Cultural Representations of Food and Drinks in World Literature

Monica Manolachi is a Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Romania, literary translator, poet, and editor. Her research interests are Caribbean literature and culture, contemporary anglophone literature, postcolonial and cultural studies, translation theory, poetry studies, Romanian literature in translation. As part of her work as a researcher and literary critic, she published Performative Identities in Contemporary Caribbean British Poetry (2017) and more than twenty academic articles on the cultural, social and political role of poetry.

Lorena-Clara Mihăeș is a Lecturer at the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and also a translator. She holds a BA in English and French, an MA in Literary Translation, and a PhD in Philology. Her research interests include pragmatics, stylistics, cognitive studies, and translation studies. She published a monograph on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels titled Narrative Unreliability in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Fiction. She authored English for Cyber-Security Awareness, an ESP course for Computer Science. She co-edited two books: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines and The Role of Language and Symbols in Promotional Strategies and Marketing Schemes.