Arleen Ionescu is Professor of English Literature at University of Ploieti (UPG) and Editor of the leading Romanian journal Word and Text. Her major research fields are Modernist prose and Critical Theory. She has published widely on Joyce as well as on Beckett, Blanchot and Derrida.

• Contents: Romanian Hos(ti)pitalities A Short History of Literary Romania. From Early Twentieth Century to the PostCommunist Age Joyces Critical Reception in Romania Hos(ti)pitality in Translation: Joyce into Romanian From Translation to Re-Creation.

«Romanian Joyce is a fascinating study of the ways in which Joyce's work diffuses into the Rornanian literary scene, and it is a very welcome addition to Joyce studies, creatively extending the ways in which we !hink about Joyce's reception, translations, and re-creation.»(Agota Marton, James Joyce Quarterly 4/2015)