Alin has a broad international experience of teaching courses in semiotics, media studies and linguistics. He has supervised BA and MA theses in these same areas.

Peer reviewed journal articles

• Hocquet, A., Wieber, F., Gramelsberger, G., Hinsen, K., Diesmann, M., Pasquini, F., Landström, C., Peters, B., Kasprowicz, D., Borrelli, A., Roth, P., Lee, C. A. I., Olteanu, A., Böschen, S. 2024. Software in science is ubiquitous, yet overlooked. Nature Computational Science.

• Olteanu, A., Ongstad, S. 2024. Utterance-genre-lifeworld and sign-habit-Umwelt compared as phenomenologies. Integrating Socio- and Biosemiotics.Biosemiotics. 

• Gómez, S., Higuera, C. R., Coca, J. R., Olteanu, A. 2024. Transhumanism, society and education. An edusemiotic approach.Studies in Philosophy of Education 43: 177–193.   

• Campbell, C., Olteanu, A. 2023. The Challenge of Postdigital Literacy: Extending Multimodality and Social Semiotics for a New. Postdigital Science and Education, online first.   

• Boom, J. van, Olteanu A. 2023. “Have you not heard, my soul?” The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete as a multimodal text.Sign Systems Studies 51(2): 301-328.   

• Olteanu, A., Campbell, C. 2023. Biosemiotics for postdigital living: The implications of the implications.Chinese Semiotic Studies 19(1): 161-188.   

• Olteanu, Alin. 2022. Learning as becoming conscious: A note on Jablonka and Ginsburg’s notion of learning.Biosemiotics 15(3): 457-467.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2022. Translation from a Contemporary Media Perspective: Avoiding culturalism and monolingualism.Social Semiotics 32(1): 143-161.  

• Olteanu, A., Rabitz, F., Nalivaikė, A. 2021. A semiotic comparison of mass media representations of the swine flu and Covid-19 pandemics: Observing Narcissus narcosis.Punctum 7(1): 45-65.  

• Olteanu, A. 2021. Multimodal Modeling: Bridging Biosemiotics and Social Semiotics.Biosemiotics 14(3): 783-805.  

• Campbell, C., Lackovic, N., Olteanu, A. 2021. A “Strong” Approach to Sustainability Literacy: Embodied Ecology and Media.Philosophies 6(14), DOI 10.3390/philosophies6010014.  

• Rabitz, F., Olteanu, A., Jurkevičienė, J., Budžytė, A. 2021. A topic network analysis of the system turn in the environmental sciences.Scientometrics 126: 2107-2140.  

• Lackovic, N., Olteanu, A. 2020. Rethinking educational theory and practice in times of visual media: learning as image-concept integration. Educational Philosophy and Theory 53(6): 597-612.  

• Olteanu, A., Campbell, C., Feil, S. 2020. Naturalizing models: New perspectives in a Peircean key.Biosemiotics 13(2): 179-197.  

• Campbell, C., Olteanu A., Feil. S. 2020. Peirce’s anti-psychologism and learning theory.Chinese Semiotic Studies 17(1): 175-197.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2019. Schematic enough to be safe from kidnappers: the semiotics of Charles Peirce as transitionalist pragmatism.Journal of Philosophy of Education 53(4): 788-806.  

• Olteanu, A., Campbell, C. 2019. Education, Signs, and the History of Ideas: An interview with Alin Olteanu. Chinese Semiotic Studies, 15(2): 275-288.  

• Campbell, C., Olteanu, A., Kull, K. 2019. Learning and knowing as semiosis: Extending the conceptual apparatus of semiotics.Sign Systems Studies 47(3/4): 352-381.  

• Olteanu, A., Rabitz, F., Jurkevičienė, J., Budžytė, A. 2019. The case for a semiotic method in Earth system science: Semantic networks of environmental research.Sign Systems Studies 47(3/4): 552-589.  

• Olteanu, Alin, Stables, A. 2018. Learning and Adaptation from a Semiotic Perspective.Sign Systems Studies 46(4): 409–434.  

• Feil, S., Olteanu, A. 2018. Abduction, Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Interpretations.Human Arenas 1(2): 206-222.  

• Olteanu, A., Campbell, C. 2018. A Short Introduction to Edusemiotics.Chinese Semiotic Studies, 14(2): 245-260.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2016. The Implications for Education of Peirce’s agapist principle.Semiotica 212: 59-80.  

• Olteanu, A., Kambouri-Danos, M., Stables, A. 2016. Predicating from an early age: Edusemiotics and the potential of children’s preconceptions. Studies in Philosophy and Education 35(6): 621-640.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2014. The semiosic evolution of education.Journal of Philosophy of Education 48(3): 457-473.                           

Books

• Lackovic, N., Olteanu, A. 2023. Relational and Multimodal Higher Education: Digital, Social and Environmental Perspectives. London: Routledge.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2019. Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective. Cham: Springer

• Stables, A., Nöth, W., Olteanu, A., Pikkarainen, E., Pesce, S. 2018. Semiotic Theory of Learning: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Education. New York: Routledge.   

• Olteanu, Alin. 2015. Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce: a Cosmology of Learning and Loving. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Chapters in collected volumes

• Olteanu, A., Campbell C. 2023. Biosemiotic systems theory: An embodied and ecological approach to culture. In: Claudio R. Higuera & Juan R. Coca. Eds. Biosocial World: Biosemiotics and Biosociology, pp. 75-98. Valladolid: University of Valladolid Press.  

• Stables, A., Olteanu, A. 2023. Semiotics in learning and education. Jamin, Pelkey, Susan Petrilli & Soplia Melanson Ricciardone. Eds. In: Bloomsbury Semiotics Vol. 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences, pp. 129–148. London: Bloomsbury.   

• Olteanu, A., Ciula, A. 2023. Semiotics and digital humanities. In: Jamin Pelkey & Paul Cobley. Eds. Bloomsbury Semiotics Vol. 4: Semiotic Movements, pp. 67–86. London: Bloomsbury.   

• Olteanu, Alin. 2022. Two worlds at once: the semiotic non-dualism of Dumitru Borţun. In: Borţun, Ileana, Borţun, Vladimir, Matei, Corina. Eds. Din dragoste pentru om: Un liber amicorum dedicat lui Dumitru Borţun [Out of love for the human: A liber amicorum dedicated to Dumitru Bortun], pp. 66-74. ISBN 978-606-8944-60-9. Bucharest: Spandugino.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2021. Cultural Pluralism and Communication. Oxford Bibliographies in 'Communication'. Ed. Moy, Patricia. New York: Oxford University Press, 22 September.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2021. An overlooked episode in the history of semiotics: The iconoclast controversy and its relevance for the iconic turn. In: Boom, J.S. van, Põder, T.-A. Eds.  Sign, method and the sacred: New directions in semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, pp. 125-146. Berlin: de Gruyter.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2021. A Proposal for a Biosemiotic Approach to Digitalization: Literacy as Modeling Competence. In: Biosemiotics and Evolution: The Natural Foundations of Meaning and Symbolism, eds., Pagni, E., Simanke, R.T. 65-85. Cham: Springer.   

• Olteanu, Alin. 2019. Multimodal propositions and metaphors in the movie Submarine: an application of Peirce’s doctrine of Dicisigns. In: Meaning & Co.: The Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality, eds. Olteanu, A., Stables, A., Borţun, D. 105-126. Cham: Springer.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2018. Semiotics as a proposal for a Numanistic educational programme. In: Readings in Numanities: Volume 1, eds. Andreică, O., Olteanu, A. 3-17. Cham: Springer.  

• Olteanu, Alin. 2017. Reading History: Education, Semiotics and Edusemiotics. In: Edusemiotics – A Handbook, ed. Semetsky, I. pp. 193-205. New York: Springer.  

• Olteanu, A., Kambouri-Danos, M. 2017. Experiential nature: learning by living. In: Philosophy as Interplay and Dialogue: Viewing Landscapes within Philosophy of Education, eds. Strand, T., Smith, R., Pirrie, A., Gregoriou, M., Papastephanou, M. Berlin: Lit Verlag.                 

Edited volumes

• Olteanu A., Cobley, P. 2023. Eds. Semiotics and its masters: Volume 2. Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.  

• Lates, T., Olteanu A. Eds. 2022. The Philosophical entanglements of Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics.Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Special section, 66(1).   

• Olteanu, A., Stables, A. Eds. 2018. Learning and Adaptation: Semiotic Perspectives. Sign Systems Studies, Special Issue 46(4). (AHCI)  

• Olteanu, A. Stables, A., Borţun, D. Eds. 2019. Meaning & Co.: The Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality. Cham: Springer.  

• Andreică, O., Olteanu, A. Eds. 2018. Readings in Numanities. Cham: Springer.  

Reviews

• Olteanu, A., Romanini, V. 2022. Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2021. Biosemiotics 15: 395–399.  

• Olteanu, A. 2016. Review of Edusemiotics: Semiotic Philosophy as Educational Foundation.Social Semiotics 26(5): 582-586.

Alin has a broad international experience of teaching courses in semiotics, media studies and linguistics. He has supervised BA and MA theses in these same areas.