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 Malaga 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 frame semantics (Analysis of Specialized Discourse in English research project), and the construction of new masculinities (Constructing New Masculinities: Cultural and Linguistic Representations). She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience (UAB), the Center for Research in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (UGR), and the Center for Advanced Research in English (University of Birmingham).

Her current research interests include the relationship between general cognition and language, conceptual metaphor, diachronic cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and the cultural and linguistic representations of masculinities.