At present, I am an affiliated postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics of the University of Oxford. Prior to this, I was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2025), and I also held several teaching positions connected to the Faculty of Linguistics at Oxford (Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics at St Peter's and Hertford Colleges, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics at Oriel College). 

My research explores the evolution of the Romance languages, with special interest for the Gallo and Ibero-Romance continuum, mainly touching upon Catalan and Occitan syntax and sociolinguistics. I am also interested in language policy for minoritised languages and curriculum development.

You can read more about my research interests and projects here and you can find a list of my publications and talks here. 

I love teaching in higher education, and I seize every opportunity I have to spread my enthusiasm about linguistics. I have extensive teaching experience in introductory courses in syntax, semantics, historical linguistics and general linguistics theory, as well as advanced courses in historical linguistics, comparative Romance linguistics, and linguistics theory. I have also taught translation from and to Spanish, and Spanish and Catalan languages at all levels. Through the years, I have acquired extensive experience in course convening, exam setting, exam marking, as well as supervising research projects at undergraduate level. 

In addition to my research and teaching activities, I am associate editor of the Journal of Historical Syntax, associate editor in linguistics of the Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies, and copy editor of the Journal of Catalan Studies.

Pujol i Campeny, A. 2025a. ‘Word order in Early Old Catalan’. Probus, pp. 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/probus-2025-0008.

This paper explores the syntax of the earliest Catalan texts, by comparing them to contemporary texts from Catalonia either containing syntactic glosses, or written in rather creative Latin. This select pool of data offers a privileged glimpse of the syntax of early Romance and opens up key questions regarding the fragmentation of the continuum. 

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Pujol i Campeny, A. 2025b. ‘Si in Old Catalan and Old Occitan: beyond verb position and polarity’. Revue Romane 60:1, pp. 73-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.25010.puj.

This paper challenges longstanding assumptions about the syntax of Medieval Occitan by taking into account textual genre and register: Old Occitan does not appear to have an active si element across registers and genres, aligning it with Old Catalan, a variety where si was lost in its earliest stages. The conclusions reached highlight the importance of incorporating extra-linguistic variables in diachronic syntax, and challenge persistent ideas about the syntactic evolution of the Gallo-Romance continuum.