Keynote Speakers

Alexandru Toma Sava

Aurel Vlaicu University, Arad, Romania

PhD. Toma SAVA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. He has led research on the cultural transmission of British literature in Romania across distinct socio‑political periods (Palimpsests: A Short History of British Literature in Romania, 2015) and on the nineteenth‑century origins and evolving mission of the modern university (The Idea of the University, 2017). In 2016 he edited, a volume of critical essays on interwar Romanian modernism and academic thought (Ion Botez – Studies). The latter two publications are bilingual editions, intended to grant international scholars access to significant but little‑known texts, previously obscured by language barriers.

Building on his interest in early modern narratives, he examined utopian and picaresque intersections through his comparative study and translation of Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines alongside Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus (published together as Henry Neville’s Isle of Pines and Simplicissimus’s Voyage Through Almost the Same Place, 2019), and in his edition of Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone (2023).

His teaching spans courses in British and American literature, literary theory, and intercultural studies, and he supervises BA and MA theses in literature.