Dr Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma
Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma is lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Extremadura. Her research interests and publications center on pragmatics and corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, emotions and Irish migration studies. She has co-written and published chapters in the volumes Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research, Routledge (2022); Irish Identities: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Mouton de Gruyter (2020); the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics: Global Implications for Society and Education in the Networked Age, Springer (2016) and Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use, Springer (2016). Her book, A Corpus-Pragmatic Analysis of Irish Emigrants' Letters, will be published in 2023 by Palgrave Macmillan.
She is a member of IrEN (the Irish English Network), AEDEI (the Spanish Association for Irish Studies), SILAS (the Society for Irish Latin American Studies) and LINGLAP (the Research Institute for Linguistics and Applied Languages, University of Extremadura). Over the last two years, she has been working on ‘CORIECOR visualized. Irish English in writing across time (a longitudinal historical perspective)’, a research project funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Ref. PID2019-106609GB-I00). She received her Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2019. Contact details [email protected] @NancyAvLe Click here to see all her publications in the field of Irish Studies. |
Dr Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero
Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero is Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Mary Immaculate College (Limerick, Ireland) for which she received a Postgraduate Studentship Award (2016-2017) and the competitive and prestigious Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (2017-2020).
She is the compiler of the Corpus of Contemporary Fictionalized Irish English (ca. 1,2 million words) and the first ever Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Corpus (ca. 1,6 million words). Her research and publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles and contributions to prestigious and specialized edited volumes in the field, focus on examining pragmalinguistic elements of Irish English and their representation in fictional Irish English dialogue using corpus stylistics, corpus linguistics, corpus pragmatics, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics as her main analytic methods and approaches. She is currently writing a monographic volume for the Routledge Studies on Irish Literature series on the representation of Irish English in the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Corpus . She is a member of EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centers of Irish Studies); IrEN; AEDEI; IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies) at the University of Limerick; and LINGLAP. Contact details [email protected] [email protected] @AnaT_3112 Click here to see all her publications in the field of Irish Studies. |
Prof Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). She has held different teaching positions at the University of Extremadura (Spain), University of Limerick, and University College Dublin (Ireland), where she was Lecturer in Hiberno-English. Her research interests center on the English spoken in Ireland, and she has been involved in Irish Studies since 1997.
Her publications include articles and chapters dealing with Irish English in fiction, Irish emigration and Irish discourse more broadly. She is the author, among others, of Orality in written texts: Using historical corpora to investigate Irish English (1700-1900), Routledge (2019); An Introduction to Irish English, Equinox (2010); the co-edited volumes Irish Identities: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Mouton de Gruyter (2020); Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context -Palgrave-Macmillan (2017); Pragmatic Markers in Irish English (2015) -John Benjamins, and Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research, Routledge (2021). She is the EFACIS Board representative of the Irish English Network, an international network of scholars interested in Irish English which is a member of EFACIS since 2021. She is also a member of the Language Data and Language Change at the University of Bergen, an associate member of CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies) and IVACS, both at the University of Limerick, and LINGLAP. Contact details [email protected] [email protected] @Linguistonbike Find her also at: https://carolinaamadormoreno.weebly.com/ Dr Manuel Rojas GabrielManuel Rojas Gabriel is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Extremadura (Spain). He has been Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of South Wales Swansea, Durham, East Anglia, Oxford, Glasgow, and at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale at the University of Poitiers (France). He has directed several national and international research projects. His research centers on medieval warfare, frontiers, and Vikings, all subjects he has dealt with in books and other types of publications. He is currently working on a study of the beginnings of Viking attacks in Western Europe entitled Preludios de tormenta: los comienzos de los ataques nórdicos a la Europa Occidental, c. 789-c. 854.
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Dr Cassandra S. Tully de Lope
Cassandra S. Tully is currently a civil servant teaching at an educational center for adults in Plasencia (Spain). She holds a PhD in Contemporary Irish Literature from the University of Extremadura. She also holds a BA in English Studies by the University of Seville (Spain), a Master’s Degree in English Teaching and an MA in Gender and Literature both by the University of Extremadura. Her research interests focus on masculinity as represented by Irish male novelists and how heroic and mythological patterns of masculinity can still be found in today’s protagonists as a reflection of a heteronormative, hegemonic, and toxic masculinity. Within the field of Digital Humanities she works with Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Stylistics and digital toolkits such as AntConc or Sketch Engine. Her more recent research interest focuses on the representation of LGBT+ characters in Irish novels. She has also taken part in different innovative projects at the University of Extremadura, the most recent of which deals with the teaching of literature through the use of social media and new technologies. She has authored a number of articles and chapters on Irish literature and corpus studies, the most recent and relevant one belonging to the Routledge Studies on Irish Literature edited by Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy: Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture (2022). Her monograph for the Routledge Studies on Irish Literature on masculine representation in 20th and 21st century Ireland by Irish male novelists entitled Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature. Hero, Lads and Fathers will be published in 2024.
Contact details [email protected] @cass_tully Click here to see all her publications in the field of Irish Studies. Dr Sara Díaz SierraSara Díaz Sierra is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Extremadura, from which she holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics. She has a BA in English Studies and graduated from the University of Salamanca with an MA in Advanced English Studies: Languages and Cultures in Contact in 2017. Her PhD thesis dealt with representations of Northern Irish English accents in fiction and with the perception of those portrayals by people in Northern Ireland. She has published an article entitled “Produced and Perceived Authenticity in the Northern Irish TV Show Derry Girls” in the journal English World-Wide. Her research interests include language attitudes, English language varieties, accents, sociolinguistics and fictional representations of dialect in literary and telecinematic fiction.
She is also a member of AEDEI, EFACIS and LINGLAP. Contact details [email protected] @Sara_DiazSierra |
David Sotoca Fernández |
Noelia Carmona Rivero |
David Sotoca-Fernández is a PhD student and substitute lecturer at the University of Extremadura where he teaches Didactics of Social Studies, Languages and Literature. He finished his BA in English at the University of Extremadura, where he also studied an MA in Research within Humanities with a focus on Linguistics. His MA thesis, entitled Historical (Im)politeness in Irish English: A Pilot Study of Reproaches between Family Members in the context of Letter Writing, received the first prize of the Inés de Praga Award bestowed by AEDEI in 2021.
He is currently working on his PhD titled (Im)politeness in Irish English: A Study of the Pragmatic Encoding of Speech Acts and the Construction of the Irish Identity using CORIECOR, which focuses on investigating reproaches, apologies and requests to shed light on the patterns involved in encoding (im)politeness mechanisms among Irish speakers throughout time. This project is being funded by Banco Santander in association with the University of Extremadura. His research interests, therefore, center on the areas of linguistics and sociopragmatics with a focus on (im)politeness studies. He is also concerned with studies analyzing gender and queer representation in literature through corpus linguistics, and with examining gender and queerness in Irish literature. Contact details [email protected] @SotocaFernandez |
Noelia Carmona is a PhD student at the University of Granada where she is working on a thesis focused on the representation of masculinities in Donal Ryan’s bibliography. She finished her BA in English Studies at the University of Extremadura where she currently works as a Substitute Lecturer. She also holds an MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Granada. Her MA thesis focused on Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart.
Her research mainly focuses on the study of masculinities in Irish literature, Irish Studies and Masculinity Studies. She is also interested in the representation of gender and queerness in literature and media. Contact details: [email protected] |
Jesús Candelario MenachoJesús Candelario Menacho is a PhD student at the University of Extremadura, where he is working on a thesis focused on emotions in 19th-century letters in CORIECOR and in a corpus of Portuguese cartas de chamada (call letters).
Previously he also worked on Irish emigrant letters as part of a collaborative research scholarship supervised by Dr. Ávila-Ledesma entitled “Emotion Talk in 19th Century Letters from CORIECOR”, which he presented on at the Jornadas de Iniciación a la Investigación Lingüística (JIIL). He holds a B.A. in English Studies from the University of Extremadura, where he also undertook an M.A. in Research within Humanities—with a focus on Linguistics, and an M.A. in Teacher Training for Secondary Education. He currently works as a Spanish language assistant in Templeogue College, Dublin. His research interests center on corpus linguistics and pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics and emotion studies. Contact details [email protected] Cristina Márquez Martínez |
Elena Morcillo RedondoElena Morcillo holds an MA in Research from UNED (National University of Distance Education) and she is currently a PhD student at the University of Extremadura. Specializing in the history of the Middle Ages, her doctoral thesis investigates pre-Viking Ireland while also exploring the country’s connection with Wales, Scotland or France in A.D. 432 – 795. Contact details: [email protected] |
Cristina Márquez Martínez is a postgraduate student at the University of Extremadura from which she holds a B.A. in English Studies. She is currently studying a Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Secondary Schools at the same university. In 2022, she was awarded a collaborative research assistantship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education which she is currently undertaking in the English Department of the University of Extremadura under the supervision of Dr Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero. The project analyzes the portrayal of Irish English features in three books which will be added to Terrazas-Calero’s (2022) Corpus of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly novels, identifying features of Irish English orality and annotating them for further analysis. Her artistic ambitions also led her to design the poster for the 2022 International Shaw Conference which was held in Cáceres. Her research interests include gender identity, colonial and postcolonial feminism, literary dialects and the representation of femininity in literary texts.
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