ELENA
DOMÍNGUEZ ROMERO

Elena Domínguez Romero is a tenured Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Her research lies at the intersection of linguistic theory, discourse analysis, and educational innovation. She currently co-directs the nationally funded research project RACISMMAFF (Stance Strategies in Immigration and Racism-Related Discourse, PID2021-125327NB-I00), supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This project applies stance-based discourse analysis to racist and anti-immigrant narratives, while developing pedagogical tools designed to foster critical thinking and intercultural competence. Her earlier contributions to EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), EVIDISPRAG (FFI2015-65474-P), and STANCEDISC (PGC2018-095798-B-I00) have consolidated her expertise in stance, evidentiality, and multimodal meaning-making. She is also an active member of the CoCoMInt Thematic Network, exploring conflict communication and mediation in social, political, and digital contexts. Elena has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals — including Journal of Pragmatics, System, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Intercultural Pragmatics — many of which are published in Q1 venues. Her work has accrued more than 1,400 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 20 and an i10-index of 27, attesting to her sustained scholarly impact. She has co-edited more than a dozen scholarly volumes and contributed numerous chapters to prestigious publishers such as Springer, Bloomsbury, Peter Lang, Palgrave, Benjamins, De Gruyter, IGI Global, and Cambridge Scholars. Recent titles include Transformative Trends in Language Education (2024), Rethinking Multimodal Literacy (2023), Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues (2023), and Visual Literacy and Digital Communication (2022), underscoring her thought leadership and agenda-setting capacity. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Intercultural Pragmatics and a forthcoming Gold Open Access SpringerBriefs monograph derived from the BORDERLITE symposium, which she co-organised as part of RACISMMAFF. Deeply committed to educational innovation, Elena coordinated the Lenguas Modernas specialisation of UCM’s Máster de Formación del Profesorado for over four years and has led or participated in more than 25 teaching innovation and service-learning projects. She represented UCM in drafting the Una Futura proposal for the Una Europa Alliance and has spearheaded the design of MOOCs and the delivery of online and onsite courses for the Una Europa BAES programme, where she has coordinated modules and developed comprehensive, pedagogically innovative teaching programmes. She collaborates actively with international networks — including FLAME, FILTA, and the Visual Arts Circle — and foreign institutions such as UDEC, where she delivers master’s and doctoral-level courses. Her translational work includes the development of COdA, a quality assurance tool for open educational resources that directly informed UNE Standard 71362 (in collaboration with AENOR), and EnginEAr, an educational software platform registered under Spanish trademark No. 4.041.474. Within RACISMMAFF, she co-created pedagogical materials currently piloted in undergraduate and teacher-training contexts and embedded in the “Internationalisation at Home” modules of the Erasmus+ TRIP project, contributing to inclusive, digital, and intercultural teaching strategies. She is supervising three doctoral dissertations and has directed more than 40 master’s and undergraduate theses. She has held visiting research appointments at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, UDEC, and ASU.