Constanța Burlacu

Department of Paleoslavic and Byzantine Studies

+420 224 800 259

Research topics

Church Slavonic and Romanian Philology
Digital Humanities
Translation of Biblical Texts
History of Learning

Current projects

Multilingualism and the Emergence of a New Written Language as a Transformation of Discourse Traditions (Lumina quaeruntur): from 2025 (postdoc)

Brief professional CV

2024 – 2026 Vatican Library, Rome – Library Studies (Biblioteconomia)
2018 – 2022 University of Oxford, Oxford – DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages
2021 – 2022 Humboldt University, Berlin – Research Exchange Programme
2016 – 2018 University of Oxford, Oxford – MPhil in Slavonic Studies
2015 – 2016 University of Exeter – Erasmus Exchange Programme
2013 – 2016 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – BA Russian and English Languages
*2023-ongoing Middlebury College – Doctor of Modern Languages, Russian as L2

Teaching

October 2024 – ongoing Russia Language Teacher, Istituto di Lingua e Cultura Russa, Roma, Italy
2024 – 2025 Teaching Practicum, STARTALK programme, Middlebury College, USA
July – Sept 2022, 2024, 2025 Tutor for Opportunity Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Past Projects and Fellowships

Apr – Jun 2023 The Textual Tradition of the Gospels in the Balkans (14^th ‑16^th centuries), Research Grant of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the Berlin State Library, Germany
18 Sept – 11 Dec 2022 Psalm 77 – Text Annotation and Linguistic Corpus Compilation for 16^th Century Old Romanian, CLS INFRA fellowship at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Oct 2021 – Jul 2022 Multilingualism and the Rise of Romanian Language: 15^th-16^th centuries, research stay in Berlin, Germany
30 Nov 2020 – ongoing Kopisti XIV – Fourteenth Century South Slavonic scribes and scriptoria (palaeographical attribution and online repertorium), Research Project Nº KP-06-N50/4 30.11.2020 funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria
Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 roPSALT – Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters. Aligned Corpus and Comparative Studies

Publications

***Burlacu, Constanța (2025). Biblical Books in the Romanian Lands in the Sixteenth Century. A Textual Analysis of Apostolos and Psalter Texts, in Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe 42 (Peter Lang: Berlin, forthcoming). Publication of the PhD thesis.

Burlacu, Constanța (2023). ‘Amplification and Reduction: The Practice of Revision in the Old Romanian Psalter and Apostolos Texts’, in Translation Automatisms in the Vernacular Texts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, eds. Vladimir Agrigoroaei and Ileana Sasu (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023).

Burlacu, Constanța, Achim Rabus (2021). ‘Digitising (Romanian) Cyrillic using Transkribus: new perspectives’ in Diacronia, 14, pp. 1 – 9 [accessible online].

Burlacu, Constanța (2021). ‘The Rendering of Infinitival Constructions in the Psalter Text: Greek to Slavonic, and Slavonic to Romanian’ in Palaeobulgarica, 45, 1, pp. 37 – 56.

Scarpa, Marco, Constanța Burlacu, Desislava Paneva-Marinova (2021). ‘New Digital Life for Fourteenth Century South Slavonic Scriptoria’ in Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 11, pp. 57 – 63 [accessible online].

Contribution to the discussion section ‘The Musical Instruments in Early Vernacular Translations of the Psalms (2) (Collective Research)’ in Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture, 4/2020, pp. 296.