Blanca Fernández-Soriano is currently a PhD cantidate at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has been awarded with a predoctoral research scholarship (FPU), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.

She graduated in English Studies (First Class Honors & Extraordinary Award) at the University of Alicante (UA) in 2021. As an undergraduate, she was awarded with a Erasmus scholarship (2019-2020), through which she spent two semesters at Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland). Furthermore, she obtained a Collaboration Scholarship (2020-2021) in the Department of General Linguistics in the University of Alicante, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education. She was also awarded with a Spanish Teacher's Assistant scholarship (2021-2022), through which she worked for a year in Hinchingbrooke School in Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire, England).

In 2023, she completed a MA in English Linguistics: New Applications and International Communication (First Class Honors) at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). For her MA dissertation, she analysed the language of fear as a social, cultural and linguistic phenomenon through the autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, to explore the experience of emotion in marginality and girlhood.

Moreover, she is part of a research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation titled “Female childhood across borders. A Cultural Linguistics approach to the English-based conceptualization and perception of female childhood. Evidence from biographical discourse 1750-1900.” (FemChildLing) (PID2020-117973GB-I00) 

Her teaching experience (2023-2024) includes lectures in the subjects 'Translation and Contrastive Linguistics English-Spanish' (BA in English Studies), 'Introduction to English Grammar' (BA in English Studies), ‘Modern Language: English II’ (BA in Applied Languages and Linguistics) and “English Historical and Cultural Contexts” (BA in English Studies).

As part of her formative process, she has attended and participated in a number of international conferences and seminars: 8-LModE (2024), IV CICELI (2024), The Place of Memory (2024), V SEING (2024), AESLA (2024), EL21C (2024) and UPCEL (2024). Additionally, she has published one book chapter, one article, two book reviews and two poetry collections:

• (2024) "Lover of many things": sexual orientation and gender on dating apps 'bios'". Book chapter, in English Linguistics Meets the 21st Century, (ISBN: 978-84-1070-062-8)
• (2024) “Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English". Book review, in AEDEAN Nexus, 1, 46-49 (ISSN: 1697-4646)
• (2023) "El jardín todavía huele a lavanda". Poetry collection. Postdata Ediciones. (ISBN:978-8419411471)
• (2022) “La lingüística del amor: de la pasión a la palabra”. Book review, in Hesperia: Anuario de Filología Hispánica, 25 (2), 179-186. (ISSN: 1139/81)
• (2021) “A corpus-based and lexicographical analysis of Irish expletives in Irish English”. Article, in Estudios Interlingüísticos, 9, 77-90 (ISSN-e 2340-9274)
• (2020) "Gritar que sigo viva". Poetry collection. Self-published. (ISBN: 979-8653946387)

Her interest areas include Cultural Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Her PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Paloma Tejada Caller, deals with cultural concepts and peripheral documents produced by migrant women. She is also part of the STAM-Lab Team, which organises activities for the members of the PhD Programme. For any questions, she can be contacted at blfern07@ucm.es.