NAVIGATING CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND HISTORIES
IN MEMORIAM MIHAELA IRIMIA (1951–2022)

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The present volume commemorates Mihaela Irimia, a leading figure in British Cultural Studies in Romania, a distinguished professor at the University of Bucharest, a dear colleague to the members of the English Department, and an inspiring mentor to her students. Mihaela Irimia is also remembered as a captivating public speaker and a brilliant conversationalist who had a unique talent for bringing people together and making new and exciting ideas and projects happen. There is, perhaps, no better way of remembering her than by putting together – in one volume – the most recent work of her frequent collaborators, colleagues, students, and friends in a manner that reflects the fruitful territories, areas of inquiry, research questions and methodologies that her own work inspired. This volume covers a great array of subjects that Mihaela Irimia dedicated her career to: the conversation between ancient and modern literary forms, the complexities of the early English novel, and the paradoxes of Romantic poetics; travel narratives and city studies; the history of ideas and its intersection(s) with cultural, social, and material history; the fundamental paradigms of modernity and postmodernity, and comparative studies.