Born on the 5th of November 1972 in Drăgăşani, Vâlcea County, Romania, Angelo Mitchievici is currently lecturer at The University of Arts, “Ovidius” College, Constanţa, where he teaches comparative literature classes. In 2008 he received his PhD in Philology with a Summa cum laude distinction at the Bucharest University.
He received awards from the Cuvântul magazine in 2005 for the volume Explorations in Romanian communism (vol. II, Polirom, 2005, co-authors: Paul Cernat, Ion Manolescu, and Ioan Stanomir), the debut award from the Observator Cultural magazine in 2007 for his work Mateiu I. Caragiale - decadent physiognomies, and in 2008 the Ion Cantacuzino Award of the Filmmakers Union in Romania for the professionalism of his entire publishing career.
Since 2010, he’s been a member of USR and UCIN. He is also a member of RAAS (Romanian Association for American Studies), film critic, and assistant editor for the România literară and for the Ex Ponto. Text, imagine, metatext magazines.