Tamara Bouso holds a BA in English Language and Literature  (2011), an MA in English Studies (2012) and a Doctorate  in English Linguistics (2018) from the University of Santiago de Compostela; in July 2019 she completed an MA in Secondary Education at the UNIR (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja). Between 2013 and 2017 she prepared her PhD at Santiago de Compostela, under funding from a four-year FPU research grant (ref. FPU2012/01669) from the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Tamara was an ERASMUS exchange student (2009–2010) at the University of Birmingham. As a postgraduate student and postdoc she has carried out research at the Universities of Edinburgh (September–December 2014; MECD grant EST13/00567), Neuchâtel (June–July 2016, MECD grant EST15/00230; July–August 2021, UIB grant 7/2021; September 2026, iLTIUS grant) and Zurich (June 2022, UIB grant 11/2022; June 2023, Swiss National Fund grant IZSEZ0_213179/1; July 2023, UIB grant 33/2023). She has been invited to teach and/or present results of her work at the Universities of Osnabrück (2016, 2020), Mainz (2018), Neuchâtel (2019, 2026), University of Californa, Riverside (2020–2026), California State University – Fullerton (2021), Lake Forest College (2024), Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics (2021 and 2022), Athens, within the CIVIS course on Diachronic Linguistics (2023–2026), and Erlangen–Nürnberg (2024).

In November 2012 Tamara received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for English and American Studies. In December 2019 she obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award 2017–2018 from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Tamara has considerable experience in research and development. Together with Pablo Ruano-San Segundo (U. of Extremadura) she has compiled the British Sentimental Novel Corpus (ISBN 978-84-09-60357-2), a 21 m. word corpus spanning the Romantic (1798–1836) and Victorian periods (1837–1900). Jointly with Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich), she has received funding from the Swiss National Science Fund (Scientific Exchanges Programme; ref. IZSEZ0_213179/1) to carry out research on object constructions in historical American English. In February 2026, she was appointed to the Governing Committee of the Instituto de Investigacións Lingüísticas e Literarias da USC – iLTIUS (‘USC’s Research Institute for Linguistics and Literature’), to serve as Scientific Secretary for a six-year term.

Tamara has worked as a Lecturer in English at the universities of Extremadura (2019) and the Balearic Islands (September 2019–August 2023). In September 2023 she returned to the University of Santiago de Compostela, where she is a Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Linguistics.

Bouso-Rivas, Tamara & Tara Struik. Forthcoming. Morphology. The Year’s Work in English Studies 105.

Bouso-Rivas, Tamara & Tara Struik. Forthcoming. Syntax. The Year’s Work in English Studies 105.

López-Couso, María José, Belén Méndez-Naya, Cristina Blanco-García, Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Tamara Bouso-Rivas, 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

Bouso-Rivas, Tamara & Marianne Hundt. 2026. Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English. World Englishes (Early View). https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.70022

Bouso-Rivas, Tamara & Tara Struik. 2026. Morphology. The Year’s Work in English Studies 104(1). 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maaf098 

Bouso-Rivas, Tamara & Tara Struik. 2026. Syntax. The Year’s Work in English Studies 104(1). 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maaf099 

Complete list of publications

25 November 2026: “An introduction to Diachronic Construction Grammar: The SOC as a case in point” [invited lecture online], Structural/Descriptive Linguistics (LING167/ANTH167), Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California, Riverside (USA).

4-5 November 2026: “Constructional meaning in student-AI interaction: Evidence from the I WANT and EXCERPT-PASTE constructions” [with Raja Ledawe], International Constructing Meaning Conference (ICMC-2026): At the Crossroads of Word Formation, Phrasal Constructions, and Figurative Meaning, University of La Rioja, Logroño.

22-23 October 2026: “La literatura como laboratorio del lenguaje: De la historia de la lengua a la mente humana”, Ciencia con Letras, Xornadas de divulgación científica do iLTIUS 2026, University of Santiago de Compostela.

16 September 2026: “Tracking recent change in Superlative Objoid Constructions across British and American English” [invited presentation], Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, Institute of English Studies, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

15-18 June 2026: “Stability and change in Superlative Objoid Constructions: A British-American comparison” [with Marianne Hundt, paper within the workshop Perspectives on conventionalized multi-word constructions in the history of English, convened by Gabriele Knappe & Claudia Claridge].

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,  Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, Teresa Fanego, Jorge Fernández-Avilés, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Amira Oumouna], III Xeira CLARIAH-GAL, University of Santiago de Compostela.

29 May 2026: “From Galicia to the world: Keeping language alive” [invited lecture online], Sociolinguistics (LING1061), Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California, Riverside (USA).

22 April 2026: “Construction Grammar, corpus-based methods and the recent history of the English Objoid Construction” [invited lecture online], CIVIS – Online Spring Week, Diachronic Linguistics in the 21st century, 20-23rd April 2026, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

15-17 April 2026: “Replicating constructional relations with T-Maze: Evidence from English objoid constructions” [with Marinanne Hundt & Laetitia Van Driessche], 43 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), University of Granada. 

26 November 2025: “Construction Grammar in a nutshell and how it cracks the English Superlative Objoid Construction” [invited lecture online], Structural/Descriptive Linguistics (LING167/ANTH167), Department of Comparative Literature and Languages, University of California, Riverside (USA).