I completed my MA degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1990 and my PhD in 1996, with a dissertation, supervised by Teresa Fanego, on the passive voice in Early Modern English. In October 1992 I was awarded an FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science; between October 1993 and September 1999 I worked as an Assistant Lecturer, first at the University of A Coruña (1993-1994) and then again at Santiago de Compostela, where I obtained a permanent position as Senior Lecturer in October 1999. Since 1993 I have been a member of the research unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization, directed by Professor Teresa Fanego.

In the Autumn of 2006 (1 October-31 December) I held a visiting professorship at the University of Osnabrück, to lecture on English historical linguistics. I have also taught for briefer periods, or carried out research, at the Universities of Aachen, Helsinki, Manchester, Oulu, Tampere and Vigo.

I serve on the editorial board of Atlantis, the official journal of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN), and I am also the convenor of the Historical Linguistics section at its annual conferences. I supervised the PhD dissertation of Lucía Loureiro-Porto (2005) and I am supervising the PhDs of Emma Lezcano, Eduardo Coto and Marta Duyos. I was actively involved in the organization of the 26th International Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (December 2002) and in July 2005 I co-chaired with María José López-Couso the group running the International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3 (NRG3).

I teach Old English (undergraduate, 4th year), Early Modern English (undergraduate, 5th year), English as a Foreign Language IV (undergraduate, 4th year) and a postgraduate course on corpus linguistics. My main research interests are grammaticalization processes in the history of English, the active-passive variation in early and late Modern English, word order changes in early English and the development of scientific discourse.

I am the Erasmus/Socrates coordinator of the Department of English for the Universities of Aachen, Munich, Tampere and Vienna.

For further information, see my complete CV.