Fitxa persona

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish Philology of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication at the University of Valencia. She holds a BA in Hispanic Philology (UV), a BA in Anglo-Germanic Philology (UV), a BA in Portuguese Philology (UB; BA extraordinary award) and a PhD in Hispanic Philology.

As a lecturer in the areas of Portuguese Philology and Spanish Language, she has taught subjects related to historical grammar, textual analysis and the correct usage of Spanish. At present, she teaches Spanish as a foreign language, both at BA and MA levels.

She is a member of the UV Research Group HISLEDIA (History and Historiography of the Spanish Language in its Diachrony) and has participated in several state-funded projects. Her main lines of research include contrastive diachronic studies of Spanish and other languages (Portuguese and Catalan): historical pragmatics and syntax, historical phraseology, phonetics and phonology. She currently takes part in the HISLECDIAC Research Project (History and historiography of the Castilian language in its contrastive diachrony) financed by the State Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Excellence of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Sub-programme for knowledge generation), REF. FFI2017-83688-P, directed by professors Mª Teresa Echenique and M.ª José Martínez.

Her most recent publications include: "Para la historia románica de cabo: Combinaciones locucionales en el período postalfonsí”, in Cómo se hacen las unidades fraseológicas: continuidad y renovación en la diacronía del espacio castellano (2018, Peter Lang); “La expresión de la causa a través de las combinaciones locucionales prepositivas medievales en las crónicas alfonsíes y en sus traducciones al gallego y al portugués” (co-authored with Adela García Valle), in La fraseología a través de la historia de la lengua española y su historiografía (2017, Tirant lo Blanch); “El origen de algunas locuciones prepositivas en gallego y portugués. Análisis de las crónicas medievales”, in Fraseología española: diacronía y codificación. (2016, Madrid, CSIC); “De injurias y blasfemias: insultos y otros actos descorteses en los procesos inquisitoriales de los siglos XVI y XVII”, in Los poderes de la palabra. El improperio en la cultura hispánica del Siglo de Oro (2013, Peter Lang); “Contraste con otras modalidades hispánicas: castellano y portugués en el siglo XVI”, in Historia de la pronunciación de la lengua castellana (2013, Peter Lang).

She combines teaching and research with academic management at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. She has served as Vice-Dean for Academic Organisation and Quality from 2012 to 2018, and since March 2018 she is the Dean of the Faculty. She has co-directed the MA Programme in Research in Languages and Literatures from 2014 to 2018. She has been an elected member of the Faculty Board since 2012 and of the UV Governing Council since 2013.