Julio Villa-García is a tenured professor of English linguistics at the University of Oviedo and an honorary professor at the University of Manchester. He was previously a research professor at the University of Manchester and Villanova University in Philadelphia. He studied in Oviedo, Kent, and Essex and received his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Connecticut. His main areas of research and knowledge transfer are syntax (the study of sentence structure), children's language acquisition, bilingualism in all its forms, and the application of theoretical grammar to language teaching.