Mihai Iovănel is a literary critic and historian. He recently published The History of Romanian Contemporary Literature (1990-2020) (1990-2020)at Polirom Publishing House. Before that he published Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc / The Ideologies of the Romanian Post-Communist Literature (Muzeul Literaturii Române Publishing House), Roman polițist / Detective Novel (Tact) and Evreul improbabil. Mihail Sebastian: o monografie ideologică / The Improbable Jew. Mihail Sebastian: An Ideological Monograph (Cartea Românească).