Brief curriculum vitae
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane (O Barqueiro, 1962) is a Professor in the Department of Galician Philology and director of the Institute for the Galician Language.
In 1985 he graduated in Hispanic Philology from the USC. In 1992 he took his PhD at the same university with a thesis on the process of graphic and grammatical coding of Galician in the 19th century, for which he also obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award. He teaches at the Faculty of Philology of the USC, of which he was dean between 2004 and 2012. He has had teaching and research residencies at the City University of New York, the University of Buenos Aires and Georgetown University.
His research activity revolves around two main lines: Galician lexicography, both from a historiographic perspective and from an applied dimension, and the standardisation process of modern Galician. His works include the publication of the books A estandarización do léxico, in collaboration with María Álvarez de la Granja; A lexicografía galega moderna. Recursos e perspectivas, in collaboration with Antón Santamarina and Xavier Varela, and Lexicografía de las lenguas románicas, in collaboration with Félix Córdoba and Dolores Sánchez Palomino.
He was also responsible for the Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval and directed and participated in the development of several digital corpus of modern and contemporary Galician language, such as Gondomar. Corpus dixital de textos galegos da Idade Moderna, el Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués and Tesouro Informatizado da Lingua Galega.