Professor Radu Florescu is a Romanian academic who holds the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College. He is also Director of the East European Research Center of New England. He was named Honorary Consul for New England by the Romanian Foreign Minister in 1996. He has written many academic articles and books on Romanian history.

Florescu received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Christ Church, Oxford University in Great Britain, before moving to the United States, where he completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University. Professor Florescu is the author - or co-author - of several other books on Romanian and East European history, including The Struggle against Russia in the Romanian Principalities, Dracula: Prince of Many Faces, In Search of Dracula, and In Search of Frankenstein.

Radu Florescu