Prof. univ. dr. Ioana Bican (Ioana Bot) is lecturing in the fields of Romanian literature, the history of literary ideas and cultural mediation, in the Department of Romanian literature and literary theory at the UBB Faculty of Letters (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She is the former director of the UBB Doctoral School of Linguistics and Liteary Studies and, currently, a member of its Council. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of Babeș-Bolyai University. She is the director of The Modern Literary Philology Research Center (FiM) – http://film.centre.ubbcluj.ro). She is also a member of the CNCS (National Council of Scientific Research). She was guest professor at several reputed European universities (Rome, Florence, Zurich), was part of international research projects carried out by UBB in cooperation with the Universities of Freibourg (Switzerland), Rome and Florence. She participated in lexicographic projects dealing with European literature with studies on the Romanian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries (most recently: the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe. Her main books focus on Romanian Romanticism and the poetics of Mihai Eminescu (most recent title: Eminescu explicat fratelui meu/Eminescu explained to my brother, Bucharest, 2012).
Fields of scientific interest: the history of Romanian literature (19th – 20th centuries), the history of European literary ideas in the 20th century, the poetics of fixed forms. One of her on-going projects is the compilation of critical and philological editions. She translates into Romanian literature from French, Finnish, Italian and English.
Prof. Dan Chiribucă is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeș-Bolyai University, former dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, former president of the Romanian Society of Sociologists (2009-2010), currently vice-president, former research director of the Institute for the Social Studies Metro Media Transilvania (1998-2005). From March 2018, he is a member of the National Council for Higher Education Statistics and Forecast. He holds a BA, an MA and a PhD in Sociology. His main research interests are in the fields of research methodology, communication and media. He has directed or coordinated more than 65 research projects for national and international beneficiaries, most of them quantitative and qualitative studies, social impact assessments, social inclusion and media audience studies. He worked as consultant for World Bank, Hart Group, 101 AG Worldwide, Romanian Fund for Social Development, Romanian Government, Nokia corporation. He is the author or co-author of 6 books and more than 40 chapters and papers published in collective volumes and peer reviewed journals in Romania and abroad.
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.
Simona Mălăescu works at the Centre for University Strategy and Quality Management as a senior psychologist. She has been involved in research and higher education development in the framework of several institutional projects on students attrition, third stream activities, organisational psychology, recruitment and regional development. She is also a lecturer at the Department of Human Geography and Tourism, Faculty of Geography of Babeș-Bolyai University.
