Ana-Maria Gînsac

Dr. Ana-Maria Gînsac serves as Scientific Researcher II at the Department of Socio-Human Sciences within the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and concurrently as Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters (Classical Philology) at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Her scholarly profile integrates historical linguistics, philology, and cultural heritage conservation with emphasis on premodern Romanian textual traditions.

Her core research investigates the evolution of the Romanian language during the 16th-17th centuries, specializing in early Bible translations from Greek/Latin/Slavonic sources (Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum. Biblia 1688) and the adaptation of foreign onomastics in premodern texts (1780-1830). Expertise spans Romanian-Cyrillic paleography, historical lexicography, and digital corpus development for cultural heritage preservation. Current projects analyze psalters, lexicons, and administrative documents through philological and computational lenses.

Recent publications demonstrate methodological rigor in examining lexical relics, calque translations, and toponym adaptation across European biblical traditions. Her work reveals systematic patterns in vernacular translation choices (e.g., Psalm 67:26 variants) and grammaticalization clusters in medieval documents, establishing Romania's role in pan-European linguistic transmission networks. Digital humanities approaches feature prominently in corpus alignment and manuscript analysis.