DE DIOS, TANIA

Tania de Dios holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (June 2010). Between October 2010 and September 2011 she completed, on a grant from the Autonomous Government of Galicia, the postgraduate courses required for admission to the PhD Programme in English Studies, and publicly defended (in September 2011) her MA dissertation. As from November she has joined the Department of English and German on a four-year FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of María José López-Couso.

In December 2010 Tania received the National Award for Academic Excellence from the Autonomous Government of Galicia, in recognition of her outstanding academic record as an undergraduate student. She has also obtained (November 2011) one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: tania.dedios@rai.usc.es

MA Dissertation (September 2011): Intransitivity revisited: A corpus-based study of verbs used without an object in Contemporary English. Supervisor: María José López-Couso.