Research Projects

Publications and conferences

Publications

  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2024. "Filled-in petition forms and hand-drafted petitions to the Foundling Hospital. A comparison and the influence of letter-writing manuals". En Unlocking the History of English - Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Luisella Caon, Moragh Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.). pp. 198-224. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.364.09cal
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. 2024. "Politeness in Petitions Signed by Nineteenth Century British Women before being Transported to Australia". En RAEL (Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada). Volumen 22/1, pp: 44-58  https://rael.aesla.org.es/index.php/RAEL/article/view/514
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. 2023. “Domestic Medicine in an Early Eighteenth-Century Manuscript, GUL, Ferguson 43”, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 2023, 87, 131-146. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.87.06.
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. 2023. A Collection of sundrie approved Receipts. Study and Edition of Glasgow University Library, -Ferguson MS 43. Alcalá de Henares: Editorial Universidad de Alcalá. ISBN: 978-84-18979-11-8
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. 2022. A Study of Therapeutic Plant Names in a Late Middle English Medical Corpus". A World of Texts. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Jeremy Smith. Las Palmas, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 69-87. (Con I. Diego Rodríguez).

  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. 2022. A World of Texts. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Jeremy Smith. Las Palmas, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria. ISBN: 978-84-9042-472-8 (With M. J. Esteve Ramos).

  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. 2022. “Foreign Ingredients in Early Modern English Recipes". Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Ruano-García, Javier. 2021. “Horae Subsecivae, ‘that remarkable glossary of West Country words’ (Bodl. MS Eng. lang. d. 66)”. International Journal of Lexicography 34.2: 235-258. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecaa028].
  • Ruano-García, Javier. 2021. “Aw’m Lancashire, owd cock, and gradely hearty: Enregistered Lancashire voices in the nineteenth-century theatre”. The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (eds. Donatella Montini and Irene Ranzato). London, New York: Routledge. 108-129.

 

Conferences

  • Tejada Caller, Paloma. May 2025. Narrating Lives: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography. "Home Education at the Turn of the 19th Century. An Analysis of Female Childhood Accounts in English Biographical Discourse"

  • López Nárvarz, Julia. May 2025. Narrating Lives: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography. "To Be Educated or to Attend School: Agency in Female Childhood Education in Biographies from 1891 to 1900"

  • Fernández Sorinao, Blanca. May 2025. Narrating Lives: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography. "“Literate and Intelligent”?: The Concept of Il/Literacy in Biographical Discourse Between 1750-1900"

  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria and Dossena, Marina. May 2025. Narrating Lives: International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography. "Visions of Late Modern Girls’ Education in Women’s (Auto)Biographies: The Case of The Earnest Christian (1858)"

  • Tejada Caller, Paloma. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "Recasting Jane Austen's childhood: Spanish-cross cultural construals”
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel and Ruano-García, Javier. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "My eyes are pretty well, I thank you': On the use of intensifiers in Jane Austen's early letters”
  • Plaza Tejedor, Gemma. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "I could die of laughter of it, as theu used to say at school': Jane Austen's perspectives on girls' education”
  • López Nárvarz, Julia and Fernández Sorinao, Blanca. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "You must not expect Scandal": Analysing deontic modality in Jane Austen's Teenage Writings”
  • Nadales Ruiz, Marta. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "Jane Austen’s ‘great-granddaughters’: A linguistic analysis of the construction of female childhood in biographic discourse (1881-1890)”
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria and Dossena, Marina. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "Views from afar: When (Grand)nephews looked at famous novelists”
  • Rodríguez Redondo, Ana Laura. May 2025. International Seminar Linguistic approaches to Jane Austen’s childhood. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. "Looking for the genesis of Jane Austen's ironic voice: emphasizers and intensifiers in her Juvenilia work”
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria and Dossena, Marina. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “Music, education and the social construction of identity in the Foundling Hospital. Unheard (?) voices of female childhood in 18th- and 19th-century London”.
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel and Ruano-García, Javier. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “Silenced Scottish voices. Evidence from the ODNB component of the FemChildLing Corpus”.
  • Nadales Ruiz, Marta. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “The linguistic construction of female childhood: A preliminary analysis of “age” and “old/young” in women’s biographies in the ODNB between 1881-1890”.
  • Fernández Sorinao, Blanca. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “Construing a delicate child: A corpus-based analysis of the impact of Late Modern English female childhood in biographical discourse”. 
  • López Nárvarz, Julia and Tejada Caller, Paloma. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “The narrative of female childhood education in biographical discourse over a century (1791- 1899). Diving into the silent years of a life-course”.
  • Rodríguez Redondo, Ana Laura. October 2024. LModE-8 - 8th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Salamanca. “Extension and nature of the conceptualization of dis/ability in Late Modern English female childhood: First approach”.
  • Fernández Soriano, Blanca. July 2024. IV CICELI. Universidad de Alicante, "Fear and silence in Black female childhood through Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
  • Fernández Soriano, Blanca. June 2024. The Place of Memory and The Memory of Place. University of Oxford, "Beyond the great blinkers of childhood”: the linguistic construction of fear and the remembered home in Maya Angelou’s memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
  • Fernández Soriano, Blanca. May 2024 - V SEING, Universidad de Zaragoza, “Bursting like a July-the-Fourth firecracker: ANGER and HAPPINESS in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. October 2023 - The Epistolary Research Network (TERN) Conference, Online, "Early nineteenth-century London undated petition forms with two dates in the body of the text".
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. September 2023 - Quills and Characters: Approaches to Women’s Letters 1660-1860, Chawton House, Inglaterra, "Women and letters in Late Modern English books: Salutations and Subscriptions in instruction manuals and in epistolary novels".
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. June 2023 - The 7th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 7), Universidad de Brisbane, Australia, “Trained as a domestic servant in her girlhood”: girls’ lives in Australian female biographical discourse".
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. June 2023 - 7th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 7), Universidad de Queensland, "Exploring the ODNB component of the FemChildLing Corpus: The case of female Glaswegian voices”.
  • Tejada Caller, Paloma and López Narváez, Julia. June 2023. - The 7th meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 7), Universidad de Brisbane, Australia,  “Social paths as discourse topics in the construction of 19th c British female childhoods”,
  • De la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel. May 2023. Conference on Historical Medical Discourse, Universidad de Lancaster, “Interpersonal communication in women´s recipe collections in Late Modern English”
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. May 2023 - 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad de Oviedo, “unfortunately for me became with child by him”: pregnant language in Late Modern British corpora"
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. Sept/October 2022 - The Epistolary Research Network (TERN) Conference, Online, " “What to trust in a sheet of paper”: letter-writing instruction to women in 17th century England"
  • Cortés, Nuria. July 2022 - I Inter-university online Seminar on female childhood(s), Universidad Complutense Madrid. "Challenges when analysing the conceptualisation of girlhood: the case of the Australian Dictionary of Biography"
  • López Narváez, Julia. July 2022 - I Inter-university online Seminar on female childhood(s), Universidad Complutense Madrid. "Building a corpus. English life-writing and female childhood(s)”
  • López Narváez, Julia. July 2022 - I Inter-university online Seminar on female childhood(s), Universidad Complutense Madrid. “Breaking a linguistic way into the idea of female childhood as constructed in life-narratives”.
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. June 2022 - HiSon (Historical Sociolinguistic Network) Conference, Universidad de Murcia, "“A Female Child of which she was delivered”: relativiser which referring to humans in Late 18th century petitions"
  • Calvo Cortés, Nuria. May 2022 - LModE-7 - 7th International Late Modern English Conference. Universidad de Catania, Ragusa-Ibla, Sicilia, Italia. "Speaking of ‘forced impurity’ in ‘pure’ language? Servants’ expressions of guilt in 18th century London petitions"
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «Crafting the Lancashire dialect on the nineteenth-century stage: Insights from enregisterment, stylisation and the sociolinguistics of performance». 44th International AEDEAN Conference (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain), 24-26 November 2021.
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «Farmer Pearse had three distinct manners of speech: Representations of dialect speech in Late Modern English dialect writing». International Workshop on Speech Representation in Late Modern English Text Types (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), 12 November 2021.
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «My principal guide…for the dialectical words of this county: The contribution of Horae Subsecivae to James O. Halliwell’s A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847)”. 11th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-11) (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain), 16-18 June 2021.