Mihai Şerban is currently Associate Professor with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and teaches Business French and Professional Communication to undergraduate and graduate students and Romanian as a foreign language. Specialized in Comparative Literature, he has a PhD in this field, with the thesis Lecturi iconologice şi ekphrastice la André Gide. Procedeul punerii în abis şi fenomenul de transfer. He has published a number of articles in academic journals and has authored RFL (Romanian as a foreign language) textbooks. His main research interests include comparative literature, psychoanalysis, iconological and ekphrastic studies, but also action / practitioner research.