María Dolores Barral Rivadulla

María Dolores Barral Rivadulla serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the History of Art area. She teaches core courses including History of Islamic Art, History of Galician Art, and History of the Art of Compostela across undergraduate, master's, and senior university programs.

Her research concentrates on cultural heritage preservation with specialized expertise in:

• Islamic artistic traditions in Iberia
• Regional Galician visual culture
• Compostelan pilgrimage art history
• Medieval artistic exchange along pilgrimage routes

She actively contributes to the university's "Projects and studies on cultural heritage" research group, focusing on documentation and conservation methodologies for historical artifacts. As an educator, she mentors students in analyzing art historical contexts from pre-Romanesque to contemporary Galician expressions.