Ștefan Baghiu & Costi Rogozanu in conversation
Our Well-being: Between Individualism and Solidarity
Ștefan Baghiu
Ștefan Baghiu is a lecturer in Romanian literature and literary theory at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and editorial secretary of the journal Transilvania. His research focuses on the quantitative analysis of world literature, translation studies, and the relationship between literature and ideology.
He is co-coordinator of the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel (1845–1947), the first comprehensive digital archive dedicated to the modern Romanian novel.
He has edited and co-edited collective volumes including Ruralism and Literature in Romania (2019) and Beyond the Iron Curtain: Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania (2021), and has published in prestigious international journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, Central Europe, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communication.
Costi Rogozanu
Costi Rogozanu is a literary critic and essayist who has worked in the press for 25 years. He has published Naratorul cel rău (Tact, 2024), Agresiuni, digresiuni (Polirom, 2006), Carte de muncă and Epoca de mijloc (Tact, 2013, 2019), and co-authored anthologies including Epoca Traian Băsescu (Tact, 2014) and Iluzia anticomunismului (Cartier, 2008).
Since 2021 he has also been a Romanian language teacher in Vrancea.