Jorge Fernández-Avilés holds a BA in English Studies (2019, University of Extremadura – UNEX) and an MA in Secondary Education (2021, UNEX). He also has an MA in Advanced English Studies from the University of Santiago de Compostela, which he completed under funding from a research grant (May-November 2022) from the Vicerrectorate for Scientific Policy and the Banco Santander Foundation. He now holds a position as predoctoral researcher (FPU) at the Department of English and German, funded by a four-year grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU21/05035; 15/12/2022–14/12/2026).

As an ERASMUS exchange student (2017–2018), Jorge studied at the National University of Ireland Galway. In 2018 he received a collaboration scholarship (November 2018–June 2019) from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to carry out research on CORIECOR (Corpus of Irish English Correspondence) at the Department of English at UNEX. He also obtained a ten-month grant (2019–2020) from the UNEX which enabled him to stay at Kalamazoo College (Michigan, USA) as a teaching assistant of Spanish. From May to August 2024, he stayed at the University of Birmingham on a three-month research stay, under the supervision of Dr. Matteo Fuoli and with competitive funding from the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, grant EST24/00174).

Jorge is interested in the construction of stance from the perspective of ecolinguistics. He is preparing his PhD under the supervision of María José López-Couso and Teresa Fanego. 

He was involved in the organization of the XXXVIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, held at Santiago de Compostela in October 2024, and of IDAES Graduate Day 2025, held at the USC on 16 May 2025.

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

Fernández-Avilés, Jorge & Candela Sierra Rodríguez (eds.). 2026. Perspectivas emerxentes nos estudos da lingüística. Santigo de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico da USC. ISBN: 9788410142848. https://doi.org/10.15304/9788410142848   

Fernández-Avilés, Jorge. 2023. Exploring stance constructions in The Coronavirus Corpus: An ecolinguistic approach. In Luis Javier Conejero Magro, Cristina Blanco García, Laura Méndez Márquez & Jennifer Ruiz-Morgan (eds.), Bridging Cultures: English and American Studies in Spain, 129-136. Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, Servicio de Publicaciones. 

Complete list of publications

31 August-4 September: “From ‘false solutions’ to agroecology: Modality and beneficial discourses in reports by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)” [paper within the Seminar From crisis to change: Language and discourse in the face of the ecological emergency, convened by Daniela Francesca Virdis & Agata Rozumko], 2026 ESSE Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela.

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, Tamara Bouso, Teresa Fanego, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo & Amira Oumouna], III Xeira CLARIAH-GAL, University of Santiago de Compostela.

26-28 November 2025: “Agency and modality in corporate environmentalism: An ecolinguistic analysis of commitment in CSR communication”, Congreso Internacional “Unha Filoloxía para o século XXI: Pasado, presente e futuro”, University of Santiago de Compostela.

12-14 November 2025: “Environmental commitment in corporate discourse: A corpus-based analysis of modality”, 48th AEDEAN Conference, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

9-10 October 2025: “Methodological perspectives on corpus-assisted ecolinguistics”, International Colloquium «Semantic annotation, dictionaries and AI» organised by the ESMAS-ES+ research group and the European Master in Lexicography (EMLex), University of Santiago de Compostela.

16 May 2025: “A corpus-based analysis of corporate environmentalism”, IDAES GRADUATE DAY 2025, University of Santiago de Compostela.

11-13 November 2024: “Trust and attitude in CSR reports: Ecolinguistics insights across sectors”, V Congreso Internacional de Lenguas, Centro Universitario UAEM Texcoco (Mexico).

26-28 September 2024: “(De)Constructing trust in Corporate Social Responsibility reports: An ecolinguistic analysis of attitudinal stance”, 10th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), University of Alicante.

15-17 May 2024: “Stance and legitimation in corporate responsibility reports: A corpus-based ecolinguistic approach”, AFLiCo 9 – «Embodied and Ecolinguistics Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics», Lyon (France).

6-8 November 2023: “A corpus-based analysis of stance in corporate discourse from an ecolinguistic perspective: A pilot study”, IV Congreso Internacional de Lenguas 2023-B, Centro Universitario UAEM Texcoco (Mexico).