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Teresa Fanego works as a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She studied Germanic Philology in Santiago de Compostela and specialized in English Linguistics at University College London.

In 1978 she completed her doctorate on “Linguistic Variants in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Editions of Shakespeare” (Extraordinary PhD Award, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters). Since May 1990 she holds the chair in English Language and Linguistics at Santiago de Compostela.

Most of Fanego's published work has been on the English of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on various aspects of English historical syntax; also on the development of English legal discourse. More generally, she is interested in grammaticalization processes and in functional and cognitive models of grammar. Since the 1990s Fanego has been the director of the research unit for Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization (VLCG) at the University of Santiago de Compostela; she is also the coordinator of the research network English Linguistics Circle (ELC), established in 2006 under funding from the European Regional Development Fund, the Regional Government of Galicia, and the Spanish National Research Plan.

Between September 2005 and September 2013 Teresa Fanego served as Editor-in-Chief of Folia Linguistica, the peer-reviewed journal of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) published by Mouton de Gruyter. As of 1 September 2018 I am the President Elect of SLE, to become President from 1 September 2019.

Teresa Fanego has supervised 25 doctoral dissertations to date.