Keynote Speakers

Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas completed her PhD in English Philology at Complutense University in Madrid and is currently a Professor of English at the University of Alcalá, where she teaches History of the English Language, as well as other courses on English Language and Linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests are chiefly in the field of English Historical Linguistics and Manuscript Studies. She has researched and published extensively on these topics in several international specialised monographs and journals, such as English Studies, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Studia Neophilologica and SELIM, among others. She is currently working on English medical manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance periods concentrating in particular on the recipe genre. Likewise, she has held visiting fellowships at Sheffield University, Freie Universität Berlin, Limerick University, Oxford University and Glasgow University.

Jukka Tyrkkö is Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University and Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Turku. He has published widely on topics ranging from corpus linguistic methods, historical corpus linguistics with particular reference to lexis and phraseology, historical lexicography, book history, corpus annotation and historical multilingualism. He has compiled and co-compiled a number of corpora, including the Early Modern English Texts (EMEMT), Corpus of Late Modern English Texts 3.1 (CLMET3.1), the Diachronic Corpus of Political Speeches (DCPS) and the Punch Magazine Corpus (Punch), as well as worked on corpus annotation methods and corpus software development.