Dr Antonio Lillo is Full Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Alicante. His research mainly focuses on slang lexicology and lexicography and the role of phonological motivation in word-formation. He is the author of Aspectos lingüísticos de la rima en el argot inglés (Universidad de Alicante, 1995) and Transcribing English (Comares, 2009; 2nd ed. 2012), co-author of Nuevo diccionario de anglicismos (Gredos, 1997), Grammar in Gobbets (Aguaclara, 2002; 3rd ed. 2021) and A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs (De Gruyter Mouton, 2017), and editor or co-editor of several other books, including Studies in Etymology and Etiology (2009), Los caminos de la lengua. Estudios en homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz Varó (2010) and Words on Words and Dictionaries (special issue of RAEI/AJES, 2011). Professor Lillo has published widely in top-tier journals like English World-Wide, English Today, English Studies, Dictionaries (Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America) and Journal of English Linguistics. He and his research have also been featured in the media, including the Sunday Times, the Mirror, the Daily Telegraph, the Advertiser, ABC Radio National’s Lingua Franca programme and London's Magic Radio. In 2018, Professor Lillo received the Leocadio Martín Mingorance Research Award in English Language and Linguistics from the Spanish Association for English Studies (the Spanish national branch of the European Society for the Study of English).

       Professor Lillo is a member of the American Dialect Society (ADS), the Spanish Association for English Studies (AEDEAN), the Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics (AESLA), the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) and the Global Anglicism Database Network (GLAD). He is the head of the research group 'Lexicology and Lexicography' at the University of Alicante (2022-) and is a member of the Board of Refereees of Communication Interculturelle et Littérature (2010-) and Research in Corpus Linguistics (2021-) and the Board of Advisors of Analele Universitatii din Craiova. Seria Stiinte Filologice. Lingvistica (2011-) and Ensayos (2021-). He has served as Associate Dean for Departments and Institutional Relations (2002-06), Associate Dean for International Relations (2006-09) and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Digital Humanities (2017-18) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alicante.