She holds a PhD in French Philology and an MA in Translation (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); she also has an ME in Environmental Management (École des Mines de Paris) and a BA in Communication (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). Her research focuses on the relationship between writing and image, both in narrative, academic and professional texts.

She is a renowned essayist and literary critic, as well as a specialist in Mexican contemporary literature and academic writing related topics. She has a Masters Degree in Literature by El Colegio de México and a Doctorate in Literature by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She’s the author of Luna menguante. Vida y obra de Inés Arredondo (2000), and coauthor of several books, such as Diccionario de Literatura Mexicana.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Translation with a specialization in French from Universidad Intercontinental. She also has a Master of Arts in Humanities. In addition, she is completing a second Master’s degree in History of México from Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). She has a teaching certificate in French, with a specialization in grammatical analysis, morphosyntax and grammar of Spanish, as well as several certificates in Humanities.

She has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Language and Literature, with a teaching specialization, from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina, where she worked for several years as a full-time professor of Spanish grammar and linguistics. She has a Master of Arts degree in Hispanic philology from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain and a second master’s degree in Spanish language from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

She is a Part-time Professor at the Law Department, where she teaches Property Law and Business Transactions. Chevening scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she studied an LL.M. on Corporate and Commercial Law. She is currently a PhD student at the Institute of Legal Research of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (IJJ-UNAM). She joined ITAM after practicing extensively as a finance, restructuring and commercial lawyer with leading firms and after having joined the Supreme Court of Mexico.

Sandra Lorena Villalobos Orozco has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish from Eastern Michigan University, with a minor in Anthropology. She also has a Master of Arts degree in Spanish from the same institution. After graduating, she worked as a lecturer at Eastern Michigan, teaching Spanish as a second language at the beginning and intermediate level. Her main interests are sociolinguistics, Spanish language acquisition for second language and heritage learners, academic writing, and the design of written and oral Spanish proficiency tests.