Autor: Adriana Teodorescu

Adriana Teodorescu (born 1982) is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at «Petru Maior» University of Târgu-Mureş, Romania. She has previously worked as a Researcher at the «1 December 1918» University of Alba Iulia, Romania, and spent time as a Visiting Scholar at The American University of Paris in 2010. She defended her PhD thesis at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca in 2011, at the Department of Comparative Literature, and earned an MA in Sociology (2013) from the same university. She has co-organized the annual «International Conference Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe» since 2010. She is the co-editor of the Dying and Death in 18th–21st Century Europe volumes, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in 2011 (volume 1) and 2014 (volume 2), and contributed to the volume Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast (2014, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). Her fields of interest include death studies, cultural studies, comparative literature and gender studies.