Natalia Ivasîşen is a PhD candidate at Alecu Russo State University from Balti, Republic of Moldova, Faculty of Letters, specialized in Romanian Literature. Areas of competence: contemporary literary criticism and literary process in Bessarabia. She is the author of several studies published in the volumes of national and international scientific conferences she attended. Her research paper is entitled Continuitate şi ruptură în critica literară românească din Basarabia (1985–2010) [Continuity and breach in the literary criticism from Bessarabia (1985–2010)].