Evelyn Gandón-Chapela holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Vigo (2010) with a specialization in English Linguistics. In 2016 she completed her PhD in English linguistics with a dissertation, supervised by Prof. Javier Pérez Guerra (Vigo), on Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis in Modern English which was awarded the Faculty of Philology Extraordinary PhD Award 2015-2016. In October 2010 she joined the Department of English, French and German Studies at the University of Vigo, where she was integrated within the research group Language Variation and Textual Categorisation (LVTC), on a four-year FPI research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. From January to October 2015 she was involved in the project “The Art of Writing English: A Corpus of Schoolchildren’s writings” as part-time research assistant . At present, she holds a position as Lecturer ('Contratada Doctora') in English Language and Linguistics and is the Language Policy Coordinator of the Vice-rectorate for Internationalisation and Global Engagement at the University of Cantabria.
Evelyn's research focuses on the study of grammatical change in the recent history of the English language, second language acquisition and CLIL. In addition, she has experience in the compilation of electronic corpora, as she collaborated in the compilation of The APU Writing and Reading Corpus 1979-1988 and The Primary Education Learners' English Corpus.
As an Erasmus exchange student (2006-2007), Evelyn studied at the University of Adam Mickiewic in Poznan (Poland). During the academic year 2009-2010, she was an ISEP exchange student at Truman State University in Missouri (USA). She has developed research stays at the Universities of Ghent (February-April 2011), Chicago (January-July 2012), Paris Diderot-Paris 7 (April-October 2013, May-December 2014 and June-July 2015), University College London (February 2017) and University of the Basque Country-UPV/EHU (January-February 2023).
Evelyn’s research monograph On Invisible Language in Modern English: A Corpus-based Approach to Ellipsis (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) received the Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics at the General Assembly of AEDEAN (November 2020). It was also shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Award for books published by members of European Society for the Study of English in the years 2020 and 2021 (Category B: first book; Field: English Language and Linguistics).
