• Understanding public interest in the preservation of Sibiu’slocal heritage 

  Croitoru, Alin; Lähdesmäki, Tuuli; Tudorie, Anamaria (Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group., 2025)

  Over the past two decades, scholars, heritage practitioners andpolicymakers have increasingly emphasised the role of citizens inheritage practices. Understanding how local communities engagewith cultural heritage is essential ...
• Post-Socialist ‘Cancel Culture’? The Contested Politics of Memory in Post-Socialist Romania 

  Rusu, S. Mihai (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

  With the global rise of the social movements such as the BLM driven by quests for racial justice and symbolic reparations, monuments and street names have become objects of ideological contention. BLM movement's rapid ...
• “What’s done is done”: Coming to terms with the memorial de-communization of public space in Romania 

  Rusu, S. Mihai; Croitoru, Alin (Sage Publications, 2025-08-08)

  Postsocialism brought about a massive reconfiguration of the memorial landscapes in Central and Eastern European countries. While the removal of monuments and renaming of places were thoroughly researched by social memory ...
• The transmedial triangulation of Dracula: how cinema turned the Gothic bloodsucker into a Gothicized serial killer 

  Martin, Simina Anca; Baghiu, Ștefan (2024)

  G. M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu’s Vampirul (The Vampire), the first vampire novel in Romania, was published in 1938, a decade after the release of the first translation of Dracula into Romanian. Instead of emulating ...
• The interwar Romanian translation of Dracula A story of lost and found 

  Martin, Simina Anca (John Benjamins e-Platforms, 2024)

  Barbu Cioculescu, co-translator of the 1990 Romanian rendition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula alongside Ileana Verzea, has claimed that their rendition marked the Romanian audience’s first interaction with Stoker’s magnum opus. ...
• New Methodologies in The Study of the Romanian Novel 

  Gârdan, Daiana; Modoc, Emanuel (Academia Română; Filiala Cluj-Napoca, 2024)

  The transnational and the digital turns have significantly influenced literary studies over the past thirty years, positioning the novel as an ideal subject for examining innovative methodological and analytical approaches. ...
• “Why don't we have a novel of our own?": The Anatomy of a Romanian Literary Complex. 

  Terian, Andrei; Chiorean, Maria (Published by John Hopkins University Press, 2024)

  This article addresses and disproves one of the most long-standing clichés of Romanian literary criticism, namely the underdevelopment of the early novel, especially in relation to poetry. It discusses the inferiority ...
• Pentru o nouă cultură critică românească 

  Goldiș, Alex; Moraru, Christian; Terian, Andrei; Baghiu, Ștefan; Bâlici, Mihnea; Borza, Cosmin; Chiorean, Maria; Dumitru, Teodora; Gârdan, Daiana; Iovănel, Mihai; Mironescu, Andreea; Mironescu, Doris; Popa, Bogdan; Stan, Adriana; Stan, Adriana (Editura Tact, Cluj-Napoca, 2024)

  Această carte e prima pe care ITC o editează în limba română. Datorită subiectului, editorii au decis ca ea să fie mai întâi pusă la dispoziția cititorilor și cititoarelor din România, deși nici precedentele nu erau doar ...
• Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads: Mihai Iovanel's History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1900-2020 and the Cultural-Materialist and Transnational Turn in Literary Studies. [Editorial] 

  Gârdan, Daiana; Modoc, Emanuel; Moraru, Christian (2022)

  As intellectual projects, literary histories hold a particular significance in Romanian culture; they recover authors and relegate them to anonymity, make and break canons, and promote and undermine ideologies and political ...
• Minden Nemzeti Irodalom Valójában transznacionális Beszélgetés a Transhirol projektről. [Interjú] 

  Terian, Andrei (Korunk Baráti Társaság, 2022)

  A román irodalom transznacionális története (TRANSHIROL) a nagyszebeni Lucian Blaga Egyetem (koordinátor: Andrei Terian) nagyszabású ERC-Consolidator projektje. Mi a projekt fõ célja? Milyen elõnyei lehetnek egy ilyen ...
• An Ethos of Attunement: Ruxandra Novac Among Objects 

  Moraru, Christian (2023)

  A buzzword of the first post-Cold War decade, “transition” held out the promise of a fresh start for most countries of the former Eastern Bloc and, as such, seemed preferable to the inanely retweeted “end of history.”¹ ...
• Planetáris poétikák 

  Moraru, Christian (Korunk Baráti Társaság, 2021)

  Többször is hangsúlyoztam (s ezt a jelen, elméleti kritikai sorozatban megjelent kötetben is érdemes újra megtennem) hogy az olyan kifejezések, mint a „világ” (world), a „földgolyó” (globe) és a „bolygó” (planet) ...
• Neoextractivism, or the birth of magical realism as world literature 

  Terian, Andrei (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021)
• Operaționalizarea experimentului în critica literară românească 

  Pojoga, Vlad (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  This study has a two-fold structure, in its first part exploring various models of experimental literature, proposed by researchers such as Gerald Prince and Warren Motte, as well as theoretical attempts to define and ...
• Critica ideologică în epoca limbajului administrativ de stânga: o istorie New Left a literaturii române contemporane Articole RTR 

  Baghiu, Ștefan (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  As Teodora Dumitru (2016) has convincingly argued in the case of Romanian literary critic Eugen Lovinescu, the evaluation of literature he proposed along his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature (1926-1929) was ...
• Literary Historiography as Event: Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 

  Moraru, Christian (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2021)

  In his essay, Moraru contends that Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is a breakthrough in Romanian literary historiography and criticism overall. According to Moraru, the History ...
• The Post-National Celan: The Imperfect Triangulation from (Abandoned) Romanian Poetry to World Literature and Back 

  Vancu, Radu (Publisher Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2022)

  This article focuses on the (dis)continuities between the German-language work of Paul Celan (integrated into a “large” literature where he becomes “Europe’s foremost poet after World War II”, in George Steiner’s opinion) ...
• Rhizomes, Forms, Rhythms, and Other Transportation Systems. An Attempt at Introducing Constructalism in Literary Theory 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura Centrului de Studii Transilvane, Cluj Napoca, 2022)

  The present study sets out to integrate the constructal theory set forth by physicist Adrian Bejan’s in his Design in Nature (2012) with literary theory. To this end, I selected two works that have the potential to engage ...
• Children’s Literature in Romania 

  Iovănel, Mihai (Editura Centrului de Studii Transilvane, Cluj Napoca, 2022)

  The present paper traces the evolution of children’s literature in Romania from the nineteenth century to the present day. It suggests the existence of four phases that are associated with the political and ideological ...
• „Geniul” la Eminescu și „geniul” lui Eminescu. Problemă cosmologică și afacere național(ist)ă (I) și (II) 

  Dumitru, Teodora (Editura „ASTRA Museum” Sibiu, 2022)

  In this paper I investigate how the interpretation of the Romantic poet Mihai Eminescu’ work verifies the European transition from a rationalist conception of “genius” (according to which “genius” is a phenomenon subjected ...

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