Dr. Oana-Alis Zaharia is Lecturer of English at the English Department of the University of Bucharest. Her principal research interests are Shakespeare Studies, Early Modern Studies (16th-century political thought in Europe with a focus on the English, Italian and French spaces), Translation Studies ( Early Modern translations; Romanian translations of Shakespeare's plays), Shakespeare and Adaptation Studies.

She is the author of the monograph Cultural Reworkings and Translations in/of Shakespeare’s Plays (Bucharest, 2015). Her recent work has been published in prestigious international journals: Cahiers Élisabéthains, SEDERI Yearbook, Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, etc.

She has edited and contributed to several volumes on Shakespeare and translation/adaptation: Perspectives on Shakespeare in Europe’s Borderlands (co-editor, Bucharest 2020), Shakespeare 400 in Romania. Papers Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's Death (co-editor, Bucharest, 2017); Shakespeare, Translation and the European Dimension (co-editor, 2012) and Inhospitable Translations: Fidelities, Betrayals, Rewritings (Bucharest, 2010).

She has been a member of several national research projects:  IDEI PN III , Shakespeare in the Borderland (2017-2019) https://shakespeareintheborderland.wordpress.com/; IDEI UB, „e-Shakespeare: recuperarea digitală a traducerilor românești”, (2012-2013); IDEI PN II, The European Dimension of Shakespeare's Plays (2008-2011);  IDEI UB, Traduceri (ne)ospitaliere: Shakespeare adaptat (2008).