Information about the Authors

Abstract

Nadia-Flaviana ALBESCU is Associate Professor at the University of Alba Iulia and a teacher at the ‘Regina Maria’ High School of Arts. Her research focuses on literary studies, cultural identity, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature, with particular interest in the relationship between memory, aesthetics, and cultural practices.

Alexandra COTOC is a Lecturer, PhD, in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Her research focuses on Internet Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Digital Humanities. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities, Culture & Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and an alumna of the European Summer School in Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Germany. She teaches undergraduate courses in English grammar, as well as courses and seminars on New Media Communication and Digital Culture, Sociolinguistics, and Internet Linguistics.

Carmen DURA is a Romanian language lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad (Republic of Serbia). She holds degrees in literature, theology, and music from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași and the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași. Her doctoral dissertation, Pragmatics of Romanian Dramatic Discourse in the 20th Century, was defended in 2007 at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași under the supervision of Professor Constantin Frâncu. Her research focuses on linguistics, particularly linguistic pragmatics, Romanian literature, with a special interest in the works of Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania and Nicolae Steinhardt, as well as sacred music preserved in manuscript and early printed sources.

Brendan HUMPHREYS is an Associate Professor of East European Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. He is a political historian and anthropologist whose research focuses on the Cold War, the Balkans, carceral studies, nationalism and exceptionalism, and the sociology of conflict. His publications include Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm (with Markku Kivinen, Routledge, 2021) and From Gulag to Euro Prisons (with Judith Pallot, Palgrave, 2026).

Cristina HURDUBAIA is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at INALCO (PLIDAM, Paris). Her research focuses on domestic objects in migration, with particular attention to regimes of presence, everyday practices, and the organisation of domestic space in transnational contexts, as well as the symbolic and interpretive dimensions associated with objects. Her work brings together anthropology, material culture studies, migration studies, and social museology.

Adam Mikołaj MATUSZCZAK holds a Bachelor’s degree in Romanian Philology and a Master's degree in French Philology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. In his Bachelor's and Master's theses, as well as in articles and conference presentations, he has focused primarily on the history of language, linguistic geography, dialectology, etymology, and toponymy. He is particularly interested in linguistic situations in border regions and in areas where representatives of more than one nation or ethnic group live and use multiple languages. In his research, he seeks to combine traditional linguistic approaches with the active use of new technologies, particularly in language research conducted in online environments. This year, he is preparing to begin doctoral studies at his alma mater.

Anamaria RADU is a Junior Lecturer, PhD, in the Department of Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is currently a Romanian language lecturer (Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest) at the Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt University of Berlin. In addition to teaching and assessing Romanian as a foreign language, her research focuses on Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Digital Humanities.

Alexandra OLTEANU is an Assistant Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania, and a member of the Digital Humanities Laboratory research team. Her research focuses on Cultural Studies, Digital Literary Studies, Genre Theory, and Literary History and Theory, with particular emphasis on nineteenth-century Romanian literature and the evolution of the Romanian novel. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century Romanian literature, including studies on the outlaw and historical novel, literary myths, social banditry, Romanian literary terminology, and the emergence of the Romanian historical novel. Her most recent publications appeared between 2023 and 2025.