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Profile
| Academic position | Post Doc |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,European and American Literary and Cultural Studies |
| Keywords | discourse network, bureaucratic fiction, narratology, image studies, affect theory |
| Honours and awards | 2026: Postdoc Fellowship - New Europe College, Bucharest 2024: Humboldt Fellowship - University of Bonn, IGLK 2023: Junior Fellowship - Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Study, University of Cologne 2022: International Fellowship - Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | London, Ontario |
| Institution | Western University |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stüssel | Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2024 |
Programme(s)
| 2023 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2026 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #6 - Cultural Bureaucracy Studies. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 6, 2026, |
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| 2026 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #7 - Paperealities. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 7, 2026, |
| 2026 | Alexandra Irimia: Review of Daniel Jenkin-Smith's book The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810–1900. In: Critical Inquiry, 52, 2026, 546-566 |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia: Bureaucracies of Memory. Institutionalized History in Four Contemporary European Novels. In: K.-H. Cha, I. Perica, A. Peyroles, C. Schaub, European Centers and Peripheries in the Political Novel . CAPONEU, 2025. 78-93 |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #3 - Latest in Bureaucriticism. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 3, 2025, |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #4 - Out of Office. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 4, 2025, |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #5 - Back in Office. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 5, 2025, |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster, Burkhardt Wolf: Looking like an Administration: Towards an Aesthetics of Bureaucracy. In: Administory, 8, 2025, 3-11 |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Rule by Algorithm: The Bureaucratic Horror Story. In: KWI Blog, 2025, |
| 2025 | Alexandra Irimia: The Anti-Bureaucratic Rhetoric of Populism. In: Scena9, 2025, |
| 2024 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #1 - Best of Bureaucriticism 2023. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 1, 2024, |
| 2024 | Alexandra Irimia, Jonathan Foster: Bureaucritics #2 - Artministration. In: Bureaucritics Newsletter, 2, 2024, |
| 2024 | Alexandra Irimia: Narrative Embodiments: Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of Textual Corporeality in Nicola Barker’s H(A)PPY. In: Vanessa Höving and Lena Wetenkamp, Text/Körper: Ästhetiken und Praktiken literarischer (Un-)Sichtbarkeit. Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024. 23-54 |
| 2023 | Alexandra Irimia: Figures of Radical Absence: Blanks and Voids in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. De Gruyter, 2023 |
| 2023 | Alexandra Irimia: Research as Montage: Notes on a Georges Didi-Huberman Exhibition. In: KWI-Blog, 2023, |
| 2023 | Alexandra Irimia: Running on Empty Blanks and Voids in Academic Publishing. In: KWI-Blog, 2023, |
| 2022 | Alexandra Irimia: Bureaucratic Sorceries in The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives on Magic and Officialdom. In: The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies, 6, 2022, 1-21 |
| 2022 | Alexandra Irimia: Disformations, or How Affects Disturb Forms. In: Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 44, 2022, 2272-277 |
| 2021 | Alexandra Irimia: Bureaucratic Fanatics: Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization. In: The Comparatist, 45, 2021, 389-391 |
| 2021 | Alexandra Irimia: What Moves You?: Georges Didi-Huberman’s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration. In: Justin Carville, Sigrid Lien, Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States. Leuven University Press, 2021. 205-228 |
| 2020 | Alexandra Irimia: Museums of the Void. The Exhibition Space as Empty Signifier. In: Alejandra Alonso Tak and Ángel Pazos-López, Socializing Art Museums. De Gruyter, 2020. 303-316 |
| 2018 | Alexandra Irimia: Matters of Time in László Krasznahorkai’s and Béla Tarr’s Satantango. In: Ekphrasis, 2, 2018, 213-225 |