Izaskun Elorza

Dr Izaskun Elorza is a senior lecturer (PhD) in the Department of English Philology at the University of Salamanca. Her research interests revolve around corpus-assisted analyses of English from a systemic functional perspective, recently with a specific focus on the representations of characters in socially relevant picture books, and she has published in this respect in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

She has been invited to deliver numerous talks in international conferences and scientific forums, e.g. on the use of UAM Corpus Tool as an awareness-rising tool for syntactic analysis and the applicability of corpus linguistics for teaching and learning English (Reykjavik, 2014), or the annotation of corpora for the analysis of science dissemination in the press (Université Paris VIII, 2014). Izaskun has regularly participated in international conferences, such as the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT (Castelló, 2007), or the Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2009) (Liverpool, 2009), chairing the panel ‘Learning, Teaching’. She was awarded with the Language Learning Roundtable Grant Program 2011 to convene the roundtable “Corpus Linguistics for 21st Century Language Learning” at the XXIX International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) (Salamanca, 2011), with the participation of Anna Mauranen, Giovanni Parodi, Lourdes Ortega, Mick O’Donnell, Mike Scott, Tony Berber-Sardinha, Pascual Pérez-Paredes, and Ute Römer. She has been Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool (2006-2007), and Affiliate Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow (2023-2024). She organised and convened the workshop 'Jornadas de Divulgación de la Lingüística de Corpus (JDLC2007)' (Salamanca, 2007), a practical 'hands-on' introduction to corpus linguistics by Mike Scott, Michaela Mahlberg, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell. She also championed the introduction of corpus linguistics in the undergraduate curriculum of English Studies at the University of Salamanca (2010).

Currently, she leads the research group Linguistic Descriptions of English (LINDES) which, among a variety of research lines, focuses on corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted analysis, including multimodal corpora, and supervises doctoral dissertations in this area. She also collaborates as an external evaluator for publishers such as Routledge and for highly ranked scientific journals such as Corpora, Linguistics and Education, or Lingua.