Dr. Olga Cruz Moya is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language in the Department of Languages and Translation at Pablo de Olavide University (UPO). She received her Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Philology at University of Almería (UAL) in 1997 with honorific distinction for the best academic transcript in Humanities within the first ten years of the University.
In 2006, she obtained her PhD degree at UPO on her doctoral thesis Las migraciones en el discurso periodístico almeriense del siglo XX: Análisis crítico de tres corpus de noticias, on the migrations in Almeria’s journalistic narrative of the 20th century. She is also a lecturer in the Master’s degree in Teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, where she teaches the following subjects: ‘Productive skills: conversation and writing in Spanish as a foreign language’ (from 2003 to 2021), ‘Application of new technologies in the teaching/learning of Spanish as a foreign language’ (from 2003 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2021) and ‘Media and teaching/learning of Spanish as a foreign language’ (from 2003 to 2016 and in 2017-18 academic year).
Regarding her research work, she has published three journals’ issues: two of them belong to the Bulletin of ASELE and a more generalist one on applied linguistics linked to AESLA. She has also written several reviews in journals and introductory chapters. She evaluates articles for six journals, and she is a member of the evaluation committee of UPO Postgraduate programmes. She is a researcher in three R&D&I projects, one of them is currently active: BIMAP – Cognitive Academic Language Map in Bilingual Learning (English‑Spanish): Charts & Tools (FFI2016-74885-P). In terms of university management, she has been Coordinator of the Master’s degree in Teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (from 2004 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2020), Vice-Dean of Academic Management (from 2008 to 2012) and Vice-Dean of Quality and Communication (from 2018 until the present).
Contact email: ocrumoy@upo.es