Blanca Fernández-Soriano is currently a PhD candidate at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has been awarded with a predoctoral research scholarship (FPU), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.

She graduated in English Studies (First Class Honors & Extraordinary Award) at the University of Alicante (UA) in 2021. As an undergraduate, she was awarded with a Erasmus scholarship (2019-2020), through which she spent two semesters at Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland). Furthermore, she obtained a Collaboration Scholarship (2020-2021) in the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Alicante, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education. She was also awarded with a Spanish Teacher's Assistant scholarship (2021-2022), through which she worked for a year in Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire, England).

In 2023, she completed a MA in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication (First Class Honors) at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). For her MA dissertation, she analysed the language of fear as a social, cultural and linguistic phenomenon through the autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, to explore the experience of emotion in marginality and girlhood.

Moreover, she is part of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation titled “Female childhood across borders. A Cultural Linguistics approach to the English-based conceptualization and perception of female childhood. Evidence from biographical discourse 1750-1900.” (FemChildLing) (PID2020-117973GB-I00) 

Her teaching experience (2023-2024) includes lectures in the subjects 'Translation and Contrastive Linguistics English-Spanish', 'Introduction to English Grammar' and “English Historical and Cultural Contexts” (BA in English Studies), and ‘Modern Language: English II’ (BA in Applied Languages and Linguistics).

As part of her formative process, she has done one research stay as a Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Evans (April-June 2025) and taken part in the Lancaster Summer School of Corpus Linguistics in 2024. Furthermore, she has attended and participated in a number of international conferences and seminars: 5th CLIC (2025), Narrating Lives (2025), 8-LModE (2024), IV CICELI (2024), The Place of Memory (2024), V SEING (2024), AESLA (2024), EL21C (2024) and UPCEL (2024). Additionally, she has published one book chapter, one article, two book reviews and two poetry collections:

Journal Articles

• (in press) “Fear in Black Female Childhood: a Cultural Study of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings". Verbeia, 9.
• (2021) “A corpus-based and lexicographical analysis of Irish expletives in Irish English”. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 9, 77-90 (ISSN-e 2340-9274)

Book Chapters

• (2024) "Lover of many things": sexual orientation and gender on dating apps 'bios'". In: D. Martín-González & P. Román Porras (Eds.), English Linguistics Meets the 21st century. pp. 18-46. Dykinson S.L. (ISBN: 978-84-1070-062-8)

Book Reviews and Notes

• (in press) “Digitally-Assisted Historical English Linguistics”. AEDEAN Nexus.
• (in press) "Homemaking in the Russian-speaking diaspora: Material culture, language and identity". Language in Society.
• (2024) “Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English".  AEDEAN Nexus, 1, 46-49 (ISSN: 1697-4646)
• (2022) “La lingüística del amor: de la pasión a la palabra”. Hesperia: Anuario de Filología Hispánica, 25 (2), 179-186. (ISSN: 1139/81)

Poetry

• (2023) "El jardín todavía huele a lavanda". Postdata Ediciones. (ISBN:978-8419411471)
• (2020) "Gritar que sigo viva". Self-published. (ISBN: 979-8653946387)

Her interest areas include Cultural Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Paloma Tejada Caller, deals with cultural concepts and peripheral documents produced by migrant women. She is also part of the STAM-Lab Team, which organises activities for the members of the PhD Programme. For any questions, she can be contacted at blfern07@ucm.es.

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