Literature and Cultural Memory

Cultural Memory, a subtle and comprehensive process of identity formation, promotion and transmission, is considered as a set of symbolic practices and protocols, with particular emphasis on repositories of memory and the institutionalized forms in which they are embodied.

Professor Mihaela Irimia teaches 18th-century and Romantic British literature and cultural theory at the University of Bucharest, where she is Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity. She has published extensively and organized international conferences.Dragos Manea is assistant lecturer at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches seminars in British and American literature, and academic writing. His main research interests include the adaptation of history, cultural memory, and the relationship between ethics and fiction.Andreea Paris is assistant lecturer at the University of Bucharest. She teaches English, contemporary literary theory, as well as eighteenth and twentieth century British literature. Other academic interests include cultural memory, postmodernist theories and literatures and reader response criticism.