Gemma Plaza Tejedor holds a BA in English Studies from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, an MA in English Linguistics from UNED, and an MA in English Teaching from UNED. 

As an undergraduate student, she developed an interest in corpus analysis and historical linguistics, having focused on Modern English, precisely the Late Modern English period. Her BA dissertation consisted of a corpus study on negative constructions in the Modern English period, which granted her a first with honors. For her MA dissertation, she carried out a corpus analysis of perfect constructions in nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian English.

Gemma has been an exchange student at the University of Essex (2012-13) and has worked as a language assistant in England for two years. She is currently a second-year PhD student, which she combines with her job as an English teacher. 

PhD dissertation: A corpus-based study on the language of school logbooks in East Anglia at the turn of the 20th century (1862-1914).

Publications

• Plaza Tejedor, G. (2015). I know not of any reason why I should use do: on the structure of negative statements in modern English correspondence. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 3, 67-87. https://estudiosinterlinguisticos.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/03plazatejedor.pdf
• Plaza Tejedor, G. (2020). The development of perfect auxiliary verbs be and have in Early Australian English (1788-1937): a corpus study. Estudios Interlingüísticos, 8, 193-208. https://estudiosinterlinguisticos.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/plaza-tejedor-gemma.pdf