She received her Ph.D. from the Program in Literature at Duke University, with a dissertation entitled The Art of Distances or, a Morality for the Everyday. She has published, in Romanian journals, an essay on the dream-theater of Strindberg and Adamov and translations from the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy; a review-essay on Jonathan Culler’s Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction on the website of the French research group in literary theory, Fabula; and articles in the Spanish section of the Dictionary of Art Historians (ed. Lee Sorensen, Lilly Library). She is interested in theories of everyday life, the sociology of intellectuals, twentieth-century comparative literature (British, French and German) and its intersections with philosophy, especially moral philosophy. To visit her personal webpage, please click here.