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Cristina Vidruțiu

Cluj Napoca / Romania — Humanities, Solitude fellow 2015–2017

Cristina Vidruțiu is a researcher and writer interested in the relation between illness and narrative from a interdisciplinary point of view. She received her PhD in comparative literature with a dissertation on »Epidemic Imaginary: Historical and Metaphorical Representations of Plague in Literature.« She was a fellow of the Dino Buzzati International Association (2015), a fellow of the Museum of Romanian Literature (2015), and a fellow of the Romanian Academy in Rome (2012-2014).

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Articles with and by Cristina Vidruțiu:

Narrative Anatomy #6

Illness narratives. Third stop.

by Cristina Vidruțiu

»The book is a time to be with yourself and remind yourself and reflect on your own mortality.« Cristina Vidrutiu on »When Breath Becomes Air« by neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi

Schlossghost #2

A Synaptic Quest

by Cristina Vidruțiu

Narrative Anatomy #5

Illness narratives. Second stop: (Pseudo)Biographical Documentary Works

by Cristina Vidruțiu

»Illness is a greedy, time-devouring beast.« Romanian film maker Răzvan Georgescu in conversation with Cristina Vidruțiu on the documentary »Testimony.«

Narrative Anatomy #3

Illness narratives. First stop: Biographical Literature Works

By Cristina Vidruțiu

Fiction

When Solitude and solitude Meet in the Fog

Cristina Vidruțiu

»Solitude fog is different than any other fog. As soon as it invades the contours of everything, you find yourself either paralyzed by the disappearing background, or freer than ever.«

Narrative Anatomy #2

Reading Menus. Alternative »Play« and »Stop« Buttons

by Cristina Vidruțiu

Humanities

Solitude. A Conversation Guide in Three Acts

by Cristina Vidruțiu

»As I enter this strange space, I feel like an explorer discovering a new territory.« –A conversation guide in three acts for Solitude by Cristina Vidruțiu, fellow for Humanities.

Narrative Anatomy #1

Doctor of Letters

by Cristina Vidruțiu

»Being a reader and being fascinated by medicine only led to one thing: I became a Doctor of Letters.« The Romanian researcher Cristina Vidrutiu explains her interest in the relation between illness and narrative.