Fitxa persona

Maricel Esteban-Fonollosa holds a PhD in Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and their Applications from the University of Valencia. She is a graduate in German Philology from the University of Valencia, and she also holds a degree in Information Sciences from C.E.U. San Pablo, an institution affiliated with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Additionally, she completed her studies in Hispanic Studies at the Universitat de València. Since 2022, she has been a Ayudante Doctor professor in the Department of English and German Philology at the Universitat de València. In 2024, she received accreditation as a Contractado Doctor by ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain). Her research focuses on contrastive linguistics, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics, particularly in the field of German as a foreign language.

She is a member of the FRASESPAL Research Group – Spanish-German Phraseology (https://frasespal.com/) and is currently involved in the Project PID2024-161338OB-I00, Creativity through the lens of Construction Grammar: a corpus and AI-based resitory of constructional idioms in German, Spanish and English (CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS) (2025-2029), financiado por MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 y por FEDER, UE. She worked on the previous project as part of the same research group: Ministry of Science and Innovation Project PID2019-108783RB-I00 on Gramática de Construcciones y Fraseología. Las construcciones fraseológicas del alemán y el español en contraste a través de los corpus (https://constridioms.es/) (2020-2025), under the direction of Carmen Mellado Blanco of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Additionally, she contributes to the Universitat de València’s Diversity and Migration Lab, established within the framework of the European university project FORTHEM (September 2019 - August 2022). She is also a member of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages of the Comunidad Valenciana (IULMA).

Her teaching experience includes university courses in German language and linguistics (morphology and syntax), as well as specialized German courses (International Business, Tourism). Beyond academia, she has worked as a German teacher both independently (ALLES Formación) and in various public institutions (Official Language Schools, Universitat de València, UPV Language Center, Professional Music Conservatory of Valencia and Torrent, and high schools) and private centers (Florida Universitaria, Beta Formación).