David Morariu

David Morariu is an academic lecturer and PhD student at the Department of Romance Studies within the Faculty of Letters and Arts at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His work focuses on Romanian literary history, digital humanities, and cultural studies. He has contributed to several major digital projects including the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel, which digitizes and analyzes literary archives from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

His research interests span multiple dimensions of Romanian literature including: 1) analysis of production networks and editorial canons in 20th-century novels, 2) quantitative genre studies using statistical methodologies, 3) interdiscursivity in contemporary neuronovels, and 4) postcolonial concepts like autocoloniality in translation studies. Recent work also explores educational applications of film in teacher training programs through reflective learning frameworks.

• Publications emphasize historical analysis of Romanian literary production (1845-1947), including studies on foreignness in 19th-century novels and affective geographies of Paris in literary contexts.
• Active in digital humanities through projects like the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel, which combines textual criticism with OCR post-correction methodologies.

His interdisciplinary approach bridges traditional literary analysis with modern digital methods, evidenced by publications in both quantitative literary analysis and cultural theory critiques of poststructuralism. Current work continues exploring intersections between cultural production, editorial networks, and national identity formation in Romanian literature.