Tamara Bouso holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2011), an MA in English Studies (2012) and a Doctorate (2018) in English Linguistics. In July 2019 she completed an MA in Secondary Education at the UNIR (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja).

Between 2013 and 2017 Tamara held a four-year FPU research grant (ref. FPU2012/01669; 05/03/2013 - 04/03/2017) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of Teresa Fanego and Belén Méndez-Naya.

As an ERASMUS exchange student (2009-2010) Tamara studied at the University of Birmingham. As a postgraduate student and postdoc she has carried out research at the Universities of Edinburgh (September-December 2014; MECD grant EST13/00567), Neuchâtel (June-July 2016, MECD grant EST15/00230; July-August 2021, UIB grant 7/2021) and Zurich (June 2022, UIB grant 11/2022). She has been invited to teach and/or present results of her work at the Universities of Osnabrück (May 2016, January-February 2020), Mainz (April 2018), Neuchâtel (September 2019), UC Riverside (August 2020, October 2021, November 2022), California State University - Fullerton (February 2021), and Naxos Summer School on Diachronic Linguistics (July 2021 and 2022).

In November 2012 Tamara received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies. In December 2019 she obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award 2017-2018 from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Tamara has considerable experience in research and development. She was one of the organizers of the Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4), held at the University of Vigo (Spain) in February 2015. Together with Pablo Ruano-San Segundo (U. of Extremadura) she has compiled the British Sentimental Novel Corpus, a 21 m. word corpus spanning the Romantic (1798-1836) and Victorian periods (1837-1900). Jointly with Gea Dreschler (VU Amsterdam), she elaborates the Morphology and Syntax sections in the Year's Work in English Studies (O.U.P.).

Tamara has worked as a Lecturer in English at the University of Extremadura (2019). In September 2019 she moved to the University of the Balearic Islands, where she holds a tenure-track position as Interim Senior Lecturer ('Contratada Doctora Interina').