Short description:

• Gabriela Slavuteanu (Brizbă) is an Associate Professor at University of Bucharest with a PhD and a post-doctoral degree in “Philology”, namely “Applied English Linguistics”.
• She teaches “phonetics” and “phonology’, as well as pragmatics and derivational morphology.
• She has attended various national and international conferences, colloquia, workshops and summer schools.
• She is the author of several published books, among which we mention notably: “Between Reality and Myth: A Corpus-based Analysis of the Stereotypic Image of Some Romanian Ethnic Minorities” (2010), “The Phonology of New Englishes” (2012), “From Hero to Zero: English Phonetics and Phonology” (2018). She has been teaching seminars of Business English at RAU since 2007, both in the Romanian-taught and the English-taught BA programs.

Member of professional associations/organizations:

• since 2013: member of ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English);
• since 2013: member of RSEAS (The Romanian Society for English and American Studies);
• since 2014: member of the Center for the Study of Language Development and Linguistic Communication, University of Bucharest;
• since 2016: President of the Central Committee of the English Olympiad;
• since 2016: Vice-president of the National Specialized Commission;

Fields of interest/research:

• Her main research interests include phonetics and phonology, non-native Englishes, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and dialectal variation, among others.

Hobbies:

• Reading, cooking, travelling, art in all its forms (visual, cinematic, musical, etc.)