Guest lectures and Public Engagement
- Using coprora to study historical linguistic variation. University College Cork. MA in Applied Linguistics Programme. 2 November 2023.
- Words that Crossed Oceans/ Palabras que cruzaron océanos. Cátedra Extracurricular de la Universidad de la Pampa. 21 October 2022.
- Building bridges between disciplines: corpora, linguistic analysis and Irish Studies, EFACIS PhD Summer Course, 22-29 August 2022.
- Social Network Analysis and the Visualization of Emigrant Correspondence Corpora (with Karen Wade and Karen Corrigan) ISLE Summer Course, Newcastle, 4-8 July 2022.
- Pop-up mentor. ISLE Summer Course, Newcastle, 4-8 July 2022.
- 3rd EFACIS Roundtable discussion. The Irish English Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqDBHrbLBA&t=12s
- Tracking Irish English through a corpus of emigrants’ letters. Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory. University of Brisbane, 11th November 2021.
- Irish English travels far. English Department Lecture Series: Ireland in the World. Swiss Centre of Irish Studies and the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. University of Zurich, 10th November 2021.
- Irish English in a time-capsule: Irish emigrant voices in speech and writing. ULICES, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, 3rd May 2021.
- La internacionalización en los estudios de doctorado. Programa Interuniversitario de Doctorado En Lenguas y Culturas. Universidades de Córdoba, Extremadura, Huelva y Jaén. 20-21 Mayo 2021.
- Waves of change in language: Irish identities in emigrant voices. Universidad de Huelva. Cultural waves in Ireland and Irish Studies. 20-21 April 2021.
- Language Detectives. Fagkritisk dag, Department of Foreign Languages. University of Bergen. 4 March 2021.
- ‘Sure he does be always telling me my heart is too near my mouth’: Irish English discourse markers in perspective. 24th ELC Research Seminar (English Linguistics Circle, University of Santiago de Compostela). 26th November 2020.
- Los Irlandeses en Latinoamérica. Universidad de Extremadura. Exhibition organizer in collaboration with the Irish Embassy in Spain, October 2018-March 2019.
- University of Extremadura: workshop for Open Research Night (La Noche de los Investigadores, 27/09/2019, workshop “Jirafantes y dragosaurias: conecta2 al mundo c/ el poder d l@s palabras", organized by LINGLAP.
- Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Cáceres. “Las descodificadoras”. Semana de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia: #Enclase11F, 11/02/2019.
- Okola. Club de Ciencia y Tecnología, Cáceres. “Nubes de palabras”. Semana de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia: #Enclase11F, 09/02/2018.
- Colegio Público Prácticas, Cáceres. “Nubes de palabras”. Semana de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia: #Enclase11F, Universidad de Extremadura, 27/02/2018
- Universidad del Salvador & Cátedra Extracurricular de Estudios Irlandeses, Buenos Aires. 1-31/08/2017. How the Irish Speak English. An Introductory Course.
- Linenhall Library, Belfast. 30/10/2015. “From Home to Here: the New Kids on the Block”, with Karen Corrigan and Adam Mearns (University of Newcastle). Public lecture as part of the exhibition “From Home to Here: Stories of Migration Old and New”.
- University of the West of Scotland, 15/01/2014. Guest speaker. Language and emigration: ‘I suppose like the folks in America are doing well’: pragmatic markers in the Corpus of Irish English
- University of Edinburgh, Applied Linguistics Seminar Series. Guest speaker. 15/01/2014: ‘Language and emigration: Irish English in the Latin-American context’.
- University of Lisbon, Centre for English Studies & ULICES research group. Irish Literature and Culture programme, 06/12/2013: ‘Irish English invented’.
- University of Limerick, Centre for Applied Language Studies): 3/10/2013, CALS Research paper ‘Travelling back in time: a look at IrE through emigrant voices’.
- University of Extremadura: workshop for Open Research Night. La Noche de los Investigadores, 27/09/2013, workshop title: ‘Language and migration: the historical transportation of English’ (http://culturacientifica.unex.es/)
- University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College, MA in Language Studies, 16/01/2013: History and development of Irish English
- University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College, MA in Language Studies, 16/01/2013: Irish English in fiction
- University of Bergen, MA in Linguistics, 29/10/2012: ‘I fancy I am speaking to you verbaly while I am writing this scroll to you but my grife I am not’. Using personal letters to study earlier Irish English
- Universidad de Oviedo Summer Course: Literatura irlandesa y estudios culturales, 11 July 2008. Green English: estereotipos y realidad en el inglés de Irlanda
- University College Dublin, First Lecture Series on Hiberno-English (presented with Prof. Terrence P. Dolan), 24/01/07: Is Hiberno-English dying?
- University College Dublin, School of English and Drama, 22/01/07: Re-creating the oral: Patrick MacGill’s representation of Hiberno-Research Seminar
- University of Krakov, Poland, IP Europa como espacio cultural. Interferencia cultural: entre Progreso y Destrucción. 17/09/04: “Contact between Spanish and English in two contemporary Spanish novels”
- University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Faculty of Translation, 17-22/03/04. Double seminar on Business Translation from English into Spanish: Lecture on the characteristics of Irish English in present-day Ireland
- Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 21-23/01/04: Languages in contact: the case of Irish English.
- University of Köln, Germany, 17/09/03: Ficcionalización de la oralidad: El inglés de Irlanda y su representación en la literatura