Autor: Maria-Ana Tupan

Professor Maria-Ana Tupan is affiliated with the English Department of Bucharest University, where she teaches courses in the history of British literature and in applied literary theory. She also taught at Penn State University as a Senior Fulbright Grantee in 1994–5. She is a member of the Romanian Writers” Union and of several academic societies (EFACIS, Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, Flann O”Brien Society) and has received awards from the Writers” Union and Romanian literary reviews. She has also published various books, book chapters and articles, in both English and in Romanian, in the fields of literary history and theory, comparative literature, genre theory, discourse analysis, and cultural studies.Dr Marin Cilea is a Senior Lecturer at the Physics Department of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He has specialized in lasers and applications, and in the digital investigation of semiconductor devices. His recent concern in the philosophy of science has materialised in interdisciplinary studies in the epistemology of literary works, published jointly with Maria-Ana Tupan.