María del Carmen Méndez Santos

María Méndez Santos holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a PhD in Spanish Language from the University of Vigo. She later specialised in Applied Linguistics to language teaching. She has worked as a teacher and researcher at universities in Armenia, Romania, Ukraine, Japan, Ireland and Spain. She has also been a visiting professor at institutions in Iceland, Iran, Austria, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Lithuania and France. Her main research interests are Spanish morphology, Sociolinguistics and Language teaching. She has given more than 70 keynotes and seminars and has published more than 60 books, book chapters, articles and manuals.