Ilinca Ilian (b. Ţăranu, Romania) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Letters of the West University of Timişoara, where she has been working since 1995. She is a translator and essayist.

She graduated from the West University of Timişoara (Spanish, French and Romanian Literatures. She completed a Master degree in Paris VII, DEA “Science of Texts and Documents”, and her PhD in philology with a thesis on Julio Cortázar, coordinated by Livius Ciocârlie.

In 2001 she was a visiting professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México, where she taught European literature; and in 2004-2006 she taught Romanian language and civilization at the Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France.

Since 2010 she coordinates the professional network “Regional Network of Hispanics of Central Europe” which brings together specialists in Hispanic Hispanic studies from various universities and research centers in Central and Southeast Europe. In this capacity, she coordinates academic exchanges between universities, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Colindancias – Revista de Hispanistas de Europa Central indexed in various international databases. Dr. Ilian is also the initiator of extensive research on the reception of contemporary Latin American literature in Europe.

She has published many articles and essays in Romanian and Spanish in various publications in the country and abroad. Among his Romanian translations are Şotron by Julio Cortázar (Chişinău, 2004), Perpetuum mobile by Augusto Monterroso (Timişoara, 2008), Altazor by Vincente Huidobro (Timişoara, 2012). Her latest published book is Julio Cortázar and Robert Musil – Consonancias, divergencias y ecos, (Madrid, 2013).