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María de las Mercedes Brea López, born in Estrada on 31 May in 1950, is a Galician philologist in the area of Romance Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

In 1972 she received her degree in Philosophy and Letters (from the Romance philology department) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, receiving both a 'Premio extraordinario' and a 'Premio nacional' when she graduated. In 1973 she started to teach at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Later, in 1975, she completed a PhD in Romance Philology. In 1983 she started to work at the University of Granada, becoming a professor there in 1984. She returned to the USC in 1986. In 2000 she was elected dean of the Philology Faculty at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She was also Director of the University Press and Faculty Vice Chancellor at the USC.

She also directs the Doctoral School of Arts and Humanities, Social and Legal Sciences, and co-ordinates the research group GI- 1350 at the USC as well as the Network of Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies which is funded by the Xunta de Galicia.

She has published work in journals like Verba, Grial, the Revista Galega do Ensino and the Revistas de Lenguas y Literaturas Catalana, Gallega y Vasca. She is the Principal Investigator on the project 'O cancioneiro de xograres galegos'.

Selected Works