Name
Delia-Madalina Grigore
Country of residence
Romania
Ethnicity
Rroma
Occupation
Ethnologist
BIO
PhD. Delia Grigore is a Rromani woman born 1972 in Galaţi, Romania. She holds a PhD in visual arts, specialization ethnography-ethnology (Romanian Academy, Institute of Ethnography and Folklore „Constantin Brăiloiu”, 2004). She is senior reader at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rromani Language and Literature Section and the President of the Roma Center „Amare Rromentza”. She works in education, Rromology research (ethnography, ethnology, ethno-linguistics, folklore, oral history and literature) and Rromani culture fields. She is the author of: Introduction in the Study of Traditional Culture Elements of the Contemporary Rromani Identity (2001, University of Bucharest – CREDIS, Bucharest), Rromanipen – Keystones of Rromani Culture (2011, Amare Rromentza, Bucharest) and of poetry in Rromani language (« Babel.ro. Tineri poeţi minoritari » [Babel.ro. Minority Young Poets], Status, Miercurea Ciuc, 2000). She is a team member for the presentation of Romani Literature in Romania for RomArchive.