Adriana Teodorescu

Adriana Teodorescu holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, and is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. In 2016, she organized a seminar at Harvard University on death in literature, as part of the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting. She has been co-organizer of the annual "International Conference on Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe" since 2010. She is the editor of Death Representations in Literature. Forms...See more

Adriana Teodorescu holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, and is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. In 2016, she organized a seminar at Harvard University on death in literature, as part of the American Comparative Literature Association's Annual Meeting. She has been co-organizer of the annual "International Conference on Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe" since 2010. She is the editor of Death Representations in Literature. Forms and Theories (2015) and co-editor of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe volumes (2011 and 2014). Her most recent publications include "The Contemporary Imaginary of Work. Symbolic Immortality within the Postmodern Corporate Discourse", in Postmortal Society: Towards a Sociology of Immortality (2017) and "The Women-Nature Connection as a Key Element in the Social Construction of Western Contemporary Motherhood", in Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment (2017). See less