Ernesto X. González Seoane

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane (O Barqueiro, 1962) is a professor in the Department of Galician Philology.

González Seoane obtained a B.A. in Hispanic Philology at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1985. In 1992 he completed his doctorate at the same university with a thesis on the process of orthographic and grammatical codification of Galician in the nineteenth century, for which he received an Outstanding Doctorate Award. He teaches in the USC's Faculty of Philology, of which he was Dean from 2004 to 2012. He has held teaching and research positions at the City University of New York, the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Georgetown University.

González Seoane has pursued two main lines of research: Galician lexicography from both a historiographical and an applied perspective, and the modern Galician standardisation process. Of special note among his publications are A estandarización do léxico (2003) with María Álvarez de la Granja, and A lexicografía galega moderna. Recursos e perspectivas (2009) with Antón Santamarina and Xavier Varela. He was co-ordinator on the Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval (2006) and is an active participant in the development of the Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués.