Raquel P. Romasanta currently lectures in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She graduated in Elementary School Teaching (2010) and in Foreign Languages with a specialization in English Linguistics (2016) from the University of Vigo. She completed an MA in Advanced English Studies at the same University. In November 2015, she was awarded a scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education (Beca de Colaboración) to work as a research assistant in the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo (from November 2015 to June 2016).
In December 2017, she was awarded a two-year predoctoral grant from the University of Vigo to condunct her PhD research. In 2019 she obtained a four-year FPI research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Her PhD is entitled "Variation in the clausal complementation system in World Englishes: A corpus-based study of REGRET" [International doctorate; Cum Laude] and her advisors were Elena Seoane (University of Vigo) and Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg).
In 2022 she obtained a full-time postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vigo on a competitive three-year contract (Margarita Salas) funded by the European Union (Next Generation EU) and, in September 2022, she obtained a full-time tenure track position at the University of the Balearic Islands. After lecturing at the University of Santiago de Compostela, she has recently joined the University of Vigo, where she currently holds a full-time tenure track position.

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Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa, Francesa e Alemá
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución - Despacho B49
Universidade de Vigo
As Lagoas, Marcosende
36310 Vigo, SPAIN
E-mail: raquel.romasanta@uvigo.gal