Henrique Monteagudo is Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and researcher at the Instituto da Lingua Galega. He has taught at the universities of Birmingham (UK), City University of New York (CUNY), Coimbra, Lisbon (UL), Buenos Aires (UBA), California (UC-Santa Barbara), São Paulo (USP), Federal Fluminense (Niterói) and Universidad de la República (Montevideo). He has dealt with the social history of the Galician language, sociolinguistics and glotopolitics. He directed the project "The process of normalization of the Galician language, 1980-2000", that resulted in the publication of three volumes (2002-2003) and a series of studies on surveys on the evolution of the Galician sociolinguistic situation: A sociedade galega e o idioma (1992-2003) (2005), A evolución sociolingüística (1992-2008) (2011), Lingua e sociedade en Galicia. A evolución sociolingüística 1992-2013 (2017). He has been the editor of volumes such as Estudios de Sociolingüística Galega (1995), Norma Lingüística e Variación (2005), Sociedades multilingües: da identidade á diversidade (2009), Galego e Português Brasileiro: história, variação, mudança (2012), Lingua(s), sociedade e política. Un debate multidisciplinar (2012), Contacto de linguas, hibridade, cambio: contextos, procesos e consecuencias (2013). He has published Historia social da lingua galega (1999, 2nd ed. 2017).