Publications

Academic papers:

• Anca Parvulescu, “Histories of Comparative Literature: The Last Decade,” in Worlds of Comparative Literature: The ACLA State of the Discipline Report, ed. Waïl S. Hassan and Shu-mei Shih (New York: Fordham UP, 2026) (forthcoming).
• Anca Parvulescu, “The Author and the Migrant,” The Oxford Handbook of Literature and Literature (Oxford UP, 2026) (forthcoming).
• Christian Moraru, ”Curating the Planetary Archive: World Literature in the Wake of the Anthropocene.” Literature and the Anthropocene. ed. Tore Rye Andersen, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2026) (forthcoming).
• Cosmin Borza, Claudiu Turcuș, “Therapy for the shock: 19th-century storytelling and post-communist emigration,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2025.2530185.
• Alex Goldiș, “Migrant’s Voice and the Colonizer’s Gaze in Romanian 2000s Fiction,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2025.2529475/
• Shu-mei Shih, “Afterword: On Derivative Forms of Eurocentrism,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 94-96.
• Teona Farmatu, “Copyright and the Emergence of Comparative Literature: Between Hugo Meltzl and Victor Hugo,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 68-80.
• Mihnea Bâlici, “For a Post-Imperial Discipline: On Dora d’Istria and Hugo Meltzl’s Travels,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 55-67.
• Mircea Minică, “Poly- or “Decaglottism”? On the Hierarchization of Languages in Nineteenth Century Comparative Linguistics,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 41-54.
• Rareș Moldovan, “Early Spectra of Comparatism: Meltzl and Maiorescu,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 28-40.
• Mihaela Ursa, “(Anti)Imperial Narration in the Mock-Epic Form: Ioan-Budai Deleanu and the Transylvanian Project,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 13-27.
• Cosmin Borza, “Peripheral Nationalism, Inter-imperial Comparatism: The Case of Grigore Silași,” Transilvania, no. 5 (2025): 1-12.
• Emanuel Modoc, “Nationalizing Meltzl: Thomas Frühm’s Concept of Weltliteratur,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 91-100.
• Maria Mădălina Irimia, “Moses Schwarzfeld: Between Jewish Studies and Literary Comparatism,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 76-90.
• Maria Luiza Medeleanu, “Absence and Presence of Rromani Voices in Acta Comparationis: Early Roma Comparatists,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 64-75.
• Levente T. Szabó, “Unraveled and Rewoven Ties: Women (Proto)comparatists in the Networks of the First International Journal of Comparative Literary Studies,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 53-63.
• Manuela Boatcă, “Subjects, Disavowed: Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 42-52.
• Alex Goldiș, “Meltzl and World Literature Studies: A Case of Mirrored Colonialism,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 31-41.
• Christian Moraru, “Ansatzpunkt Transylvania: Worldbuilding Method and Method-Building World in Hugo Meltzl and the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum Project,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 15-30.
• Anca Parvulescu, T. Szabó Levente and Alex Goldiș, “Introduction: Acta Comparationis—An Alternative Genealogy of World Comparatism,” Transilvania, no. 4 (2025): 1-14.
• Rebecca Wanzo and Anca Parvulescu, “Inconvenience and Its Sisters: Lauren Berlant’s Last Affective Meditation,” Cultural Critique 125, no. 1 (2024): 167–81.

Public-facing articles:

• Anca Pârvulescu, Manuela Boatcă, Argumente pentru o creolizare a teoriei, nr. 3-4, 2025, p. 74-77.
• Teona Farmatu, Loading… o istorie globală a comparatismului românesc, nr. 12, 2024, p. 78-80.
• Adriana Stan, Pentru o istorie globală a comparatismului din România, in Observator cultural, no. 1215, 2024.