Cristina Lastres-López holds a BA in English Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela, July 2015), an MA in English Linguistics (University College London, September 2016), and a PhD in English Linguistics (Santiago de Compostela, October 2020). In December 2015 she received the Extraordinary BA Award from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela, and in November 2016 the National Award for Academic Excellence (€2,500) from the Regional Government of Galicia, in recognition of her outstanding academic record as an undergraduate student. She has also obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award 2020-2021 to the best dissertation defended at the USC in the fields of Linguistics, Philology and Philosophy, and AESLA’s (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics) 2023 Award for Early Career Researchers for her monograph From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse (Peter Lang, 2021).

Cristina’s PhD research was carried out at the University of Santiago de Compostela, under the supervision of Teresa Fanego and on funding from a four-year competitive grant from the Spanish Ministry of Universities (MECD grant FPU2015/02519; 2016-2020). She joined the University of Seville in 2020 and was appointed to the position of Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Linguistics in February 2026. 

Cristina has experience in research and development, as PI of the project Improving the English spelling of university students (01/11/2015–30/06/2016; funding institution: University College London, Centre for Advancing Learning and Teaching); and in university management, having been recently appointed to the position of Academic Secretary of the University of Seville’s Department of English Language and Linguistics. 

Between 2016 and 2019 Cristina was a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Association of Young Researchers in Linguistics (‘Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas’) and was also on the Editorial Board of its online journal Estudios Interlingüísticos. From November 2018 to October 2019, she served as President of the association and as the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the journal. Between 2019 and 2020 Cristina was also Student Ambassador of the Linguistic Society of America. 

In 2018 Cristina was away at University College London, on a three-month research stay funded by MECD grant EST17/00189. Her advisor at UCL was Professor Bas Aarts. From March to May 2019, she was a visiting scholar at KU Leuven, under funding from MECD grant EST18/00126; her advisor was Professor Kristin Davidse.

Lastres-López, Cristina. 2026. Palabras que hablan de Sevilla en inglés. Un estudio a través de los textos periodísticos del corpus News on the Web (NOW). In José María Toro Piqueras & Rocío Rojas-Marcos Albert (eds.), Palabras que hablan de Sevilla, 91-103. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla.

Íñigo-Mora, Isabel & Cristina Lastres-López (eds.). 2024. Discourse approaches to an emerging age of populist politics (The Language of Politics). Singapore: Springer. ISBN: 9789819713547. 

Lastres-López, Cristina & Isabel Íñigo-Mora. 2024. Exploring populism in contemporary political discourse. In Isabel Íñigo-Mora & Cristina Lastres-López (eds.), Discourse approaches to an emerging age of populist politics, 1-12. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1355-4_1 

Lastres-López, Cristina. 2023. El desarrollo de competencias profesionales en la enseñanza universitaria: Estudio piloto en una asignatura de inglés turístico. In María del Mar Simón Márquez, José Jesús Gázquez Linares, África Martos Martínez, Silvia Fernández Gea & Pablo Molina Moreno (eds.), Innovación docente e investigación en Arte y Humanidades: Nuevas tendencias para el cambio en la enseñanza superior, 321-332. Madrid: Dykinson. 

Complete list of publications

18-20 November 2026: “How is conditionality expressed in discourse? Delving into form, function and frequency in English conversation, academic discourse and legal discourse”, 49th AEDEAN Conference, Jaume I University, Castellón.

1-4 September 2025: “On conditionals in spoken and written English and Spanish: Exploring the correlation between discourse functions and morphosyntactic features”, ISLE8 (8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Santiago de Compostela.

6-8 November 2024: “Morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation in if/si-constructions: A corpus-based analysis of English and Spanish newspaper discourse”, 47th AEDEAN Conference, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville.

24-25 October 2024: “Functional differences in if/si-insubordination: Exploring the cline from subordination to insubordination in English and Spanish” [invited presentation], Workshop Insubordination in Interaction, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

16-17 July 2024: “Conditionals in English and Spanish: Exploring differences in speech and writing”, 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference, University of Cambridge (UK).

6 December 2023: “English Medium Instruction or English for Specific Purposes? A view from Spanish universities, with a focus on the degree in Tourism”, EMI (English Medium Instruction) Symposium 2023, University of Oxford (UK).

27 November – 2 December 2023: “El desarrollo de competencias profesionales en la enseñanza universitaria: Estudio piloto en una asignatura de inglés turístico”, V Congreso Internacional de Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación Superior: Cambios en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de las Áreas del Conocimiento, University of Seville.

9-14 July 2023: “Subordination and insubordination in if/si constructions: Evidence from spoken and written English and Spanish» [paper within the workshop Clause combining at the discourse-grammar interface: Answers from coordination, subordination and insubordination, convened by Liesbeth Degand, Víctor Royo Viñuales, An Van linden & Wout Van Praet], 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC18),  Free University of Brussels (Belgium).

29-30 June 2023: “Aprender a hablar en público: Estudio de caso en una asignatura de inglés para fines turísticos”, IX Jornadas de Formación e Innovación Docente FIDOP 2023, University of Seville.

26 January 2022: “Subordination and insubordination: A corpus-based approach to if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish” [invited presentation], The Survey of English Usage Seminar Series, University College London (UK).