Mircea MartinMircea Martin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a prominent figure of post-World War II East European literary criticism, theory, and comparative studies. A corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, he is Editor-in-Chief of Euresis: Romanian Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies and president of the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature. He has published numerous volumes and hundreds of articles in Romanian, French, and English. His latest books include monographs such as Geometry and Finesse (2004) and Radicalism and Nuance (2015), as well as the edited collections Exploring the Past and the Present of Romanian Literary Theory (2006) and Universitas: Once upon a Time, There Was a Literary Circle . . . (2008). Read More Read Less