Claudiu Turcuș is Associate Professor of Literary and Film studies at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj and Dean of Theatre and Film School. He published widely on topics such as the cultural memory and the intellectual history of (post)socialism, or the ideology, and aesthetics of New Romanian Cinema. His book, Norman Manea. Aesthetics as East Ethics (2016) is the very first monograph about life and oeuvre of this important Romanian-American writer, proposed twice for Nobel Prize. He co-authored with Constantin Parvulescu the chapter “Specters of Europe and Anti-communist Visual Rhetoric in the Romanian Film of the Early 1990s”, in Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu, and Katarzyna Marciniak, The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (Oxford UP, 2019); and recently the volume Romanian Capitalism on Screen. Microhistories of Hope, Anxiety and Adaptation (Edinburgh UP, 2025).