Ionucu Pop is a PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, under the coordination of Professor Ioana Bican, PhD. His doctoral thesis is entitled Myths, rites and folkloric forms in the writings of the Sibiu Literary Circle [Mituri, rituri și forme folclorice în scrierile Cercului Literar de la Sibiu]. He has published articles and reviews in literary and scientific journals such as Vatra, Echinox, Studia UBB Philologia, Dacoromania Litteraria and the Lucian Blaga Yearbook. He attained a BA in English and Romanian from the Faculty of Letters in 2018, and an MA in Romanian Literary Studies in 2020 from the same faculty. His interests include the Sibiu Literary Circle, the Romanian expressionist poetry, the Romanian rural novel, ethnology and the areas in which it interferes with cultured literature.