Emilia Castaño

Emilia Castaño is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies. She holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Málaga and a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona. She earned her PhD in English Philology from the University of Barcelona in 2012. 

Her teaching primarily focuses on historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and English descriptive grammar. 

She has participated in several national and international research projects on cognitive linguistics (ALEAR Research Project), corpus linguistics and discourse analysis (Analysis of Specialized Discourse in English: Cognitive and Contrastive Perspectives; GReLIC: Grup de Recerca en Lexicologia i Lingüística de Corpus), and masculinities studies (Vulnerable Masculinities and Normativity in U.S. Narratives, 1783–1929). 

Her current research interests include conceptual metaphor, (critical) discourse analysis—particularly of public and semi-public discourse such as health, politics, and mass media—corpus linguistics, and the cultural and linguistic representations of masculinities.