Nuria Calvo Cortés

Nuria Calvo Cortés is a part-time Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she has worked since 2006. She holds a PhD in English Linguistics (UCM, 2012, sobresaliente cum laude), a Teaching Diploma (1997), and a BA in English Philology (UCM, 1991-1996).

Research Focus: Her work centers on historical and diachronic linguistics, particularly Late Modern English (18th-19th centuries). Using corpus-based methods, she analyzes grammatical/pragmatic features in historical texts (letters, petitions, novels), socio-historical contexts of marginalized groups (women, servants), cognitive linguistics (motion semantics, metaphors), and English varieties. She welcomes PhD proposals in these areas.

Publication Trends: Her 15 most recent publications (2012-2025) predominantly investigate linguistic features in 18th-19th century texts through corpus analysis. Key themes include: politeness strategies in petitions, variation in perfect auxiliary usage among women writers, socio-linguistic patterns of marginalized groups in Britain, and the influence of letter-writing manuals. Her work consistently intersects with pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive frameworks.

Grants & Projects: Key funded research includes:

• PID2020-117973GB-I00: Conceptualization/Perception of Female Childhood in Anglophone Cultures (Ministerio de Ciencia, 2021-2025)
• FFI2016-77540-P: Emerging/Peripheral Discourses: Critical Socio-Cognitive Approaches (Ministerio de Economía, 2016-2020)
• PR26/16-20300: Linguistic-Cognitive Modeling of 'Normative Age' in British Society (Santander-UCM, 2017-2018)

Supervision & Academic Service: Has supervised 2 completed PhD theses (code-switching in digital communication; Australian English syntax) and currently supervises 1 PhD candidate (sociolinguistics of school logbooks). Coordinates English Language courses (C1.1, C2) and serves on departmental committees (Permanent Commission, Claims Committee). External reviewer for multiple linguistics journals and conferences.

Research Groups: Member of 'Lingüística Cognitiva: Estudios Socioculturales y Contrastivos' (UCM, since 2015) and external collaborator with 'DING: Dialectología Inglesa, Diacronía Inglesa' (University of Salamanca, since 2021). Co-organizes academic seminars on topics like Jane Austen's childhood discourse.