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Santiago Vicente Llavata is Associate Professor at the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. He holds two sexenios recognized by the CNEAI-ANECA agency and he has received a positive evaluation with an “Excellent” rating (200/200) for the quinquenal teaching period 2015-2020, in accordance with the parameters of the DOCENTIA UV program. He is Principal Investigator, together with Francisco P. Pla Colomer, of the Research Project Variación y codificación fraseológica en la historia del español (siglos XIII-XVIII) [CODIFRAS], with reference PID2023-152770NB-I00, funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. He has co-advised the doctoral dissertation "La comunicación emocional en español y en chino: estudio diacrónico contrastivo de la fraseología generada en torno al amor"), written bt the student Junlan Huang, and read at November, 25, 2024. He is currently co-advising four doctoral dissertations, one of them with funding through a predoctoral contract. He has obtained the second award in the "Premios Educa Abanca al Mejor Docente 2024", statewide, in the University category.

He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and Catalan Philology from the Universitat de València, and a PhD in Hispanic Philology (2010) from the same University with the thesis Estudio histórico de la fraseología en la obra literaria de don Íñigo López de Mendoza, directed by Dr. M.ª Teresa Echenique Elizondo. He was awarded in three consecutive internships (2004, 2005 and 2006) a lexicography, terminology and toponomastics scholarship at the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. Apart from this philological training, he has specialized in the field of language and literature teaching with the completion of a Master's Degree in Language and Literature Didactics Research at the University of Barcelona.

Prior to his current professional activity, he entered by competitive examination in 2007 (career civil servant [BOE 10.11.2008]) to the Corps of Teachers of Secondary Education and Baccalaureate in the specialty of Spanish Language and Literature, and deployed his teaching activity in different schools in Mallorca and Valencia. Simultaneously to his work in secondary education, he worked as an part-time professor in the Department of Spanish, Modern and Latin Philology at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (2010-2011), as well as in the departments of Spanish Philology (2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018) and Didactics of Language and Literature (2014-2015 and 2015-2016) at the Universitat de València. From the 2019-2020 academic year, he is involved in a teaching innovation group of interdisciplinary nature Expanding diversities through GRUPal, developed at the Universitat de València. During 2023-2024 academic year, he has coordinated the teaching innovation project Active methodologies for an immersive learning of the history of the Spanish language, with results in the form of dramatized sequences of medieval and classical textual heritage: Dramatis Personae [Historia de la lengua española & Patrimonio textual]. He currently coordinates the teaching innovation project History and historiography of the Spanish language in its didactic innovation (HISLEDIDAC).

He is part of the research group HISLEDIA (Historia e historiografía de la lengua española en su diacronía [GIUV2013-080]), directed since its foundation by Dr. M.ª Teresa Echenique Elizondo and, currently, directed by Dr. María José Martínez Alcalde, in whose framework he has participated in different competitive research projects (see, below, the section referring to projects). One of the most relevant scientific results of the HISLEDIA group is the elaboration of the lexicographic work DHISFRAES. Diccionario histórico-fraseológico del español. Tarea lexicográfica del siglo XXI. Combinaciones de carácter locucional prepositivo y adverbial. MUESTRA ARQUETÍPICA (Peter Lang, 2021). In the framework of this scientific group, he also participated in a multitude of congresses and academic forums at national and international level (Spain, Germany, France, Israel, Peru, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, etc.), both by means of oral communications and invited conferences. He has also been a member of the Organizing Committee of different scientific initiatives. He has completed teaching and research stays at the Hogeschool Van Utrecht (Holland, 2001), at the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy, 2019) at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy, 2019), at the Universität Leipzig (Germany, 2023) and at the Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal, 2024). He has recently collaborated with different University Research Institutes such as the IULCE-UAM (Instituto Universitario “La Corte en Europa” - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), the INULAB (Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Andrés Bello - Universidad de La Laguna), the IALT (Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translatology - University of Leipzig) or the ISIC-IVITRA (Institut Superior d'Investigació Cooperativa IVITRA - Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante), as well as with other scientific organizations such as the Institución Fernando el Católico (Excma. Diputación de Zaragoza) or CILENGUA (Centro Internacional de Investigación de la Lengua Española - Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla - Gobierno de La Rioja).

He is the sole author of the monograph Estudio de las locuciones en la obra literaria de don Íñigo López de Mendoza (marqués de Santillana). Hacia una fraseología histórica del español (Universitat de València, 2011), and co-author, together with Francisco P. Pla Colomer, of the book La materia de Troya en la Edad Media hispánica. Historia textual y codificación fraseológica (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2020). In addition, he participated as a writer in the preparation of the Diccionari de sinònims, antònims i idees afins (Edicions Bromera, 2007). His scientific production is completed with the publication of articles and reviews in different high impact journals (Paremia, Dicenda. Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas, Revista de Filología Románica, Revista de Literatura Medieval, Vox Romanica, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, Verba: Anuario galego de Filoloxía, Romanische Forschungen, Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, Anuario de Estudios Filológicos, Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, Edad de Oro or Philologica Canariensia), as well as book chapters in publishers of excellence (Cilengua, CSIC, Tirant Lo Blanch, Peter Lang, Reichenberger, etc. ). He also maintains a regular activity as an external evaluator in different scientific journals from Spain, Italy, United States, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica and Poland.

His main lines of research are:

• The history of the Spanish language in contact with other peninsular languages and linguistic modalities (with a special incidence in the domains of Occitan, Catalan and Aragonese).
• Historical phraseology and phraseography.
• Historical paremiology and paremiography.
• Historical lexicology and lexicography.
• The integral philological study of the work of Don Íñigo López de Mendoza (Marquis of Santillana) within the broad framework of medieval Hispanic literature.

In terms of academic management, he has been coordinator of the Spanish Language Teaching Unit, as well as coordinator of the first year of the Degree in Hispanic Studies: Spanish Language and its Literatures for three consecutive academic years (2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022). He has been a specialist of the subject of Spanish: Language and Literature II for the EVAU exams during the academic year 2022-2023, and currently is responsible for the subject of Spanish for the University entrance exams for those over 25, 40 and 45 years old. In terms of University management, he currently holds the position of Head of Initiatives of Unisocietat, under the Vice-Rectorate for Culture and Society.