Degree in Spanish Philology from the Universidad de Granada and Doctorate (European Doctorate Mention) in Spanish Language from the same institution, where she also studied a Master's on the Higher Spanish Language Studies programme with Mention of Quality. She is currently assigned as a full professor to the Department of Language Teaching and Literature of the Faculty of Education and Sports Science of Melilla, Universidad de Granada. She has held a number of administrative positions at this centre, alongside her Degree and Postgraduate teaching roles, in particular as Director of the University Guidance Bureau (2010-2012) and Vice-Dean for Students, University Outreach and Internationalisation, from 2012 to 2020.       

During her pre-doctoral era she received an FPU bursary following an initial research bursary during her undergraduate studies, and a collaboration bursary. At the post-doctoral level she was granted a bursary at the Universitá degli Studi di Milano, which she turned down, having joined the Department of Language Teaching and Literature of the Universidad de Granada as a doctoral assistant.

She has collaborated in the organisation of various academic events as a member of organising and scientific committees, and has served as a member of the governing board of AJIHLE (International Association of Historiography and History of the Spanish Language). She also serves as a reviewer for a number of leading journals (Itinerarios, ResDiachronicae, RILEX, Publicaciones). 

Various research placements at national and foreign universities: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Università degli studi di Milano; Universiteit Utrecht; University of Graz; Universidad Jagiellonian; Università degli Studi di Torino; Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina).

She is a member of the Historical-Linguistic and Dialectal Research Group (HUM278); and a member of various R&D+innovation projects (the last of which is still operational: Hispanae Testium Depositiones. Las declaraciones de testigo en la Historia de la lengua española (1492-1833) (FFI2017-83400-P). Also involved in the following European projects: Ecalfor (Evaluación de la formación del profesorado en américa latina y caribe. Garantía de la calidad de los títulos de educación); 3Econonomy+; Migrimage: Imágenes de la migración en la frontera sur. She likewise forms part of the Scientific Unit of Critical Excellence, Languages and Cultures in Ibero-America (Iber-LAB-UGR).

She has taken part at numerous scientific conferences and gatherings, and is the author of publications connected with her lines of research (history of language, lexicography, lexicology). The main topics of her work comprise military terminology, forms of address from a diachronic perspective, and questions of linguistic normativism.

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