Begoña Soneira Beloso

Begoña Soneira obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 1998. She also holds a Master Degree in International Business Management from this university. Begoña taught Spanish at Brown University (Providence, RI) and Business English in the Business School of Lugo, University of Santiago de Compostela, as part of her Ph.D program in English language. From 2004 to 2008 she has been doing historical research in the Instituto Galego de Información (Sargadelos) under the supervision of Isaac Díaz Pardo. During this period she published four books: O Deseño dende Milán coa figura crítica de Tomás Maldonado (2005), O Drama dos Arquitectos na Guerra Civil e no Exilio, O Arquitecto Constantino Candeira (2006) and Unha Ollada ó Laboratorio de Formas ós 44 anos da súa creación (2007). She worked as senior project manager at the International Relations Office, University of Santiago de Compostela until September 2016; she is now working as a secondary education English teacher. She defended her PhD thesis (A Lexical Description of English for Architecture: a corpus-based approach) in July 2013.