Xoán Carlos Lagares

I am associate professor of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and researcher of the Graduate Program in Language Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF - Brazil), where I coordinate the research line História, Política e Contato linguístico; I am also deputy director of the Center of Galician Studies, the result of an agreement between the UFF and the Xunta de Galicia, president of the International Association of Galician Studies (AIEG) (2024-2027) and coordinator of the Public Policy Commission of the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN).

I research topics related to the history of Spanish, Portuguese and Galician, linguistic norms and linguistic conflicts, from a global-political perspective.

I coordinated the Brazilian team of the international research project Galego e Português Brasileiro, the result of an agreement between the Spanish Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Brazilian Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).