Editorial Team
EDITORIAL STAFF
Emilia Ivancu – Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland - editor-in-chief
Emilia Ivancu is a researcher, university lecturer, translator, and poet. Between 2023 and 2026, she taught Romanian language, literature, and culture at the University of Helsinki, Finland, under the coordination of the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest, Romania. Starting in October 2026, she will serve as a lecturer in Romanian language and culture at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In 2026, she obtained her habilitation in Philology at “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania, with the thesis Literary and Transcultural Comparative Paradigms: Memory, Myth, and Translation in Multilingual Contexts. Her most recent publication is Celelalte Românii, Româniile Celuilalt (Eikon, 2026). She co-authored a dictionary of characters in the plays of Romanian playwright, poet, and philosopher Lucian Blaga (2005), a Polish–Romanian and Romanian–Polish dictionary (2012), and a Romanian-language textbook, Rumuński nie gryzie (2017). Her recent research interests and publications focus on prismatic poetry translation, creative multilingualism in teaching Romanian as a foreign language, mythopoetic thought, comparative mythology, comparative literature, translation studies, and autobiographical discourse. She translates fiction and poetry from English, Welsh, and Polish into Romanian.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8254-7207
Romanița Constantinescu - Heidelberg University, Germany - guest editor
Romanita Constantinescu, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in General and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She studied Romance and German Philology at the University of Bucharest, followed by German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, where she obtained her PhD summa cum laude in 1998. She taught Romanian Studies at the University of Cologne (1998–2000) and Romanian Literary and Media Studies as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2004–2005). She has also taught at the universities of Mannheim and Mainz and, since 2008, has been a Lecturer in Romanian Studies at Heidelberg University, seconded by the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest. Her book Steps on the Borderline: Studies on the Romanian Imaginary of Borders received the 2010 Best Book of the Year Award in Comparative Literature from the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature. She is a member of the editorial board of Transponticae, a journal and book series devoted to Black Sea literary and cultural studies. Her publications explore the modern narrator, the picturesque, country branding, geopoetic imagination and allegory.
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1837-1368
Anca Gâță – University ‘Dunărea de Jos’, Galați, Romania - guest editor
Anca Gâță is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, and a member of its Research Centre for Discourse Theory and Practice. She holds degrees in French and English Language and Literature and in Law, and a PhD in Linguistics, with a dissertation on future tenses in contemporary French. Since 2016, she has also taught Romanian as a foreign language at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, as a lecturer appointed by the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest. Her research and teaching cover foreign and second language education, translation studies, specialized discourse, pragmatics, rhetoric, and argumentation, particularly in academic and professional contexts. Her publications include language textbooks, monographs on the French future tense, speech act theory and prediction, and the expression of consequence in French, as well as studies and book chapters. She has also co-edited collective volumes and journal issues. A co-founding member of the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies at Jiangsu University and a member of the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute, she serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Argumentation, Journal of Argumentation in Context, Mélanges francophones, and Studii de lingvistică.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6130-7992
Monica Huțanu - University of Belgrade, Serbia – editor
Monica Huțanu is assistant professor at the Department of Romanian and Classical Studies at the West University of Timișoara (Romania) and, since, 2012, lecturer of the Romanian language at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), appointed by the Romanian Language Institute. Her areas of interest and research include writing systems (which she explored in her doctoral thesis (2009) on the place and importance of the etymological orthographic principle in Romanian), sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, second language acquisition. She is particularly interested in the Vlach community from Eastern Serbia, and has published, in collaboration or as sole author, several articles and book chapters on various aspects of the sociolinguistic situation of this community. Her most recent book (co-authored with Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković) is The Vlachs of Eastern Serbia: Language and Society (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4073-1663
Tomasz Klimkowski – Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland – editor
MA in Romanian Philology (2003), PhD (2008) and DLitt (2020) in Linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, university professor, Head of the Romanian Studies Research Unit and Vice Director of the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures of this university, member of the Commission of the Balkan Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published two books: Influenţe slave vechi asupra morfologiei şi sintaxei limbii române (Ed. Aeternitas, 2011) and Dublarea clitică și fenomenele conexe în limba română contemporană (Ed. Eikon, 2018), and about 30 articles and book chapters on Romanian and Balkan-Romance linguistics. He is co-author of a Polish-Romanian and Romanian-Polish dictionary (Wyd. Nowela, 2012) and a Romanian language textbook (Rumuński nie gryzie, Wyd. Edgard, 2017). He also translates contemporary Romanian literature into Polish (e.g. Andrei Pleșu, Gabriela Adameșteanu, Max Blecher, Ioana Pârvulescu).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0376-3110
Ana-Maria Pușcașu – Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland - editor
Ana-Maria Pușcașu is a researcher, poet, and, since 2022, lecturer in Romanian language and culture at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, appointed by the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest. She holds a PhD in Philology, with a thesis examining the literary movement fracturism from a paradoxical comparative perspective. She subsequently pursued postdoctoral research focused on various forms of experimental poetry. Her research and publication interests include comparative literature, contemporary poetry, literary and cultural identity, World Literature, digital literature, and the relationship between literature and new media. She is the author of Fracturismul: radiografierea unui curent literar (Prut Internațional, 2025) and has published studies on contemporary Romanian and Moldovan poetry and prose, literary identity, computer-generated poetry, and literature in the digital environment.
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7847-7796
Oana Topală – Wallonie-Brussels Federation, Brussels, Belgium – layout editor, proofreading editor
Since 2010 she has been a teacher with the Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest, Romania and with the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation - General Administration of Education. She teaches Romanian language and culture in schools of the French Community of Belgium. She is specialized in intercultural and multilingual pedagogy, and over the years she has coordinated multiple multilingual, multicultural and interdisciplinary projects. Since 2018 she has been involved in scientific research, and is interested in topics such as intercomprehension, multilingualism, linguistic proximity and sociolinguistics. Her publications include 'French-Romanian linguistic interferences in children attending the course of Romanian language, culture and civilization in Belgium' (La Pensée et les Hommes, Brussels, 2021), 'Pluri, inter-, -transdisciplinarity. An example of a pluri-, inter- transdisciplinary project with an intercultural purpose' (La Pensée et les Hommes, Brussels, 2024).
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4284-4513
Ramona Volvoreanu - University of Helsinki, Finland - proofreading editor
Ramona Volvoreanu is a lecturer in Romanian language, literature, and culture at the University of Helsinki, appointed by the Romanian Language Institute in Bucharest. She is a certified translator with a professional background in education, editing, and translation dating back to 2000. Alongside her extensive experience in teaching English and Italian, she has been teaching Romanian as a foreign language since 2017, collaborating with Flying Colours and BiCortex Languages. Between 2014 and 2016, she also served as a Lecturer in English at Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli in France. She holds a PhD in French Languages and Literatures, specialising in Comparative Literature, awarded by the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli in 2020. Her doctoral thesis, Étude comparative des pratiques poétiques dans les chants traditionnels roumains et corses, focused on a comparative study of poetic practices in Romanian and Corsican traditional songs. Her translation experience includes high-level conference interpreting and collaboration with audiovisual media. Her research interests centre on CLIL methodology, multilingual pedagogy, and aligning language acquisition with contemporary global realities.
ADVISORY BOARD
Ioana Bican – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2557-6001
Cristina Bogdan – University of Bucharest, Romania https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9900-8568
Radu Bogdan – Tulane University, New Orleans, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3213-3441
Marina Cap-Bun – University of Constanța, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4186-1395
Adrian Chircu - Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-3337
Roxana Ciolăneanu – University of Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4090-1570
Silvio Cruschina – Helsinki University, Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8082-8232
Daiana Cuibus – Babes-Bolyai University/Romanian Language Institute, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8883-5333
Baudouin Decharneux – L'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Iulia Dondorici – Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Cécile Folschweiller - INALCO, Paris, France
Jukka Havu – University of Tampere, Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-9787
Gabriela Haja – "Alexandru Philippide" Institute of Romanian Philology, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3845-8215
Brendan Humphreys – University of Helsinki, Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4271-6149
Kazimierz Jurczak – Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7499-1466
Thede Kahl – Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1725-8070
Martin Maiden – University of Oxford, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6321-5138
Roberto Merlo – University of Turin, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-5918
Matti Miestamo – Helsinki University, Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-9030
Oana Murăruș – University of Bucharest, Romania
Paul Nanu - University of Alba Iulia, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6719-0396
Antoaneta Olteanu - University of Bucharest, Romania https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-2787
Florin Oprescu - Universität Wien, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6495-3300
Jana Palenikova – Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Cristian Preda – University of Bucharest, Romania
Teodora Șerban-Oprescu – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Fernando Sánchez-Miret – The University of Salamanca, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6280-1415
Gabriel Sandu – Helsinki University, Finland
Ingmar Söhrman – University of Gothenburg, Sweden https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9468-9157
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković – Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8389-9976
Alice Toma – L'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9218-4692
Dragoș Ursu – University of Alba Iulia, Romania https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6218-270X
