David Carrascaosa Cañego

David Carrascosa Cañego is from Ciudad Real (Spain) and holds two bachelor’s degrees, in English and French Philology, and a PhD. in Philological Studies (2014) with an International Mention from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). He is a professor in the English program within the Department of Modern Philology at the Faculty of Letters on the Ciudad Real campus.

His main areas of research are linguistic historiography, lexicography, and language teaching in late 16th-century Europe, and, more specifically, the spread of Spanish in England. He has specialized in the study of Richard Perceval’s Bibliotheca Hispanica (1591). He has completed numerous international stays, both for teaching and research, including at Harvard University, University College London (UCL), and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Since 2021, he has served as director of the UCLM Language Center and plays an active role in the university’s internationalization initiatives, as well as in the COLOURS European University Alliances project, with a special focus on promoting language learning and linguistic and cultural diversity. He also coordinates the working group on Internationalization and Language Policy for CercleS, the European association of language centers in higher education