Cristina M. Botîlcă

Cristina M. Botîlcă is an Assistant Professor and PhD student at the Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her work bridges literary analysis with existential philosophy and psychological themes.

Her research interests include:

• Literature and existential philosophy
• Death studies and psychotherapeutic frameworks
• Folklore symbolism and soul archetypes
• Cultural trauma in historical narratives

Recent publications analyze Irvin Yalom's existential theories and reinterpret mythological motifs like La Loba. These works reflect interdisciplinary interests in:

• Psychological dimensions of literary texts
• Cross-cultural symbolic systems
• Philosophical approaches to mortality
• Archetypal patterns in storytelling