Dr Margarida Castellano-Sanz

Profile

Margarida Castellano-Sanz holds an International PhD in Literature with research done at the UNAM (Mexico), QMUL (UK) and at the University of Valencia.
Author of the award-winning book Les altres catalanes. Memòria, identitat i autobiografia en la literatura d’immigració (2018), she has also published research dealing with self-fiction and identity construction through literary texts, multimodal approaches in education and reading promotion in school contexts. A former high-school teacher and former director of teacher-training courses specific on multilingualism, she has also been General Director of Education Innovation and Academic Planning for the Valencian Government (2017-2021).

Research

Publications

• Castellano-Sanz, M. (2026). Diseño participativo de arquitecturas sostenibles en la escuela: Espacios inclusivos para el bienestar lector. Tejuelo, 43, 69-88. 
  https://doi.org/10.17398/1988-8430.43.69
• Castellano-Sanz, M.; Plana-Girbés, M. (2025). The affective turn in multiliteracies. Creativity and Educational Innovation Review, 215-240. https://doi.org/10.7203/CREATIVITY.9.32478
• Castellano-Sanz, M., Reyes-Torres, A. (2025). Reconfiguring gender through digital narratives: Multiliteracies and social justice in Additional Languages
  teacher education. Asparkía. Investigació feminista, 46, 1-29.
  https://doi.org/10.6035/asparkia.8049
• Castellano-Sanz, M. (2024). When in doubt, art it out! Employing feminist art to enhance transformative engagement in EFL classrooms. Revista Nebrija de Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 18(36), 108–127. https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael1836564
• Castellano-Sanz, M., & Reyes-Torres, A. (2024). Multiliteracies in minority language contexts.  A multimodal learning path to promote learners’ meaning-making process and aesthetic experiences. L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 24(3), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.21248/l1esll.2024.24.3.602

Expertise