Sorana Corneanu has been teaching eighteenth-century British literature and early modern intellectual history at the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest since 1999. Her research interests include the intersections of literature, philosophy and science in the early modern period, the early modern history of the imagination, passions and virtues of the mind, and the changing fortunes of logic from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries. She was the recipient of two doctoral research scholarships at Oxford (2005-6) and New Europe College, Bucharest (2006-7), and was post-doctoral research fellow of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (Oct. 2011) and of CHED, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (July-Oct. 2012). She was a member of the ERC Starting Grant Medicine of the Mind and the Reconfiguration of Natural Philosophy: A New Interpretation of Francis Bacon (PI: Dr. Guido Giglioni) (2009-2014) and of the UEFISCDI grant Between Truth and Freedom: Enlightenment Answers to „Thinking for Oneself” (PI: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet) (2021-2023), and principal investigator of the UEFISCDI research grants An Intellectual History of the Imagination: Bridging Literature, Philosophy and Science in Early Modern and Enlightenment England (2015-2017) and The Art of Thinking in the Enlightenment: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal (2022-2024). She serves as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Early Modern Studies.

The courses she teaches include History of British Literature: The Eighteenth Century (first year, BA in Philology); Introduction to Intellectual and Cultural History (third year elective, BA in Philology); Perspectives on Modernity: Transactions of Intellectual History (first year, MA in British Cultural Studies); Cultural Genealogies: The Epistemic Virtues and Vices (second year, MA in British Cultural Studies).

Her publications include Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), Knowledge, Selves, Virtues: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Early Modern Literature, Science and Philosophy (Bucureşti: EUB, 2014), Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, ed. Guido Giglioni, James Lancaster, Sorana Corneanu and Dana Jalobeanu (Dordrecht: Springer, 2016), The Care of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy and Science, special issue of Journal of Early Modern Studies 4.2, ed. Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2015); Ordering Knowledge: Cultural Histories of the Disciplines and the Shaping of European Modernity, ed. Sorana Corneanu, Richard Somerset and Jean-Jacques Chardin (Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023), The Art of Thinking: Mind and Method in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Centuries Logics, special issue of Intellectual History Review 35:3 (Francis and Taylor, 2025), ed. Sorana Corneanu and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet.