Oana Maria CARCIU
Oana Maria Carciu is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Her research focuses on academic writing, with particular attention to identity, interculturality, phraseological patterns, and gender. Her current work applies quantitative and qualitative methods to the study of genre networks for research dissemination across diverse audiences. She recently co-edited Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication: Mapping Research and Practice (Routledge, 2026).
Research keywords:
• corpus linguistics
• genre analysis
• academic written discourse
• identity
• intertextuality
• digital technologies in teaching and learning
• digital discourse and practices
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Publications
- Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (2026). Digital genres in ESP: Theoretical and practical issues. In Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (eds), Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication: Mapping Research and Practice (pp. 3-20). Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003582861-2
Carciu, O., & Villares, R. (eds). (2026). Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication: Mapping Research and Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582861
Pérez-Llantada, C. & O. Carciu (2026). Language for Specific Purposes Pedagogy. In H. Nesi, & P. Milin (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00216-7
Villares, R., Pérez-Llantada, C., & Carciu, O. (2026). Perceptions and values of Spanish female scientists towards digital science communication. Journal of Science Communication, 25(1), A08. https://doi.org/10.22323/156420251226063745
Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O.M., & Villares, R. (2025). Scientists’ digitally mediated activity, genres and digital tools: A cross-sectional survey across the disciplines. Written Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883251328307
Pérez-Llantada, C., Villares, R., & Carciu, O. (2025). Talking science: Women scientists’ engagement in spoken public science communication online. System, 134 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103832
Carciu, O.M., & Muresan, L.-M. (2024). Designing multimodal learning for developing multilingual students’ communication competences in English: A case study. In V. Fei Lim & M. Querol, Designing learning with digital technologies: Perspectives from multimodality in education, forthcoming. Routledge.
Villares, R., & Carciu, O.M. (2023). Technology-Mediated Tasks for Formative Assessment in an e-Portfolio Environment. In S.W. Chong & H. Reinders (eds.), Innovation in Learning-Oriented Language Assessment (pp. 219-236). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18950-0_13
Carciu, O-M., & Villares, R. (2022). Innovation linked with SDGs: Citizen Science projects to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 1223-1230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd22.2022.14408
Carciu, O.M. (2021). Juggling early-career demands: Research publication productivity, strategies, practices. In P. Habibie & S. Burgess (eds.). Scholarly publication trajectories of early-career scholars. Insider perspectives (pp. 23 – 40). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85784-4_2
Carciu, O.M., & Muresan, L.-M. (2021). Exploring collaboration as an approach to enquiring into English for Research Publication Purposes. In S.Florea, E. Gilder, D. Florea & R. Grunwald (eds.), Representations of Otherness in Romanian Philological Studies (pp. 203 – 223). Peter Lang, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19428
Presentations
- 2026
• Carciu, O. M. (accepted) (2026, September 1-3). Information load in a network of research genres: How connected genres reroute linguistic and communicative resources. British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Annual Conference 2026. Birmingham, UK.
• Carciu, O. M. (Keynote lecture) (2026, June 11-12). Genre networks: a generative myth? Towards a genre interconnections perspective in research and teaching. NFEAP 2026: EAP and Mythologies. Oslo, Norway.
• Pardos, E., Alda, M., Peña Guillermo, Villares, R., & Carciu, O. M. (2026, January 15-16). Hacia un mapa de estrategias, herramientas y actividades didácticas para la docencia en lengua inglesa en ADEi. XVIII Jornadas de Innovación Docente e Investigación Educativa. Zaragoza, Spain.
• Carciu, O. M. & Villares, R. (2026, January 14-16). Learn to engage in science dissemination online: An overview of the DILAN MOOC. XIII National Congress BIFI 2026, Zaragoza, Spain. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18298342
2025
• Carciu, O. M., & Villares, R. (2025, December 11-13). Genre, pedagogy, and the design of an online course for enhancing STEMM scientists’ multiliteracies: The DILAN project as a case in point. LSPPC8 – Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact. Hong Kong, China. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18016925
• Villares, R., & Carciu, O. M. (2025, December 11-13). Learning digital genres for science recontextualization and resemiotization. LSPPC8 – Collaboration, Innovation, and Impact. Hong Kong, China. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17985340
• Carciu, O. M. (2025, November 12-14). Building a corpus of high stakes science genre network. 48th AEDEAN Conference. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
• Carciu, O. M. (2025, October 30-31). Genre pedagogy and sustainability in the DILAN online course. 13th International Conference Synergies in Communication. Bucharest, Rumania.
• Carciu, O. M. (Keynote lecture) (2025, September 25-26). Digital writing experiences: How STEMM women scientists craft new genres. DILAN Symposium Communicating Research for Academic and Public Engagement: Innovations, Insights, and Impacts. Oslo, Norway.
• Carciu, O. M. (2025, June 13-14). STEM women scientists self-assessing digital literacy for science communication to wide audiences. DILAN Dissemination Event Innovate and Engage: Bridging Research Communication and Society Conference. Bucharest, Romania.
2024
• Carciu, O. M. (2024, September 6-7). Engaging in digital multimodal composing for science communication online: Female scientists’ perspective. 22nd AELFE Conference. Budapest, Hungary.
• Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O. M., & Villares, R. (2024, April 17-19). Writing digital genres: A cross-disciplinary study of women scientists’ socioliterate activity. 41st AESLA Conference (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada), Valencia.
• Carciu, O. M., & Villares, R. (2024, March 21-23). Recontextualizing the RA abstract for a diversified audience: A case study of writing lay summaries. 45th GERAS International Conference. Winterhur, Switzerland.
• Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O. M., & Villares, R. (2024, February). Digital language and communication training for EU scientists. 11th BIFI International Conference 2024, Zaragoza.
• Carciu, O. M. & Villares, R. (2024, January 18-19). Digital language and communication competences for scientists’ professional development. XVI Jornadas de Innovación Docente e Investigación Educativa. Zaragoza, Spain. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10553078
• Pérez-Llantada, C., Carciu, O. M. & Villares, R. (2024, January 17-19). Digital language and communication training for EU scientists. XII National BIFI Conference. Zaragoza, Spain. https://zenodo.org/records/10553092
2023
• Carciu, O. M., Villares, R., & Pérez-Llantada, C. (2023, October). Addressing digital transformation through the development of digital science communication skills. CUICIID 2023 (Congreso Universitario Internacional sobre la Comunicación en la Profesión y en la Universidad hoy).
• Muresan, L.-M., & Carciu, O. M. (2023, April 27-29). Multimodality in action! Collaborative teaching and learning in a plurilingual, intercultural context. Eaquals International Conference. Tallinn, Estonia.
• Carciu, O.M. (2023). Evaluative polarity in a small-scale corpus of significance statements. XI National BIFI conference, 25-27 January 2023, Zaragoza, Spain. Conference presentation.
2022
Carciu, O.M. (2022). Digital science communication beyond expert audiences: Exploring add-on genres in enhanced publications. 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora (CMC2022), 28-29 September 2022, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Conference presentation.
Carciu, O.M. (2022). Embedding the Video CV genre in ESP/EAP online teaching and learning. 12th International Conference “The Dynamics of Languages for Specific Purposes: Innovative Approaches and Strategies, 14-15 July 2022, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Conference presentation.
Carciu, O-M., & Villares, R. (2022). Innovation linked with SDGs: Citizen Science projects to foster competencies for participation in the Digital Society. 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), 1223-1230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd22.2022.14408. Conference proceedings.
2021
Carciu, O.M. (2021). Patterns of self-reference in a corpus of data articles. 9th International Conference Synergies in Communication, 28-29 October 2021, Bucharest, Romania. Conference presentation.
Carciu, O. M. & Muresan, L.-M. (2021). Tapping on learner resourcefulness for overcoming current challenges in language teaching and learning: A case study of undergraduate students’ e-portfolios. British Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference, University of Northumbria (Newcastle, UK), 9-10 September 2021. Conference paper
Carciu, O. M. (2021). Author visibility in Open Science communication: An analysis of data articles. British Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference, University of Northumbria (Newcastle, UK), 9-10 September 2021. Conference paper.
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- • 2022-2025. Co-editor, Book reviews, Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (University of Zaragoza)
• 2014-2018. Editorial assistant of Ibérica Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
• Affiliations: European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE), Asociación de mujeres investigadoras y tecnólogas (AMIT), Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPC)