Laura Marin

After completing a dissertation in philology/history and the semiology of text and image, prepared under joint supervision at the University of Bucharest and Paris Diderot University, defended in 2011, and published two years later under the title Le Neutre: Reading Blanchot in the Footsteps of Levinas and Derrida (EUB, CESI series “Text and Image,” 2013), Laura Marin focuses her research on visual studies, with a particular interest in theories of the image.

He edited a special issue titled “Georges Didi-Huberman: Unfolding the Image” in the journal Images. Images. Imageis. Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies (CESI/European Institute, 2016). Between 2015 and 2018, he coordinated a collaborative postdoctoral research project focused on contemporary theories of the figure, which resulted in the publication of three volumes: an anthology of translated theoretical texts (Figure – Body, Art, Space, Language, EUB, 2017), a collection of papers from the international symposium organized as part of the project (Uses of the figure, modes of figuration, EUB, 2017, co-edited by Anca Diaconu) and an anthology bringing together the studies of the project team members (Working Through the Figure: Theory, Practice, Method(EUB, 2018, co-edited by Anca Diaconu).

Among other works, he has translated into Romanian two books by Georges Didi-Huberman: In front of the image. A question about the purpose of art history (Tact, 2019) and Ahead of Its Time: Art History and the Anachronism of Images (Tact, 2021).

Areas of scientific interest:

Theories of the image and the imaginary, critical theory, French theory, intellectual history, memory, and cultural heritage.

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