Doctoral studies

Doctoral studies

PhD supervisor - PhD theses, supervised and defended

• Amira Asadi, Teaching English through literature in the EFL classroom as part of the Israeli English curriculum: Arab English teachers’ dilemma, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021

• Elena Mestereagă, The Role of Out-Of-Class Contexts in EFL Learning in Romania, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2019

• Khalid Rokan, Investigating Semantic and Syntactic Equivalence in the Translation Process, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2017

PhD supervisor - PhD theses, in progress 

• Zoltán János Kovács, Postediting and Quality Assessment of Medical Translations from English to Romanian, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023-present 

• Izabella Mali, Localizing Websites: Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023-present 

• Noemi Maria Sburlea, Investigating the Field of Environmental Sustainability: Linguistic and Translational approaches, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023-present 

• Irena Raluca CIobanu, Investigating the Language of Educational Marketing in English, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023-present 

• Florentin Nicolae Craineanu, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching English for Medical Purposes, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023-present 

• Cornelia Grigoras, Teaching EFL to the Digital Born Generation. Challenges and Expectations, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022-present 

• Raneen Abu Nassar, Factors Affecting Creative Writing in English as a Foreign Language among Arab Students in Israel, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022-2023 (discontinued)

• Adriana Toma, Mental Translation in Communicative Language Teaching, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021-present 

• Ali Abdulhamzah, A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Public Space of Immigration, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021-present 

• Raul Pascalau, Translation Practices and Regulations in Companies, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2020-present 

• Karina Hauer, Communicating Weather Forecasts. A Contrastive Analysis in English and Romanian, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2020-present 

• Imad Jasim Mohammed Al_Majidi, The translation of technical texts from English into Arabic: problems and solutions, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2017-2019 (discontinued)

PhD evaluation - member of the public defense committee 

• Andra Iulia Ursa, Aspects of James Joyce’s Writing Style. Translations into Romanian. Universitatea 1 Decembrie 1918 din Alba-Iulia, 2023

• Oana Maria Puiu, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Person Deixis, Universitatea din Craiova, 2023

• Maria Cristina Miuțescu, A Diachronic Overview of the Competences Required in the Translation Industry. A Case Study on Today’s Romanian Market. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022

• Delia Stănescu, A Linguistic Approach to Negotiations in the European Union: A Comparative Study, Universitatea Dunărea de Jos din Galați, 2022

• Anca Maria Stanciu, Traducere și stilistică funcțională comparată în context juridic și administrativ, Universitatea din Craiova, 2022

• Iozefina Cirloban Sandor, Peculiarities of Classroom Discourse. The Case of EFL Class. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022

• Andreea-Maria Sărmașiu, Investigating the Translatability of Legal Texts: Designing Effective Transfer Strategies for Legal Translations, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca, 2022

• Maria Georgiana Stoenică, Legal English and Cultural Translation, Universitatea din Craiova, 2021

• Florentina Pătran,  Studiu semantic și pragmatic al limbajelor specializate (Lexicul din domeniul industriei petroliere în limba engleză), Universitatea Liberă Internațională din Moldova, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, 2021

• Marius Golea, Preocupari privind traducerea textelor religioase crestine, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021

• Mihaela Poenaru Stanculete, Beginning of Mandate Speeches of Romanian and British Prime Ministers. A Comparative Analysis. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021

• Sterjo Naciku, Descriptive and Functional Approaches to Business Terminology, Universitatea din Craiova, 2020

• Liliana-Florentina Omet (Ricinschi) - Translating The Civil Engineering Language, Universitatea Dunărea de Jos din Galați, 2020

• Olenka Maria Mănescu (Dicu), Implicitation and Explicitation Degrees in the Translation of Non-fictional Texts, Universitatea din Craiova, 2020

• Ioana Raluca Scarlat (Vişan), Translating Maritime Language, Universitatea Dunărea de Jos din Galați, 2019

• Anca Trișcă Ionescu, Naval Architecture Language in Translation, Universitatea Dunărea de Jos din Galați, 2019

• Najwa Hamaoui, Mediation linguistique: enjeux culturels et mediatiques a l’ere du numerique, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier 3, France, 2019.

• Brahim Hannachi, La sémiotique cinématographique au service de la traduction audiovisuelle: réflexions théoriques et propositions pratiques en réponse aux défis techniques et idéologiques du sous-titrage, Université de Mons, Belgique, Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation, 2018 

• Flavian Palade, Diplomatic Language in Joseph Conrad's Fiction, Universitatea din Craiova, 2018

• Raad A. Hamed Al-Jomaeli, Divergence, Conformity and Inconsistency in the Articulation of English Sounds by Iraqi Speakers of English, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2018 

• Claudia Elena Magyar, The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage: A Contrastive Study from a Cultural Perspective, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, 2014

PhD supervision - member of the advisory committee 

• Alina Radoi, Neural Machine Translation Errors. The Case of Romanian-into-English Translation of Academic Texts, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023

• Andreea Putnoky, Japanes Culture in Literature. A Look at Translation Difficulties, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023

• Daniela Popescu Vilceanu, The Influence of Motivation versus Anxiety in Producing Spoken Language in the EFL Class. A Case Study, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023

• Oana Denisa Dragomir, The Language of Discrimination. The Case of Romanian Influencers and NGOs,Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2023

• Sarah Malekshahian, Challenges of Translating 'Harry Potter' Proper Nouns from English into Romanian, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022

• Bogdan-Alin Imbri, Monsters in Batman: (Breaking) Archetypes of (Anti)heroes and Villains, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022

• Oana-Marina Lugojan, Developing Learner Autonomy in Foreign Language Acquisition, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2022

• Alina Ioana Morar,  The Role of Translation in Teaching English ad a Foreign Language, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021 

• Daniela Bercian, Online teaching - a beneficial challenge for the rapid development of the teacher in the preuniversity system, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021 

• Daniela Fercea, The Role of Children’s Literature in English as a Foreign Language Classes, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2021 

• Denisa Ungurean-Mitroi, The Translation of Legal Documents in Romanian Courts of Law, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2020

• Alice Safar, Communication et Négociations des Organisations Internationales, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier 3, 2000

• Maria Miuțescu, A Diachronic Overview of the Competences Required in the Translation Industry. A Case Study on Today’s Romanian Market. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2019

• Paula Andreea Ghercă, Subtitling and its Facets. On-screen Translation for Children and Disabled Children, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2019

• Ana Scalau, Discourse Analysis of Political Correctness in the E.U. Political Discourse, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2019

• Azamsher Bayar, Race, Gender, and Feminine Literary Expressiveness, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2019

• Marius Golea, Preocupari privind traducerea textelor religioase crestine, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2018

• Khalayla Manal, A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Bilingualism in Israel: Language and Cultural Policies, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2018

• Hussein Ahmed, Suprasegmental Features of The English Language Spoken by Iraqis, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2017

• Mihaela Poenaru Stanculete, Discursul politic al prim-ministrilor britanici si romani (1970-2000). Studiu comparativ al discursurilor de investitura. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2017

• Azad Najjef Mustafa, The Use of Literary Texts during EFL Classes at Tertiary Level. Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, 2017