Introduction

Abstract

This special issue of Studia UBB. Dramatica aims to highlight, on the one hand, Patrizia Lombardo’s contribution to the study of emotions and affectivity in cinema and performing arts, and on the other hand, the deep connection of the former Professor from the University of Geneva with Romania. We will return to the first aspect below, briefly outlining her conceptions of affectivity in art and her fascinating ideas about film. As for the Romanian connection, it should be emphasized that, by virtue of the partnership between the Babeș-Bolyai University and the University of Geneva, Patrizia Lombardo has received and tutored numerous Romanian students in the Master’s program Littérature et culture. Littérature et esthétique (coordinated together with Professor Laurent Jenny), or in the PhD program. These students came not only from Cluj, but also from other university centers in Romania. Over the years, Patrizia Lombardo has traveled several times to Bucharest, she has also made a stopover in Cluj, but above all she has been involved with the expertise acquired in various international university contexts in the process of building and editing publications such as Studia UBB. Dramatica and Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. She was, moreover, also present in the pages of these journals, and one of those articles is reprinted in this special issue, with whose thematic it is perfectly harmonized.