Anca Parvulescu is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010), The Traffic in Women's Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (2014), and, with Manuela Boatca, Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022) – winner of the René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature, offered by the American Comparative Literature Association, and the Barrington Moore Award for Best Book in Comparative and Historical Sociology, offered by the American Sociological Association.