Is a Lecturer in the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest. Her main interests lie in the direction of sociolinguistics, history of the English language, history of lexicography; she was a visting scholar at various research institutions, the University of Oxford included. She has written several books, among which Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language and the Strategies of Lexicographic Modernity (2009). She has recently completed the book English Language History 1476-1755: Attitudes to English (2014).