Research Fields

• Spanish linguistics
• History of the Ibero-Romance languages
• Spanish sociolinguistics and variation
• Dialects and Languages in Contact
• Sephardic Studies and Judeo-Spanish

About

Aldina Quintana Rodríguez is a tenured senior lecturer based in the the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and  the Department of General Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a specialist in Spanish Philology, Ibero-Romance Languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching
focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation of Spanish and Judeo-Spanish.

Dr. Quintana Rodríguez holds an M.A. degree in Spanish Philology and Geman Philology from the Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following completion of the PhD, Dr. Quintana was a post-doctoral fellow of the Women’s Group of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before joining the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009.
Dr. Quintana Rodríguez has been corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) since 2015.