Cristina Illamola is a lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Hispanic Philology, Literary Theory and Communication at the University of Barcelona, where she teaches the degree courses Spanish Sociolinguistics, varieties of Spanish in America and Spanish Grammar.
At the same time, her more than ten years of experience as a teacher of Spanish as a Foreign Language, both for children, teenagers and adults, have allowed her to teach, within the framework of the Master's Degree in Spanish as a Foreign Language in Professional Environments, the subject of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language to Children and Teenagers.
In 2015, she received her doctorate at the same university with the thesis 'Language contact and the expression of the temporal posteriority in the Spanish of Catalonia'. She is currently the coordinator of the following research projects: PRESEEA-Barcelona and PRECAVES XXI-Barcelona, and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Sociolinguistics and Communication (CUSC).
Her main lines of study are in the field of variationist sociolinguistics and the analysis of phenomena derived from linguistic contact between Spanish and Catalan.
