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Mădălina Chitez is a Senior Researcher in applied corpus linguistics at the West University of Timisoara. She received her PhD in corpus linguistics from Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Germany, and worked as a researcher at the University of Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences Zurich, Switzerland, for eight years. She has also participated in research exchange programmes at the University of Oxford and Coventry University (UK) and the University of Siena (Italy). Dr Chitez has coordinated extensive research projects focusing on the creation of corpora of academic writing, such as ROGER (Comparable Bilingual Romanian-English Corpus of Academic Genres in Romania – academic texts collected from students) and DACRE (Comparable Bilingual Romanian-English Corpus of Disciplinary Genres in Romania – academic texts collected from experts). She is the initiator, co-founder and president of the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS), which has a strong application-oriented character. CODHUS activities aim at creating multidisciplinary synergies between departments, resulting in practical solutions for research, teaching, learning or large-scale use: language-related digital research methods, software solutions for universities or pre-university settings (language teaching, translation tools, digital humanities teaching methods) and various online resources (websites, digital guides, databases). She has published in numerous international journals and collective volumes and co-edited four volumes. Her areas of interest and expertise are: applied corpus linguistics, digital humanities, academic writing, contrastive linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, language learning, language teaching, innovative teaching, research management, policy development in higher education. More about Mădălina here. |
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Andreea Dincă is a doctoral researcher at the West University of Timișoara, Romania, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in applied corpus linguistics. Her research concerns phraseology in Romanian Learner English writing in an academic setting. Her main research interests are applied corpus linguistics, Learner Corpus Research, phraseology, academic writing, and, since her Fulbright doctoral scholarship, language teaching and web-based platforms as academic writing support for thesis writing in English by L1 Romanian students. More about Andreea here. |
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Alexandru Oravițan is Research Assistant PhD at the West University of Timișoara, Romania. He has conducted extensive research into post-9/11 literature as part of his doctoral work. Currently, his postdoctoral research endeavours revolve around contemporary American literature and culture, as part of his affiliation with the American Studies Center (CSAM), and corpus linguistics, with particular focus on readability research, within the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS). More about Alex here. |
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Loredana Bercuci is an assistant professor at the Department of Modern Languages of the West University of Timișoara, where she teaches English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics and American cultural history. She holds a Ph.D. in American Cultural Studies and her research interests include English for Specific Purposes teaching, academic writing, corpus linguistics, and critical theory. More about Loredana here. |
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Karla Csürös holds an M.A. degree in American Studies from the West University of Timișoara and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. with a topic at the intersection of applied corpus linguistics, telecinematic stylistics, cultural studies (A Corpus-Based Inquiry into the Language of Contemporary American Workplace Sitcoms). Her main research interests include pop culture, American literature and creative writing, predominantly investigating works from such fields through a corpus linguistics lens. More about Karla here |
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Roxana Rogobete is Teaching Assistant at the Department of Romanian Studies of the West University of Timișoara, Romania. She teaches Literary Theory, Ethics, Romanian literature and New approaches in literary studies. Her Ph.D. in comparative literature focused on German-language migrant literature written in the postwar period. She has been involved as a postdoctoral researcher in projects such as ROGER, DACRE, LEMI. Her research interests include Romanian literature, digital humanities, academic writing, and ethics in the humanities. She is the secretary of the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS) and responsible for tutoring volunteers and interns at the centre. More about Roxana here |