I am Tenured Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University [homepage], Winner of the Oriental Scholar Program (2020-2022). I left my former academic position in Romania to join SJTU in May 2018.

I have authored 6 books and manuals, and (co-)edited 2 books. I have published over 150 essays and review essays on James Joyce,  Samuel Beckett and related aspects of modernism, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, as well as on Holocaust / Memory / Trauma Studies. Some of my essays have appeared in major international journals such as James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, Memory Studies, Oxford Literary Review, parallax, Paragraph, Partial Answers, Slavic Review, SLOVO.

I am joint-editor-in-chief (with Laurent Milesi) of Word and Text – A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, included in ESCI and Scopus, for which I have co-edited 7 issues (2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2023) with academics from Britain, China, France, Malta and Romania.

At present, I am working on a book project on the Jewish refugees in Shanghai during WW2.