Dragoş Ivana is Associate Professor of English and Head of the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures. His main research interests are British literature, the early American novel, comparative literature, Cervantes studies, critical theory, and city studies. He is president of the Romanian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and delegate member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Ivana’s first book, "Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801", was published by Rodopi/Brill in 2015. He was the recipient of several doctoral and postdoctoral research scholarships at the University of Kent, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Chawton House Library, and Vanderbilt University. Ivana has published extensively on the reception of Cervantes in the eighteenth-century English novel, novel theory and, recently, on the relationship between literature and the city. In 2010, he was awarded "The Professor Bologna" distinction, and between 2018 and 2024 he was appointed Fulbright Ambassador to the University of Bucharest by the U.S.-Romania Fulbright Commission. His latest book explores popular culture in eighteenth-century England. Ivana's current projects focus on representations of quixotism in the early American novel and representations of London in literature.