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MARÍA ROSA ÁLVAREZ SELLERS. PhD in Philology and Degree in Hispanic Philology (Universitat de València) and Portuguese Philology (Universidad de Salamanca), she combines both specialities in her research activity.

Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology attached to the Department of Spanish Philology (Universitat de València), she teaches in all the degrees of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, although the Minor in Portuguese is included in the Degree of Modern Languages and their Literatures.

Acting Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication (University of Valence, Spain).

Coordinator of the Academic Committee of the Degree in Modern Languages and their Literatures.

She has been Vice-Dean of Culture, Equality, Inclusive Policies and Sustainability (27/3/2024 to 9/2/2025).

Coordinator of the Area of Portuguese and Basque Philology at the University of Valencia.

She is a member of the Board of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication and participates in numerous university committees and university entrance exams.

Lines of research: Comparative literature – Critical edition – Reception – Translation – Dictionaries – Theater – Actors – Spanish literature – Golden Age – Calderón de la Barca – Lope de Vega – Agustín Moreto – Portuguese literature – Brazilian literature – Gil Vicente – António Ferreira – Bernardim *Ribeiro – Guimarães Rosa – Iberian interludes

She has published works dedicated to the Spanish theater of the Golden Ages (La tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: La vida es sueño o el delito del nacimiento [National Essay Award "Becerro de *Bengoa"], Diputació Foral de *Alava; Análisis y evolución de la tragedia española en el Siglo de Oro: la tragedia amorosa, Kassel, Reichenberger, 3 vols.) and in Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Edition of Literatura portuguesa y literatura española: influencias y relaciones, University of Valencia; Edition of Castro by António Ferreira, Universidade da Coruña-Xunta de Galícia; João Guimarães Rosa: travesías por la ficción y la palabra, Vigo, Academia del Hispanismo), in addition to this she has participated in numerous international Conferences and collaborated in various national and foreign publications and magazines. She has published books, critical editions and around one hundred articles and book chapters. In 2019 she published two critical editions: El bruto de Babilonia, by Matos Fragoso, Moreto and Cáncer (Ed. Reichenberger) and the Entremés de El día de compadres (Ed. University of Lisbon). In 2024 she published a critical edition of La tragedia del duque de Berganza, by Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (Ed. Reichenberger).

She has received scholarships to complete his academic training in Belgium, Italy, the United States and Portugal and has given classes and lectures at the universities of Coimbra, Lisbon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.

She is a member of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET) of the Universidade de Lisboa and of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (CLP) of the Universidade de Coimbra, as well as of the international research groups ‘Proteo-Moretianos’, ‘Escrituras Literarias: Patrimonio y Actualidad’ and ‘Circe-Early Modern European Theatre on Screen’.

She has participated in international research projects (R&D), including two European projects: NIFLAR (Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research), directed by the Universiteit Utrecht (2008-2010), dedicated to teaching innovation in foreign languages and financed by the European Union (Lifelong Learning Programme Sub-programmes - Multilateral Projects, Networks, Accompanying measures) and Patrimonio Teatral Clásico Español. Textos e Instrumentos de Investigación (Consolider) (TC/12) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. Plan Nacional I+D+I), in which 49 universities participated. The most recent projects have been Escritura teatral colaborativa en el Siglo de Oro: análisis, interpretación y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (Centenario de Agustín Moreto, 1618-2018), 2018-2010 (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and FEDER Funds. Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia), Entremezes ibéricos: inventariação, edição e estudo (ENTRIB), 2018-2021 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) and ERDF funds (Lisbon Regional Operational Programme) and El teatro áureo en colaboración: textos, autorías, ámbitos literarios de sociabilidad y nuevos instrumentos de investigación (TAC) (Ministry of Science and Innovation. State Programme for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I System and the State Programme for R&D&I Oriented towards the Challenges of Society). She is currently part of the EMOTHE project: European Theatre of the 16th and 17th centuries. Heritage and databases (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. European Union).

Expert evaluator of R&D projects: ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva) and AGAUR (Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación).

Expert evaluator of university degrees in Portugal: A3ES (Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education).

She participates in evaluation committees of international journals: Hispanic Review, Rilce, Hipogrifo, Anuario Calderoniano, Quaderns de Filologia, MONTI, Límite, Studia Iberica et Americana, Hesperia, Anagnórisis, eHumanista, Abriu, Itinerarios, Dicenda, Celestinesca. Member of editorial committees: Estudios Portugueses y Brasileños; Nueva Revista del Pacífico; Quaderns de Filologia. Profile in International Database: “Who’s who”, IStReS Iberian Studies (Universidade de Lisboa).

I am a Professor of Spanish Language in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. I earned my PhD in Hispanic Philology in 1996 and was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize in 1997. My research activities have primarily focused on the study of colloquial language use, and I am a founding member of the Val.Es.Co. research group (Valencia, Colloquial Spanish). I have dedicated a significant portion of my work to the analysis of intonation functions in spoken language. In this area, I have published notable works such as 'La Entonación coloquial. Función Demarcativa y Unidades de Habla' (1997, Universitat de València), 'Comentario Fónico de Textos coloquiales' (2002, Arco-Libros), 'Aspectos de la entonación española: viejos y nuevos enfoques' (2006, Arco Libros), 'El estudio de la prosodia en España en el S. XXI: perspectivas y ámbitos' (ed.) (2011, Universitat de València), 'La enseñanza de la entonación en el aula de E/LE' (2012, Arco Libros) in collaboration with Adrián Cabedo, 'La voz del lenguaje: fonética y fonología del español' (2012, Tirant Humanidades) in collaboration with Mercedes Quilis, or 'Sistema y uso de la entonación en español hablado: aproximación interactivo-funcional' (University Alberto Hurtado, 2019).

I have also published numerous scientific articles related to my research areas in prestigious national and international journals such as Oralia, Verba, Moenia, Journal of Politeness Research, Faits de Langues, Lingüística Española Actual, Español Actual, Boletín de Filología de la Universidad de Chile, Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, Revista de Llengua i Dret, Estudios Filológicos, Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, Anuari de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, Pragmática sociocultural, Cauce, etc.

I have served as the Principal Investigator (IP) for the Fonocortesía research project (Ministry of Science and Innovation: 2010-2013), and I have participated or currently participate in the following research projects:

• Urban Sociolinguistics in the City of Valencia ('Aids for Infrastructure Equipment') funded by the Conselleria d’Educació i Ciència of the Generalitat Valenciana (from May 1993 to 1994, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Colloquial Spanish Spoken in the City of Valencia, funded by the University of Valencia (from October 1993 to 1995, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Sociolinguistics of Speech in Valencia and its Metropolitan Area, funded by the Conselleria de Cultura, Educació i Ciència of the Generalitat Valenciana (from January 1996 to December 1998, inclusive). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Dictionary of Discourse Particles in Spanish, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2001-2003). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• New Contributions to the Dictionary of Discourse Particles in Spanish, funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (2005-2007). Principal Investigator: Antonio Briz Gómez. University of Valencia.

• Transcription and digitization of the Val.Es.Co. corpus (Valencia, Colloquial Spanish). Funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2007-2008). Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería. University of Valencia.

• Modernization of Legal Language Project, commission for the study of Oral Language in judicial settings, led by Dr. Antonio Briz Gómez (2009-2011).

• Melodic Analysis of Speech and Didactic Models Project. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2014-2017). Principal Investigators: Fco. José Cantero Serena and Dolors Font Rotchés. University of Barcelona.

• Pragmatic Attenuation in Spoken Spanish: its diaphasic and diatopic variation (2014-2016). Principal Investigator: Marta Albelda Marco. University of Valencia.

• Discursive Units for a Systematic Description of Discourse Markers in Spanish (2017-2020). Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería. University of Valencia.

• EHSEEFONOEMOCIÓN Research Project / FFI2017-88310-P/MINECO (2018-2020). Principal Investigator: X. Padilla García, University of Alicante.

• Prometeo Research Project, Generalitat Valenciana: Towards the Diachronic Characterization of the 20th Century (DIA20). CIPROM/2021/038. Principal Investigator: Salvador Pons Bordería, University of Valencia.

My research contributions have led to the creation of the linguistics services company, Tecnolingüística S.L., which emerged as a spin-off under the auspices of the University of Valencia

I have visited various Spanish and foreign universities as a guest professor within the framework of various university faculty mobility programs or by specific invitation. These universities include Ghent University, the University of the Friendship of Peoples (URAP) in Moscow, Stockholm University, Trier University (Germany), Barranquilla University (Colombia), Concepción University (Chile), the University of Alicante, the University of Seville, Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Gandia's Summer University (Valencia), the International Menéndez Pelayo University in Santander, Heidelberg University (Germany), the University of Navarra, Jaume I University in Castellón, the University of Extremadura, the University of La Coruña, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Salamanca, etc. I have also given lectures within various public and private institutions, universities, and diverse organizations such as the Belgo-Iberoamerican Association in Antwerp, Belgium, the University of Valencia, the URAP (University of the Friendship of Peoples) in Moscow, the University of San José in Costa Rica, the Menéndez Pidal University Institute at the Complutense University of Madrid, Heidelberg University (Germany), the University of Castellón, the Provincial Hogeshool voor Vertalers en Tolken in Ghent, the University of La Coruña, the Duques de Soria Foundation, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Extremadura, the Fernando el Católico Institution of the Zaragoza Provincial Council, etc.

Since joining the University of Valencia in 1990, I have complemented my teaching and research work with various management activities: member of university faculty hiring committees at various times, Director of the Master's in Hispanic Studies at the University of Valencia (2006/2007 academic year), Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia (from October 2007 to November 2010), Coordinator and President of the Degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of Valencia (from November 2010 to November 2013), Director of the Department of Spanish Philology (from November 2013 to November 2016 and from September 2019 to September 2022), and currently, I am the Secretary of the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia.

I have carried out evaluation tasks for various national and international journals and publishers, including A.I.Gr.E. (Asociación Internacional de Gramática de la Enunciación), Acta Lingüística Academica, Anuari de Filologia de la Universitat de Barcelona, Anuario de Letras. Lingüística y Filología, Cuadernos AISPI de la Associazione Ispanisti Italiani; Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación. Dpto de Filología y Culturas Europeas. Universitat Jaume I; Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada; Estudios de Lingüística de la Universidad de Alicante, Estudios Filológicos de la Universidad de Valdivia, Folia Lingüística, Journal of Politeness Research, Lengua y migración, Lingüística Española Actual, Literatura y Lingüística. Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Loquens, Moenia, Nueva Revista del Pacífico. Universidad de Playa Ancha; Oralia, Philologia Hispaliensis, Programa EDICE, Quaderns de Filologia (Anejos), Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada (Chile), Revista SOPRAG, RILCE, RILI, Revista Española de Lingüística, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Almería, Sintagma, Spanish in context, Speech Communication, Tópicos en Lingüística, UniverSOS, Verba...

In addition, I have participated in the organization of numerous R&D&I activities, including national and international conferences held at my university or other institutions, serving as Secretary or President in many of them.

Marta Pilar Montañez Mesas has a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valencia, with the thesis Conversational Discursive Markers and Final Position. Towards a discursive characterization of their functions in speech units, directed by D. Antonio Briz Gómez, who received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

Currently, she is a Permanent Labor Professor (PPL, formerly C. Dr.) in the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of Valencia. Previously, she has combined her teaching and research work at the UV as an associate professor with the teaching of Spanish Language and Literature in Secondary and High School Education, where she is Career Officer (Valencian Government, since 2016, now on leave).

In his research career, he has been part of several Research Projects:

-Nuevas aportaciones al Diccionario de partículas del español, directed by D. Antonio Briz Gómez, for whom he was a Predoctoral Research Fellow (with a "V Segles" grant and the FPU of the MEC in TC, 2006-2009.

- Estudio etnolingüístico y lexicográfico de la cultura del cuerpo en la sociedad actual, (BFF2003-01374), directed by J. A. Díaz Rojo, of the CSIC (Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación “López Piñero”, Departamento de Historia de la Medicina, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universitat de València), from which he was an Initiation Research Fellow (CSIC) at TC, 2005.

- Transcripción y digitalización del corpus Val.Es.Co. (GV2007-160), financed by the Conselleria d’Indústria, in charge of D. Salvador Pons Bordería, 2007.

- Fonocortesía: el componente fónico en la expresión de la cortesía y descortesía verbales en español coloquial, from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Ref. FFI12009-07034), directed by Dr. D. Antonio Hidalgo Navarro, 2009.

- Proyecto de Modernización del lenguaje jurídico (grupo de control: Valencia), directed jointly by the RAE, the Ministry of Justice and the University of Valencia, 2010.

- Currently, Aportaciones para una caracterización diacrónica del siglo XX (Ref. PID2021-125222NB-I00), from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2022, directed by D. Salvador Pons Bordería.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the Val.Es.Co research group. from the University of Valencia (www.uv.es/valesco), dedicated to the study of the colloquial register, the diaphasic varieties of Spanish and orality. His lines of research are discourse analysis, especially discourse markers and discursive position, oral genres and colloquial syntax.

She is the author of several research articles and reviews related to her main research, but she also has numerous publications on Spanish as a foreign language and non-sexist language and communication.

He is a member of the Lingualitarias Research and Transfer Group (www.uv.es/lingualitarias).

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 is currently participating in the project Variación y codificación fraseológica en la historia del español (siglos XIII-XVIII) (CODIFRAS) with reference PID2023-152770NB-I00, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Proyectos Generación de Conocimientos 2023, Subprograma de generación del conocimiento), directed by Dr. Francisco Pedro Pla Colomer and Dr. Santiago Vicente Llavata.

Her most recent publications include: "Estudio histórico del proceso de pragmatización de construcciones fraseológicas con los esquemas Voto a… y Voto va… en español" (Artifara, 2024.2);  "Apuntes sobre el proceso de gramaticalización y pragmatización de algunas combinaciones interjectivas con núcleo Dios" en Investigaciones léxicas. Estados, temas y rudimentos. Líneas de investigación del Seminario de Lexicografía Hispánica (2021, Octaedro); "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 has combined teaching and research with academic management at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. From 2012 to 2018 she was Vice-Dean of Academic Organisation and Quality and from March 2018 to March 2024, she held the position of Dean. She co-directed the Master in Research in Languages and Literatures from April 2014 to November 2018. She has been an elected member of the Faculty Board since 2011 and of the UV Governing Council since 2013.