I am a tenured lecturer in the Department of Spanish Language at the University of Vigo. I obtained my PhD in Hispanic Philology with a work on the expression of quantification in Spanish Sign Language (LSE), the first thesis to be defended at a Spanish University on a specific grammatical aspect of LSE. My research work is mainly focused on the field of Spanish Sign Language and Spanish as a foreign language.
I belong to the ESTILOS research group (https://portalcientifico.uvigo.gal/grupos/17835/detalle) and I mainly develop my activity in the Spanish language and signed languages subgroup of the University of Vigo, GRILES; I have participated as a full-time researcher in several projects associated with this research group.
In recent years I have worked primarily on the development of the first reference corpus of Spanish sign language, CORALSE, a fundamental tool for advancing scientific and linguistic knowledge of LSE. From this project I have published scientific papers focusing both on the design of the corpus and on the analysis of (socio)linguistic and educational issues based on data from the CORALSE corpus.
I have also carried out research on linguistic issues related to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language and as L2 for deaf people and to the grammatical description of LSE.
As far as my teaching work is concerned, I teach Spanish Language in undergraduate courses at the Faculties of Communication and Education and Sport Sciences, and I teach several subjects in the field of Spanish Sign Language, both in the Degree in Applied Philology and in the Sign Language Module of the Inter-University Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics, where we have trained numerous students who have subsequently developed their research activity in the GRILES group.