Javier Pérez Guerra

Javier Pérez-Guerra holds a PhD in English linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela, with a dissertation, supervised by Teresa Fanego, on thematic variation in English, and in December 2017 he obtained a position as Full Professor at the University of Vigo, where he coordinates the research group Language Variation and Textual Categorisation. This has received funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation of the Autonomous Government of Galicia.

Javier was the supervisor of several PhD dissertations and is currently supervising the PhDs of other postgraduate students at the University of Vigo. He has organized several national and international conferences, including the 28th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (AESLA; April 2010). He is also heavily involved in journal editing: he is the Review Editor of Folia Linguistica; between 2005 and 2008 he was one of three editors of SEDERI, the yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies; currently he is the editor of e-AESLA. Over the years he has held visiting positions at the Universities of Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Helsinki, MIT, Princeton, Cornell, California at Santa Barbara, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Cambridge and Kent.

Javier’s main areas of specialization are information packaging in the clause; Biber’s multidimensional model of register analysis as applied to earlier periods of English; the study of grammatical variation between Early Modern and Present-day English by means of computational techniques; and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.