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Comparative and World Literature

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sukanya Banerjee
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
2
Victor Cobuz
University of Bucharest
3
Teodora Dumitru
Romanian Academy
4
Mihnea Bâlici
Babeș-Bolyai University
5
Cătălina Stanislav
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
6
Tingxuan Liu
Huaiyin Institute of Technology
7
Ioana Moroșan
Academia Oamenilor de Știință din România
8
Maria Patricia Williams
University College London
9
Ruth S. Wenske
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10
Saleh Chaoui
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Between Cosmology and Technology: Nonhuman Near-Omniscience as Animist Practice in Nnedi Okorafor’s <i>Lagoon</i>
Science Fiction Studies|2024
2 cit.
2
The Unhappy Marriage of Care and the Global Market: ‘Soft Backsliding’ in the Narratives of Two Romanian Badanti
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory|2024
1 cit.
3
“LENT VOICES”: THE POLITICS OF ROMANIAN MIGRANT LIFE WRITING
Dacoromania litteraria|2024
1 cit.
4
STAGES IN THE SAGA OF THE INTERPRETATION OF B. FUNDOIANU’S COLONIAL THEORY: FROM E. LOVINESCU UNTIL TODAY
Dacoromania litteraria|2024
1 cit.
5
Aspirational postmodernism: the slow naturalization of the free market culture in late socialist Romania
Studies in East European Thought|2025
1 cit.
6
The Institutionalization of Feminism in the Romanian Academic and Intellectual Sphere
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory|2024
0 cit.
7
Making the Intermediaries: The Romanian Book Market in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Between Economics and Culture
Transilvania|2024
0 cit.
8
Post-secular articulations of belonging: Islam and spiritual awakening in Sahar Mustafah’s <i>The Beauty of Your Face</i>
Social Identities|2025
0 cit.
9
Noneventality, Narrative, and the Problem of the Climate Crisis
Victorian review|2024
0 cit.
10
FROM REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOTIC MOTHERS TO THE CONTEMPORARY NATIONALIST DISCOURSE: THE APPROPRIATION OF THE IMAGE OF THE MOTHER IN THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF 1848 AND THE EMERGENCE OF NATIONALIST DISCOURSES TODAYTHE IRONY OF JEAN STAROBINSKI IN THE ROMANIAN TRANSLATIONS
Dacoromania litteraria|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Laetitia Zecchini
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
2
Vlad Pojoga
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
3
Ovio Olaru
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
4
Denisa Frătean
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
5
David Morariu
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
6
Dragoș Varga
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
7
Ștefan Baghiu
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
8
Cosmin Borza
Babeș-Bolyai University
9
Emanuel Modoc
Romanian Academy
10
Elena Zemskova
National Research University Higher School of Economics

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Loony platform politics: the Romanian far-right performance and the digital dystopia of 2024
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe|2025
11 cit.
2
Archives of Minority: ‘Little’ Publications and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Colonial Bombay
South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies|2022
6 cit.
3
Existentialism, existentialists, and Marxism: From critique to integration within the philosophical establishment in Socialist Romania
Studies in East European Thought|2022
6 cit.
4
Capitalist Heterotopia &amp; Lost Social Utopia: Documenting Class, Work, and Migration in Post-Communist East-Central European Fiction
Central Europe|2024
6 cit.
5
Liviu Rebreanu și Sofia Nădejde ca world literature: geopolitică, interimperialitate și descoperirea lumii în romanul modern
Transilvania|2022
5 cit.
6
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova
Women s Studies|2024
5 cit.
7
The peasant and the nation plot: a distant reading of the Romanian rural novel from the first half of the twentieth century
Rural History|2022
4 cit.
8
Despre code-switching în literaturile scrise în limbi periferice. Multilingvism și strategii discursive în romanul românesc din secolul al XIX-lea
Transilvania|2022
2 cit.
9
From <i>Ostalgie</i> To <i>Ostodium</i> . The Anti-Communist Novel in Post-1989 East-Central Europe <sup>1</sup>
Central Europe|2024
2 cit.
10
Tragicomedia Occidentului: emigrația economică în romanele și filmele românești din anii ’90
Transilvania|2024
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Colin McFarlane
Durham University
2
D. J. Palmer
University of Rochester
3
Mark Dressman
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
Helena Michie
Rice University
5
Kate Baldwin
Yale University
6
Karim Mattar
University of Colorado System
7
Steve Strand
University of Oxford
8
Joshua M. Smyth
Syracuse University
9
Mihai Dascălu
Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București
10
Natasha Lvovich
City University of New York

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Written emotional expression: Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology|1998
1.1k cit.
2
Written emotional expression: Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology|1998
932 cit.
3
Assemblage and geography
Area|2011
803 cit.
4
Effects of writing about stressful experiences on symptom reduction in patients with asthma or rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized trial.
PubMed|1999
784 cit.
5
Assemblage and critical urbanism
City|2011
783 cit.
6
The City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2011
719 cit.
7
Discovering statistics using SPSS, 2nd edition
Unknown Journal|2006
564 cit.
8
Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching
TESOL Quarterly|1999
541 cit.
9
Daily and momentary mood and stress are associated with binge eating and vomiting in bulimia nervosa patients in the natural environment.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology|2007
537 cit.
10
Translocal assemblages: Space, power and social movements
Geoforum|2009
532 cit.

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