Carmen Oanea is a PhD student in philology, and a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Letters, UBB. BA in English, MA in Medieval Philosophy at UBB.
Research interests
Carmen Oanea wrote a BA on Old English poetry at the Faculty of Letters, and an MA dissertation on the Old English Salomon and Saturn poems. She is currently writing a PhD on incunabula acquired in the early modern period by colleges in Cluj and Oxford.
Carmen is also specialising in Manuscript Studies. In 2021-2022, she attended the Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales (DEEM) programme.
Carmen obtained scholarships to study in Mainz (2024-2025) and Graz (2025), attended summer schools on manuscripts and early printed books in Paris and Antwerp, and gave papers to conferences in Durham, Copenhagen, Cluj, Vilnius, Budapest, and Leeds.
In 2025 she obtained a CERL fellowship to catalogue incunabula at Blickling Hall, Norfolk, UK.
Carmen is a member of CODEX project “Medieval Books in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Cluj in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries” (UEFISCDI PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0465), and is cataloguing incunabula.
Relevant publications:
Carmen Oanea, Carmen Fenechiu, ‘A Newly Discovered Incunabulum at the Library of the Romanian Academy in Cluj’, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai: Series Philologia, 71.2 (2026), 205-221 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2026.2.12
Centrul CODEX 