María Rosa Falcón Quintana

María Rosa Falcón Quintana serves as a Contract Professor (Doctor Type 1) in the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpretation at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, specializing in German Philology and Intercultural Studies within the Arts and Humanities domain.

Educational Background:

• Doctoral degree (2015): Dissertation titled "Intercultural aspects in the work of the German author of Kurdish-Iraqi origin, Sherko Fatah" supervised by Ana Pérez López and Ana Ruiz Sánchez
• Master's degree in Teacher Training (2015): Thesis on "Teaching German as a Second Foreign Language" advised by María Cristina Santana Quintana

Research Focus: Her scholarship examines intercultural dynamics in contemporary German literature, with particular emphasis on migration narratives and authors of immigrant backgrounds like Sherko Fatah. This intersects German Philology with sociocultural analysis through literary criticism frameworks.

Academic Leadership: She actively mentors students as evidenced by her 2025 supervision of Dirick Guerra, Luis' Tourism degree project analyzing German tourists' hotel ratings in Mallorca.

Research Affiliation: Member of the interdisciplinary "GIR Discourse, Communication and Society" group advancing studies in societal communication patterns and discourse analysis.