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Cristina Flores

UNIVERSITY OF MINHO · SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

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Cristina Flores

Cristina Flores

Positions & Administration

Academic career

Since 2024 — Full Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Minho

2018–2024 — Associate Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Minho

2008–2018 — Assistant Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Minho (tenured since 2013)

2002–2008 — Teaching Assistant (2004–2008) and Trainee Teaching Assistant (2002–2004), Department of German Studies, University of Minho

1999–2002 — Lecturer (50%), Department of German Studies, University of Minho; teacher of Portuguese in secondary and basic education

Leadership and management positions (University of Minho)

Since 2025 — Dean (President) of the School of Arts and Humanities (ELACH)

Since 2022 — Member of the School Council, ELACH

Since 2019 — Member of the Scientific Council, ELACH

Since 2018 — Director of the Double Degree Master’s in Portuguese-German Studies (with Goethe University Frankfurt)

2023–2025 — Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies

2019–2025 — Member of the Ethics Committee for Research in Social and Human Sciences (Vice-President 2023–2025)

2017–2025 — Member of the Directive Board of the PhD Programme in Language Sciences

2019–2022 — Director of the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM)

2019–2020 — Member of the working group for the revision of the University of Minho Code of Ethical Conduct

2016–2019 — Deputy Director of the Centre for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM)

2016–2019 — Member of the Directive Board of the Master’s in Translation and Multilingual Communication

2013–2019 — Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies

2013–2016 — Member of the Institute Council, Institute of Arts and Human Sciences (ILCH)

2012–2016 — Member of the Course Committee of the BA in European Languages and Literatures

2010–2016 — Deputy Coordinator of the Language Sciences research line, CEHUM

2008–2016 — Member of the Scientific Council, ILCH

2009–2012 — Member of the Pedagogical Council, ILCH

2008–2012 — Director of the BA in European Languages and Literatures

2008–2011 — Member of the Directive Board of the Master’s in Teaching English and German

2008–2011 — Deputy Head of the Department of German and Slavic Studies

Professional associations and advisory boards

2022 — 2024 — President of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics (APL)

Since 2021 — Member of the Advisory Board of the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), UCLA

2020–2022 — President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics

2010–2012, 2014–2016 — Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Linguistics

Editorial positions

2020 — 2025 — Associate Editor, Heritage Language Journal (Brill)

2018 — 2025 — Associate Editor, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (John Benjamins); editor, with Neal Snape, of the Epistemological Issues since 2019

Since 2022 — Editorial Board member, Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Since 2016 — Co-editor of the book series Language Development (Gunter Narr), with Tanja Kupisch, Esther Rinke and Aldona Sopata

2016–2022 — Director of the journal Diacrítica (CEHUM, University of Minho)

2015–2019 — Co-editor, Revista de Estudos Alemães (REAL)

2014–2016 — Editorial Board member, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press)

Scientific Committee member of the journals Cadernos de PLE, Facta Universitatis – Linguistics and Literature, Polissema, NOVAling and Linguagem e Ensino

Contact

Department of German and Slavic Studies

Departamento de Estudos Germanísticos e Eslavos,

Escola de Letras, Artes e Ciências Humanas (ELACH)

Universidade do Minho

Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

Email: cflores@elach.uminho.pt

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