Emanuel Lupașcu, Bogdan Vișan
Emanuel Lupașcu is a second-year PhD student in Linguistic and Literary Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Supervised by dr. Călin Teutișan, his research examines how procedural forms in contemporary poetry conceal the conflict between the algorithm-driven self within the digital economy and neoliberal ideologies focused on personal capacities and optimization. His main fields of interest are Marxism, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, contemporary poetry, and digital capitalism. His work appears in Scopus/ESCI-indexed journals such as Transilvania, Philobiblon, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory and Transylvanian Review among others.
Bogdan Vișan is currently an MA student at the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania. His primary interest lies in the history of travelling literary concepts, such as Modernism and Postmodernism. His research also encompasses several other fields, including Marxism and World Literature Studies. He has published in Scopus/ESCI-indexed journals such as Transilvania, Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, and Philologica Jassyensia.