MARIA LOPEZ SANDEZ

Maria Lopez Sandez is a contracted professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Applied Didactics Department within the Faculty of Education Sciences. She is part of the Galician Language Institute (ILG) and contributes to the RODA research group (Reasoning, Discourse and Argumentation), as well as the former TLLC group (Literary Theory and Comparative Literature). Her research focuses on the intersection of language didactics, cultural studies, and literary analysis.

She earned her doctorate from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2006 with a thesis titled Topographic description and its role in the construction of a cultural imaginary in Galician literary discourse, supervised by Dr. Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza. Her work examines how spatial narratives shape cultural identity through texts like Cantares gallegos and the Tagen Ata cycle.

No specific grants or advising roles are detailed in the provided text, though her participation in multidisciplinary research groups suggests collaborative projects in Galician language studies and educational methodologies.