Nicoleta Popa Blanariu teaches comparative literature at the University “Vasile Alecsandri.” Her interests in research include world and comparative literature, comparative intercultural studies, intermediality, visual semiotics and performance studies. She is a member of the editorial board of “Studii și cercetări ştiinţifice – seria filologie” (http://studiisicercetari.ub.ro/). She is coordinator of “Logos” Interdisciplinary Research Group, and scientific director of “Interstud” Research Center in the Faculty of Letters of “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău. She is also coordinator of the annual colloquium “Plurilingualism and interculturality”, which she initiated in 2010. She has published numerous articles in Romanian, French and English, four single-authored and seven co-authored books. She translated Patrice Pavis’s Dictionnaire du théâtre as Dictionar de teatru (with Florinela Floria, 2012).