The modern university has the potential to turn into a nexus of digital embracement and innovation, thus responding to both strategic planning for higher education and societal demands. Priorities in digitalisation strategies (White Paper ‘Bologna Digital 2020’, Rampelt et al. 2019) for higher education institutions (HEIs) are actively promoted, and their implementation is in progress throughout Europe. However, the embedding of the digitalisation reform at the institutional level is considerably uneven from one country to another, with Eastern European HEIs lagging behind (Conrads et al. 2017). The aim of this position paper is to present and discuss the case of digital humanities (DH) as an incentive for digitalisation strategies at Eastern European universities. We briefly contextualize the configuration of DH initiatives in the region by using the results of the Digital Humanities Survey and propose the case study of Romania, where we investigate the implementation status of such initiatives. We further exemplify the process of developing a DH centre and evaluate the institutional impact of the recently created research centre CODHUS, from the West University of Timişoara, Romania, the second DH centre in the country. The strength of the new centre relies on its capacity to converge cross-disciplinary expertise with digital technologies. The centre intends to develop computational solutions and digital tools for research, course development and assessment. CODHUS is also a digital-competence training centre for teachers and students, with the purpose of bridging the gap between teaching strategies and goals, on one hand, and students’ digital experiences and expectations from HEI, on the other. The study offers a multiple-lens perspective on the integration of digital-intensive research initiatives, such as DH, into the Bologna process. We argue that DH centres can support further HE developments which contribute to building “new learning ecologies” (Galvis 2018) and creating an “education area with digital solutions” (Rampelt 2019).
Learner corpora of written texts from academic writing assignments provide a practical resource for students, particularly in fostering academic writing skills. One such corpus is the newly available ROGER (Corpus of Romanian Academic Genres), a bilingual comparable corpus containing learner discipline-specific academic writing data in Romanian native language (L1) and English as a foreign language (L2). This paper aims to illustrate a series of academic writing teaching approaches supported by the ROGER platform (launched in May 2022) to be applied by tutors in an academic writing classroom setting. The results are structured according to Ädel’s (2010) methodological model for fostering rhetorical functions and specific phraseology in academic writing, coupled with addressing metadiscourse markers to better assist in the enhancement of students’ academic writing skills at the university undergraduate level.
Review of Oana Fotache, Cosmin Ciotloș (editori), Harta și legenda. Mircea Cărtărescu în 22 de lecturi, București, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2020, 388 p.
Bricolated identities -erased identities: "survivals" in the theatre of Matei Vișniec and Vlad Zografi): From individual to cultural representations present in their plays, Matei Vișniec and Vlad Zografi reframe stereotypes or decontextualise meanings. On one hand, they enter into the territory of a burlesque history, and on the other hand, they explore the area of parody and livresque. This paper depicts several hypostases of patchworked, simulated identities in plays such as Regele și cadavrul (The King and the Corpse), or the characters' attempts to "survive" in Cu sufletul în roabă (With the Soul in the Wheelbarrow) or Așteptați să se mai potolească această caniculă (Wait for the Heat to die down). The "decomposition" is not only pursued at the level of the individual, as both authors resort to playing with levels or textual constructions in Crima din strada Uranus (Murder on Uranus Street), Atelier (Workshop), Spectatorul condamnat la moarte (The Spectator Condemned to Death). The mirrors and reflections, but also the identity gaps in the relationship between the West and the East will be followed in plays such as Petru sau Petele din soare (Peter or the Sun Spots), Viitorul e maculatură (The Future is Rubbish) and Occident Express.
Academic Word Lists in English and Romanian: a corpus-based contrastive analysis) For multiple reasons, there is a lack of studies on Academic Writing in Romanian languagefew scholars deal with an overview of writing practices in Romanian HEIs, even fewer deal with the vocabulary or writing principles specific to certain disciplines. In this context, the Romanian "scientific production" is extremely varied at the discursive level, both because of the lack of standardised curriculum concerning Academic Writing and because of the heterogeneity of writing rules and publication conditions imposed by Romanian journals. The aim of this study is to analyse the relevance of Academic Word Lists for Romanian academic writing, bringing into discussion examples and methodologies from the English language sphere, where tools such as the one proposed by Avery Coxhead in the late 1990s have proven their effectiveness. The applied dimension of this paper is based on the analysis of an expert, bilingual corpus of scientific articles -EXPREScompiled within the DACRE project (Discipline-specific expert academic writing in Romanian and English: corpus-based contrastive analysis models). The aim of the study is to propose and exemplify the possibility of constructing such a glossary based on writing practices, by examining some of the results provided by corpus linguistics tools such as N-Grams or concordance lines.
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