Raquel P. Romasanta is a full-time lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Ayudante Doctora). Her research interests include varieties of English, corpus linguistics, language variation and change, statistical analysis of language data
Education
University of Vigo, Spain | PhD in English Linguistics | December 2020
“Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes: A corpus-based study of REGRET” [International doctorate; Cum Laude]. Advisors: Elena Seoane (University of Vigo) and Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg).
University of Vigo, Spain | M.A in Advanced English Studies | June 2017
University of Vigo, Spain | B.A in Foreign Languages with a specialization in English Linguistics | June 2016
University of Vigo, Spain | B.A in in Elementary School Teaching | June 2010
Experience
University of Santiago de Compostela | Full-time lecturer (Ayudante Doctor) | April 2024 - present
University of the Balearic Islands | Full-time lecturer (Contratado Doctor) | February 2023 - April 2024
University of the Balearic Islands | Full-time lecturer (Ayudante Doctor) | September 2022 - February 2023
University of Vigo | European Union (Next Generation EU) | Three-year research grant (Margarita Salas) | January 2022 - September 2022
University of Vigo | Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | One-year FPI-POP grant | December 2020 - December 2021
University of Vigo | Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Four-year FPI predoctoral grant | July 2019 - December 2020
University of Vigo | Univerisity of Vigo | Two-year predoctoral grant | February 2018 - June 2019
University of Vigo | Spanish Ministry of Education (Beca de Colaboración) | Research assistant | November 2015 - June 2016
Awards
2021 | Extraordinary Doctorate Award in the area of Arts and Humanities of the University of Vigo
2020 | Richard M. Hogg Prize of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (IsLE) for the Best Article by an early-career scholar
2019 | Best Paper presented by a junior researcher at the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (8 BICLCE)
2017 | Academic Excellence Award for New Doctoral Students of the University of Vigo, academic year 2017/2018
Raquel is a member of the ViEW research project (Variation in English Worldwide), SPERTUS (Spoken English Research Team at the University of Santiago de Compostela) research group and ELC (English Linguistics Circle) network.