December 12, 2022 4:03 pm / 5 comments
Noelia Castro-Chao and Raquel P. Romasanta, who were holders of competitive postdoctoral contracts funded, respectively, by the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish Ministry of Universities, have recently obtained tenure-track positions as Lecturers (AD) at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of the Balearic Islands. Noelia is a member of the VLCG team, [...]
October 26, 2022 4:32 pm / 10 comments
We are pleased to announce that David Tizón-Couto has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. For a very nice picture of this special event please click here. Congratulations, David!
October 26, 2022 11:28 am / 6 comments
The Spanish Ministry of Universities has recently announced that Jorge Fernández-Avilés and David Hernández-Coalla have been awarded four-year FPU grants (reference nos. FPU21/05035 and FPU21/06186) to prepare their PhDs at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo. Both Jorge and David have very distinguished CVs already! Their PhD supervisors will be, respectively, María José [...]
October 17, 2022 10:41 am / 16 comments
We are very pleased to announce that our friends and colleagues Isabel Balteiro-Fernández and Cristina Suárez-Gómez have recently been promoted to positions as Full Professors of English Language and Linguistics at the Universities of Alicante and the Balearic Islands respectively. Congratulations, Isabel and Cristina!
September 6, 2022 8:20 am / 12 comments
At the ESSE Book Awards Ceremony, held at the University of Mainz on 29 August 2022, Yolanda Fernández-Pena, a member of the LVTC group, received the prestigious ESSE Book Award (€1,500), in the category English Language and Linguistics, for her monograph Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects (Routledge, [...]
July 20, 2022 7:37 pm / 6 comments
Por resolución de 10/07/2022, conjunta de la Consellería de Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades y la Consellería de Economía, Industria e Innovación da Xunta de Galicia, Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias, miembro del grupo PCC, ha obtenido un contrato postdoctoral de tres años de duración (referencia ED481B2022-041). Ana Rita defendió su tesis en diciembre de 2021, al [...]
June 20, 2022 8:37 am / 7 comments
We are pleased to announce that Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. She has also recently been awarded an “Ayuda del Programa de Estancias de Movilidad en Centros Extranjeros de Enseñanza Superior e Investigación” (Programa Salvador de Madariaga) [...]
March 16, 2022 12:08 pm / 10 comments
It was recently announced that Isabel Balteiro-Fernández, currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Alicante, has brilliantly passed the accreditation exam qualifying her for promotion to a position as Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics. We are delighted to be able to congratulate Isabel, her PhD advisor Ignacio Palacios, the SPERTUS team, and ELC! Further information [...]
January 19, 2022 3:48 pm / 10 comments
We are very pleased to announce that Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of VLCG, has obtained a tenure-track position as Ayudante Doctora at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Congratulations!
January 19, 2022 11:46 am / no comments
We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held between February and April 2022: Tuesday, 8 February 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm:: Christian Ilbury (The University of Edinburgh): “What is Multicultural London English?” [34th ELC Research Seminar] Monday, 7 March 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm:: Stefan Diemer (Trier University of Applied [...]