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Department of English and GermanFaculty of Philology
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
Office: 306
E-mail: zeltia.blanco@usc.gal
Phone: +34 881 811 859
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Zeltia Blanco-Suárez has an MA in English Language and Literature (June 2008) and a PhD in English Linguistics (2017) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. From 2009 to 2013 she held a four-year predoctoral research grant (FPU) from the Spanish Ministry of Education. She has also worked at the Ramón Piñeiro Institute for Research in the Humanities, on a two-year contract (September 2013–September 2015) funded by the Regional Government of Galicia to carry out research on scientific and technical terminology. After a five-year period (October 2015–September 2020) as Lecturer in English at the University of Cantabria, Zeltia returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she holds a permanent position as Senior Lecturer (Titular de Universidad).
In May 2010 Zeltia received the National Award for Academic Excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education, in recognition of her outstanding academic record as an undergraduate student. She has also been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Prize 2017–2018 by the USC International Doctorate School.
As a visiting scholar at institutions abroad, Zeltia has stayed at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of the University of Manchester (Autumn 2010), at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg (January 2013), at the Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven (February–March 2018), and at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Edinburgh (April–June 2018).
Zeltia coordinates the MA Programme iMAES (Inter-University Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications). Between 2022 and 2025 she served as director of the panel ‘Linguistic variation and change through corpora’ for the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO). In May 2025 she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), the official journal of AELINCO, jointly with Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras.
She has co-chaired with Noemí-Pereira Ares the 18th International Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE2026) (September 2026), and she has been part of the Organising Committee of the 8th Conference of the Internacional Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE8) (September 2025), the 6th Conference of the Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS) (June 2019), and the 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Literature: Intersections in the Study of Modern Languages (June 2018).
Jointly with Teresa Fanego, Zeltia is supervising the PhD dissertation of Seamus Johnston, a Senior Lecturer of English at Reitaku University (Chiba, Japan). She is also co-supervising the PhD dissertation of Imeme Oumouna, with Paloma Núñez-Pertejo.
18-20 November 2026: “From direct to assumed evidence: Of course and obviously across Early and Late Modern English” [with Mario Serrano-Losada], 49th AEDEAN Conference, Jaume I University, Castellón.
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, Cristina Blanco-García, Tamara Bouso, Teresa Fanego, Jorge Fernández-Avilés, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Amira Oumouna], III Xeira CLARIAH-GAL, University of Santiago de Compostela.
15-17 May 2025: “From saying it literally to literally breathtaking: Some diachronic notes on the adverb literally”, 16th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, University of Salamanca.
9 May 2025: “Contribuíndo ao avance das Humanidades Dixitais: Recursos para o estudo do inglés histórico e contemporáneo” [poster; with María José López-Couso, Tamara Bouso, Teresa Fanego, Fátima Faya, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras], II Xeira CLARIAH-GAL, University of Santiago de Compostela.
21-24 August 2024: “The genesis of Irish English habitual do: An analysis of the 1641 Depositions” [with Teresa Fanego & Seamus Johnston], 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki (Finland).
18-22 June 2024: “Tracking Irish English habitual do: Do as a marker of habitual aspect in the 1641 Depositions”, [with Teresa Fanego & Seamus Johnston], 45th ICAME Conference, University of Vigo.
8-10 November 2023: “The English language of seventeenth-century Ireland: A corpus analysis of the 1641 Depositions” [with Seamus Johnston & Teresa Fanego], 46th AEDEAN Conference, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
3-6 July 2023: “Ridiculously cute and absurdly sexy: On the rise of intensifying ridiculously and absurdly”, ICEHL-22, University of Sheffield (UK).
10-12 May 2023: “From speaking madly to being madly curious: On the history of intensifying madly”, 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics – CILC 2023, University of Oviedo.
27-30 July 2022: “Stating the obvious: Assumed evidential parentheticals with verba dicendi in contemporary Englishes” [with Mario Serrano-Losada], ICAME 43, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK).
