Iulia Popovici, PhD, is a performing arts critic and researcher, who also works as an expert in cultural legislation and financing programmes in culture. She has published works, among other topics, on the emergence and economy of independent performing arts in Romania and Eastern Europe, theatre practices during WWII, and East European theatre during the last decade of communism.
Her current interests are related to the metamorphosis of independent theatre workingwith a variety of archives in researching cultural production in Socialist Romania during the 1980s and the impact of economic measures on cultural policies.
Her latest book (The Actor as the Miner. The Failures of Transition in Theatre, 2024), deals with the institutional transformations of culture (especially theatre) during the post-communist transition in Romania, on the background of the 1980s austerity effects.
She is an associate lecturer in Theatre History at the University of Craiova and worksas cultural expert for the Romanian Ministry of Culture. She is a co-founder of the Trans-Sectorial Association of Cultural Workers
Iulia Popovici lives in Bucharest.