Dragoş Manea is a lecturer in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest, where he teaches courses in contemporary American literature, cultural memory studies, perpetrator studies, and media studies. His main research interests include the adaptation of history, cultural memory, and the relationship between ethics and fiction. Relevant publications include Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality (edited with Maria Sabina Draga-Alexandru, Brill, 2021) and Reframing the Perpetrator in Contemporary Comics: On the Importance of the Strange (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).