Nataşa Maxim is a Ph.D. student at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania. Her thesis is about Søren Kierkegaard’s influence on Romanian inter-war literature: Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Benjamin Fundoianu. She is also a publicist and an essay writer approaching a wide range of topics such as comparative literature, philosophy, hermeneutics, cultural studies; she writes about different authors from Dostoievski and Kierkegaard to Emil Cioran and Nae Ionescu. She has published reviews in cultural magazines as Viaţa Românească, Convorbiri literare, Ateneu. Her main areas of interest are the interplay of literature and philosophy and the history of ideas.