Teaching staff

Conferences

• 26-28 March 2026 – Participation in the Conference of the Faculty of Letters “Lumen Litterarum: Epoci, spații, culturi: de la textul clasic la textul digital” organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi with the paper “Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans in The Chronicles of Narnia”, https://litere.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Program_Lumen-2026v30.pdf
• 19-22 November 2025 – Participation in the C. S. Lewis International Interdisciplinary Conference 2025, Iași, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and The C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society with the paper “The Abrahamic Archetype in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction” https://iasi.cslks.ro/schedule/
• 8-9 May 2025 – Participation in the International Conference “Anglicits and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Art for Art’s Sake as an Ideology: The Search for Meaning in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and C. S. Lewis” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qCxaPUeMz10AqjfGFcVBzY_3fvIh3RZr/edit?tab=t.0
• 8-9 November 2024 - Participation in the International Conference “George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference ‘Borderlands: George MacDonald Between Worlds’”, organised by George MacDonald Society, in St Andrews, UK, with the paper “The Archetype of the Prodigal Son in George MacDonald’s Lilith and C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress”
• 21-24 August 2024 –Participation in the International Conference “Language, Individual and Society” in Burgas, Bulgaria, with the paper “Two Antithetical Images of Death in the 20th Century: Absurdity and Paradise” – online
• 25-27 April 2024 – Participation in the “33^rd International Conference on British and American Studies” in Timișoara, Romania, organised by West University of Timisoara, Romania, with the paper “C.S. Lewis’s Laugh at Modernism: The St(r)eam of Consciousness in The Shoddy Lands,” https://bas.events.uvt.ro/wp-content/uploads/BAS-2024-programme-.pdf
• 19–20 April 2024 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The ‘Undisplaced’ Myths as Archetypes in C. S. Lewis’s Fiction,” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LSjcPyk8C0Cq0aDRGY4ROGv-wpB5We8FyVGTBg-ts5A/edit?tab=t.0
• 12 April 2024 – Participation in the National Conference “Drept si Litere” (Law and Letters), 4th Edition, “Indentități și Metafore Juridice” [“Identities and Juridical Metaphors”], organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi with the paper “Recunoașterea vinovăției: începutul vieții mistice în opera lui C.S. Lewis” [“The Admission of Guilt: The Beginning of the Mystical Life in C.S. Lewis’s works”], https://laws.uaic.ro/images/aaimagini/2024/04/Conferinta_DL_Program_Rezumate12_04_2024.pdf
• 9-11 November 2023 – Participation in “The 6^th International Conference C.S. Lewis – The Re-enchanted Academic” organised by The C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, with the paper “The ‘Empty’ Twenties and the ‘Steam’ of Consciousness – C.S. Lewis and Modernism,” https://simpozioncslewis.blogspot.com/p/conference.html
• 9 November 2023 – Participation in the conference “How to Be an Alien in British Cultural Studies” organised by the British Cultural Studies Centre and the Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity at the University of Bucharest, in collaboration with New Europe College, with the paper “A British Pilgrim Outside the UK: C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress,” online, https://nec.ro/events/how-to-be-an-alien-in-british-cultural-studies/
• 26 August 2023 – Participation in the International Conference “Language, Individual and Society” in Burgas, Bulgaria, with the paper “C.S. Lewis: Modernist or Anti-Modernist? His Response to his Times” - online
• 11 -14 July 2023 – Participation in “Școala de vară pentru tinerii cercetători filologi” [The Summer School for Young Researchers in Philology], Ipotești, Botoșani county, Romania, organised by University “Babeș-Bolyai” of Cluj,  with the paper “Dorul de paradis reflectat în Cronicile din Narnia de C.S. Lewis” [“The Longing for Paradise as reflected in The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis”]
• 29 April - 1 May 2023 – Participation in the “Inklings Symposium 2023”, organised by the Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics, Magdeburg, Germany, with the paper “`Till Death Do us Part` – or Not? Death as a Unifier in C.S. Lewis’s Fiction,” https://www.inklings.ovgu.de/inklings/en/Programme.htm
• 3 November 2022 – Participation in the “C.S. Lewis Symposium” at Ulster University, Coleraine, UK, with the paper “The Embodiment of Heaven in Lewis's Works”
• 28 - 29 October 2022 – Participation in the Conference “Religious Hypotheses and the Study of Human Nature”, Timisoara, with the paper “Human Nature in the Works of C.S. Lewis”, online, https://religioushypotheses.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Program-conferinta_FINAL-public_v3.pdf
• 28 - 29 October 2022 – Participation in “International Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference (IIDC2022)”, Bucuresti, Romania, with the paper “C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Quest for Paradise”, online, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5512473725495991&set=pcb.5512475378829159
• 14 - 15 October 2022 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, Iasi, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The Theme of Conversion in C.S. Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress,” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y5pOfdlaGZeVJu9wOA8NPPAYTbVHJuN0QAlkKJzOqbI/edit?tab=t.0
• 28 July - 5 August 2022 - Participation in the Conference “C.S. Lewis Summer Institute”, organised by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, Oxford, UK, with the paper “The Screwtape Letters - A Spiritual War in the Middle of Modernism”
• 18 - 19 November 2021 - Participation in the 5^th C. S. Lewis Interdisciplinary Conference, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and the C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits Society, Iasi, with the paper “The Fight between God and the Devil in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis”
• 28 Mai 2021- Participaion in the Symposium “Philologica” organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “The Supreme Virtue of Love in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”
• 14-15 Mai 2021 – Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, rganised by  “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Casy – An Iconic Spiritual Character in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”, https://www.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/InterCulturalia-2021-Program-Abstracts-11-full.pdf
• 9 – 10 May 2019 - Participation in “Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with two papers: “The American Adam – The Origins and the Present” and “La terreur de l’histoire dans le roman La 25e Heure de Virgil Gheorghiu” [“The Terror of History in the Novel The 25^th Hour by Virgil Gheorghiu”), https://events.linguaculture.ro/images/Inter2019/Program-scurt-A4-Interculturalia-2019.pdf
• 16 April 2019 - Participation in the International Student Symposium “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – Reconsidering American Values in the 21^st century”, organised by the Fulbright Commission with a paper about the American Adam, in Bucharest, Romania
• 6 May 2017 - Participation in „Interculturalia, International Symposium for Students and Young Researchers”, organised by “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, with the paper “Feminism in Jane Eyre,” https://interculturalia.linguaculture.ro/principalthing/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Program-simpozion.pdf