Expressions of Fear from Antiquity to the Contemporary World

Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Bucharest. Her academic interests include archaic Greek literature, the Hellenistic Epic, social anthropology, Greek and Roman mythology, Romanian and international folklore, and Biblical Studies. Her publications include Apollonius Rhodius; Mentalități și instituții indo-europene și mediteraneene în scrierile eline; Sacrul monstruos. Mitologie, mitistorie, folclor românesc and Mitologie greco-romană. Curs-atelier.

Ana-Cristina Halichias, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Classical Philology of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches Chancellery Medieval Latin, Latin Paleography, Latin Historical Morphology, and Vulgar and Late Latin. She has published five single author volumes and over forty articles, she has edited three collective volumes, and co-authored six books. In 2006, she received the “Timotei Cipariu” award from the Romanian Academy, before receiving the “Petru Creția” award from the National Museum of Literature in 2011. Her publications include Smart and Dumb in Latin; Studia Mediaevalia et Neolatina; A Glossary of Romanian Terms in Latin Documents (13th – 16th century); and Elements of Latin Phonetics, Morphology and Syntax.

Nicolae-Andrei Popa is a PhD student at the University of Bucharest, where he is writing a thesis on S.T. Coleridge’s religious philosophy. His interests also include the prose of Herman Melville and Don DeLillo, as well as Neoclassical and English Romantic literature. He has taught English to students of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Bucharest and currently teaches practical courses of English and English Romantic Literature seminars at the same university. In addition, he translates academic and non-academic texts alike from and to English, French and Romanian.