Alexandra Irimia is a Teaching Assistant and a third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature, with a background in Literary and Image Studies, French Language and Literature, and Political Science. Before moving to London, Ontario, she studied in Bucharest, Prague, and Montreal. Alexandra is currently investigating literary and cinematic narratives on bureaucracy in the second half of the twentieth century, with a focus on the figure of the scrivener and practices of institutional writing. Her work revolves around formal paradoxes of representation, seeking to explore image-text relations, with a particular emphasis on the topics of the figure, the figural, and figurability. Occasionally, she ventures into the troubled waters of translation.