A philologist, critic, translator, teacher and researcher in the fields of lexicology, semantics, classical literature, Humanism and reception, she has been focused on the study of ancient theatre for more than 25 years. Associate Professor of Latin Philology and accredited as a full professor since 2015, she is a theatrologist of the Asociación de Directores de Escena de España, an academic of the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España, a member of the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid and a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics. 

She has received six research awards and been recognised for teaching excellence on three occasions. She has been a guest researcher at the universities of Humboldt in Berlin, Oxford and Pittsburg, and has taught classes on master’s degree programmes at the universities of Bologna, Paris, X-Nanterre, León and Trento. She combines her teaching work at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the classes she teaches on “Theatre and Cinematographic Screenwriting” for the Master’s Degree in Theatre and Performing Arts at Universidad Complutense.

Her publications include Diccionario del teatro latino. Léxico, dramaturgia, escenografía (Madrid, 2004; revised and expanded reprint in Madrid, ed. Akal, 2014), for which she earned several of her awards. In November 2016, Diccionario de personajes de la comedia antigua was published under her leadership, of which she is also an author. She currently leads the “Genres and Forms of Antiquity” Research Group at UAM and two competitive national research projects on theatre.

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