate Professor at Kingsborough Community College | United States Monica Filimon is an Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, with expertise in twentieth-century European literature and cinema, specializing in French, German, Spanish, and Romanian works. Her scholarship focuses on film melodrama, authoritarianism, violence studies, Holocaust and Communism studies, public sphere theory, and nineteenth-century Realism and Naturalism. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies from Rutgers University, where her dissertation examined film melodrama and authoritarianism in Europe. She also holds Master’s degrees in Liberal Studies from CUNY Graduate Center and in American Studies from the University of Bucharest, as well as a BA in English and Romanian from the University of Craiova. Filimon has authored the book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World and published peer-reviewed articles on topics including Romanian New Cinema, perceptual realism, and representations of loneliness and victimhood in contemporary European films. She has held leadership roles as Director and Assistant Director of the ESL Program at Kingsborough Community College and has been actively involved in academic service, including moderating film festivals and serving on editorial boards. Her research has been recognized with multiple PSC-CUNY Research Awards and Faculty Achievement Recognition Awards. She has 12 citations by 10 documents, with 5 key publications and an h-index of 3. Profile: Scopus Featured Publications Filimon, M. (2025). Beyond the document: The Exit of the Trains (2020) as video memorial. Holocaust Studies, 1–24. Filimon, M. (2014). Mie tu-mi trebi (I need you): Loneliness and victimhood in Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills. Images, Images, Imagini, Images: Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies, 4, 89–109. Filimon, M. (2014). Incommunicable experiences: Ambiguity and perceptual realism in Cristi Puiu’s Aurora (2010). Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 5(2), 169–185. Filimon, M. (2014). Beyond the real: An interview with Cristi Puiu. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 5(2), 185–188. Filimon, M. (2010). In short(s) about the New Romanian Cinema. Film Criticism, 34(2–3), 81–96.
Monica Filimon is an Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, with expertise in twentieth-century European literature and cinema, specializing in French, German, Spanish, and Romanian works. Her scholarship focuses on film melodrama, authoritarianism, violence studies, Holocaust and Communism studies, public sphere theory, and nineteenth-century Realism and Naturalism. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature with a Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies from Rutgers University, where her dissertation examined film melodrama and authoritarianism in Europe. She also holds Master’s degrees in Liberal Studies from CUNY Graduate Center and in American Studies from the University of Bucharest, as well as a BA in English and Romanian from the University of Craiova. Filimon has authored the book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World and published peer-reviewed articles on topics including Romanian New Cinema, perceptual realism, and representations of loneliness and victimhood in contemporary European films. She has held leadership roles as Director and Assistant Director of the ESL Program at Kingsborough Community College and has been actively involved in academic service, including moderating film festivals and serving on editorial boards. Her research has been recognized with multiple PSC-CUNY Research Awards and Faculty Achievement Recognition Awards. She has 12 citations by 10 documents, with 5 key publications and an h-index of 3. Profile: Scopus Featured Publications Filimon, M. (2025). Beyond the document: The Exit of the Trains (2020) as video memorial. Holocaust Studies, 1–24. Filimon, M. (2014). Mie tu-mi trebi (I need you): Loneliness and victimhood in Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills. Images, Images, Imagini, Images: Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies, 4, 89–109. Filimon, M. (2014). Incommunicable experiences: Ambiguity and perceptual realism in Cristi Puiu’s Aurora (2010). Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 5(2), 169–185. Filimon, M. (2014). Beyond the real: An interview with Cristi Puiu. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 5(2), 185–188. Filimon, M. (2010). In short(s) about the New Romanian Cinema. Film Criticism, 34(2–3), 81–96.