Dumitru Tucan

Dumitru Tucan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, History, and Theology of the West University of Timişoara. He currently teaches courses of Literary Theory, Romanian Literature, and Literary Hermeneutics. His research interests are in the fields of Literary and Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Romanian and Comparative Literature, and Gulag Studies. He is the author of Eugène Ionesco. Theatre, Metatheatre, Authenticity (in Romanian - Eugène Ionesco. Teatru, metateatru, autenticitate - 2006), Introduction to Literary Studies (in Romanian - Introducere în studiile literare, 2007), and History, Memory, Testimony (in French - Histoire, mémoire, témoignage. Essais sur le goulag est-européen, 2014). He is also Director of The Romanian Studies Department.