Beyond the Iron Curtain

Ştefan Baghiu is an assistant professor of Romanian literature and literary theory at the Department of Romance Studies at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His main fields of research include literary translation as a cultural phenomenon, quantitative literary research, cultural studies, and Romanian postwar literature. He is the coordinator of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel.Ovio Olaru is an assistant professor of German language and literature at the Department of Anglo-American and German Studies at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His fields of research include German, Romanian, and Scandinavian studies, as well as digital humanities. He is also a translator of Scandinavian literature.Andrei Terian is a professor of Romanian literature at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Romanian literature, history of the novel, comparative and world literature.

• Rural literature − Socialist topics − Literary cosmopolitanism − Transnationalism − Metahistory − Thaw period − Masculinity in literature − Literary dissidence − East European fiction − Minority literatures − Romanian-German literature − Hungarian-Romanian literature − Postmodernism − World Literature