Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain, where she has been teaching undergraduate and master courses since 1993. Although she loves English grammar lectures, her main research area is Critical Discourse Analysis, where she focuses on notions such as representation and power enactment as manifested mainly in public discourse. She has published on language and gender, as well as Irish theatre, and has also paid attention to the analysis of the way identity can be discursively constructed. In her research, she has tried to develop or reconsider some very interesting principles mainly taken from Systemic Functional Grammar such as Transitivity, Modality or Appraisal Theory. To do so, she relies on corpus-based approaches to the study of language and discourse.