Ioan Pop-Curşeu - Biography#

Ioan Pop-Curseu (born 1978) is Associate Professor at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He teaches Film and Theatre Aesthetics; Film Theory; Film genres: Horror, Fantasy. He has defended his first PhD dissertation at the University of Geneva in 2007 (De l’homme hyperbolique au texte impossible: théâtralité, theatre(s), ébauches de pièces chez Baudelaire, available at https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:12051), and the second at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca in 2011 (Magic and Witchcraft in Romanian Culture). In 2015, he defended his habilitation dissertation at Babeş-Bolyai University and was integrated as a PhD supervisor in the Doctoral School of Theatre and Film, at the Babeş-Bolyai University. His research interests are concerned with film aesthetics, art criticism and image theory, nineteenth-century culture and literature (especially Baudelaire, Flaubert), as well as anthropological aspects of magic and witchcraft. He is the author of several books: Nu ştie stânga ce face dreapta. Două eseuri despre şovăielile gândirii critice (2004); Baudelaire, la plural (2008); Vasile Bologa (1859-1944), studiu monografic (2010); Magie şi vrăjitorie în cultura română. Istorie, literatură, mentalităţi (2013); Manual de estetică (2014). He wrote dozens of articles on various themes, writers and films.