Academic staff

All teaching activities (teaching of subjects, tutoring of Master's final dissertations and participation in the evaluation committees) are undertaken by members of the English Linguistics Unit in the Department of English Studies (former Department of English Philology I). We also count with expert external PhDs and PhDs from other UCM departments who collaborate both in the tutoring and evaluation of final Master's dissertations.

During the academic year 2024-2025, the following linguists, all of whom hold PhDs and have extensive teaching and research experience, will be in charge of the teaching in the Master's program:

Doctors from other Departments that have collaborated both in the tutoring and evaluation of final dissertations:


Guest lecturers

2023-2024

  • Dra. Elena Seoane Posse (Universidade de Vigo): Language dynamics in Gibraltar: Multilingualism as a socio-historical construct. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 18 September 2023.
  • Dra. Julia Williams Camus (Universidad de Cantabria):
    • A genre approach to the introduction section. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 21 September 2023.
    • Writing introductions: From theory to practice. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 22 September 2023.
  • Dr. Christian Matthiessen (UCM, visiting professor):
    • Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics — as a resource for describing English and other particular languages. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 23 October 2023.

    • Towards Systemic Functional Contrastive Linguistics

      . En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 23 October 2023.

  • Dª. Ana Laguna Pradas (Zoundream & Universidad Pontificia Comillas):
    • Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP). En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 7 November 2023.
    • NLP state of the art: the big revolution. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 8 November 2023.
  • Dr.

    José A. Mompeán (Universidad de Murcia):

    Sociophonetics and sound change: A diachronic corpus-based approach.

    En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 13 March 2024

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  • Dra. Giorgia Troiani (Nazarbayev University): Compiling and transcribing spoken language: A hands-on introduction.

    In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 9-10 May 2024.

2022-2023

  • Dr. María Ángeles Jurado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid). Get to know your data! Descriptive statistics for linguists. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 10 November 2022.
  • Dr. María Ángeles Jurado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid). What can we infer from our linguistic data? An introduction to bivariate analysis. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 15 November 2022.
  • Dr. Antonio García Gómez (Universidad de Alcalá). "Why did you block me?” Intercultural Misunderstandings and Interpersonal Conflict on WhatsApp. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 17 November 2022.

2021-2022

  • Dr. Pascual Cantos Gómez (Universidad de Murcia). Webinar on Statistics for Linguistic Research. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 16 -17 November 2021.
  • Dr. Malgorzata Szupica-Pyrzanowska (Universidad de Varsovia): Can the brain interfere with learning a foreign language? Neurolinguistic and neurocognitive representations of negative emotions. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 14 February 2022.
  • Dr. Yelena Yerznkyan, Yerevan State University (Armenia): On the deictic conceptualization of emotions. En Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 26 de abril de 2022.
  • Dr. Durk Gorter (UPV/EHU). Multilingualism and the study of linguistic landscapes. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 27 April 2022.

2020-2021

  • Dr. María Ángeles Jurado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid). An introduction to statistical hypothesis. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 3 and 23 November 2020.
  • Dr. Jorge Díaz Cintas (University College London). Subtitling in times of pandemic. Postgraduate Seminar in Audiovisual Translation. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 31 May 2021. 
  • Dr. Jennifer Lertola (Università del Piemonte Orientale). Teaching English through Audiovisual Translation (AVT) Tasks. Postgraduate Seminar in Audiovisual Translation. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 31 May  2021. 

2019-2020

  • Dr Antonio García Gómez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares). Language, gender and identity: virtual selves and real people. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 31 October 2019.
  • Dr Antonio Barcelona Sánchez (Universidad de Córdoba). Does metonymy really guide discourse inferences? In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 7 November 2019.
  • Dr María Ángeles Jurado (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid). Seminario de estadística: Tame your Linguistics data. Sesión I: An introduction to descriptive statistics. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 15 November 2019.

2018-2019     

  • Dr Tamás Eitler (Eötvös Loránd University). Towards analyticity or syntheticity? A corpus-based investigation of Inner Circle, Outer Circle, Expanding Circle and Lingua Franca English varieties. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 16 October 2018.

  • Dr Michael C. White Hayes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Seminar on Conceptual Metaphor: Theory and Practice. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 23 and 24 October 2018.

  • Dr Michał B. Paradowski (University of Warsaw).The art of skilful translation: Tackling general and professional genres. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 11 March 2019.

  • Dr Susana Quelle de Luna (C.E. Ponce de León). Access to English Language Learning for Deaf Students. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 8 May 2019.

  • Dr Yolanda Berdasco Gancedo (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid). Aplicaciones de la Estadística en el ámbito de la investigación lingüística. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 16 May 2019. 

2017-2018

  • Dr JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Structural and rhetorical features of advanced writing: Shell nouns and sentence stems. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 23 November 2017.
  • Dr Kazuhiro Teruya (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). Projection of saying and thinking and register variation in English. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 28 November 2017.
  • Dr Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam). Part 1: the development of visual and multimodal metaphor studies. Part 2: Metaphors portraying the right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders in political cartoons. In Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, 29 November 2017.