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Honorary Research Fellow in the Linguistics and English Language Division since February 2017.

I work as a Senior Lecturer  in the Department of Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana at the University of Vigo (March 2019-), and in July 2025 I obtained certification to become a Professor. Previously, also at UVigo, I held a tenure-track Lectureship (Profesora Titular Interina) and two Senior Research Fellowships: "Investigadora Distinguida" ("Distinguished Research Fellow", University of Vigo), from February to December 2017, and "Investigadora Ramón y Cajal" (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España) from 2012 to 2017. 

Before moving to Vigo, from 2007 to 2012 I held a full-time position as Lecturer in English Language in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Manchester, with specialisation in the history of English. Manchester is the University where I completed my PhD thesis (2007), supervised by Prof. David Denison (Preposition Stranding and Prescriptivism in English from 1500 to 1900: A Corpus-based Approach) and my MA studies in English Studies (2004). My predoctoral studies were financially supported by various grants from the Xunta de Galicia, Caixa Galicia and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

English Historical Sociolinguistics
Normative Linguistics (grammars, pronouncing dictionaries)
Women's Letters and Diaries
Historical Sociopragmatics
Register Variation
Corpus Linguistics
Digital Humanities

PROJECTS, RESEARCH GROUPS

Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. Co-Investigator. Project team: Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, University of Manchester. Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2019-2023, Ref. AH/S007121/1), https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/.

Image to Text, on Mary Hamilton Papers (c.1750 - c.1820), with David Denison (Manchester) and in collaboration with the Digitisation Strategy of the Centre of Heritage Imaging and Collection Care, The John Rylands Library, Deansgate. 2011-2019. Subsumed into Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers.

ARCHER. A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers. Project Coordinator since 2008, with David Denison (Manchester). www.manchester.ac.uk/archer

APU. Principal Investigator. The Art of Writing English: A Corpus of Schoolchildren’s Writings (APU). Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (University of Vigo, Spain) and Victorina González-Díaz (University of Liverpool, UK).  https://apucorpus.webs.uvigo.es

ECEG. Principal Investigator. Eighteenth-Century English Grammars database, 2010. Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (The University of Manchester, UK) and María E. Rodríguez-Gil (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain).  https://eceg.iatext.ulpgc.es.

ECEP. Project Member and Designer. Eighteenth-Century English Phonology database, 2015/2023. Joan C. Beal, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Ranjan Sen, and Christine Wallis. The University of Sheffield and Universidade de Vigo.  www.dhi.ac.uk/projects/ecep

Paratext. Project member. Paratext in 18th-century Grammars of English: Language and Society. Project lead by Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). 2012-2015.

LVTC Research Group. Senior Member. Language Variation and Textual Categorisation, Universidade de Vigo (Spain). 

iLingua. Scientific Comittee Member and Guarantoor. Instituto de Investigación LINGUA, Universidade de Vigo (Spain).

ELC. Research Associate. English Linguistics Circle, University of Santiago de Compostela and Universidade de Vigo (Spain). 

In June 2010, I received The University of Manchester Teacher of the Year Award (Faculty of Humanities).

UoM: History of the English Language, Middle English Language, Attitudes to Language, World Englishes, Fundamental Issues in the Study of Language, Study Skills, Dissertation Module.

UVigo: History of the English Language, Language and Society, English Language as a Foreign Language (C1), Dissertation Module.