Editorial Team
EDITORIAL STAFF
Emilia Ivancu – Helsinki University, Finland – editor-in-chief
Emilia Ivancu is a researcher, university lecturer, translator and poet. At present she is a lecturer of Romanian language, literature and culture with Helsinki University, Finland with the coordination of the Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest, Romania. Her publications include Games of Identity and Alterity in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and VS Naipaul (Eikon Publishing House, 2019) and Travels with Steinbeck in Search of America (Imago Publishing House, 2005). She co-authored a dictionary about the theatrical characters of Romanian playwright, poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga (Dacia Publishing House, 2005), a Polish-Romanian and Romanian-Polish dictionary (Nowela Publishing House, 2012) and a Romanian language textbook (Rumuński nie gryzie, Nowela Publishing House, 2017). Her recent research interests and research articles focus on prismatic poetry translation, creative multilingualism in teaching Romanian as a foreign language, mytho-poetical thought, comparative mythology, comparative literature, translation studies, autobiographical discourse. She has been translating fiction and poetry from English, Welsh, and Polish into Romanian.
Tomasz Klimkowski – Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, 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
Marius Miheț – The Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia – editor
MARIUS MIHEȚ is a literary critic and historian, lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava with the coordination of the Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest, Romania. He has published more than 800 articles and studies, and has contributed to 55 collective volumes. He is a permanent contributor to the magazines „România literară”, „Contemporanul”, „Familia” and „Suplimentul de cultură”. His most recent edited volumes are Transcultural Mirrors. Vol. I (2024), New Encounters. Literary. Cultural and Historical Studies (2023), Collective Identity. National and Transnational Perspectives (2023).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2902-9558
Oana Topală – Wallonie-Brussels Federation, Brussels, Belgium – layout editor, proofreader
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: 'The travelling words' (2021), the intercultural project about the European languages 'EUROPA' (2017), 'Once upon a time…on the spice route. Rediscover European history and culture through its spice travel' (2013), 'Fairytales from here with words from other places' (2011), ‘From Art Nouveau to Art Déco’ (2023). 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).
ADVISORY BOARD
Ioana Bican – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cristina Bogdan – University of Bucharest, Romania
Radu Bogdan – Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Roxana Ciolăneanu – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Silvio Cruschina – Helsinki University, Finland
Daiana Cuibus – Babes-Bolyai University/Romanian Language Institute, Romania
Baudouin Decharneux – L'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Iulia Dondorici – Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Cécile Folschweiller - INALCO, Paris, France
Gabriela Gavril – Al. I. Cuza University of Iași, Romania
Jukka Havu – University of Tampere, Finland
Kazimierz Jurczak – Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Thede Kahl – Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Paul Nanu - University of Alba Iulia, Romania
Nicoleta Neșu – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Martin Maiden – University of Oxford, UK
Roberto Merlo – University of Turin, Italy
Matti Miestamo – Helsinki University, Finland
Oana Murăruș – University of Bucharest, Romania
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
Gabriel Sandu – Helsinki University, Finland
Ingmar Söhrman – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković – Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade
