We are happy to announce the latest issue of Linguaculture, the International Journal edited by the English Department and the Linguaculture Centre for (Inter)Cultural and (Inter)Lingual Research at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Co-edited by Oana COGEANU-HARAGA (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi) and Ludmilla KOSTOVA (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria), issue 1/2025 presents a series of original articles under the theme East≠West: Revisiting Travel and Cultural Mobility. 

All contributions may be accessed freely on the journal's website: https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home

Table of contents - Linguaculture vol. 16, no. 1, 2025

Oana Cogeanu-Haraga, Ludmilla Kostova - East≠West: Revisiting Travel and Cultural Mobility

Articles

Cristina Preutu - Culture as Bridge between France and Romania in the Early Period of the Communist Regime

Catrinel Avarvarei - The Heart’s Passage in Salman Rushdie’s EAST, WEST

Monica Manolachi - Bridging the Black Atlantic: Caribbean Poetics from Calypso to the British Canon

Alexandra Bîja - The Influence of Travel Literature between Korea and the West

Bianca Mihaela Crișan - Anxious Entanglements: Gothic Monstrosity, Abjection and World-Systems in FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD and THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS

Monika Leferman - “The Plague Shall Be Lifted": Representations of East and West in NOSFERATU (2024)

Ioana Lăcrimioara Pelea - Bridging Cultures and Challenging Prejudices: The Relevance of Vasile Alecsandri’s BALTA-ALBĂ in Contemporary Literary Discourse

Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu, Constantin Răchită, Ana Odochiciuc, Roxana Patraș - Crossing the Grand Routes: Highwaymen on the Roads of the Romanian Principalities in the Long Nineteenth Century

David Morariu - How about Lexically Measuring Eastern European Literary Gypsylorism? Dual Othering and Linguistic Stereotyping of Roma Female Characters in the Modern Romanian Novel

Book Reviews and Notes

Ana-Magdalena Petraru - Theology and the Star Wars Universe, Benjamin D. Espinoza (ed.), Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, Lanham, Maryland, 2022, 250 p, ISBN 9781978707238

Sorina Ciobanu - Feminist Ideology and Translated Literature by Alexandra-Maria Vrînceanu, Institutul European, Iași, 2024, 244 p, ISBN 978-606-24-0386-7