Cristina Blanco-García holds a BA in English Language and Literature (June 2009), an MA in English Studies (September 2011), and a PhD in English Linguistics (April 2023) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Between 2012 and 2016, she held a four-year FPI research grant (ref. BES-2012-057555) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

As an ERASMUS exchange student, Cristina studied at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2006–2007). Following her graduation, she worked as a Spanish Language Assistant at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh (2009–2010). In 2012, she undertook a two-month research stay, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, at the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English of the University of Helsinki. She has also been a visiting student at the Departments of English of the Universities of Freiburg (September–December 2014) and Munich (October–December 2015). As a postdoctoral researcher, she has carried out research at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland, February– March 2024), under the supervision of Professor Rafał Molencki, and within the research group MuStE (Multidimensional Corpus-Based Studies in English) at the University of A Coruña, under the supervision of Professor Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño (September–October 2025).

Cristina has experience in the compilation and tagging of digital corpora; she has helped the VLCG team elaborate the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR) in its two versions (POS-tagged and XML). She has also been actively involved in the organization of the 4th and 5th Encontros da Mocidade Investigadora, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela on 9–10 June 2016 and 12–13 June 2017, respectively, the 45th AEDEAN Conference, held at the University of Extremadura (Cáceres) on 16–18 November 2022, and the III SEDERI International Conference for Graduate Students of Early Modern English Studies (University of Extremadura, 25–27 September 2024).

Cristina worked in the Department of English of the University of Extremadura at Cáceres, and in the Department of Modern Philology of the University of León. She is currently an Assistant Lecturer (Profesora Ayudante Doctora) at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

López-Couso, María José, Belén Méndez-Naya, Cristina Blanco-García, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Tamara Bouso, Teresa Fanego, Jorge Fernández-Avilés, Paloma Núñez- Pertejo & Amira Oumouna. 2026. Humanidades dixitais aplicadas ao estudo da variación e o cambio lingüístico: Construcións e construcionalización no inglés histórico e contemporáneo. In III Xeira CLARIAH-GAL. Santiago de Compostela: Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20608552

Martín Gilete, Marta & Cristina Blanco-García. 2024. Integrating micro-credential training in higher education: A proposal for BA dissertation support. In Nuevos avances en educación: Metodologías didácticas para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y educación física, 529-544. Madrid: Dykinson. 

Blanco-García, Cristina & Marta Martín Gilete. 2024. Enhancing higher education through micro-credential training: A focus on BA dissertations. In Debates y experiencias en torno a la innovación docente: Visión actual y prospectiva, 371-372. Sevilla: Ediciones Egregius (Colección Actas y Resúmenes). 

Complete list of publications

31 August-4 September: “Albeit and nothwithstanding: Concessive innovation in Early Modern English” [paper within the Seminar The Pew and the Pulpit: Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of Late Medieval and Early Modern preaching and prayer, convened by Oliver Currie & Angela Andreani], 2026 ESSE Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela.

15-18 June 2026: “Linking ideas through causal clauses in scientific English: Diachronic variation in adverbial subordinators”, 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics(ICEHL-23), University of Milan (Italy).

29 May 2026: “Humanidades Dixitais aplicadas ao estudo da variación e o cambio lingüístico: O proxecto Construcións e construcionalización en inglés histórico e contemporáneo” [poster; with María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Tamara Bouso, Teresa Fanego, Jorge Fernández-Avilés, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Amira Oumouna], III Xeira CLARIAH-GAL, University of Santiago de Compostela.

21-23 January 2026: “Especialización lingüística para el profesorado universitario: Una estrategia para impulsar la misión docente y la internacionalización”, CIDU 2026, XIV Congreso Iberoamericano de Docencia Universitaria, University of Santiago de Compostela.

15 October 2025: “Investigating ephemeral CCC subordinators in scientific writing: Coruña Corpus” [invited presentation], MuStE Seminar, University of A Coruña.

1-4 September 2025: “Exploring innovations in the religious prose: Ephemeral CCC adverbial subordinators as a case in point”, ISLE8 (8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Santiago de Compostela.

2 April 2025: “Poniendo en valor lo efímero: Los subordinantes adverbiales en la historia del inglés”, II Jornadas de Divulgación Científica “Cuenta tu ciencia en cinco minutos”, Universidad de León.

23-24 April 2024: “Enhancing Higher Education through micro-credential training: A focus on BA dissertations” [with Marta Martín-Gilete], III Congreso Internacional Innovación Docente, Educación y Transferencia del Conocimiento (CIINECO), Rey Juan Carlos University.

1-5 June 2019: “Tracing the variation between notwithstanding and although/though in the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999” [work-in-progress] and “The TEI-XML annotation of the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999” [poster, with Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego & Iván Tamaredo], ICAME 40, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

15-17 May 2019: “Revisiting ephemeral concessive adverbial subordinators: A study based on the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English” and “Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999: TEI-XML annotated version” [with Paula Rodríguez-Puente, Teresa Fanego & Iván Tamaredo], CILC2019, University of Valencia.