Dragos Ivana is an Associate Professor and Head of the English Department of the University of Bucharest. His main research interests are British literature, the early American novel, comparative literature, Cervantes studies, critical theory, and city studies. He is treasurer of the Romanian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. One of Ivana’s books titled Embattled Reason, Principled Sentiment and Political Radicalism: Quixotism in English Novels, 1742-1801 was published by Brill in 2015. He was the recipient of several doctoral and postdoctoral research scholarships at the University of Kent, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, Chawton House Library, and Vanderbilt University and was also a member in four projects funded by UEFISCDI. Ivana has published extensively on the reception of Cervantes in the eighteenth-century English novel and novel theory. In 2018 he was appointed Fulbright Ambassador of the University of Bucharest. His current projects focus on representations of quixotism in the early American novel and on representations of London in English literature, respectively.