ResearchMy research is mainly in the field of Irish English, including books, articles and book chapters on literary dialect, pragmatic/discourse markers, language and emigration, and the use of corpora to investigate language in context. I have been involved in different research projects dealing with intercultural communication, language and identity, teaching in the multicultural classroom, language teaching, and student mobility. My work includes collaboration with various colleagues. Over the last few years I have worked with Prof. Kevin McCafferty on the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence, a project originally funded by the Norwegian Research Council. I am a member of the Steering Committee of the Irish English Network: https://www.irish-english.net/ |
TeachingI teach modules on the History of the English Language, English Sociolinguistics, Language Variation in English, and
Corpus Linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Prior to joining the University of Bergen, I held different teaching positions at the English Department, University of Extremadura (Spain), and the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick (Ireland). I was also lecturer in Hiberno-English in the English Department at University College Dublin (Ireland). |
ConsultingI often get invitations to review, assess, consult or examine for:
JOURNALS such as the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistic Studies, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Corpus and Pragmatics, the European Journal of English Studies, Irish University Review, Irish Studies Review, Estudios Irlandeses, etc. PUBLISHERS such asCambridge University Press, Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan, Springer,, Equinox, Lexington Books, etc. INSTITUTIONS such as: University of Limerick, Universidad de Granada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, etc. where I have acted as external examiner. I am currently evaluator of the European Commission, the ACSUG (Galician Agency for Quality Assurance at University). I also do NAMING consultancy for different European agencies. |
