Alexandra Bacalu is Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches eighteenth-century British literature, as well as an MA course on therapeutic culture(s) and historical conceptions of the care of the self. Her research focuses on early modern intellectual history, with a particular interest in questions surrounding the imagination and faculty psychology in literary, philosophical, and devotional contexts. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination (Brill, 2023).