Lecturer
email: jromer@uma.es
Jesús Romero-Barranco joined the Department of English at the University of Málaga in 2014, after having been appointed as predoctoral researcher in a research project funded by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia (Desarrollo del corpus electrónico de referencia de inglés científico-técnico: el período moderno temprano, 1500-1700, supervised by Dr Javier Calle-Martín). Within the framework of this project, Dr. Romero completed his doctoral dissertation, which involved the semi-diplomatic edition, corpus compilation and study of linguistic complexity of two texts in MS Hunter 135 (ff. 34r–119v), a hitherto unedited scientific manuscript housed in Glasgow University Library (Sobresaliente Cum Laude, Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado).
Dr Romero has held Assistant Professor positions at the universities of Valencia (2018-2020) and Granada (2020-2023). Currently, he is a member of the Department of English at the University of Málaga, where he obtained a permanent position in 2024.
Among his research interests, Jesús is interested in the History of English (diachronic development of syntactic structures in competition as well as language standardisation), manuscript studies (edition and corpus compilation of unedited scientific manuscripts in the period 1350-1700) and World Englishes (language variation and change in English worldwide).
Teaching
Jesús Romero-Barranco has been a member of different Spanish Universities, where he has taught a variety of courses in the Degree in English Studies. Among them, he has taught EFL courses at the University of Valencia (2018-2020) and Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Granada (2020-2023). Currently, Dr Romero-Barranco teaches History of English and Advanced Syntax in the Degree in English Studies and the Joint Degree in Primary Education and English Studies at the University of Málaga.
Publications
(2025). «The Pragmatics of Punctuation in Early English Medical Recipe Books». In Matti Peikola, Jukka Tyrkkö and Mari-Liisa Varila (eds.). Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy. Turnhout: Brepols Pubishers. 105-126 [with Javier-Calle Martín].
(2023). «On the Expression of Instrumentality in the History of English (1350-1910): by way of vs. by means of». In Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas and María José Esteve Ramos (eds.). A Philologist World of Texts. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Jeremy Smith. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Servicio de Publicaciones de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 229-244. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2021). Long Story Short: An Interactive Journey through the History of English. Valencia: Publicaciones Universitat de València. [with Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras].
(2021). «Current Trends in Corpus Linguistics and Textual Variation». Research in Corpus Linguistics 9.2: i-xiii. [with Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras].
(2021). «Looking into the past with 21st century tools: Historical Linguistics and Digital Pedagogy in the classroom». In José Francisco Durán Medina, Javier Puche Gil and Eloy López Meneses (eds.). Bases para una docencia actualizada. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch. 246-256. [with Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras].
(2020). «Spelling Normalisation and POS-tagging of Historical Corpora: The Case of GUL, MS Hunter 135 (ff. 34r-121v)». In Miguel Fuster-Márquez, Carmen Gregori-Signes and José Santaemilia-Ruiz (eds.). Multiperspectives in Analysis and Corpus Design. Granada: Comares. 103-114.
(2020). «A Comparison of Some French and English Nominal Suffixes in early English Correspondence». In Laura Wright (ed.). The Multilingual Origins of Standard English. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 467-486.
(2020). «Coordination and Subordination in Middle English Scientific Prose: Textual Variation in Focus». In Rodrigo Pérez-Lorido, Carlos Prado-Alonso and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.). Of ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 467-486.
(2020). «Linguistic Complexity across Two Early Modern English Scientific Text Types». Atlantis 42.2: 50-71.
(2019). «Punctuation in Early Modern English Scientific Writing: The Case of Two Scientific Text Types in GUL, MS Hunter 135». Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 54.1: 59-80.
(2018). «Paisaje y variación lingüística: el uso y la omisión del complementizador that en algunas variedades de inglés asiático». In Emilio Ortega Arjonilla (ed.). El paisaje. Percepciones interdisciplinares desde las humanidades. Granada: Comares. 203-212. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2017). «Third Person Present Tense Markers in Some Varieties of English». English World-Wide 38.1: 77-103. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2017). «Early Modern English Scientific Manuscripts in the Hunterian Collection: A Physical Description of GUL, MS Hunter 135». Analecta Malacitana 39.1-2: 277-302.
(2016). «Adverbials and Inversion in Early English Scientific Writing». Brno Studies in English 42.1: 113-133.
(2015). «Assessing the provenance of Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. lr-41v)». Odisea. Revista de Estudios Ingleses 16: 7-22.
(2015). «On the Use of make to vs. make ø in Early English Medical Writing». Atlantis 37.1: 157-177. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2015). «(2015). The Late Middle English Version of Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS 290 (ff. 1r-41v). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
(2015). «(2015). «‘On Lucky and Unlucky Days’: A Parallel Edition of MS Garret 141 (ff. 79r-83v) and MS Wellcome 411 (ff. 4r-9r)». Selim Journal 22: 17-43.
(2014). «On the Use of That/Zero as Object Clause Links in Early English Medical Writing». Studia Neophilologica 86.1: 1-16. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2014). «On the Use of the Split Infinitive in the Asian Varieties of English». NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies 13.1: 130-147. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2013). «The Middle English Version of The Book of Nativities in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 411 (ff. 9v-18v)». Analecta Malacitana 36.1-2: 307-346. [with Javier Calle-Martín]
(2015). «(2012). « A Semi-diplomatic Edition of Galen¿s Anatomy in MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 42r-48v)». Analecta Malacitana 35.1: 275-295.
Conference papers
2025
«The Regularization of Irregular Verbs in Present-day English and Its Varieties around the World». 48th Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Universidad de Vitoria-Gasteiz, November 12th-14th, 2025.
«On the Distribution of try to + INF and try and + INF in Some Varieties of English». 16th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Salamanca, May 15th-17th, 2025.
2024
«Music vs. musick: The ‘ick rule’ in historical American English». 8th International Conference on Late Modern English (LModE-8). Universidad de Salamanca, October 2nd-4th, 2024.
«On the Status of <-ick> Words in Historical American English». 44th Conference APEAA. Transitions: Freedom & Conflicts. Universidade de Lisboa, June 25th-27th, 2024.
«‘I make them drink heartily of warm Water three or four Times’: Periphrastic Causative Constructions in Late Modern English Scientific Writing». 45th International Conference of ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Universidad de Málaga, May 16th-17th, 2024.
«La función discursiva del adverbio de modo en la correspondencia de Mary Hamilton (1756-1816)». VI Seminario de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras: MUJER Y HUMANIDADES. Universidad de Málaga, May 16th-17th, 2024.
2023
«The Use of Manner Adverbials as Disjuncts in the Mary Hamilton Papers». 14th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Oviedo, May 10th-12th, 2023.
2022
«’I can, may, or must be being conquered’: A Corpus-Based Study of the Progressive Passive in the Old Bailey Corpus»». 45th Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Universidad de Cáceres, November 16th-18th, 2022.
«Punctuation Practice and Rhetorical Moves in Early English Medical Recipes ». 32nd International Conference of SELIM. Universidad de La Rioja, September 14th-16th, 2022. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«The Pragmatics of Punctuation in Early English Medical Recipe Books». 12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME2022). University of Glasgow, August 22nd-24th, 2022. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Negative Prefixes in Early English Correspondence (1410-1681)». HiSoN Conference 2022. Universidad de Murcia, June 1st-3rd, 2022.
2021
2020
«Corpus Linguistics for Synchronic and Diachronic Language Variation and Change». Plenary talk. Anglotic Conference: Students at the Centre of the Innovation Process in Languages and Communication. Universidad de Valencia, February 4th-5th, 2020.
2019
«’I’ll have him call you!’ Causative Constructions in Competition in The Corpus of Historical American English”». 43rd Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Universidad de Alicante, November 13th-15th, 2019.
«Coordination and Subordination as Markers of Linguistic Complexity in Early Modern English Scientific Prose (1500-1700)». 9th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Valencia, May 15th-17th, 2019.
«‘He was way too smart for most of the people of his time’: The Intensification of too in English Worldwide”». 37th International Conference of AESLA. Universidad de Valladolid, April 27th-29th, 2019.
2018
«‘It’s much too late and I’m dead on my feet.’ On the Intensification of too in The Corpus of Historical American English”». 42nd Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Universidad de Córdoba, November 7th-9th, 2018.
«Punctuation Practice in Early Modern English: The Case of MS Hunter 135». 14th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 14). Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), August 29th-September 2nd, 2018.
«Competition among Native and French Nominal Suffixes in Early English (1350-1710): A Sociolinguistic Approach». 36th International Conference of AESLA. Universidad de Cádiz, April 19th-21st, 2018.
2017
«Edition and Palaeographic Analysis of MS Hunter 135 (ff. 34r-121v)». The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS). Universidad de Alcalá, November 23rd-24th, 2017.
«Corpus electrónico de manuscritos ingleses de índole científica: El período moderno temprano (1500-1700)». I seminario sobre narrativas del paisaje: El paisaje y las humanidades. Universidad de Málaga, October 26th-27th, 2017. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Paisaje y variación lingüística: El caso de la variación ortográfica -ise/-ize en el inglés de Hong Kong». I seminario sobre narrativas del paisaje: El paisaje y las humanidades. Universidad de Málaga, October 26th-27th, 2017. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«That-clauses: Retention and Omission of Complementizer that in Some Varieties of English». 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Universidad de Vigo, September 28th-30th, 2017. [with Javier Calle-Martín]
«A Codicological and Palaeographic Analysis of MS Hunter 135». II Jornadas Doctorales: Programa de Doctorado en Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción. Universidad de Málaga, June 20th-22nd, 2017.
«Early Modern English Scientific Text Types: Different Levels of Linguistic Complexity?». 9th International Conference of CILC. Université Paris Diderot, May 31st-June 2nd, 2017.
«Proyecto Cleft. Edición electrónica de manuscritos científicos inéditos». I Jornadas de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales. Universidad de Málaga, May 24th, 2017. [with Javier Calle-Martín]
«Does Linguistic Complexity Increase over Time? A Corpus-based Approach to Three Early Modern English Scientific Text Types». 35th International Conference of AESLA. Universidad de Jaén, May 4th-6th, 2017.
«The Vernacularization of non-native items in Early English Medical Writing». Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS). University of Cambridge, April 20th-21st, 2017.
2016
«‘I got into the room by means of a picklock key and found him’ Complex Prepositions in Early Modern English». Conference on Verbs, Clauses and Constructions (VCC). Universidad de La Rioja, October 26th-28th, 2016. [with Javier Calle-Martín]
«Medical Manuscripts in the Hunterian Collection: The Case of Glasgow University Library, MS Hunter 135». 13th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 13). National University of Ireland, August 22nd-26th, 2016.
«Expressing Means in the History of English: Complex Prepositions in Competition». I Jornadas Doctorales: Programa de Doctorado en Lingüística, Literatura y Traducción. Universidad de Málaga, June 8th-9th, 2016.
«Past Tense Marking in Early Modern English: A Corpus-based Study». 27th International Conference of SEDERI. Universidad de Valladolid, May 3rd-7th, 2016. [with Javier Calle-Martín]
«Punctuation in Early Modern English Scientific Writing: Jane Jackson’s Recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MS 373». 27th International Conference of SEDERI. Universidad de Valladolid, May 3rd-7th, 2016.
«by way of vs. by means of: On the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English». 34th International Conference of AESLA. Universidad de Alicante, April 14th-16th, 2016.
«Native and Borrowed Negative Prefix Competition in Early Modern English Medical Writing». 8th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Málaga, May 2nd-4th, 2016. [with Soluna Salles-Bernal]
«Third Person Present Tense Markers in Some Varieties of English». 8th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Málaga, May 2nd-4th, 2016.
2015
«POS-tagging a Corpus of Early Modern English Fachprosa: Advantages and Disadvantages». The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS). University of Leicester, November 19th-21st, 2015.
«Adverbials and Inversion in Early English Scientific Writing». 39th International Conference of the Spanish Association for English and American Studies (AEDEAN). Universidad de Deusto, November 11th-13th, 2015.
«Punctuation in late Middle English medical writing: Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, Wellcome Library, MS Wellcome 290 (f. 1r-41v)». 9th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME). University of Wroclaw, April 30th-May 3rd, 2015.
«The -s Plural Symmetry in the Asian Varieties of English». 33th International Conference of AESLA. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, April 16th-18th, 2015 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Synchronic and diachronic variation: the early modern component of the Malaga Corpus of Scientific Writing». 7th International Conference of CILC. Universidad de Valladolid, March 5th-7th, 2015 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
2014
«On the Use of make to vs. make ø in early English Medical Writing». 26th International Conference of SELIM. Universidad Jaume I, September 18th-20th, 2014 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Africanus’ Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)». IES-KEIO Joint International Conference: Old and Middle English Studies Texts and Sources. Institute of English Studies (London, UK), September 3rd-5th, 2014.
«Finite Complementation in Early English Medical Writing: A Case Study of Syntactic Constructions in Competition». 12th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 12). Universidad Pavol Jozef Safarik (Kosice, Slovakia), August 29th-September 6th, 2014 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Object Infinitive Constructions in Early Modern English». 25th International Conference of SEDERI. Universidad de Oviedo, May 14th-6th, 2014 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
2013
«On the Use and Distribution of Object Clause Links in Early English Medical Writing». 25th International Conference of SELIM. Universidad de Córdoba, December 12th-14th, 2013 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«A Dialectal analysis of the Negative Adverb ne in Late Middle English». Coloquio Bianual sobre la Diacronía del Inglés (CBDA-3). Universidad de Amiens, June 6th-8th, 2013 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«On the Use of the Split Infinitive in the Asian Varieties of English». 34th International Conference of ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, May 22nd-26th, 2013 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«On the Use of that/zero as Object Clause Links in Early Modern English Scientific Prose». 24th International Conference of SEDERI. Universidad de Huelva, March 13th-15th, 2024 [with Javier Calle-Martín].