Mercedes Arriaga Flórez facts for kids

Mercedes Arriaga Flórez is a Spanish expert in languages and literature. She was born in Oviedo, Spain, on July 29, 1960. She is a full professor of Italian philology at the University of Seville. This means she teaches and studies the Italian language and its literature in depth.

Mercedes studied Italian philology at the University of Salamanca in 1984. She also studied modern and contemporary Italian writings at the University of Bari in Italy in 1989. She earned her first PhD degree from the University of Seville in 1993. Her second PhD was in language sciences from the University of Bari in 1995.

Academic Work

Mercedes Arriaga Flórez is a lecturer at the University of Seville. She teaches in a special master's program about gender studies. She also leads a university research group called "Escritoras y Escrituras" (Writers and Writings).

Her research focuses on important topics like "Ausencias: Escritoras Italianas Inéditas (en la Querella de las Mujeres)." This project looks into Italian women writers whose works haven't been published or are not well-known. She also researches "Escritoras y pensadoras europeas," which means European women writers and thinkers.

Since 2012, she has been a member of the board of the Sociedad Española de Italianistas (SEI). This is a group for Spanish experts in Italian studies.