Noelia Castro-Chao holds a BA in English Language and Literature (September 2014), an MA in Advanced English Studies (September 2015) and a PhD in English Linguistics (May 2020) from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her PhD research was carried out under funding from a four-year postgraduate grant (ref. FPU 2014/03208; 28/10/2015 – 27/10/2019) from the Spanish Ministry of Education. 

Noelia has worked as Invited Lecturer (March–May 2020) and Substitute Lecturer in English (February–June 2021) at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo. Between July 2021 and December 2022, she held a competitive postdoctoral contract (ref. ED481B2021-046) funded by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade of the Regional Government of Galicia. She is now an Assistant Lecturer (‘Ayudante Doctora’) at the Complutense University of Madrid. 

Noelia was an ERASMUS exchange student (2012–2013) at the University of York, UK. As a postgraduate student and postdoc she has carried out research at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Edinburgh (September–November 2018; funding: MECD grant EST17/00514, €5.010; advisor: Graeme Trousdale), at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo (June–July 2020; advisor: Javier Pérez-Guerra), and at the Department of Linguistics of KU Leuven (January–June 2022; advisor: Hendrik De Smet).

In November 2016 Noelia received the ‘Catalina Montes’ Award to the best paper presented by a PhD student at the 40th AEDEAN International Conference (University of Zaragoza at Huesca, 9–11 November 2016). 

Noelia has experience in the organization of research meetings, such as the VI Encontro da Mocidade Investigadora (12–13 June 2018), sponsored by the International Doctorate School at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the 6th Prescriptivism Conference: Modelling Prescriptivism – Language, Literature, and Speech Communities (23–25 September 2021, University of Vigo).

Castro-Chao, Noelia & Tamara Bouso. 2025. The other side of CLCT: When fear disrupts collaboration. In Montserrat Martínez-Vázquez, Daniel Nisa Cáceres & Sonia Casal Madinabeitia (eds.), Fragments of Meaning: Dialogues in Language, Literature and Culture, 81-90. Seville: Enredars Publicaciones / UPO. Open access database: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/W35N2

Castro-Chao, Noelia & Tamara Bouso. 2024. Hard and soft sciences in contrast: ESP mediated by Collaborative Learning (CL) and Communication Technologies (CT). In María Valero Redondo, César Méndez Rodríguez & Marina Díaz Rodríguez (eds.), Nuevos avances en educación: Metodologías didácticas para la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y educación física, 292-323. Madrid: Dykinson S.L. 

Castro-Chao, Noelia & Tamara Bouso. 2024. La enseñanza del inglés a través de actividades colaborativas mediadas por TIC: La perspectiva del alumnado de los Grados en Ingeniería Química y Lengua y Literatura Inglesas. In Pilar Vicente Fernández & Raquel Pinilla Gómez (eds.), Debates y experiencias en torno a la innovación docente: Visión actual y prospectiva, 385-387. Seville: Ediciones Egregius (Colección Actas y Resúmenes).

Complete list of publications

18-20 November 2026: “For…to-infinitives in noun complement function: The decline of occasion”, 49th AEDEAN Conference, Jaume I University, Castellón.

12-14 November 2025: “Collaborative vs. individual learning: Students’ perceptions across disciplines” [with Tamara Bouso-Rivas], 48th AEDEAN Conference, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

6-8 November 2024: “ESP, collaborative learning, and communication technologies: Insights from Chemical Engineering and English Language and Literature students” [with Tamara Bouso-Rivas], 47th AEDEAN Conference, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville.

23-24 April 2024: “La enseñanza del inglés a través de actividades colaborativas mediadas por TIC: La perspectiva del alumnado de los grados en Ingeniería Química y Lengua y Literatura Inglesas” [with Tamara Bouso-Rivas], III Congreso Internacional Innovación Docente, Educación y Transferencia del Conocimiento (CIINECO), Rey Juan Carlos University.

26-28 April 2023: “La implementación del aprendizaje colaborativo mediado por TIC en Inglés Técnico: La percepción de estudiantes de Ingeniería Química”, 40 Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), University of Extremadura.

19-20 January 2023: “Modelling linguistic loss: A case study from the domain of clausal complementation» [invited lecture], Workshop Modelling the Linguistic Architecture of English: Cognitive and Empirical Developments, University of Vigo.

24-26 November 2021: “Long, lust and thirst: On the development of impersonal verbs of Desire in Early Modern English”, 44th AEDEAN International Conference, University of Cantabria.

30 August – 3 September 2021: “Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until”, SLE 2021 – 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, online.

18-21 August 2021: “Minor complementisers in the temporal domain: The case of English till and until”, ICAME 42, TU Dortmund University (Germany).

7-11 June 2021: “The development of impersonal verbs in Early Modern English: A case study of hunger”, ICEHL-21, University of Leiden (The Netherlands).