New Europe College
Romania
fellow
Alexandra IRIMIA
2026-2027
Home institution
Independent Scholar
Country of origin (home institution)
Romania
Discipline(s)
Cultural studies
Theme(s)
Cultural Studies; Digital Society
Fellowship dates
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Biography
2026/ 2027 Ștefan Odobleja Fellow
PhD in Comparative Literature, Western University (2026)
Title of the thesis: Red Tape: De-/Ontologies of the Writing Clerk (1950-2000)
PhD in Philology, University of Bucharest (2021)
Title of the thesis: "An Outrage and A Phantasm": Figures of Radical Absence in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Visual Arts
Research Project
The Administrative Imagination in the Digital Age: 21st-century Bureaucratic Fiction
The project investigates bureaucratic fiction as a transnational, cross-media cultural form, tracing literary and cinematic representations of administration in the process of shifting from paper-based archives to digital infrastructures. Combining cultural history, media theory, and affect theory, it analyzes how bureaucracy shapes subjectivity, power, and everyday experience in 21st-century literature and screen media.
Research Interests:
bureaucratic fiction, digital infrastructures, cinema, literature