About The Speaker
Carlos Soler Montes
Carlos is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches Spanish Linguistics and advanced Spanish Language courses.
He studied Spanish Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, a MSc of Arts in Hispanic Studies at the University of Connecticut (USA) and did his PhD at Nebrija University (Madrid, Spain). He also completed Postgraduate studies in Language Education at the Complutense University of Madrid and Hispanic Linguistics at the National University of Distance Education (UNED, Spain). He taught Spanish language courses and Spanish Linguistics at The University of Connecticut, The University of Calgary and The University of New Mexico, and also spent 10 years at Cervantes Institute as an academic coordinator, teacher trainer and evaluator.
He started working at the University of Edinburgh in 2015 as a Teaching Fellow and e-Learning Coordinator. In 2018 was made Lecturer and then promoted in 2022 to Senior Lecturer. Carlos’ research is focused on language variation and how this is dealt with by native speakers, learners of Spanish and new speakers. His research has focused on assessing how Spanish grammar varies in different Hispanic regions, and how these differences connect with social and cultural aspects.
In 2017, he won a Teaching Award for Best Feedback by the Edinburgh University Students’ Association. He is now the Head of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has written books such as “La diversidad del español y su enseñanza” (The diversity of Spanish and its teaching) or “Avances investigadores y pedagógicos sobre la enseñanza del español: aportes desde el contexto universitario británico” (Research and pedagogical advances on the teaching of Spanish: contributions from the British university context).