Laura Pavel

Laura Pavel is Professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, where she teaches theatre theory, the anthropology of performance and cultural analysis. She is the author of several books of literary history and theatre theory, two of which have so far been translated and published abroad: Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature, transl. by Alistair Ian Blyth, Dalkey Archive Press (2011), and Ionesco. L’Antimondo di uno scettico, traduzione di Maria Luisa Lombardo, Aracne Editrice (2016). Her most recent volume of essays, Personaje ale teoriei, fiinţe ale ficţiunii/ Characters of theory, beings of fiction (European Institute, 2021), received the "Tudor Vianu Award - for the theory of literature and culture", offered by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. She has also authored, under the pen name Laura Francisca Pavel, two volumes of poetry: Trucuri urbane (OMG, 2022), and Acţiuni şi protocoale (OMG, 2023).