BA in Philology (English and Spanish), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 2024
cosmin-mihai.lixandru@s.unibuc.ro
When it comes to my academic interests, the classes I had during this BA sparked a real interest in me in the literature and historical landscape of Victorian England. However, my natural intellectual inclinations have always drawn me towards literature (fictional or philosophical) dealing with human nature and the nature of the world we live in. Thus, authors of the Enlightenment like Alexander Pope as well as postmodernists like Jorge Luis Borges have more often than not found their way into my readings, as well as the topics or arguments I explored in my essays for various classes. For instance, my third-year research paper dealt with the various facets of human nature and its limits in the short stories of Ted Chiang, with various references to Pope, Borges, and others, working within the framework proposed by Gabriel Liiceanu’s book, “Despre Limită”
My interests revolving around these subjects, and having had my major in English, it is only natural that I would opt for the British Cultural Studies MA program. The deep dive into the study of topics such as cultural identities, ideologies, the birth and development of what is understood as culture nowadays seems like the perfect segway from my personal interests and aspirations as a young scholar into the practical use that is the understanding (and possibly even the changing) of the world we live in today.
British Cultural Studies 