Ana Țăranu Teona Farmatu

Ana Țăranu is a PhD Student with the Department of Cinematography and Media, Babeș-Bolyai University and the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. Her doctoral research concerns the cultural expression of contemporary far-right political actors across East Central Europe, with a focus on post-socialist intellectual history.
Teona Farmatu is a cotutelle PhD candidate in comparative literature at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and the University of Poitiers, with a thesis on modern French poetry in the Romanian literary field at the end of the 19th century. She graduated Romanian Language and Literature-French Language and Literature in the same institution, where she followed a master’s degree in Romanian Literary Studies. She was twice a fellow of the STAR-UBB Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology. She was part of the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel project, conducted by Astra Museum Complex in Sibiu. She is a research assistant within the international team of the research project “A Global History of Romanian Comparatism: A Case Study in Inter-Imperial Comparative Literature” (PNRR-III-C9-2023-I8- CF 22/27.07.2023), presently ongoing at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her main research interests are literary sociology, poetry and the evolution of the poetic genre, modernism and modernity, feminism and gender studies.