MARA MAGDA MAFTEI, author and Romanian-French citizen, is currently an associate professor at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. After a doctoral thesis defended in 2007 in the history of economic thinking (ASE), follows a second thesis entitled Cioran and the young generation, completed in 2009 and defended at the University of Bucharest. Part of the research dedicated to Cioran and the interwar period was the subject of a book published in two editions in 2009 and 2011 by Editura Contemporanul and another published in 2013 by Editura l'Harmattan, Paris, Cioran et le rêve d'une génération perdue. In June 2016, another book was printed by the Parisian publisher Yves Michalon, Un Cioran inédit. Why is he intriguing? Since 2008, the author has been an associate researcher at the Thalim Research Center (Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité XIXe - XXIe siècles), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
Permanent contributor to the literary magazines Viata romaneasca (2001-2008) and Contemporanul, sole author of multiple scientific articles published in the USA, Canada, France, guest lecturer over time in Lebanon (Kaslik), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Ireland ( Galway), Turkey (Izmir), Canada (Québec) on the subject of engaged literature (relations between literature, history, doctrines, society), the author has a career in the field of over fifteen years.