Aba-Carina Pârlog is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the West University of Timişoara, Romania. She has been teaching courses on translation studies and British literature for more than 18 years, and has also worked as a linguistic administrator for the European Personnel Selection Office in Brussels and as a translator and interpreter of English and French in Timişoara. She is the author of several books on translation and literature.