Raluca Tanasescu received a PhD in Translation Studies from the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral work was supported by the very prestigious Ontario Trillium Award and the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship between 2013 and 2018. From 2019 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project The Normalization of Natural Philosophy at the University of Groningen, where she worked on corpus acquisition and expansion methods and on the social and semantic network analysis of several multilingual early modern natural philosophy data sets. Her scholarly work is situated at the nexus of translation, complexity, new media and computational humanities, and focuses on how digitality upholds intersemiotic and interepistemic translation processes. As a PIETRA researcher, she uses this interdisciplinary framework to analyse translations published on digital platforms, social media and news websites by the Catholic Church and to examine the impact of technology on multilingual institutional communication at a global scale.She currently serves as the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Committee Chair for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and is the Lead Local Organizer of Digital Humanities 2027.

Computational Humanities; Creativity (Multimodality and Intermediality); Translation Studies; Complexity Thinking.