About Cristina A. Bejan Author / Artist in PARIS
Born in Colorado at the height of the Cold War, Madame CRISTINA ADRIANA BEJAN, DPhil (Oxon) is an award-winning, multilingual Romanian-American historian, theatre artist and spoken word poet living and creating in Paris, France (E.U.). An Oxford DPhil, Rhodes Scholar (the only one to hold Romanian citizenship since the scholarship's founding in 1902), Fulbright Scholar and Aspen Ideas Fellow, she has been featured on A&E's The History Channel, C-SPAN and multiple Romanian TV channels as well as international print and audio media: including the Washington Post, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy and ELLE Romania magazine. Her hit play DISTRICTLAND was purchased for TV development. In NYC Bejan has performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and launched five published plays at The Drama Book Shop. Her most active socials are LinkedIn and Instagram. Please visit her Academia.edu profile to learn about all of her publications. In September 2025 Bejan was awarded the George Parkin Distinguished Service Award by the Rhodes Trust. She serves as Selection and Outreach for the Rhodes Scholarship. Bejan recently had her Paris debut as author and artist at the Dissident Club. She invites you to her upcoming #Carteadevineri dialogue on May 9 and book launch at Blackwells in Oxford, UK on June 19 at 12pm.
​A playwright, Bejan has written nineteen plays, many of which have been produced in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu. She has been commissioned to write the theatrical play adaptation of Romania's most famous living Holocaust survivor Norman Manea's memoir The Hooligan's Return.​ Bejan is at work on this stage play as well as a number of writing projects. She writes creatively in five languages and has been published internationally in every genre she writes in: academic, theatrical, and poetry. She is founding executive director of the arts and culture platform Bucharest Inside the Beltway (BiB). Under her stage name “Lady Godiva,” she performs her poetry across the United States and Romania. Bejan is the recipient of academic fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. She has taught history at five universities and one community college college and has served as a Guest Lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute and the Romanian-American University (Bucharest).
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Bejan has published the history book Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), poetry collection Green Horses on the Walls (Finishing Line Press, 2020; free audiobook here), play anthology FINALLY QUIET: Four Plays from Bucharest to Washington DC (No Passport Press, 2023), her play about post-Holocaust Buchenwald (Next Stage Press, 2023), the play To Those Who Haven't Stopped Thinking (Next Stage Press, 2024), the play "J'y suis j'y reste [Here I am, here I stay]" (published in Voices on the Move eds. Domnica Radulescu and Roxana Cazan) and is also a contributing author (64 articles and coauthor of the African introduction) for "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933 - 1945, Vol. 3" (University of Indiana, 2018) and the play Ol Woman Naoia (Next Stage Press, 2025). Her play Colombo Calling - a play from Sri Lanka is forthcoming from No Passport Press and her play anthology has been translated into Spanish: she is currently seeking a publisher.
Bejan's history and poetry books have been released in Romanian translation with Editura Litera and Editura Tracus Arte. Please check out Books More Info for details on all her books with information about how to order directly from Bejan. She has appeared on C-SPAN and three different Romanian national/international TV news channels, as well as Romanian local, national, and international radio. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, BOMB Magazine, Denver Westword, The American Oxonian, American Prospect, Libertatea, Evenimentul Zilei, Observator Cultural and ELLE Romania Magazine, among others.
As a recipient of merit-based academic scholarships and a graduate of Wadham (University of Oxford's college known for Human Rights advocacy), Bejan is passionate about Equal Rights for all and as well as access to education. She is an advocate for The Alex Fund, a non-profit that works to make education available to every disadvantaged child in Romania and Project HOPE, a charity that provides medical relief and training in crisis zones across the world. As a survivor, Bejan is an activist for NAMI and RAINN. A proud member of PEN America, Colorado Authors League, Poetry Society of Colorado, International Center for Women Playwrights, Dramatists Guild of America, Theatre Without Borders and Poetry Society of America, Bejan is currently writing the history book The Unknown Holocaust: Axis Crimes and Memory in Africa, France and Romania, the volume Theatre as Survival and Resistance (co-authored with Domnica Radulescu), a collection of poems and essays titled And the caravan rolls on, and her next play titled "Born Colorado" about her birth state's difficult history of the mid-20th Century. Please visit Bejan's Photo Gallery, Video, and Podcast & Radio for more about her creative life.
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A self-made Rhodes Scholar whose family knows oppression first-hand, Bejan has grappled with the legacy of Cecil Rhodes in her play The Scholarship and is a proud member of the Rhodes Society.