Onoriu Colăcel is Professor of English at University of Suceava, Romania, where he teaches literature and culture. His main research interests are concerned with postcolonial studies, cultural memory and patterns of self-identification in literature, media and popular culture. He has authored four books (e.g., Postcolonial Readings of Romanian Identity Narratives, 2015, and The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism. Historical Films as Propaganda and Spectacle, 2018) and has co-edited (with Anastasiya Astapova, Corneliu Pintilescu and Tamás Scheibner) Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends (2021).