Claudia Moscovici

Claudia Moscovici is the author of “Velvet Totalitarianism,” a critically acclaimed novel about a Romanian family's survival in an oppressive communist regime due to the strength of their love. She also published several scholarly books on political philosophy and the Romantic movement. Her publications include “Romanticism and Postromanticism” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), “Gender and Citizenship” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and “Double Dialectics” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). She taught philosophy, literature and arts and ideas at Boston University and at the University of Michigan. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she writes from her experience of life in a totalitarian regime, which marked her deeply. She immigrated to the United States where she has gone on to obtain a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Claudia lives in Ann Arbor, with her husband Dan and two children, Sophie and Alex.