MIHAI IOVĂNEL [ Principal Investigator ]
Mihai IOVĂNEL earned his PhD from University of Bucharest and is Senior Researcher with the G. Călinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy. He is the author of The Improbable Jew — Mihail Sebastian: An Ideological Monograph (2012), The Detective Novel (2015), The Ideologies of Romanian Postcommunist Literature (2017), History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 (2021), and Moving Pictures. Dialogues on Criticism and Cinema (2023, in collaboration with Andrei Gorzo). He coedited the eight-volume general Dictionary of Romanian Literature (2016-2021). He also contributed to the volumes Romanian Literature as World Literature, edited by Mircea Martin, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Ruralism and Literature in Romania, edited by Ștefan Baghiu, Vlad Pojoga, and Maria Sass (Peter Lang, 2019), Beyond the Iron Curtain: Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania, edited by Ștefan Baghiu, Ovio Olaru, and Andrei Terian (Peter Lang, 2021), and Theory in the “Post” Era. A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons, edited by Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
🖂 mihai.iovanel@gmail.com
ANA-MARIA DELIU
Ana-Maria DELIU is Assistant Professor at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, and PhD Candidate in comparative literature at Babes-Bolyai University, in Romania. Her research interests include more-than-human worlding, relational ecology, and the novel in the Anthropocene. Her recent publications include “Performativity and Visualisation: A Critique of Mimesis in Odysseus’ Scar“, in Transilvania, no. 11-12 (2024), and “State of the Art: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene”, in Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, no. 2 (2023), issue co-edited with Laura Pavel and Paul Paraschiv. Assistant Editor of Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory.
ANCA SIMINA MARTIN
Anca Simina MARTIN is Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Letters and Arts at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Recently, she has expanded her interests to include vampire studies, signing the prefaces to the second edition of the newly rediscovered interwar translation of Dracula into Romanian (Dezarticulat, 2023) and the first Romanian vampire novel (G.M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu, Vampirul, Dezarticulat, 2024). Other recent contributions of hers include “The Transmedial Triangulation of Dracula: How Cinema Turned the Gothic Bloodsucker into a Gothicized Serial Killer”, which she co-authored with Dr Stefan Baghiu and published in 2024 in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
ANDREEA MIRONESCU
Andreea MIRONESCU is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Her expertise covers Romanian and comparative literature, critical theory, and memory and postmemory studies with an emphasis on Communism, gendered memories and literature as a medium of memory activism. She authored a monograph in Romanian (The Classics Affair: Paul Zarifopol and the Critique of Modernity, 2014) and several articles and chapters that have come out in journals and essay collections published in Europe and the US. Between 2022-2024 she was the leader of the Young Team project “MEMORO: The Novel of Memory in Postcomunism: Subgenres, Generations, Transnational Networks”, financed by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization. Her latest co-authored monograph deals with the Romanian novel of memory and contemporary public remembrance (Platforms of Memory. The Novel in Postcommunist Romania, forthcoming).
ANDREI NAE
Andrei NAE (zie/zir) is Lecturer at the University of Bucharest and Associate Lecturer at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film where zie teaches courses in game studies and seminars in twentieth-century and contemporary English literature. Zir main research interest lies at the intersection of game studies, cultural studies, and narratology. So far zie has been involved in several research projects, the most important being “Colonial Discourse in Video Games”, where zie held the position of principal investigator. Some of zir most relevant publications include the monograph Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games published by Routledge in 2021, the article “From Saviour to Colonial Perpetrator: Manipulating Player Empathy in Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill Origins” featured in the 2022 special issue “Gaming and Affect” hosted by Parallax, as well as the upcoming collective volume Video Games between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism that will be published by De Gruyter in 2025. Zie is also a fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest managing the research project “Ideological Consonance in Video Games”.