Dynamic and resourceful teaching professional, who teaches Linguistics and general English, excellent organiser who effectively collaborates with students and fellow teachers. Key strengths include a comprehensive teaching approach to difficult areas of Linguistics, active researcher in Generative Syntax, experience and expertise in language testing & evaluation, European and institutional language policies, and CEFR European standards for teaching and assessment.
Defended PhD thesis with summa cum laude in 2009, at Babeş-Bolyai University, in the field of Theoretical linguistics on Non-finite and Small Clauses in English and Romanian.
Director of the EAQUALS-accredited ALPHA Language Centre of the Faculty of Letters, which provides, to both students and the general public, non-curricular language courses and CEFR- calibrated language examinations and certificates.
Other academic interests:
Gender studies: two papers published in 1999 and 2000
Mythology, History of religions: no published work
Jane Austen’s life and works: no published work

Currently employed as lecturer at the English Department of the Faculty of Letters with a teaching load of undergraduate intro courses in Generative grammar, Semantics, History of English language, Sociolinguistics (Language and culture) and MA courses in Generative syntax (Theoretical models in minimalist syntax) and Sociolinguistics (Language and gender: conversational rituals.)