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Adela Toplean is a Romanian researcher in the field of Communication and Death Studies, writer and artist based in Bucharest.
Her books are "Pragul și neantul. Încercări de circumscriere a morții" [The Threshold and the Void. Attempts to Circumscribe Death] (Polirom 2006) awarded I. P. Couliano prize by Polirom Publishing House, and "Moartea modernă. Între poetică și tanatologie" [Modern Death, between Poetics and Thanatology] (Editura Universității din București, 2016).
She is a lecturer in interpersonal communication and microsociology at the Faculty of Letters (University of Bucharest) and a principal investigator in the European research consortium “Digital Death. Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife” (DiDe) funded by EU CHANSE (to end in December 2024, with a no-cost extention until September 2025). Click here for more info on the project.
She is a member of The Association for the Study of Death & Society (ASDS, UK), The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA, Belgium), and The Center for Natural Law Studies and Normative Analysis (Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest).
Interests: sociology of death and dying, sociology of religion, social phenomenology, social philosophy, epistemological problems and methodologies in Death Studies, digital practices, personhood and identity in the digital age, digital immortality, political theory and thanato-politics, political philosophy, memory studies.
Complete bio and studies on her website (https://adelatoplean.com) and on her Academia profile: https://adelatoplean.academia.edu/
