Andrei Ionescu

About author:

Andrei Ionescu holds a PhD in cognitive humanities from the University of Padua (Italy), and conducted extensive interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities at universities in various countries – including Constructor University (Germany), the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), Cardiff University (Wales), and the University of Bucharest (Romania) – which resulted in publications at Bloomsbury, Johns Hopkins University Press, Taylor & Francis, and Sage.

For nearly three years, he has been a Staff Writer at Earth.com, covering the latest scientific discoveries in a wide variety of fields including health & medicine, climate science, biology & evolution, paleontology, astrophysics, chemistry, and geology. Both his academic and journalistic work aim to clarify humans’ complex relationship with non-human realities, including other animals, plants, microorganisms, the climate, and larger cosmic processes.

Author’s Interests

Since early childhood, due to his parents’ and grandparents’ influence, Andrei Ionescu has been keenly interested in everything related to biology, paleontology, and astronomy. Living for a large part of his early life surrounded by pets in a house with a large garden, he was able to combine theoretical knowledge from textbooks and various kinds of nature writing that he was exposed to with a deeply personal involvement with nature and its intricate processes. Later on, he managed to successfully express the knowledge he gathered experientially and through reading in a wide variety of writings, ranging from fiction and academic publications to journalistic writing.

Portfolio and Publications

Over the past years, Andrei Ionescu published nearly 3,000 articles on Earth.com, as well as a scientific monograph and several academic articles exploring the relationship between human and non-human realities. These publications include:

Book:

Disrupted Intersubjectivity: Paralysis and Invasion in Ian McEwan’s Works (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Articles:

A Twitch, a Twitter, an Elastic Shudder in Flight: Kinesthetic Empathy in D.H. Lawrence’s Bat Poems [in collaboration with Hailah Abdullah Al-Khalaf] (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)
The Interplay of Human and Non-Human Realities in Shaun Tan’s HYPERLINK “https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2021.0019″Tales from Outer Suburbia (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)
Metaphorical Patterns in Anthropocene Fiction [in collaboration with Marco Caracciolo and Ruben Fransoo] (Sage, 2019)

Narrative Strategies of Representing the Environmental Crisis in Ian McEwan’s Solar (article in the collective volume Crisis, Risks, and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2017)

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