Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo

Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid, affiliated with the Department of English Philology I. She holds a PhD in Philology (1996) and a BA in English Philology (1986), both from UCM. Her research focuses on Cognitive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, and Sign Language Studies, with recent work on metonymy in Spanish Sign Language (LSE) and gesture analysis in narratives. She has supervised PhD theses such as Marta Genís Pedra’s 2005 study on advertising stereotypes and Nadia Hamade Almeida’s 2020 analysis of 19th-century Lancashire dialect spellings.

Her academic leadership includes roles in the Language Institute and the Advanced Center for Modern Languages at UCM, alongside organizing major conferences like the 21st Congress of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (2009) and the 1st Conference on Sign Language Linguistics (2004). Current projects include a Cultural Linguistics study on female childhood perceptions (1750–1900), led by Dr. Paloma Tejada Caller. She co-edited volumes on gender studies and contributed to research on neurolinguistics and interdisciplinary language learning strategies.

Publications span cognitive approaches to gesture, historical phraseology, and sign language linguistics. Awards and fellowships are not explicitly mentioned, but she has held key administrative roles, including Quality Committee membership and website management for her department. Her teaching innovations include the Master’s Degree in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication.

Research interests also encompass socio-cultural conceptualization, metonymy in sign languages (LSE/BSL/ASL), and computational processing of sign languages. Recent projects include analyzing mental spaces in Deaf identity discourse and exploring gesture’s role in narrative construction.

Grants include leadership of a UCM-funded Visual Dictionary of LSE (2009) and participation in national projects like FFI2016-77540-P (Emergent Discourses) and FFI2012-36523/FILO (Metonymy Database). She actively participates in interdisciplinary research collaborations across European universities.