Echinox Journal Volume 50 / 2026
Voices and Silences: 50 Years of the Society for Romanian Studies
Editors: Dana S. Trif & James Kapaló
Contents
Dana S. Trif & James Kapaló, Romanian Studies & the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS) at 50: The State of the Art
Communism: Between History & Memory
Adelina Ștefan, International Tourism between Tradition and Modernization in Socialist Romania: Promoting Tourism Abroad during the 1950s-1960s
Ligia Tudurachi, La spectralité dans la voix de l’écrivain : les « éditions radiophoniques »
Ioana Apostol, Marginality, Rise, and Authority in G. Oprescu’s Career. A Critical Reading
Maria-Andreea Fărcaș, Interimperialism under Nationalist Communism. Transylvania in the Works of Marta Petreu and Ádám Bodor
Lidia-Cristina Mihai, The Occidental/Western Myth as a Form of Mental (Self)Colonization in the Eastern European Discourse about Communism: A Case Study of Radu Pavel Gheo’s Noapte bună, copii!
Identity, Biography & Biofictions
Corin Braga, Constantin Stere: Il romanzo come autofinzione
Constantina Raveca Buleu, Two Canonical Romanian Writers Fictionalized: Florina Ilis’s Biofictions
Ruxandra Cesereanu, Lucreția Jurj: Female Partisan and Model of Ethical Behaviour
Codrin Liviu Cuțitaru, Othello the “Moor” and Răzvan the “Gypsy” or Human Condition as Hybris
Anca Pașca-Saturn, The Global Turn in Romanian Studies: Identity Reconstruction in Romanian Exile Literature
Veronica Isailă, Un’identità romantica “aggiornata”: Mihai Eminescu, nella prosa postmoderna di Mircea Cărtărescu
Human, Nonhuman, Posthuman & Beyond
Gabriela-Alexandra Bănică, Sea Adventure Fiction Making in the Romanian Setting
Amalia Cotoi, Towards a Somatic Narratology: Enactivism and its Implications for Literary Studies in Max Blecher’s Modernist Legacy
Elisabeta Maria Mârza, Posthumanism as an Instrument of Legitimization in Romanian Contemporary Poetry
Andreea-Georgiana Nagy, The Emancipation of the Animal: A Perspective on Animal Studies in Romanian Children’s Literature over the Last Half-Century
Ileana Nicoleta Sălcudean, Maria Scînteianu & Anna Decheng Zhu, Occhiolism and Coded Bodies: Current Social Challenges
Oana Soare, L’Homme post-historique et la mythologie de la science dans la vision de Mircea Eliade. Quelques reflexions
Memory, Intimacy & Private Space
Katalin Lajos, Perspectives and Insights on the Analysis of Private Correspondence: Hungarian Women’s Experience of 1960s Romania
Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, “A Life is Not a Display Window”. Balancing Voice and Silence in Post-Communist Women’s Life Writing
Cultural Heritage, Philosophy, and Trauma in the Public Eye
Corina Croitoru, La prière farcie comme stratégie subversive dans la littérature roumaine de l’époque phanariote à la dictature communiste
Delia Enyedi, Silent Film in Interwar Cluj: Cinemas, Advertising Strategies, Sociocultural Campaigns
Diana-Nicoleta Mirancea, A Brave New World: Technology and the #MeToo Movement in Romanian Universities
Cristian-Teodor Priscorneac, On the Origins of Ioan Petru Couliano’s Morphodynamics: A Benchmark for Couliano’s Cognitive Layout
Eleonora Sava, Reshaping Heritage and Identity through Contemporary Festive Events: Romanian Blouse Day
Magda Wächter, Between Literature and Philosophy. Frameworks for Analysing Cioran’s Oeuvre