Maria Candida Munoz Medrano

Maria Candida Munoz Medrano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Catania, specializing in Spanish Language, Translation, and Linguistics. She is actively involved in teaching and supervising student theses, with a strong focus on linguistic and cultural aspects of the Spanish language.

Her research interests include:

• Phraseology and paremiology in Spanish
• Contrastive analysis between Spanish and Italian
• Translation studies, particularly of cultural and idiomatic expressions
• Dialectology, including Andalusian and Canarian Spanish variants
• Journalistic and media language, with attention to immigration discourse
• Advertising language and gender representation in Spanish media
• Anglicisms and neologisms in contemporary Spanish
• Colloquial and informal registers in Spanish, including usage in television series

While no specific publications or awards are listed in the provided text, her extensive supervision of over 100 theses demonstrates a sustained and impactful research and mentoring trajectory. The thesis topics reflect current trends in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, particularly in the analysis of real-world language use across media, advertising, and literature. She advises students on a wide range of linguistic analyses, from corpus-based phraseological studies to sociolinguistic investigations of gender and migration.

Maria Candida Munoz Medrano supervises numerous undergraduate and graduate students, guiding them in original research on Spanish linguistics and translation. Her mentorship covers diverse methodologies, including contrastive analysis, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis. She is also associated with DELE (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera) certification activities, as suggested by her website (www.deleunict.it).

She maintains an office in room 139 and holds office hours on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, with appointments available upon request.