Caius Dobrescu is Professor at the University of Bucharest (Theory of Literature, Cultural History, Cultural Studies). He wrote on literature and politics in the Communist and post-Communist epoch and on the interaction between the conflicting understandings of the notion of “bourgeois culture” and the evolutions of the literary modernity, in a global comparative perspective. As a Fulbright scholar affiliated with the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago he conducted research on terrorism and literary radicalism.
He also authored several novels, among which a couple of murder mysteries.
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