Henrique Monteagudo Romero

Henrique Monteagudo is a lecturer in Galician Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Secretary of the Real Academia Galega. He has been the co-ordinator of the Language Section and secretary of the Consello da Cultura Galega. He is also co-director of the journal Grial: Revista de Cultura Galega, and a member of the Penzol Foundation Trust.

His main areas of research are history of the language, sociolinguistics and language policy. He has studied and edited Galician texts from every period from the Middle Ages to the present day: Martin Codax, Paio Gómez Chariño, Martín Sarmiento, Rosalía de Castro, Otero Pedrayo, Castelao and Ramón Piñeiro. He is general editor of the publication of the works of Castelao and Martín Sarmiento, and a specialist on their lives and writings.

He has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Birmingham (in the United Kingdom), California (UCSB), New York (CUNY), São Paulo (USP), Lisbon (UL) and Buenos Aires (UBA).

He is the author of monographs such as Historia Social da Lingua Galega (1999), Letras primeiras. A emerxencia do galego escrito e os primordios da lírica trovadoresca (2008), De verbo a verbo. Documentos en galego anteriores a 1260 (2009) and “En cadea sen prijon”. Cancioneiro de Afonso Paez (2013). He is also the scientific editor of collective works such as Sociedades plurilingües: da identidade á diversidade (2009), and Linguas, sociedade e política. Un debate multidisciplinar (2012).